🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Democrats didn’t cave. They boxed republicans in and made them own the shutdown. Watch.

Ukraine has been elected to the UNESCO Executive Board for 2025–2029 with the highest vote count. Alongside Romania and Moldova, Ukraine outpaced Russia, marking the second time in a row Moscow failed to win a seat. Another diplomatic defeat for the Kremlin.

On the night of November 8, a Russian attack drone struck a nine-story residential building in #Dnipro As a result of a drone strike on a residential building in Dnipro, one person was killed and ten others were injured, including 2 children, according to the SES newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/afterma...

⚡️Update: 'Full sanctions exemption' — US allows Hungary to buy Russian energy following Orban–Trump talks in Washington.

Massive Russian overnight strikes hit Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Poltava, and Mykolaiv. Power infrastructure was targeted, causing blackouts and fires. A woman was killed and dozens injured. Emergency outages are now in place across several regions.

The most corrupt administration in American history.

How sad is it that the richest country on Earth has a government that has to be forced to feed families with hungry children? SNAP benefits shouldn’t be a courtroom battle. People shouldn’t have to beg for basic humanity. But here we are.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Not pro-life. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to his former research lab. He was 97. https://to.pbs.org/4qPbNSp

Sometimes called NatSec democrats, they can also be called Service Democrats, since they come from the military and other professions that asked them to take oaths, swearing to be of service to Americans. They will be an important force in the future

“We want to turn the page past the divisiveness, the angriness, and just focus on brass tacks, good policy, and governance" That was how @abigailspanberger.com began her campaign. From last year: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

And this is what I heard @mikiesherrill.bsky.social say: We have "to try to address the things that are scaring people, to try to make your life a little bit better, to try to just bring some rationality and sanity to a world that right now isn’t making a lot of sense.”

Talking with @gideonrachman.bsky.social: Donald Trump and Autocracy in America: Pushing the boundaries of presidential power. Listen here: on.ft.com/43igLNv

Maria Popova, McGill University: Russian manipulation of the facts endures because when #JeffreySachs and others tirelessly promote it, opponents politely disagree and the conversation is presented as a debate of equally valid viewpoints. www.policymagazine.ca/when-confron...

When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose. Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Trump's deep state fights with other parts of Trump's deep state www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

Incredibly destructive.

"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse" From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

What?!! #AwarenessMatters Stand Together Work Together #DemocracyMatters

We have now entered the most catastrophic phase of the war in Sudan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

actual communism

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

"Clearly echoing Erwin Rommel’s Nazi force, the Africa Corps is the Kremlin’s new expeditionary formation in Africa. ...Like Wagner before it, it is still laden with neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbology." on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa: ecfr.eu/publication/...

The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

Like you I am celebrating Tuesday's victories. However, my job is not to sugarcoat things and tell you it's all fixed. It is to warning about what to expect next and fight back. That is why I wrote this and why I hope you read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 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.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

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📢 #Kyiv becomes #UNESCO City of Music : the city officially received UNESCO City of Music status & joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network on Nov. "This decision recognises our rich musical heritage & the contemporary creative energy of Kyivans", City Council said. #Ukraine🇺🇦

Free and fair elections are good for business. Having a stable rule of law is important to the economy. Not having people afraid to go to work because they might be beaten up or disappeared is essential to a productive workforce. Democracy is essential for a strong economy.

"The agent grabbed Ms. Stagi by the hair, put her into a chokehold, dragged her through the street and threw her down a grassy embankment. Ms. Stagi said, “I’m 5-2. I’m not assaulting him..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

NEW Far right political activist Laura Loomer Granted Pentagon Press Credentials While Major News Outlets Lose Access. 🧵 ⬇️

The fact that powerful people and media machines are still trying to smear Virginia Giuffre (even after her death) shows how dangerous a survivor’s truth really is. This is why so many survivors don’t name names. They see what happens to the ones who do.

🚨 BREAKING: There was an active federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators all the way until September 2025 — and then it abruptly stopped. Now a Maryland lawmaker, Rep. Jamie Raskin, is demanding answers from the DOJ about who shut it down and why. More ⬇️

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🚨UPDATE A federal judge in the James Comey case said newly-appointed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan must turn over a full transcript of grand jury indictment proceedings, including her own statements. More ⬇️

Mike Johnson lies shamelessly: "The president is desperate for SNAP benefits to flow to the American citizens who desperately rely on it ... the SNAP situation has legal impediments."