Denver offers to pay airport staff during shutdown to avoid cutbacks

The food stamps were running out, but no one told Nelly www.thebanner.com/culture/food...

I cannot get past this sourcing: "One senior Democratic strategist who has worked on presidential campaigns and spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly said Buttigieg is the best messenger in the party but questioned whether voters are ready to elect a gay president." wapo.st/4nJYOyC

Mikie Sherrill, the new governor of New Jersey, is from Virginia. Abigail Spanberger, the new governor of Virginia, is from New Jersey. The two of them were roommates when they arrived in Congress. Also: Sherrill is the 57th Governor of New Jersey and Spanberger the 75th Governor of Virginia.

ICE detained a U.S. citizen for 7 hours in Portland after she photographed ICE agents. As of Tuesday morning, ICE still had her phone and her engagement ring, she said. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Asks, “Would a man genuinely injured, genuinely offended by having a sandwich thrown at him proudly, happily, joyfully” keep a plush sandwich on his shelf and a “Felony Footlong” patch on — yes! — his lunchbox?

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

Congrats to my BIL* Nathan Lee for winning a seat on the Wyoming (Cincinnati area) school board! *(He is the BIL of my SIL so if CNN can weigh in as to what I should call him, much appreciated) nathanleeforwyoming.com

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BREAKING: Mississippi Democrats have now flipped two state Senate seats—putting them on the verge of breaking the Mississippi GOP's supermajority. Theresa Gillespie Isom has defeated Republican opponent Charlie Hoots, who she leads in the current vote tally by about 2-1.

Their final-days oppo hit piece on him was that he called his father's second cousin "aunt"

"Voters also approved Issue 28, a 10-year renewal levy to fund operations and the Cincinnati Preschool Promise (CPP), which provides tuition assistance to preschool students."

In Cincinnati: Another all-Democrat City Council (predictions were 1-2 seat loss; also a legit 3rd party here @ city level); Democrats swept all school board seats; and Democratic Mayor Aftab Pureval defeated JD Vance's half brother with nearly 80 percent of the vote: www.wvxu.org/live-updates...

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” Fucking SAVAGE for him to invoke Mario Cuomo.

this is genuinely wild

After years of decline, 18–29-year-olds delivered a 35-point margin for @SpanbergerForVA — the biggest for Dems since 2017. Older voters barely moved, but young voters anchored the Democratic turnaround.

This Donald Trump post says the government shutdown is one of the reasons Republicans are losing today’s elections.

Maybe all the NYC billionaires can move to Staten Island?

Alicia Johnson has been elected public service commissioner in Georgia's Second Public Commission District. She will be the first Black woman to serve in statewide elective executive office in Georgia.

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Had an occasion to remember today that @nedats.bsky.social forced me to read A Little Life — the only book I've actually thrown across the room after finishing it — and I will never forget this sacrifice I made for our friendship.

I really loved it when Teen Vogue republished my politics stories the past few years — it made me feel good that what I was producing was reaching young people, particularly young women and queer people, because I think they matter, their perspectives matter, and they're our future.

Made a table showing how many households, kids, seniors and people with disabilities used SNAP last year in districts currently represented by Republicans. www.pbump.net/o/heres-how-...

"Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication with a disingenuous press release when the winds shifted."   talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

Defense tells judge they want to question Lairmore about 'gag gifts' he received from fellow officers after the alleged assault, including a Subway sandwich plush toy and a patch that (unless I misheard) said 'Felony Footlong.' Prosecutors object. Defense argues they reflect CBP 'state of mind.'

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Demon Copperhead has entered my dreams. I woke up way too early today (with the time change I am STRUGGLING!) and read for 45m before going back to bed and dreamt of adopting precocious Appalachian orphans with cool nicknames. Rooting for you, Demon!

one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.

This. THIS.

I'm shocked. Just shocked.

ProPublica is hiring a reporter to join our amazing investigative unit with The Texas Tribune. APPLY HERE ➡️ propub.li/4qvyjzw

‘Everything goes up except income’: Older women are struggling to keep up with rising electricity costs 19thnews.org/2025/11/olde... via @19thnews.org

Sat down with @annettejwick.bsky.social to talk about journalism, book writing and why I moved back to my hometown (Cincinnati) after 20+ years away: soapboxmedia.com/journalist-a...

The president this morning:

Before the right-to-counsel ordinance, only about 4% of tenants in eviction court had lawyers, while more than 80 percent of landlords did. Since, more than 12,000 households received representation, with Black women headed households accounting for 92.6% of cases. 19thnews.org/2025/11/mary...

For Mary Sheffield, Detroit’s future begins with keeping families housed 19thnews.org/2025/11/mary... via @19thnews.org

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

The Guardian is doing better coverage of what’s happening in U.S. politics on this front than nearly anywhere else. Cool jobs.

Finding it hard to articulate how much Teen Vogue as we know it did for my writing and reporting and career, but also my understanding of the world as a reader. There's a really solid chance that without that team, some random then-20-something from Kentucky wouldn't even be in this field.

From being banned by Uber to getting credentials to cover the world's biggest military. The "Department of War" just Loomered itself @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Finally reading Demon Copperhead and I knew it would be good but damn I barely want to do anything else.

I fail to see how this helps either of them and definitely invokes a very specific vibe but I guess pols gonna pol? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

134 Head Start programs across 41 states and Puerto Rico serving 58,627 children are at risk of closings as federal funds expire. Since the beginning of October, an additional six Head Start programs serving 6,525 children have been operating without federal funding. 19thnews.org/2025/11/head...

NEWS: CBS News head of talent Laurie Orlando is out. Here's the note she just shared with staff:

Heather Gerken, Ford Foundation’s New Leader, Vows to Protect Elections and the Rule of Law www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...