The Nexus Project is deeply concerned by the divisive, hyperbolic and aggressive response that we are seeing from some corners of the Jewish community to the election of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of New York City. Our full statement: nexusproject.us/press-releas...

Read this story. Trump is replacing experienced officers with those he believes will obey any order unquestionably. He is rushing to consolidate an authoritarian regime.

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

I have a new shero.

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

🚨BREAKING: More than 200,000 Missourians have signed a petition supporting a referendum to block Republicans’ new gerrymandered congressional map. But GOP officials are working to thwart them at every turn. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Dear Mike Johnson, Professional Christian: Show me the Bible verse that says starving families is a Christ-based public policy. Show me the verse that says hiding pedophiles is a righteous thing to do. At this point, little buddy, hell isn't hot enough for you.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

I cannot emphasize enough that when you share something, you need to verify it is true before celebrating. This is how we get complacent and believe that the battle is done and over and the enemy is defeated. We had such a great night on Tuesday, but this isn't over. Not even close.

Viral posts about how Moms For Liberty had zero wins on election night...aren't true. They're misinformation, even dis-info. M4L did have a number of school board candidates win. You can verify that information pretty easily. They had *A LOT* of losses and their power isn't what it once was.

Tuesday's results made me more hopeful, but I'm still not holding my breath waiting for Republicans to do the right thing. I'd love to be surprised, but that would be the triumph of hope over experience.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

This is what the CBP agent who shot Miramar Martinez on October 4 texted the next day. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Judge Gettleman just ordered ICE to improve "serious conditions" inside its Broadview facility in Chicago. Yesterday, people testified in court that they were crammed into overcrowded and filthy cells for days, with little access to lawyers, and pressured into deportation.

FBI says criminals are posing as masked ICE agents. Who except for everyone could have predicted this?

“Spoiler alert: That case is unspeakably, breathtakingly devoid of merit. To see it laid out in all its patchwork threadbaredness is to gasp with embarrassment for the prosecutors…” Dang

Maybe they should also run some editorials about how X is out of touch and an echo chamber.

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

This matters, among other things because the creators claim the technology is useful for areas they don't know that well (writing, education, etc.)

More good news from last night!

Living in the techbro bubble must be a helluva drug. What universe do these guys (because it's inevitably guys) live in? It's like they read Orwell's 1984 and took it as a blueprint rather than a warning.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

WTF? @washingtonpost.com just published a profile about Chris Buskirk—who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network with JD Vance—that omitted Buskirk’s ties to American Reformer, self-professed Christian Nationalist William Wolfe, & Wolfe’s Center for Baptist Leadership. 1/

This is why I pay my @authorsguild.org dues! Because we're sick of having our work stolen by immoral, unethical tech bros.

‘Fuentes won, he is mainstream now. The years-long effort which I participated in to gatekeep the antisemitic hateful freaks out of the Republican Party and conservative movement failed.’ newrepublic.com/article/2026...

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

I hate this timeline

This is terrible. Teen Vogue has done some stellar political coverage.

Read the transcript of the 60 Minutes interview. It's both incomprehensible and bonkers, and Norah O'Donnell barely gets a word in and doesn't do much pushing back. www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Will never, ever, forgive Joe Lieberman for this newrepublic.com/article/2025...

"I believe the rising fury felt across the country will demand that moderate candidates push harder to tap into the fierce emotion and the growing desire for real change. That may be tough for traditional politicians, but we are not living in normal times."

"the conservative movement, though it can & should be a broad tent, simply cannot include or accommodate white supremacists or racists of any type, antisemites, eugenicists, or others whose ideologies are incompatible with belief in the inherent & equal dignity of all.

"To be a good citizen of a bad state, one has to do scary things. It may be writing an op-ed calling for your own country’s isolation... It may be using your body to shield someone more vulnerable..."

Worth revisiting what I wrote in 2022 after Trump dined with Nick Fuentes. As I said then, all of this was foreseeable: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Last day of #earlyvoting here in #CT. Please vote! Local Elections Matter!

One night recently, I got a Signal message Would I be interested in seeing an internal Trump admin memo? I said yes (duh). Then, I couldn’t believe what I was looking at. The memo shows how the VA is making access to health coverage header for just one group: Male vets w/ breast cancer….

In hindsight, it was probably a bad idea for voters to put the full force of the US state apparatus and military in the hands of a guy who bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support, and who was also granted immunity by the Supreme Court before taking office.

it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people. it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper: cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning

Most Americans think the government lies. Many say the American Dream is dead.

Kash Patel was angry about his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician girlfriend perform so he forced out a senior FBI official overseeing aviation, Bloomberg reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

"But videos show them firing at people in aggressive and "unorthodox" ways...The use of tear gas has persisted in recent days despite a court order forbidding officers from using chemical agents against demonstrators and journalists unless they pose a safety threat."

A hallmark of this year's Banned Books Week? The censoring of Banned Books Week. That, plus this week's extensive roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/banning-bann...

This is legit one of the best photos I ever seen on the internet!

For over a century, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House has been more than a building — it’s been a symbol of peace. Now that's over, thanks to Trump and Kristi Noem. www.everylibrary.org/haskell via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Happy Halloween and make sure to VOTE for candidates who support the Freedom to Read!

The arts have a liberal bias, apparently. “We had spent way too much on programming that doesn’t bring in any revenue,” Richard Grenell, a Trump ally ...told the Washington Reporter...in late March. ... It was too woke and niche. The new team was, in Trump’s words, going to make it “hot” again."

Surely the Supreme Court would say that's an issue that should be decided by states like abortion, right? RIGHT? Trump Team Takes Aim at State Laws Shielding Consumers’ Credit Scores From Medical Debt ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/10/30/t...