🚨 Finally. The WaPo does an in-depth analysis of Decomposing Dictator's inability to stay awake at that Oval Office meeting. Pics & vid. Watch the WH go ape sh*t after issuing a denial that Grandpa Chaos drooped over & passed out. Sunday shows better cover this. #25thA47 🧾 is.gd/nk08nU

SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates. In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.

CRAZY!! Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

Gingrich failed to get a conviction because Clinton did nothing wrong. If there was obvious evidence of 50-100 impeachable offenses like in the case of Trump he would have succeeded easily. Trump stayed POTUS because nobody ever went after him.

idk if schumer made the offer expecting it to be rejected but i am once again concerned that the lack of prioritizing defending the people from ICE signals intent to “moderate” on the american gestapo if dems ever get power again.

Starting today, Trump's FAA is cutting 10% of air traffic from the busiest airports across the country. They could cut private plane travel instead, but that would impact Trump's friends and donors.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

virtue signalling is good actually

Rich people are not entitled to a private audience with politicians just because they happen to be rich.

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

REPORT: Supreme Court justices have close financial ties to oil, even as they decide if cases against oil companies for their climate lies can proceed: 💰Justice Alito has stock in ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66, and up to $100,000 in a fund heavily invested in ExxonMobil; 🧵1/3

👀🚨 Yesterday lying liar Republican Senator from Texas Cornyn gaslighted reporters saying shutdown is hurting Democratic politically. NEW: Today fresh poll just came out 64% Latinos in Texas are blaming Republicans for the shutdown (vs just 21% blaming Dems). www.expressnews.com/politics/art...

CRIME PAYS -- when you're a corporate behemoth. Keep this in mind every time a neoliberal suggests that Democrats should "make nice" with Silicon Valley! www.reuters.com/investigatio...

No one should therefore be surprised that the Abundance movement is funded by a rogue's gallery of Big Tech, fossil fuel, and hyper wealthy billionaires.

This strategy manifests in Abundance's signature policy priority—"permitting reform"—where Abundance is aligned with extractive industries, namely the American Petroleum Institute, using distinct by complementary narrative messaging.

Keep in mind that the Abundance movement's attacks on progressives is a feature (not a bug) of its strategy: (1) Punch left; (2) Align right. Thus, e.g., Matt Yglesias embracing fossil fuels and never saying a negative word about them while relentlessly attacking progressives.

I will say, contrary to how progressives are often portrayed, they have made extraordinarily good faith efforts to engage with the critiques of them by the Abundance movement. For which, no doubt, they will receive no fucking credit whatsoever. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

The Abundance movement's portrayal of progressives is the product of an echo chamber of centrist think tanks with an axe to grind whose big win was persuading pundits to their side as the vehicle to persuade politicians. Abundance suffers from a poverty of good-faith engagement with the critiques.

A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong. open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo...

you look at Texas, they pay the state leg $7,200 a year and as a result like half of them are car dealership owning reactionaries

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

This whiny man-baby is big mad about the elections this week. He doesn't want to hear about "the affordability" anymore, cuz Trump solved that ok. So shut up just shut up stop talking about it.

On some level, the basic posture of some Dems (not all) is still fearful and tentative. Some seem afraid to say their big wins were driven even *partly* by Trump. Why? Say he's an unpopular and failing president who's wrecking the economy and that voters delivered him a resounding repudiation.

MISSING FROM HAGIOGRAPHY OF THE MOMENT: Nancy Pelosi Resisted Effort to Impeach Trump on Jan. 6: New Book. theintercept.com/2022/09/30/j...

according to Politico, it's "Decision day for Senate Dems" of course, that's Politico framing after the GOP got walloped in the election and even Trump says the shutdown hurt them It's Republicans who need to make some decisions but most DC media can't grasp that www.politico.com/live-updates...

things that arent the future of civilization - chatbots - crypto - robot butlers - cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people things that actually are the future of civilization - free clean energy

NEW in @prospect.org from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social: as Exxon once again seeks the help of the Supreme Court to avoid being held accountable for decades of climate deception, Alito isn't the only justice whose oily ties and inconsistent recusals raise serious ethics questions.

Worth noting just two days ago - the electorate sent a pretty clear message that they are tired of targeting of trans community (as their messaging felt flat). Once again the right-wing majority of this MAGA #SCOTUS issuing opinions not in step with majority of the country.

Alex is a mensch. Confrontations like this are really important because they both build solidarity and wear on the collective psyche of the fascists. Every act of resistance matters.

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

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This isn’t true. I was there. (from The Argument)

You can also see it as a particular form of whataboutism: "You think what this politician is doing is bad, but what about how the Democrats didn't already reform the system to block all bad behavior like this. Isn't it really their fault?"

This is a strange hack punditry, in which everything anyone does is the Democratic Party's fault. Dems' mistakes are their fault. Repubs' mistakes are the Dems' fault for not stopping them. No party is perfect. But we should examine their actual actions. You can't learn anything from this punditry.

What if "popularists" failed to understand popular opinion?

ICE-loving sheriff loses his election in Bucks County, PA, to a young progressive candidate. Apparently, people really don't like it when their neighbors get kidnapped and disappear. buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/buck...

I drove through Bucks County last week and saw a couple of these signs. Bucks went just barely for Trump in 2024, it's not exactly the kind of place where you'd expect this sort of very-online-leftist messaging to work as an attack. But it does now! The normies are being radicalized against ICE.🙏

'Blunt Corruption': DOJ has given the tech behemoth Alphabet a green light to acquire the cybersecurity firm Wiz after it was revealed that the Google parent company donated to President Donald Trump’s $300 million ballroom project. The merger deal is valued at over $30 billion

RDP two months ago: Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry prospect.org/2025/09/05/2... Still true!

and we can wrap this up now.

You either die a gyro Or live long enough to see yourself become the filling

The Electric Bill Election prospect.org/2025/11/06/e...

Please note this: Raising the "salience" of immigration actually worked in Dems' favor in one of the most important swing counties in the country. This is more grist for the idea that attacking Trump is succeeding among the nonwhite working class (see thread below).

The president, who routinely lies about his weight, held an event with two top health officials (a TV doctor and a guy who had a worm in his brain). The event, centered on drugs that make it unnecessary to exercise to lose weight, was interrupted when one of the elderly men attending fainted.

For the Netroots community, for everyone who knew @arjunjaikumar.bsky.social when he was a guy posting on DailyKos and SSP as "brownsox" who loved writing about elections, today is a joyous day as he's been elected to the Cambridge School Board with the strong backing of the local teachers' union.

Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights. And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports. People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.

This type of redundancy may cost time and/or money, but its the type of regulation that keeps our runways and airspaces safe. We can't afford an FAA that values efficiency over safety. For continuous updates on air safety news, follow our tracker:

The FAA should to be overly cautious, even if that means mandating redundancies, but its not always the case. Just last week, the National Transportation Safety Board criticized the FAA for failing to require visual inspections of Learjet landing gear after February's deadly crash in Arizona.

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