Tonight was the inaugural ride of our new home buyout program. We connect with vendors too scared to be out, and we purchase from them at home. Tonight we bought 250 tamales, divided into 3 teams to deliver all over the city to folks on the street, Love Fridges, and a youth shelter.

Federal agents in Chicago are aggressive everywhere but they elevate this in the SW Side. They don’t just snatch people and leave. They linger longer, march down streets with guns, interrupt traffic flows. The attacks feel concerted to instill as much fear & display power over immigrant mhoods.

“FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of ADHD Medication” The specific item being recalled is a generic version of Vyvanse, from Sun Pharmaceuticals. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

Also I am going to put in a plug for my sister @diygeochemist.bsky.social who is a professor analytical chemistry who does work with space scientists and has a side business (which is reasonably priced) working out exact fictional details for authors who like that sort of thing.

This case will be taught for decades in torta law classes

There’s a screen snap going around that says that Trump hasn’t paid the construction company that tore down the East Wing. Alas, Snopes says it’s not true: www.snopes.com/fact-check/u...

Sandwich Guy verdict.

New ad dropped:

conde nast fired the vp of new york newsguild for asking HR questions

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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Guys don't dick around, give money to Feeding America to help support people getting to eat. They have a great track record of donations going TOWARD FOOD. They can stretch your dollar further. They are everywhere in the US. I've been donating there about 15 years. www.feedingamerica.org

Thread.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

I really like Hal’s framing of ev psych as Just So stories.

More context and details about Judge Ellis’s preliminary injunction.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

I’m re-upping this, even though I know it won’t matter at all, but I want maybe a few extra people to know that the White House liaison to DHS—who is already known to have expressed Nazi tendencies—linked yesterday to a well-known white nationalist’s web site.

“After the man [a US citizen] is led away, agents are seen [on video] getting into the front of the car and driving off with the [one-year-old] girl still inside.” Kavanaugh stop! www.dailynews.com/2025/11/05/i...

Here at Northcenter Town Square where 100-200 community members including families and young children are rallying after a teacher was taken by federal law enforcement from a local daycare this morning.

MuckRack has booted him. I can confirm that emailing them to flag AI slop “journalists” works! (And probably helps incentivize them to stop people who don’t exist from having profiles in the first place.)

Don't talk to the NYT. They've betrayed families' trust before. They will lie to you and use you and then turn around and tell you it was their job. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

NEW: Judge Gettleman just ordered ICE to improve "serious conditions" inside its Broadview facility in Chicago. Yesterday, people testified in court that they were crammed into overcrowded and filthy cells for days, with little access to lawyers, and pressured into deportation.

The Jamaican government has allocated over $1 billion to provide grants and assistance for restoration, reconstruction, and relocation efforts. NOTE: the only legitimate government channel for aid is www.supportjamaica.gov.jm Verify that "gov.jm" is at the end of the url before donating to govt.

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

“resources in the Chicago area for anyone who needs assistance or for people looking for ways to help amid the pause in benefits”

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

this has been a VERY hard year for trans people so let me just say to all of you out there who stood up for us and soundly rejected transphobia in this election thank you for protecting us PLEASE KEEP IT UP WE NEED YOU and there’s still a long way to go but THANK. YOU. 😭🩷

3D cryptic crosswords! 3dcalendarpuzzles.co.uk

New Mexico is now officially the first state to offer free child care to all residents. Under the program all families, regardless of income, can get their child care fees covered. Proponents say the program will help the economy, improve education, and boost child welfare.

Several writers and editors at _Teen Vogue_ have been laid off, and “‘Teen Vogue now has no writers or editors explicitly covering politics.’” Also, “there is [now] only one woman of color on the editorial staff.” www.npr.org/2025/11/04/n...

“politics is about more than just a question of what happens at the ballot box; it's also about a sense of belonging in the city that you call home.”

Among those critical of the app's rollout is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who say Mobile Identify's use by local law enforcement will further erode due process and subject more Americans to "omnipresent surveillance and unjust detainment.”

This is good. On the linguistic roots why, people say Mandami and why it's not just linguistics (i.e. the impulse is linguistic but at this point for certain people it's deliberate)

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

His speech starts around 14:00 into this.

Mamdani: So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please @democrats.org, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.

The last New York City mayoral candidate to secure over 1 million votes was John Lindsay in 1969. Zohran Mamdani will be the seventh New York City mayor ever to receive more than 1 million votes.

when republicans win: we will crush the democrats, they are the enemy within, leftists and dei and trans people will be mandated out of existence when republicans lose: don't forget to be a leader for everyone, don't dare do anything significant against us because we'll be back i sense a pattern.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

In the wake of the Anthropic lawsuit, OpenAI is now also being sued for piracy! (Article from October, but I hadn’t seen it before.)

Mike Johnson: It’s True. I Am Tuning Out The News Cycle To Focus On Self-Care

The Ctr for Urban Research at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social (led by @jomoko.bsky.social) has prepared an online map for tonight's NYC mayoral results. Link below in #thread. For now the map is blank, but it'll fill in w/unofficial returns tonight. The map will do more than show the 2025 #s. 1/n