Why is this difficult?

Virginia Tory offers freedom, but only to the enslaved whose owners support independence.

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

Nor are they old enough to make decisions about their own reproductive health. /1

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

Yes!!! So, why do people resist it?

An interesting and amusing experiment. Again. AI can only look backward. It cannot innovate.

The rot exemplified by Epstein

WATCH - @tarapalmeri.bsky.social : “Hey Megyn Kelly… you want to hear the sound of one of the girls recruited from her nearby high school by Epstein? It is pedophilia. I would recommend you go listen to the audio from the police reports.”

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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

The Phantom of the Opera turns 100 today! 💀🎭 On this day in 1925, one of cinema’s most iconic horror figures first terrified US audiences (after a NY premiere in Sep). Lon Chaney’s Phantom, with his self-devised make-up, remains a silent horror icon, still spooky 100 years on.

Horrible people treating each other horribly

The cool thing about having a political world view that's not a weird personality cult tied to one old man is that there's no one so integral to your policy preferences that whether or not to overlook and conceal their complicity in mass paedophilia is a hard choice. I really recommend it.

We have got to put limits on the President’s authority to pardon

How are food inspectors not essential workers?!? Oh wait, Republicans.

We need to expand the House so that we have the capacity to investigate all of these scandals

Worse than the Gulf of Tonkin

November 14, 1960 Six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked into William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana, becoming the first Black student to attend the previously segregated all-white school.

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

ICE vs the clergy

“The Trump administration is burning down our country’s most important public health agencies from the inside.” Fact check: true Let’s thank @murray.senate.gov for speaking up for Jenna and NIH. This is a heck of a statement. www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

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Got a new story up, a profile of CA state senator and congressional candidate Scott Wiener, and a whole bunch of state housing politics and policy—to me, the totalizing political issue right now. Get people cheap housing near jobs and you fix *a lot*. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Clergy were dragged off in handcuffs at the Broadview ICE facility; faith leaders arrested for demanding basic humanity for detainees. The vigil turned confrontational after an attorney challenged ICE’s protest curfew. Instead of addressing abuses, police & ICE cracked down on clergy & activists.

Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.

Seems about right. Cassandra should be higher. I’m not sure about the listings after Blackwall.

Good coverage from the Harvard Crimson. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Well said. It’s the impunity. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Like come on how was this not as important as Clinton's emails? bsky.app/profile/data...

Good grief

Oh look, the cop from San Antonio who gave a feces sandwich to a homeless man as a joke, and who for the longest time cdn't be fired bc of civil service rules, has been rehired as an officer in South Texas, bc ofc he has. This pic has such a shit eating grin for a guy handing out shit sandwiches.

There’s always a Texas angle

Truly a Pope for our time

Nov. 13, 1775: The Americans under Gen. Richard Montgomery march into Montreal without a fight. The capture of British Canada’s largest city caps a 2½-month campaign and represents a major victory for the 1,200-strong patriot army. 1/5

It went down in 2023. It went down in 2024. It went up in 2025.

Nov 12th - The Hill Valley clock tower was struck by lightning, George decked Biff and saved Lorraine, Marty travelled Back to the Future. 📽️📅 Back to the Future (1985)

Dang 🎯

The media we need

NEW: Under DOJ standards and requirements, people seeking pardons generally must wait five years after release, demonstrate good conduct and remorse, and file petitions through the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Trump has largely abandoned that process.

Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.

A real “thank you” to America’s veterans would include services they require to survive. Veterans, we appreciate and honor your sacrifice. #VeteransDay

This would be “worst NFP print since Dec 2020,” adds the Goldman desk.

All this was foreseeable. But hey, Libertarians.

Accumulating evidence

The Texas shell game