The New York Times has quietly sued for access to video footage of Trump's flagrantly unlawful boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“The consequences extend beyond lost money. Hazardous gambling is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into a full-blown gambling addiction. Boys who frequently gamble miss more classes, perform worse in school”

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.

I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.

The Vision, from The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1901, 📸 by Noah Graham

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Said it before & I'm saying it again: It's a party of anticipatory surrender.

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

watching my Obamacare premiums go from $422/month to $1455/month on the Senate floor right now.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Same story here. Don't make this have been for nothing, @kaine.senate.gov

2026 prospects do not feel as bright, given that caving now will undoubtedly launch and strengthen intra-/third- party challenges, as Dems again remind voters that, regardless of the stakes, they don't, and won't, fight their corner.

Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.

I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but.... Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?

“…it resurrects a real turning point in American political life. Idealism collided with machinery, and something unexpectedly decent crawled out of the wreck… Our politics still runs on the same delusion—that reform is decorative, that systems can rot without collapsing.”

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

SCOTUS tariff case transcript up! A lot of the coverage painted the arguments as a clear loss for Trump and a clear win for the plaintiffs. I think it's not so clear. Here's a thread with a few of my takeaways.🧵 www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published. Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom

This & her indispensable role in passing the ACA are the defining points in her career. Adding: Pelosi's opposition to the Iraq war came from her knowledge & leadership on national security, something that persuaded/affirmed other colleagues in their opposition to war.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

If the administration thinks it has a compelling case to use military force against Venezuela, it should seek authorization from Congress as required by the Constitution. Instead it is trying to convince senators to abdicate their constitutional responsibilities. www.politico.com/live-updates...

The inverse here is pretty interesting, too: Mamdani won a good number of nonwhite precincts that Trump took, but virtually no Trump precincts that were majority-white

Good day to think of the victims of the Bush administration’s Iraq War and the consequences of failing to hold people accountable for its torture program.

“It is impossible for dedicated career FDA staff to responsibly regulate new products, conduct groundbreaking research, and manage FDA’s resources on behalf of the American public,” said one agency staffer. “The situation is not salvageable.” cc @profgoldberg.bsky.social

I realize we’re in a post-truth environment, but: I cannot understand how the fact that the platform run by Changpeng Zhao—the crypto billionaire recently pardoned by Trump—was serving to money-launder for Hamas, Al Qaeda, and ISIS, has not taken on greater salience.

“Just that bill right there, that's more than our mortgage, our insurance, most of our food. That's what we're paying per month to live. We can't afford to double what it costs for us to live just to have health insurance." #PostYourPremium https://bit.ly/43d3LIW

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I just reposted an article from STAT where the quote was about wanting simple solutions to complex problems. That resonates here as well. The simple GOP solution is that SNAP beneficiaries don’t really deserve our help (for whatever various reasons we fill in here). If the data don’t support that?

America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

They finally built a machine that can simulate peaking on edibles

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

Perfect example of the ground we forsake in liberal state-building will be occupied by conservative state-building. You can build a just world or you can build prisons.

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

Taking sage advice of @unlawfulentries.bsky.social I’m posting cover of forthcoming book Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis

My subjective rating of current pop culture viewing, 1-10: Task: 10 current World Series: 9.5 Nobody Wants This: (I agree) 1 Slow Horses: 9 first season, each subsequent season -1 After the Fall: 4 Maigret on Masterpiece: 7.5 N.F.L.: 0 La Liga: 10 One Battle After Another: haven't seen!

Drug trafficking becoming so pernicious in Belgium that some judges forced to live in hiding are calling it a narco state, writes @lauramdubois.ft.com www.ft.com/content/4827...

"genocide is a process." Powerful insight here. Same with authoritarianism & I really think that could be emphasized more, & with more tools than just the (powerful) "first they came for..."

Once again, any such attack on Venezuela would be illegal. Regime change dressed up as counterterrorism and counter-narcotics. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Rep. Jamie Raskin D-MD trying to get creative about the demolition at the White House

Wow. "D66 promised to build 10 new cities to try to solve the country’s persistent housing shortage, which had been foremost on voters’ minds. "

I think those who dismiss "abundance" wholesale will be surprised the degree to which bureaucratic impediments play a role in this report

Oof… Two *data science* professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty Maybe not the profs you want to try this on www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Jaw-dropping performance

🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.

PSA: this simple curry sees me through colder months/illness. I add carrots, greens. Incredibly flexible. I also replace the second cup of coconut milk with 1 cup of broth. Don't skip the fresh ginger (I often use frozen cubes). I serve with cashews & rice. minimalistbaker.com/1-pot-yellow...

If you've pretended that militant drug interdiction affects the illegal drug supply in enduring/desirable ways, then I don't think you should be surprised that this is where a drug "war" lands you.

SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2023...

"the leagues — scrambling for a way to recapture some of the viewers they had lost — convinced themselves to embrace their longtime enemy [gambling]" "The betting apps are in charge now, and everyone knows it. The leagues are hostage to the forces they unleashed."