FDR would've felt incredibly vindicated by all of this. A core proposition of the New Deal was that the country's ruling class was incapable — at best — of defending the Constitution, and that it was up to a dissident vanguard of intellectuals, in conjunction with workers and farmers, to do it.

Somehow Ben Shapiro arrives at the correct conclusion about Twitter before nearly all elected Democrats (even if he doesn't act on that conclusion)

another under discussed thing is state furloughs of snap case workers. At least in my county they’re the same guys that deal with medicaid/care/ss. i think some states started furloughs last week

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we are talking about Zohran and the rest of the blue wave: www.leftanchor.com/e/the-2025-b...

this is excellent maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...

I think we see once again how ordinary citizens are grappling better with this situation than sundry political and business elites. the jury pretty clearly was like "this is bullshit" www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

Trump's concentration camps are exactly like they always are

OpenAI is planting the seeds for a pre-bailout, trying to dupe the government into guaranteeing its future. @ryanlcooper.com explains why this makes no sense given the fantastically absurd business model of the company: prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...

In VA, elected officials are considered part-time, which means the only people that can afford to pursue getting elected are either retired, independently wealthy or cranks (often all three!)

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

my bet is that AI models will end up commoditized, and so insofar as anyone “wins” anything it’ll be the country with the cheapest and most abundant power

cursed thought: does he think he can create a new superintelligent robot race birthed from him gooning over his AI waifu

turn Elon Musk over to the Hague, clapped in irons, and give them some extremely meaningful looks www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Not guilty of assault, but what about pepper?

The Democrats need a leader who can stand up to Trump and support the party’s candidates. That isn’t Chuck Schumer. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/cwYZdS3

Phoney Baloney Charges Dropped DC sandwich hero walks free.

Glory glory hoagie threw ya glory glory hoagie threw ya

JUSTICE IS BEST SERVED LIGHTLY TOASTED

ah good, another media conglomerate whose nepo baby owner will apparently destroy it to help Donald Trump

The unionization of digital media was and is so important, and we gotta start reminding the bosses that it’s the floor

RFK Jr is 100% the person most likely to get bit by a zombie and not tell anyone he got bit by a zombie

Brave Sir Bobby ran away, bravely ran away away

dude practically left a cloud of dust roadrunner-style

Amen. Another great piece by @ryanlcooper.com. Schumer needs to go. Yesterday. Maybe somebody like @chrismurphyct.bsky.social or @booker.senate.gov takes over instead. They’d have to agree to commit 100% to it and not run for President. But Schumer must go.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

since Helen Andrews is in the news again, how about everybody enjoy the best TV cspan ever did, where she gets relentlessly demolished as a truly awful person by her *libertarian* ex-boyfriend www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAIT...

Chuck Schumer is not cutting the mustard prospect.org/2025/11/06/c...

Last week, a unemployed Texan barred from getting a job in his field by a noncompete agreement stepped up to intervene in the federal lawsuit and defend the FTC's ban on noncompetes that Trump's FTC won't. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social talked to Ric Davidson about his story & why he decided to fight.

we're all looking for the guy who introduced unprecedented coarseness, vulgarity, and flippant violence into national politics

I'm done with this joker

Kevin Kiley basically overnight rediscovering that he is actually a Reasonable Bipartisan after being a gleeful MAGA shithead, now that he’s on the firing line, shows that one of the benefits of actually retaliating is that you create incentives for norms to hold. Norms are detente.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

let’s get the Slow Mo Guys on this. really figure it out

in a New York context, this is what actual popularism would look like

possibly one of the best headlines via @ryanlcooper.com for @prospect.org prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

"the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

best analogy for global, black-box algo social media is @joshtpm.bsky.social's comparison to a nuclear power plant with no safety controls that dumps the waste in the local creek

Amazing how much 2025 was a hyper correction for the fact that in 2024 voters clearly didn't know what they were voting for because the media didn't report on Trump's actual policies/voters refused to believe what they were voting for.

aaahahahah

Here's my rundown of oral arguments in the Trump tariff case. -Conservative justices weren't buying the government's claims -Roberts seems to want to use this to entrench the major questions doctrine -Alito was grabbing at straws -Trump will probably move to Sec 122 prospect.org/2025/11/05/s...

No fewer than 28 billionaires donated at least 100k to beat Zohran Mamdani. Their overt attempt to buy the election provided Mamdani with perfect talking points. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/LEnjMCa

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

really a mark of what a despicable scumbag Cuomo is in how he makes Curtis Sliwa look like an honorable, upstanding gentleman

right. and additionally, even a personally transphobic Dem leader should recognize that it's a wedge issue for your base, and so the cynical realpolitik thing to do at a bare minimum is to shut up, deflect, and change the subject

have to admit I didn't think they could pull it off prospect.org/2025/11/04/c...

big papers, particularly the NYT, just *love* stealing a story idea and re-reporting it without credit

ICYMI from last night: @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social on the organizers who helped Zohran Mamdani to victory—and who aren't going to stop to help him achieve his goals. prospect.org/2025/11/05/n...