Here's a thread of results from our newest Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io poll, out today: - D+5 on generic ballot, grows to D+7 when voters are told Rs control Congress. - Trump at -16 approval, underwater on inflation by 33 pts and on health care by 26 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said. www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Another one falls. He seems as bad as Milei.

The US isn't at COP. But China is -- in some very obvious ways. Whether it will box out the US for the global EV and clean energy market is on minds here. The latest from Belem: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Ambitious voxel sandbox Hytale is back on the cards after being canned by Riot Games earlier this year, and one of the game's original co-founding developers is on board.

JUST IN: A federal appeals court panel (with 2/3 Trump appointees) calls his lawsuit against CNN — over use of the term Big Lie — "meritless" and affirms the decision by a lower court to throw it out. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I recognize litigating imposes serious costs, but Trump has to be stood up to, because his claims are *always* meritless.

Hence …

In 2024, China installed 1.5x as much new solar as the entire US installed base. (via MS/Jonas)

Farage at school by those who knew him best: www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Zoox said it will start offering a limited number of public (non employee) users robotaxi rides in San Francisco. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/z...

Previously, Trump ordered the DOJ to force the FBI to redact all mentions of his name throughout the Epstein documents. It is unknown what the Trump regime has also classified which may protect other members of the Epstein network. #OpDeathEaters bsky.app/profile/opde...

The unclassified records will include flight logs, names of people and entities with ties to Epstein, sealed settlements, and internal DOJ communications related to the case. The DOJ would still be permitted to withhold certain information. #OpDeathEaters

The House is expected to vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Tuesday. If passed by congress and the senate, and signed by Trump the bill would require the DOJ to release more unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein. #OpDeathEaters

We're the sidekick. As I said to @juliaradio.bsky.social and Anthony Kuhn "What America does is part of the story—it's not the main part of the story, it's a cute side character. #China is now the main character in the story of fighting #climatechange." www.npr.org/2025/11/18/n...

cloud share is down. post cats

An Amazon climate summit built on contradiction, creating unease for California delegates - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

They are going to eat our lunch on a global scale while we completely throw in the towel on renewable energy. Great self own!

China is killing the US on EVs and now solar too

My biggest problem with the entire discussion about popularism is that the popularists lie about what is popular, which makes the whole exercise worthless.

pop goes the weasel www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thinking of all the women journalists I know who busted their ass doing the work and never had a man thirty years older than them paying for their apartment or buying them Cartier jewelry.

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

Is national policy more responsive to the preferences of white Americans than to those of people of color? When Republicans control the presidency and/or the Senate, yes. White voters are more likely to see legislation they support become law than are Black, Latino, or Asian American voters.

This is really good. Anyone comparing just the cost of a threat and the cost of the counter-measure isn't looking at the whole picture, usually on purpose. warontherocks.com/2025/11/the-...

An insurrectionist pardoned by Trump who was just charged with child sex crimes in Florida said he could pay off the victim with some of the January 6th reparations he expects from the government. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...

We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...

The thing is. Imagine if anyone spoke to you like this in real life. There's approximately a 50% chance you'd punch them in the face. Every day is such an utter fucking disgrace to the presidency.

“Finally, we got an ICE agent who crossed the line so bad, he got arrested,” Attorney Greg Kirakosian said in a statement to L.A. TACO. The full story: lataco.com/gerardo-rodr... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Keith Urban covered Chappell Roan's 'Pink Pony Club' during a private party at Mar-a-Lago this past weekend, while Trump was there . How many layers of WTF is this?

… the issue. Did he just borrow the language of politicians caught having affairs — as if signaling a commitment to work on his marriage will address the problem? It sure sounds like Summers caused harm to this mentee, exploiting his position of power and prestige to pressure her for sex.

I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.

This is how rape culture and a patriarchy works. The loudest, most extroverted men get deference from the ones who prefer to avoid conflict and want to stay in the good graces of the bully. And the consequence is whatever the bullies want to do to women, it’s allowed through complicit silence.

What sound is he trying to mimic after he says “I like the fish?”

Trump Has the Power to Release the Epstein Files, With or Without Congress www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

General aside to establishment Dems: Massie, like MTG, is also not invited into our big tent. They can continue to do… their jobs?… and do the bare minimum of choosing morality over evil, without us simply glossing over why we’re here in the first place. Stop it. K thx. Carry on.

OMG 😳 Last week I wrote about Russia’s Orthodox Church being an arm of intel (part of my new series on the far right) and just read that the White House will meet clergy with ties to the Russian Orthodox Church this week thehill.com/policy/inter...

A perfectly timed exposé of the Russian Orthodox Church’s role in Putin’s influence operations in the West & military operations against Ukraine - though I doubt the useful idiots inviting these dubious characters into the White House to spread lies about Ukraine will read it, unfortunately.

Lee Han-soo, 34, spends nearly 2 1/2 hours a day traveling between his home near Namhansanseong Station on Subway Line No. 8 and his job at an IT firm near Hongik University Station on Subway Line No. 2 in Seoul. www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...

Telling that it was People Magazine that actually wrote about this. The entire profession covers for this man daily. His hatred and abuse of women of girls is so consistent through time and even now when he is rabidly unpopular, they won't go for broke.

I was surprised i hadn't seen anyone isolate this yet, I think the actual disgusting thing here is that none of the other journalists there stick up for her or ask her question again or anything else. They act like it didn't even happen.

"Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.” What the actual hell?

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

San Diego has 2x the population of Helsinki and about 270 people died in traffic related fatalities in 2024

A stock of U.S.-bought birth control, meant for sub-Saharan Africa, goes bad in Belgium www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Australia doesn’t have a gas shortage…& neither does one of our biggest export customers. Not only does Japan onsell huge amounts of our gas to other countries, Japanese consumers have cheaper electricity than most Australians Well done Aus Government. Good job thepoint.com.au/news/251118-...

Even after he was caught, Summers can’t recognize what he did wrong:

This is amazing. Monarch butterflies can now be tracked as they migrate. I grew up near a California monarch butterfly grove and its population decline has been heartbreaking. This could open up ways to generate public awareness & support. 🦋 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

"Tax cuts are not what motivates investors or entrepreneurs, they’re not what creates jobs, and they undermine the things that do: broad economic stability and strong consumer demand... [Universal Basic Income] creates reliable consumer demand beyond subsistence spending." Canada should do UBI.