I think there is a near-pathological remove from which a lot of people on this website view politics. For all the talk about material conditions, a refusal to see the effects on material shutdown that have happened and were worsening. “Yeah but the other guy’ll get blamed” can change on a dime.

meanwhile, in the lower left corner..

Someone wrote a story recently about how the party that gives in on a shutdown historically suffers no or little damage in the following year's election (eg, GOP caved in 2013, gained 9 Senate and 13 House seats in 2014). Does anyone remember that piece?

This MLB indictment is incredible. It alleges, among many other things, that a star Cleveland pitcher was placing bets *during a game* that a pitch he was about to throw would be a ball, and it would be under 98 mph. www.justice.gov/usao-edny/me...

"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Donald Trump appeared to be wearing a red tie.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

And Schumer should be doing photo shoots with Bhagat Dc and Matt Somsy, Florida restaurant/food truck owners who are giving free meals to SNAP families. “Anything on the menu, we are giving to people who need it.” “I don’t have much, but it feels good to give.” www.tcpalm.com/story/news/l...

Amid the talk about Dems "caving," we can also imagine senators hearing from anguished SNAP recipients who can't feed their kids, fed'l employees who can't pay their rent, and constituents who can't go home for T'giving, and figuring, we'll fight this battle another day www.axios.com/2025/11/09/s...

lol Daily Mail. The governor of California gave Trump a “cruel nickname” Sir have you no decency etc etc

Example 5,000,000,007 of why isn’t the press covering this thing (that is on the front page of one of America’s most-read news sites)

Not the biggest deal, but Duffy uses "I" or "me" 8 times in 30 seconds here. EG, "I've paid experienced controllers to stay on the job."

And who pray tell would sell this healthcare that our president speaks of so fondly?

JFC George - don’t accept the premise Tariffs are taxes paid by consumers and businesses. Frame the question the right way. It’s not a damn true/false

The median home price in the U.S. is $435,000. At 6.5% interest: 30-Year Mortgage: - Monthly Payment: $2,750 - Total Loan Cost: $989,800 50-Year Mortgage: - Monthly Payment: $2,450 - Total Loan Cost: $1,471,300 $1,036,300 just in interest. This is the definition of broken.

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

“After consulting w/ friends more media-seasoned than I, and exchanging emails w/ the reporter laying out what I was and wasn’t interested in speaking about, I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot” lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

“After consulting w/ friends more media-seasoned than I, and exchanging emails w/ the reporter laying out what I was and wasn’t interested in speaking about, I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot” lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

And who pray tell would sell this healthcare that our president speaks of so fondly?

The only redeeming features of this editorial page these days are the AI summaries of reader comments: "There is a recurring theme of dissatisfaction with the Washington Post's perceived shift towards right-wing perspectives, with some readers expressing a loss of respect for the publication."

“People send me back their the season brochure shredded in an envelope and say: ‘Never, never, will I return, while he’s in power.’” -- director of the Washington Nat'l Opera, which stages its performances in the Kennedy Center (Center chair: Donald Trump) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Let's see how many First Amendment violations we have in this one edict: Religion ✔️ Speech ✔️ Peaceably assemble ✔️ Petition the government for redress of grievances ✔️ Press ❓(not quite, but they'll figure out a way)

Otoh they haven’t demolished a wing of the White House in at least a couple of weeks

Headlines You Can Hardly Believe Are True. (A continuing series.) Via @chrisgeidner.bsky.social www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...

Just got a sneak peek from the planning session for a hot new media product

I mean, you can’t brag about stoping 24 wars without starting them first!

Are we invading Poland

Also in today’s column: The essential pre-election reporting at @boltsmag.org www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Lachlan Cartwright puts his magnifying glass on NYT's big subscription bump in the latest quarterly earnings report. www.breakermedia.com/p/behind-the...

My optometrist makes me do this at every exam

"We did want to get the story out quickly," reporter @nickjudin.bsky.social told me. But something was off. "Why would a study have a grab bag of random viruses in a handful of primates? What study necessitates infecting primates and shipping them around the country? "It just didn’t add up."

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

You might have seen that story about the monkeys -- supposedly infected w/ herpes and COVID -- that escaped a crashed truck in Mississippi. It was not journalism's finest hour. (With an exception or two.) In today's Laurels & Darts, via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

Scoop: “Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves” me, for @forbes.com 1/

“The jury seems to find all this funny. We can’t see the jurors on the screens in the dedicated media space, but a reporter in the courtroom confirms that they struggle at times to contain their smiles—and one juror in particular must cover her face with her notebook to conceal herself cracking up.”

A jury I served on basically agreed on our verdict by around 1030 am, but several jurors held out for two more hours because the judge promised us free sandwiches if we went past noon.

Tell us more about this gospel of which you speak. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

First time or two I saw this, I assumed it was photoshopped

Life imitates art

Thoughtful, rich piece on “why journalism?” by longtime journalism professor Samuel G. Freedman https://ethics.sjmc.wisc.edu/2025/11/06/q-whats-the-point-of-journalism-now-a-history/

Hmm

Not only was Sandwich Guy acquitted. He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

RFK Jr scampers away like he's Colonel Mustard with the candlestick

It's not a good sign for Trump, Noem or Bovino when a judge does this. ⤵️

That amounts to around 5 or 6 ounces of weight loss per person

What a great piece of advice … via @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social (actually, his dad). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

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