“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

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

HELL IS REAL AND WE JUST SENT COLUMBUS THERE!!!! #allforcincy

I'm sorry what? I was born with these bay leaves and so help me god I'll die with these bay leaves

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask. (Published September)

Shadow docket strikes again

Dec 2024 - Costa Rican man crosses into U.S. Feb. 2025 - ICE detains him. He talks to his family daily. June - He disappears. Aug - His family finally finds him detained and in a vegetative state. Sept. - He's air ambluenced home. Oct. 26th - He dies. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Generally, when a party is trying to appeal to a new cohort of voters, they don’t send masked men to publicly kidnap and disappear thousands of members of that cohort.

One thing that I love about last night is watching the NYT pout and refuse to acknowledge the seismic activity that is Mamdani's victory. Cry harder.

Go woke, win elections

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has won a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat. With 92% of the vote in as of 9 p.m. Tuesday, DuPree led Republican Anna Rush in the special election for Mississippi Senate District 45 by a 71%-29%.

I mean, Staten Island is objectively the least-impressive borough, so...

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

NEW: A Tennessee appeals court ruled that the evidence didn’t prove Russell Maze's innocence, even though the medical examiner whose testimony helped convict Maze had recanted and concluded Maze’s son died of natural causes, not abuse. By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

NEW: A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say they feel targeted just going about their lives.

Every Bengals fan rn

Having worked with people on SNAP (and TANF), I wholeheartedly concur. Please go get f&*$ed!

The abandoned Imperial Theater in Cincinnati

Touring the abandoned Jackson Brewery

Dark but accurate

Wow. Yes let’s see those files. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

The reason FDR knew the feds had to take the lead on relieving the Great Depression is because he knew that charities couldn't do it all

We wanted to understand what a Zohran Mamdani administration would mean for New York. So we talked to a Kentucky woman who once tied for 5th place in a swim race with a transgender woman and got really mad that she didn't get to hold the trophy.

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

Seems bad www.npr.org/2025/10/29/g...

For @policyoptions.irpp.org, I wrote about how Canada lags its European and Anglo peers in electing women to parliament, how that harms their reputation, and, drawing on research w/ @dzobrien.bsky.social & Amanda Clayton, why voters prefer gender parity. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/gend...

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Complete disregard for human life

One thing I don’t think enough people are taking about re: refusal to seat an elected rep is that this is a dry run for refusing to seat any political opponents

This is not “America First”

Tuesday will be 50 days since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees issued an order allowing the Trump administration, essentially, to target working-class Latinos in its massive immigration raids. What has happened since has been as bad, if not worse, than experts warned on Sept. 8.

As many have warned — “The Supreme court is scheduled to consider whether to hear Kim Davis’ challenge to same-sex marriage at their private conference on Friday, Nov. 7…” www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/cour...

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime. While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Important 🧵 below. I just set up a recurring donation to Long Beach Community Table. Find your local food bank and do the same!

A key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is under attack. Will the Supreme Court undermine decades of progress in Black political representation? Here’s how we did our research: goodauthority.org/news/a-key-p...

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

As they campaign to stay on the state supreme court, Pennsylvania justices have emphasized their records protecting voting rights. “My court is the backstop of democracy,” one said on the campaign trail.

I’m glad this is being covered. Federal judges have been warning us as best they know how. When I looked into this back in June, I found dozens of cases where judges suggested that the Trump administration’s conduct was untrustworthy or acting in bad faith.

The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish). He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.

FIRED DOJ LAWYER: “I responded up the chain of command - that’s a lie. I cannot sign my name to that.” Erez Reuveni says he was fired by Trump’s DOJ for refusing to lie that KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA was a terrorist & gang member.