A must-read for all sorts of reasons, especially its cataloging of all the ways Trump is silencing dissent

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I just shared Daniel's newsletter. Now read this thread to see what's really going on behind the theater on the end of the shutdown.

If you care about how Congress works, this newsletter is always a must-read. The analysis of how Pelosi's consolidation of authority in leadership both was the secret to her very real policy successes and laid the groundwork for our current troubles is smart. open.substack.com/pub/firstbra...

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Sunday: Trump applauds the resignation of Beeb execs bc Panorama truthfully said that Trump encouraged rioters. Monday: Trump pardons over 50 of his co-conspirators and enablers in attempting to steal the 2020 election.

This is exactly right. Every word. The idea that BBC "doctored' Trump's speech to "make it look like" Trump encouraged the Jan 6 attack is preposterous. Trump was IMPEACHED for encouraging the attack. This is part of a strategic effort to move BBC even further to the right.

Wherein @samvecenie.bsky.social tempts me to buy a paid subscription. open.substack.com/pub/gametheo...

“These are people who, presented with the fate of Tim Cratchit, would no doubt haul the Ghost of Christmas Present off to a detention center for obstruction.” open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

Yep. My feelings exactly.

Americans can’t afford this deal. Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan. A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.

Thread.

Instead of a drinking game, what if for every time you contact your government representative to not settle on the government shutdown you donate $5 to your local food bank (assuming you aren't poor).

Until we confront this we cannot hope to build a healthy democracy.

UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits. Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families. It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.

Cornell AAUP statement on the ageement with the federal government. aaup-cornell.org/2025/11/07/s...

As my colleague Helen Levy says in the piece, “We know health insurance saves lives. Full stop.” wapo.st/3Lt788E

The Trump Administration keeps trying to starve people, just as leverage in the shutdown negotiations. Now escalating by threatening states that are trying to keep their people fed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

The inspiration we all need, as always from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Argentina President Javier Milei doing the “Trump dance” at Mar-a-Lago after getting an $40 billion bailout. Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.

They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.

Man do I feel this thread.

For those keeping count, this makes two House seats that the GOP has delayed Democrats from being sworn in to or elected.

That Caleb Wilson looks to be a really special player.

TAR!

I'll admit these numbers really surprised me. I had always thought of Golden as someone whose politics were well to my right but were also well matched to his district.

Flipping between the Carolina game and the Pistons game, I get to watch Montenegrin players on both of my teams. That's right: Luka Bogavac and Javonte Green.

It's pretty incredible; Trump does an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court so that he doesn't have to follow a court order to pay food stamps. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11... I guess he considers it an emergency that some people might get food.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

Fun to see Larry Brown in the crowd at the Carolina-Kansas game.

But totally cool for Qatar to buy a whole ass plane for Trump

What's galling about the admin's insistence that this transfer is illegal is that the troop payment was easily more illegal.

I am giving Republicans every opportunity in the world to DO THE RIGHT THING and work with Democrats to save the health care tax credits. But Republicans have agency. I can’t force them to save health care for their own constituents.

This may be the greatest grouping of nominees in a single category in Grammys history: for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, the nominees include the Hon. Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Dalai Lama, Trevor Noah, and one of the dudes from Milli Vanilli.

Trump wants to keep on starving poor kids. As a negotiating tactic. Simple as that. thehill.com/regulation/c...

Important analysis from @juliaazari.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

What @paulwaldman.bsky.social said. open.substack.com/pub/paulwald...

Because we all need some relief, let me just say that if you’re a basketball fan you’ll enjoy this breakdown of the Miami Heat’s offense this season. Great to see old friend Simone Fontecchio bouncing back. open.substack.com/pub/basketba...

It isn’t just Musk _and_ Altman, for that matter (see first item below). It isn’t even limited to what folks traditionally think of as Big Tech (see quoted post).

Heck — we’re led by a political party that decided, in recent years, to paint a shorthand term for corporate social responsibility as a dirty word! Sure, Musk is sui generis. But the problem isn’t just Musk.

One could best look at the item below and the quoted post as two facets of the same story: a U.S. corporate elite that has shed itself, with glee, of even the pretense of social responsibility.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The evidence seems pretty clear we should be getting two COVID shots a year. wapo.st/3JwuBFj

Not for the first time, Justice KBJ has read my mind, laying out in this new dissent how there is 0 risk of harm to the govt and yet "This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification" www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump administration "did not comply" with his order.

Here's the majority's entire discussion of the balance of equities: "And the District Court’s grant of class-wide relief enjoins enforcement of an Executive Branch policy with foreign affairs implications concerning a Government document." They're not even trying.

mais bien sûr

Give it up for the Problem Lovers' Caucus, everyone.

Well played.

It was me. I ruined the workplace.