He coasted on the Obama economy while this time opted to intentionally destroy the Biden economy

One of my first national news features (almost 20 years ago now) was about James Watson's racist, sexist spewing. He was remarkably, reliably a horrible person decade after decade.

Mamdani has shown considerable self-control in the face of some quite horrific tantrums. Self-control imo is the quality modern masculinity is most sorely in need of.

We’re at war?

"Sleepy Joe Biden" was, of course, a confession. It's tiring being the Imperial Grand Wizard, Der Führer, and King.

It's on them now, all the way.

We're coming up on the hundred days mark for Mike Johnson's shutdown of the House of Representatives. Feels like Democrats ought to mark the occasion with an event of some kind. Maybe an Epstein Files theme or something?

Breaking news: James Watson, the American scientist and Nobel laureate whose part in discovering the structure of DNA — the genetic blueprint for life — has died. He was 97.

We got Bill Kristol and they got Russell Brand.

"After the federal mass-deportation initiative dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz” hit the shelter, a meeting was held the next day. Black residents affirmed they stood with Latino residents and the raid impacted everyone. Afterward folks were less divided by race..." hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"

democrats, if bill kristol is to your left, you’re doing it wrong, and you will be primaried

D.C. doesn't have statehood. We don't have voting representation in Congress. We have limited home rule that can be taken away any time. When Trump oppresses us, we have few democratic means of fighting back. Juries are one of them. And Trump can't take that away. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Altman says AI is too big to fail and "the government ends up as the insurer of last resort." So, they jack up our water and electricity rates, ruin the internet, destroy our environment... and we're supposed to fork over taxpayer dollars to bail them out when it all goes to shit???

BREAKING: Wisconsinites receive full SNAP benefits for November via @bspears.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/11/07/f...

Richest nation in human history

Reporter: “You brought up the Walmart Thanksgiving meal. And it's cheaper, but it also contains less.” Trump: “I haven't heard that. Who are you with?” Reporter: “I'm with NBC News.” Trump: “Fake news. You're fake news.”

DHS asst sec Tricia McLaughlin also confirmed the CGX was selling Trump Wine— “The brave men and women of the USCG are pleased to be able to buy Trump wine and cider tax free. We wish you the best in your Pulitzer Prize winning reporting.” 3/

The whole world is breaking our balls

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

Portland waits ruling on National Guard; ICE activities lock down schools www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The WA counties hit hardest by SNAP lapse www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

A friend at UT was calling Bari Weiss's anti-woke "University of Austin" the "Scarbrough Highrise Institute of Technology" because it's leasing space in the historical Scarbrough Building in downtown Austin, but I've only just realized the acronym.

Trump & his anti-abortion cronies are using debunked junk science to attack mifepristone and try to ban abortion nationwide. A federal judge ruled last week that **existing** restrictions on mifepristone aren't justified—but the GOP are only doubling down. We won't let them win.

They do not see the people they are violently abducting as human beings. That is clear. Of course, too many elected officials don’t, either.

Let them eat tiny turkeys.

Also love the optics of killing SNAP benefits with a formal lunch one place setting in front of you, because ALL meetings are meals for you.

We elected this sociopath. We own this. But we can do better. Last Tues. was only the beginning of our nat'l self correction. Keep fighting. Keep emailing officeholders. Keep writing letters to newspapers. Keep calling DC & State Capitals w/your concerns. We are winning. The tide has turned.

After voting to give billionaires tax breaks and making health care more expensive, Derrick Van Orden has refused to hold a town hall to talk to the voters he works for in a face-to-face conversation. So, I'm heading to Wisconsin to help give the people he's supposed to represent a voice.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Every act of exercising our power costs Trump & the Republicans. Use your signs. Get Out there Friends.

Take a moment & repeat it out loud. A year ago, America’s job growth was through the roof. This October, the layoff rate is THE HIGHEST IN 20 YEARS!!!!!

I no longer travel to Idaho. And, if you need maternity care, you drive to Washington where we don't judge you. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

ICE agents detained the wrong people in Oregon, then stranded one in Mississippi Feds also kept a gold chain one of the immigrants had received from his mother, as well as his cell phone. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Adm. Milton Sands, the commander of the Navy SEALs, who pushed to have female instructors in SEAL training, was fired by Mr. Hegseth in August. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

5 years ago today

It's difficult to sum up the abject chaos Trump has caused by using people's ability to eat as a bargaining chip. Communication re: SNAP varies widely state by state, and it's wonderful to hear some have gotten November benefits, but many, many millions still haven't. This was totally avoidable.

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates: -100% Washington state -100% Michigan -100% California -Partial Illinois -Partial North Carolina -1/2 Vermont (Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

It was a big week for Democrats -- and democracy. This @jenrubin.bsky.social column captures a political pendulum swing that's just beginning:

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

Add Cornell to the list

For a man who genuinely understands (or at least has understood) how to work a camera and the importance of media presence, this is a distinctly shocking set of images. As is the one of him just standing like (as one person put it) an idling NPC during the medical event in the Oval.

CBP has been hitting Skokie, outside of Chicago, hard today. At 10:45 today, they jumped out of their vehicles and arrested a man on Lincoln Ave.

MAHA

Groceries are way down over what I got last year. I got four full bags of groceries last year for what it cost to get barely two this year.

A shocking moment in American history. This photo appeared on the cover of Life magazine. The wounded man on the ground recently died. Here is his obituary. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

If Trump is starving whole segments of the American population in his capacity as King of the Universe, the MAGA SCOTUS says it's A-OK.