This week brought sharp drops in Trump’s approval, a clear show of strength for Democrats, a major breakthrough on the Epstein files, and a string of legal setbacks for the Trump administration. Team Big Picture broke it all down.

This is my kind of good trouble.

Sunday evening reading: I wrote about the state of the fever swamp. What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions is waning? Into the Twilight of the Trump Era:

An empty condom wrapper greeted me as I walked in to a fast food place in my area. That's so disgusting.

No one is coming to save us, we have to fucking save ourselves and each other.

Started, going Nebraska-Trump edition

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UjpahK/ This is brilliant.

Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.

I understand a LOT is going on, but Trump’s “plan” for healthcare will be a catastrophe…. youtu.be/x9rkd_2Nnz4

Judge me by my enemies.

Cartoon by David Horsey.

Let’s be clear. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got Trump so charmed that Trump posted two photos of the two of them with Franklin Roosevelt’s portrait behind them AND one of just Mamdani and FDR’s portrait.

‘The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Someone is having concerns about Twitter privacy all of a sudden

This fckn dude

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Aisha Chughtai is a Minnesota politician and the vice president of the Minneapolis City Council. Chugtai is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and won her seat in 2021. She is the youngest person, and first Muslim woman, elected to the Council.

The Republican Party is full of men who pretend loud courage but act as public cowards.

If you’re one of those military, here are some support options: girightshotline.org aboutfaceveterans.org nlgmltf.org/military-law... These nonprofits might be getting swamped (🤞). Consider supporting them with a donation as a resistance action?

Reposting!

There is more Republican outrage over Trump cuddling up to Mamdani than their is that Trump is a pedo rapist. Let that sink in.

Bondi and Halligan need to be disbarred and every one of these bogus prosecutors should result in all legal fees being paid by Trump personally!

This is what it looks like when a rushed, politically charged indictment falls apart the second sunlight hits it. They didn’t just fumble the timeline they indicted after the jury had gone home. You can’t make this stuff up.

The government’s own court reporter says the grand jury was literally released before they could have voted on the indictment… and somehow we’re all supposed to pretend the math adds up? This isn’t “procedural confusion.”

One of the most predictable aspects of Trump the narcissist is an attraction to winners like Mamdani. Like if he associates with them he can lift his own stock.

Genius

I'm loving it! Genius!

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

It is important not to forget the main goal – to stop Russia’s war and prevent it from ever igniting again. And to achieve that, peace must be dignified. In just this one year alone, Putin has already sent hundreds of thousands of his own people to their deaths in order to occupy one percent.

Russian commanders are not merely inclined to act brutally – they receive explicit orders allowing them to kill however they please. That is why Russia’s war is so bloody. That is why Russia not only kills adults but also abducts children and tries to re-educate them

Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."

I’ve never seen a clip of this man speaking that didn’t make me want to throw things. Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.

Take your Quiet Piggy signs!

💥TRUMP MUST GO NOW💥 TOMORROW, Mon. Nov. 24, 3-6 PM 16th ST NW & H ST NW DC Surround the White House in non-violent protest. Join us! #Pinks #TrumpMustGoNow @refusefascism.bsky.social Find out more: refusefascism.org

In full: Europe's 28-point counter proposal to US-Russia peace plan for Ukraine

Doctor here. Her story is that of tens of thousands of Americans. Another example: When Chad Boseman was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, his 5 yr survival was <14%: he died in 2020. Today his 5 yr survival would be >55%. So tragic. RFK Jr HALTED PROGRESS. 🤬😭

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

You know guys, the thing tyrants hate the most is when folks stand up to them with a smile on their face. Loved being with such a great crowd at the I Love America “Music Festival” in Birmingham yesterday!

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Crockett: "Marjorie has been an instigator of a lot of this hate that we see as it relates to MAGA. I don't know if she really fully understood how bad she was making it for other people, and now that they're doing it to her, why is it that everyone else is able to stand and you can't?"

Another perfect metaphor for this administration. #DefendersOfDemocracy

Funny thing, most of us on the left have been saying this for years 🤣 Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries, Nigeria, India, Russia, China, Morocco, Europe etc., www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign...

Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots. Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth. Delete your account.

Life is two things: extremely short and nondeferrable. Do the right and good thing with the time you have been allotted. There is meaning to be found in helping others. There is deep meaning to be found in helping others who do not share your privilege.

Of course. We need to keep the mass shootings out of the news. It might bring the reality of the endemic we are involved in. #USDemocracy

This is about revenge, stay tuned. She called herself a “battered housewife” because she tied her whole identity to Donald Trump and finally realized how abusive he’s always been. Unfortunately, this isn’t goodbye, it’s a setup for her comeback swing.