The Trump EPA is the Citizens United version of environmental regulators—protecting corporations-as-people, not people-as-people.

“The source familiar with the internal schisms inside the SDFL office said that one of the prosecutors resigned because they “felt like there was something they could not take part in because it would violate their ethical responsibilities.”” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/u...

Once again the Trump administration, Trump EPA & Lee Zeldin give the middle finger to the MAHA movement. EPA carves out PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ reporting exemptions. The Trump administration unveiled proposed changes to the first-ever PFAS reporting rule. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

Pardons and disbarments follow different processes and practices. Neither vindicates.

The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.” So I don’t know man.

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

This is every other post on my Bluesky feed starting last night.

This right here.

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"

Schiff: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard to cut food from people who need it right now? The cruelty is part of the policy."

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom... This photo should be hung in the Louvre of moral decay. Look at it. The tableau is so absurd it feels storyboarded by Voldemort and Liberace’s real estate LLC. A man collapses on the floor where presidents once ended wars and launched moon missions.

The Heritage Foundation proving it is the Worst: Episode Infinity.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

Just the lack of any kind of shame from most of them is astounding. Most are not even making any pretense to try to help. One church said they couldn’t help because they too were struggling “since the jobama o’biden administration.” Yes, that’s an actual quote from the call.

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for. @wsj.com

The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.

Wasn’t the Trump administration freaking out about Mamdani being a socialist just three days ago?

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

"We spoke with nine C-level U.S. airline executives and senior officials across six U.S. carriers for this story. They expressed varying degrees of skepticism, but none felt the cuts were without some level of political interference."

The White House keeps unilaterally taking entirely voluntary actions which it openly says are intended to inflict more pain and then they're I guess surprised - along with most of the DC media - about why they seem to be taking the blame for the shutdown.

He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.

Journalists: just for kicks, ask Trump EPA head, Lee Zeldin, how much air pollution has been reduced by *his* actions. Literally how much in tons per year. I promise you his own actions have increased or will increase air pollution more than reduce air pollution. By thousands of times over, easily.

Rubio threatened a bunch of poor countries to vote against what would have been a landmark agreement on maritime emissions. Gangster diplomacy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

This alone is disqualifying for the job of New York governor.

Elise Stefanik in 2016: “I disagree with Mr. Trump on this issue. The election is not rigged...I have full faith and confidence in the outcome of the election.” Stefanik now: “They unconstitutionally rigged the 2020 election...I would not have done what Mike Pence did.”

Elise Stefanik erased Trump from her launch video and her website for governor. She’s trying to rewind the clock to before she turned ultra MAGA. But New Yorkers are smart. No matter how hard she tries to run away from Trump, we know she is his top ally and strongest supporter. Threads

And after his disastrous role as Trump EPA head, Lee Zeldin will never again sneak up on New Yorkers.

The Abundance movement's portrayal of progressives is the product of an echo chamber of centrist think tanks with an axe to grind whose big win was persuading pundits to their side as the vehicle to persuade politicians. Abundance suffers from a poverty of good-faith engagement with the critiques.

We often forget how far we have come: Today almost 3/4 of EU electricity generation is from non-fossil energy sources. It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix. This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation. Source is @ember-energy.org

“Forty-one percent of voters said they approved of the job Trump is doing as president, a four-point drop from Trump’s October approval rating of 45 percent. Forty-nine percent of voters said they disapproved of Trump’s job in office, up from 48 percent last month.” thehill.com/homenews/cam...

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

Fun fact: Thanks to cost-benefit analysis, we regulate commercial cargo planes less stringently. I wrote about it *checks notes* 13 years ago. progressivereform.org/cpr-blog/spu...

Even before SNAP was withheld and before flights were cancelled, Americans were increasingly skeptical about Trump/GOP handling of the shutdown in particular. www.pbump.net/o/the-shutdo...

> @gettyimages.com

This should get a Pulitzer. It's going to be an all-time classic.

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.