SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership. All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change.

THANK GOD

The domino meme and the smallest domino is "Craigslist destroys classified ad revenue for local newspapers" and the big domino is, well, everything happening now

God forbid im comfy when I fly.

The Trump administration is enabling unprecedented corruption. The American people deserve better than this.

"Do you love New York but wish it had fewer people, no big buildings and much worse humidity? Well do I have a state for you!"

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

😶😶😶

A party that couldn't endorse Mamdani. . . has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene The party can burn in hell

The memes folks are coming up with are insane

bit.ly/4r42HRN No. 4 Alabama loses at home to No. 11 Oklahoma. Up next: No. 5 Georgia hosts No. 10 Texas. Follow AP for live coverage.

Checking in on this: the school board member who opposed the ban on trans athletes, and who was then challenged by the parent of the HS girl who'd complained, won reelection, 60 to 40%.

Gee...she didn't seem so concerned when her political opponents were being targeted with threats

Inside Politics does a detailed analysis of the new Texas map and concludes that, no, nothing about it looks like a dummymander. Dems there could do better than the GOP expected, but even then the map would have shielded GOP from more losses. Important to be realistic:

Thinking of the ICE videos of workers at car washes, laborers at Home Depot, ag workers running in fields, having the means to buy an average priced home in Pasadena at 1.2 million plus.

Damn we really bout to watch her run for President arent we.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Wild to me how many headlines I saw this week celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting Kim Davis's bid to end marriage equality, when the Texas Supreme Court just decided that state court judges are free to refuse to perform weddings for same-sex couples from here on out

The right thinks the left will fight to protect Bill Clinton. The actual left thinks the middle will fight to protect Bill Clinton. But I want to believe — tonight as winter creeps closer, and even the tiniest glimmer of hope is impossibly precious — that nobody would protect Bill Clinton.

YOUR DAILY REMINDER: it is extreme weather, intensified by fossil fuels, that pose the greatest threat to grid security and causes the most blackouts. The blatantly false idea that renewables cause blackouts is *itself* likely to cause more blackouts, by encouraging more fossil fuel use

this would wipe out entire universities’ eligibility for funding

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

I do view transphobes as intellectually inferior and you should too

They are trying so hard to not spook the market

Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"

Democrats at every level of power could simply repeat "he must resign" over and over and over again. It's what the GOP would do if the situation were reversed. Further erode his power by pushing him to lash out more.

Donald Trump just called Lauren Boebert to ask her to remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files. She does not plan to do so.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro orders his nation’s security forces to stop sharing intelligence with the U.S. until the Trump administration stops its strikes on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean.

AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL YOU FORGOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult. A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates. When will party leadership learn this lesson?

My post of Decision Desk's decision to call the Seattle mayor race for Harrell last week didn't hinge on who would ultimately win: The point was that a "call" isn't a race to get a prediction right. But Wilson now being ahead should at least bring more attention to the importance of not rushing.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Once again noting that it is not possible to effectively teach disaster management without teaching about race and gender.

Donald Trump just said he'll ask the Supreme Court to freeze SNAP payments AGAIN. His message to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP? Eat dirt.

"Well see what he did with SNAP" He lost every fucking case! And you know what? If SCOTUS wanted to allow him to stop it, let them. Let that be the message going in to the midterms, that Trump went to the Supreme Court to stop paying for food for poor people.

It’s insane that there aren’t mass calls from both caucuses for Schumer and Jeffries to step down

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

Also in case its not being mentioned in your feed, there is still a remaining vote for this and Somehow they didn't anticipate the outrage, so there's apparently some hesitation now. If those were your senators, call them and don't stop. I will also be calling even though they arent mine

every time she loses an appeal her forehead gets a little bigger

I am glad to see SCOTUS denying Kim Davis's attempt to overturn marriage equality. These baseless attempts to invalidate marriage for same-sex couples are designed to intimidate our community and put families like mine in danger. We all deserve to be happy, and if we choose, to get married.

I hate how much this feels like good news when it should have been a foregone conclusion, but relieved nonetheless

Team Poe 🥰

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Schumer’s resume: - gets outfoxed by McConnell during two Trump impeachments - consistently fails to whip the vote when it matters - folds like a cheap lawn chair under pressure - thumbs his nose at new progressive candidates It’s like we brought reading glasses to a gun fight.

I wonder what its like to not have your personal life decided by a supreme court decision.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd

Breaking news: The Supreme Court has declined to consider a challenge to its landmark 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The challenge came from a county clerk who stopped issuing marriage licenses shortly after the ruling.