WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.

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if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal

I just was served this by the Youtube algorithm and now you can see it too. youtube.com/watch?v=xpcU...

This is a 19-paragraph article to which 7 journalists contributed; it contains not a single hint that there is any impropriety in the President of the United States directing the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries.

In no specific order, here are all the issues with this requirement that come to mind in like 2 minutes before my break ends: 1. Requiring all recipients to reapply will need to happen over time not all at once to have a chance at not crushing state office's. Watch closely how it plays out 1/?

...so Bovino just admitted DHS is going to arrest & incarcerate thousands of innocent folks in Chicago as retribution for being court ordered to release hundreds of innocent folks they illegally arrested & incarcerated....🤔 I hope someone in IL is filing paperwork for injunctions right tf now

Schumer reached out to leading presidential contenders to try and mute criticism of the deal, calling Josh Shapiro, Andy Beshear, JB Pritzker, and Gavin Newsom. While Schumer voted against it, the eight Dems behind the shutdown deal said the minority leader was aware of their plan. trib.al/lcNlGik

Joni Ernst has to go.

NEW: DHS is pushing ahead in building a searchable national citizenship system it wants to use to go through voter rolls. Over 46 million voters have been run through the checks already. www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

Confirmed: Katie Wilson will be mayor of Seattle, ousting the incumbent from his left. And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction. What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:

Bovino seems like he’s getting closer to admitting their entire premise is a lie, it has nothing to do with the law, and his mission is really about ethnic cleaning and terror.

There's a GoFundMe for Bookstore Romance Day so it can happen in 2026. The panels in past years have been entertaining and informative - and I picked up some new authors from them! gofund.me/8a0a53d99

Government has no business policing media for viewpoint bias or balance. The FCC must repeal its news distortion policy, urges a bipartisan group of 11 former FCC Chairs, Commissioners & other top officials in a petition we filed today with @protectdemocracy.org protectdemocracy.org/work/fcc-new...

We’re fired up and ready to elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social to Congress! Early voting has started in #TN07, so make some calls to help get out the vote. Phonebanks are especially important in special elections — please sign up for a shift to flip this GOP district: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

The union is asking that you not patronize any Starbucks, even ones that aren't unionized, for the duration! Time to find your new favoriteocal coffee shop. To donate to their strike fund: sbworkersunited.org

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

Many years ago there was a tragic incident in the reptile community when a popular FB reptile auction/shop/importer guy had a roach eating contest and a guy died during the competition bcs apparently roaches are similar enough to shellfish to trigger an allergic reaction

🍁5138 people have contracted measles in Canada this year 🍁4550 of them were unvaccinated or under-vaccinated 🍁16 cases were newborn babies congenitally infected 🍁2 people died No, immigrants are not to blame. Yes, anti-vaxxers are. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.

🧵Hey lovely people. I've had a few questions about shipping times for Tiny Moments of Joy. We've got local printing and shipping in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand for buying direct from us, so you'll get your books within the week/a few weeks max. www.swashbucklerpress.com/tiny-moments...

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Every location has a picket line in front of it. Don’t cross the line.

Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Civilized Behavior: Adventures in the Liaden Universe Number 36 is out today in ebook and trade paper! Universal Link: books2read.com/u/mevNeA Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVGDGNX8 #writingcommunity

Frankly, the original sin of this entire debate is that we still define female as other to male. The giveaway is that they say things like this but don’t regulate men who have naturally high levels of T or other genetic advantages.

The Digital Equity Act was passed in 2021 as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Trump Administration put an end to the Digital Equity Act grant programs earlier this year. idahobusinessreview.com/2025/11/03/i...

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Yooo! Someone You Can Build A Nest In was picked as a Kindle Gold Box Deal! For today only, get it for just $4.99. A shapeshifting monster *accidentally* falls in love with the woman who's hunting her. We've all been there, right?

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

I had the opportunity to review the work experience and skills of numerous people who were laid off or fired from public health jobs by Donald Trump. I want every taxpayer to know that the US has lost an immeasurable number of the smartest, most experienced, and hardworking people on the planet.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Kinuko Y. Craft, beautiful art has graced the works of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, now offers a selection of her best paintings in fine art edition giclees that will never be available again. colleendoran.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

I didnt realize it wasnt obvious until a couple DMs, but folks who need mutual aid to survive ask for gift cards or wishlist items bc: - low chance of affecting benefits negatively - can get wants & needs without pulling from desperate survival fund - alleviates spending while struggling guilt

The dehumanization tactics will only get worse Saying he’s a “criminal illegal alien & not a firefighter” is meant to make you see him as less than a person. They do the same thing to disabled people. We’re “useless eaters”. They want you to view others as expendable so they can commit atrocities

i'm not going to say it. but I am thinking it very loudly

SNAP benefits weren’t stopped by the shutdown, they were stopped by Trump’s lawbreaking. Under US law there is a dedicated SNAP fund for shutdowns, Trump refused to spend it, lost in court, defied the court order, took the issue to the Supreme Court. And guess what? He’s still pursuing that case.

Accurate. 🤬 Alt-text: Parody of Peanuts strip. Lucy w/ elephant head is holding (not placing) a football. Charlie Brown w/ donkey head charges, kicks, falls on his back. Lucy spikes him between the eyes with the football.

This photo was taken by @chicagotribune.com photog @mandophotos.bsky.social this past Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Chicago's local news journalists are doing a helluva job capturing the aggressive tactics CPB & ICE are using here. bsky.app/profile/mand...

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it. And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE? Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.