Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

Henry Ossawa Tanner, “Le Touquet,” 1910, oil on canvas, 51 x 42 inches, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa #art #painting

apparently only Republican lawyers understand game theory 🤦🏻‍♂️

“What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly.” — recently retired federal judge www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Wisconsin's leading passer in the big win today. The Big Ten West is immortal

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*

“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/CUazMCQ

NYT: The tax cuts come amid “steep cuts to health care for the elderly and food stamps for the poorest Americans.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

The energy I'd like to see from every Democrat

There are more of us than there are of them. We’re organizing the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power — join us: groups.indivisible.org

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Something deeply fucked up when you can blindly break basic state functions and condemn millions to death and then people make you the richest man in the world instead of a pariah

Did Women Ruin The Workplace

bro are you fucking kidding me

'The Mountain Keepers' by contemporary printmaker Sarah Morgan #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

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The dramatic repudiation of Trump this week wrecks a number of absurd narratives the media has pushed lately. In the runup to the election, NYT pieces kept telling us Dems were overly obsessed with attacking Trump. That dumb idea now lies in ruins. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2027...

very normal dancing, sir

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

DC Conventional Wisdom Goes Down to Defeat in State after State talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dc-co...

FAFO

I for one enjoy blue wave bluesky.

LOL it must have absolutely killed NYT headline writers to have to write this one

Today’s the day, VOTE YES on Prop 50 if you live in California and let’s stop Trump from rigging the maps! Let’s go!

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How much shit are the Supreme Court’s Republicans willing to eat for Trump? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/how-...

New: There is severe tension between the idea that Democrats need to carefully tend their national image by pandering to public opinion, and the idea that they should be freewheeling enough to appear on The Joe Rogan Experience without seeming evasive or falling back on talking points.

Go get it Virginia iwillvote.com

Good morning, Bluesky.

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Morning Théo van Rysselberghe, Sailboats on the River Scheldt.

Gosh Jake Tapper must be beside himself

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

Trump's average disapproval rating has hit 56% in our tracker at fiftyplusone.news. He is now just a point off his (then historically low) net approval rating at this point in 2017, and nearly meeting the high point of Joe Biden's disapproval rating in 2022/late 2024 (57.3%).

Pundits say the problem is that Democrats fail to represent the people—but the real problem is that our political system fails to represent the people.

Paul Cezanne, The Alley at Chantilly, 1888.

I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division." Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

Most conservative writers at liberal-read outlets do not publish columns with their actual opinions. They craft columns with the goal of influencing liberals to adopt beliefs and opinions that harm liberalism. Don't do that! Don't hire these guys to lie to your readers.

"People like Merrick Garland think that they’re eschewing politics. The reality is the opposite: The careful avoidance of anything that appears political is itself a political act. It is a performance, intended to convey to your audience that you are neutral and unbiased. It’s institutional PR."

Nic Squirrell, Birches. Welcome November

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