This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

This is a great article (gifted) and presents an objective and fact-based view of what’s happening. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If you live in or you know anyone in Tennessee’s 7th district, TODAY is the LAST day to vote early. And tell everyone you know who hasn’t voted that it is all about turnout next Tuesday. We need as many people showing up to the polls. We can do this.

"...cynicism and tribal loyalty have a way of replacing discernment with delusion."

Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.

Keep asking the important questions.

When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.

The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda. And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.

Stephen Miller’s Secret Immigration Regime Andrew Egger and Catherine Rampell take on the Trump administration’s sweeping push to strip work permits and legal status from hundreds of thousands of immigrants who followed every rule. 16 minute video www.thebulwark.com/p/stephen-mi...

And WHERE do they get that money from to bribe said politicians? From US! Those r OUR dollars propping all this up! Pay attention to where, how and WHO u spend ur money with.

Here is an empirical example: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... "Donors" earned a return of 22,000% on their nvestment.

That and the fact that Reagan changed our laws on media ownership & law on delivery of news. They used to have to operate in public good because of being on public airwaves. But somehow, the cable going under public easements and public lands and signals bounced off public satellites don't have to.

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.

The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.

Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan. And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.

I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma. Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

GIFT article. You can read it for free without a paywall. The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up Trump plus, For the love of sentences... By Frank Bruni www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

How Florida—Yes, Florida—Complicates Trump’s Obamacare Attacks www.thebulwark.com/p/obamacare-...

While my company (climateresilienthomes dot com) and this lens on evaluating potential homes is new, my analysis of the coming upheaval in the housing market due to climate change is not. Here's a still highly relevant post I wrote in 2022. climatechangeandyourhome.substack.com/p/climate-ch... 11/

How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails (Explore this gift article from The NY Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders by Lt. Gen. (ret) Marc Hertling @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/what-ameri...

After 4 years of war with the Nazis, Stalin and the Russians had conquered Berlin. After 4 years of war against Ukraine, Putin and the Russians still have not taken all of Pokrovsk just 40 km from where they started their invasion. Russia is the one who NEEDS this "peace" deal.

When Texas tried to steal 5 seats, I said to watch the litigation my law firm had filed because we had a good chance of winning in court. Today a federal court BLOCKED THE MAP. While the legacy media ignored our case, Democracy Docket covered it from gavel to gavel. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

"What animal to dress up as for the protest? A giant dachshund in a top hat won me over, though I admit I hadn’t thought through the potential risks of dressing up as a dog to protest an agency commanded by Kristi Noem." @jacobgrier.bsky.social

Despots weaponize their opponents' compassion against them. Trump wants to use people's pain as extortion to get Democrats to fund his corruption. I didn't want the shutdown, but Democrats would be suckers to knowingly vote for a budget that destroys our democracy.

Arrested for Following the Rules www.thebulwark.com/p/arrested-f...

abcnews.go.com/Business/wir... Bill Pulte's confidant, Lauren Smith, illegally provided confidential mortgage data to a competitor, alarming senior officials at Fannie Mae. The senior officials who sounded the alarm were then forced out of Fannie Mae, along with internal ethics watchdogs.

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SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? by Rachel Bitecofer "If we’re going to make responsible decisions — as citizens, as families, as a country — we need to understand where the United States actually sits on the authoritarian risk timeline." open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

So Trump has been mortgage price fixing to hurt consumers. Cherry on the cake this week!!

GIFT article NYTimes. No paywall. "Without the real Department of Justice we have long taken for granted, public servants predict, malevolent actors can freely engage in crimes knowing they will never face consequences." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

Add it to today’s outrages list, which is already way too long: 77 prez pardons for participants in the 2020 fake electors scheme, 8 turncoat Senate Democrats, who capitulated to Repubs for nothing in return, seeing tWumpus entertain Orban in the WH & enjoy lavish banquets while Americans starve.

Trumps Voters Have Just FOUND OUT They're On The Menu By Rachel Bitecofer "Now, as December premiums land in mailboxes across America, voters will have one party to blame for the sticker shock. One man, really—Donald J. Trump...." open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay Lordy, this guy is a piece of sh!^. www.infinitescroll.us/p/marc-andre...

Perhaps someone with a lawyerly background can correct me, but isn't this an ex post facto law?

Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake. I voted NO.

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

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.

GIFT article. Read it free, no paywall. "Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

This is beyond the pale. GIFT article. The bill to re-open the U.S. government, passed by the Senate, gives a few Republican Senators - whose phone records were legally subpoenaed by Jack Smith - the "right" to each sue the government for half a million dollars. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

He was the best husband and father — he was a true Human Being! Senior Sergeant 🇺🇦Valerii Odynets was killed on July 19 2023 while carrying out a combat mission near the village of Nevelske in the 🇺🇦Donetsk region On July 29 the defender would have turned 46 years old memorybook.org.ua/soldiers/val...

Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund SNAP Benefits in November. The Supreme Court blocks full SNAP Benefits after Trumps appeal. We have a MAGA Supreme Court that's as corrupt as Trump is. Americans deserve better. Let's remember this day and vote every last maga Republican out .

It's Seabird Sunday, our weekly roundup of intriguing links shared by the Seabird app community. First up, @andycraig.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net makes the case bringing proportional representation to the US House: www.theunpopulist.net/p/want-to-en...

Helping asylum seekers... generates more $$$ than the refugees receive. The HHS report found that despite the initial costs of caring for refugees and asylees, they contributed $123.8 billion more in taxes than they received in public benefits over the 15 years. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...