This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.

He’s not the problem…

The topics where Trump has his lowest approval rating, via Marquette poll: -Jeffrey Epstein (-48%) -The government shutdown (-50%) -The Argentina bailout (-58%) www.marquette.edu/news-center/...

This is what climate change looks like. What used to be snow is now rain, and when the rain falls it's heavier so more goes to runoff. The result is drier conditions, even during wet years.

Hefty rainfall totals in Texas over these next 36 hours. Confidence is increasing in a corridor of 4+ inches of rain, perhaps around Brownwood, Brady, Fredericksburg, Junction, Menard or nearby in Hill Country. A localized 6-7 inch zone can't be ruled out.

Mostly, the indictment almost certainly goes away. Lindsey skipped the critical step of actually presenting charges to the grand jury.

This is like when I would bury ominous notes from grammar-school teachers that my parents needed to sign in the murkiest depths of my classroom desk until the last moment.

When I think of the constant misery and anxiety Trump’s people must be feeling, I feel ….. is this contentment? Fuck. It’s NICE.

Red States pay much more for insurance than Blue States, and a lot of that has to do with state governments letting the insurance industry have its way

In happier times Musk bought a cluster of mansions in Bel Air, to accommodate his large nuclear family and extended family/visitors, even housing his kids' private school. He comes from a large family, and seems to value large families, but there's no more isolating place to live than a hotel suite.

an easily-overlooked detail in this piece: Musk appears to be living out of a hotel suite these days, which strikes me as a subtle but important indicator of where he is in his personal Howard Hughes arc www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Ro Khanna's management of this effort, which ceded the front lines to Tom Massie and MTG, was masterful and a good demonstration of the value of ego control for a politician

Pam Bondi refuses to answer multiple questions on what the next steps for releasing the Epstein files will be

Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.

That this beach in Matamoros is locally called Playa Bagdad and is very close to Musk's tax-payer subsidized space playground really ties it all together. www.cbsnews.com/news/warning...

Host: How did you feel when you saw Trump's reaction to just one question? How hostile and defensive he became. Jamal Khashoggi's widow: It was a disappointment to silence the journalists. She's doing her job. She's being transparent. I wish really Trump would listen to me, meet with me.

BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.

Marsha Blackburn on PSA encouraging military members to reject illegal orders: "It is inconceivable that you would have elected officials that are saying to uniformed members of the military who have taken an oath that they would defy the orders that they have been given to execute their mission."

Marian Kamensky

Pence: I've made it clear that American businesses and consumers pay tariffs. And I think the concession by the administration just in the last few days, that they were lifting tariffs to lower prices at the grocery store, made my point. We're seeing inflation, we're seeing impacts in our economy

Via @joshuaeaton.bsky.social: A week inside the opaque court where CT immigrants learn their fate www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

11TH CIRCUIT: “.. We have held that, by using ‘Big Lie’ to describe Trump, CNN was not publishing a false statement of fact. Therefore, whether CNN used ‘Big Lie’ one time or many is irrelevant to the question of falsity.” @mediaite.com $WBD www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/dis...

Elon Musk is currently on stage recommending reading books hat tip Joyce Carol Oates

Democrats blinked. Again. Six weeks into a GOP-made shutdown, they folded without securing ACA subsidies. Republicans saw the collapse coming and instantly pivoted to abortion. Now they're trying to extend Hyde to private insurance. My latest:

New in PN: CNN shows that when media orgs fight Trump, they win "Paying the blackmailer makes you look like a cowardly mark — both to your audience and to the guy grabbing you by the wallet. And with courts announcing they won’t be part of Trump's extortion racket, media outlets need to toughen up"

Texas' abortion ban has killed another woman. Let's be very clear: Republicans are killing women. Democrats need to start calling them murderers loudly and often. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

My first jobs in politics were working for can't win Democratic campaigns in North Carolina, so this... This is nice to see.

jeezus.... www.wtae.com/article/penn...

The majority of the corporations known to have donated to the fund for Trump's new White House ballroom are represented by three lobbying firms. www.cbsnews.com/news/corpora...

This is what gets me. All those conspiracy theorists were basically on the money. Qanon's biggest problem was that it was too small of a conspiracy and only directed it at part of the government.

Remember when Kamala said in nearly every stump speech that he'd raise every American's taxes by $2400?? We're getting there.....

I think it bothers us so much because so many of us would have told him to shut his fucking mouth and it’s depressing that not one person in his presence has the courage to do it. The capitulation and the cowardice are almost as appalling as his actions.

How many people would find themselves out of a job for the behavior that old dried apricot engaged in right in our faces? And he is supposed to represent us in the world?

I’d guess that what bothers us so much about that sack of shit silencing a reporter with “piggy” is that it was just so brazen. Right in front of all our faces, reported on the news. The President of the United States engaging in behavior that is unacceptable in any workplace.

Jeffrey Epstein's brother is warning that Republicans are "scrubbing the files" and "sabotaging" the full release, according to reports.

#Ootd is this 1926 Paul Poiret evening coat. It's made of ermine with some insets of faux black fur blended with gold lame, floral appliques using metallic thread, sequins, and metal beads. It is truly unique and a signifier of wealth. #Fashionhistory #paulpoiret

In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin. There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. By @megomatz.bsky.social

If ICE agents can’t operate without masks and no IDs, maybe the problem isn’t California, it’s whatever you’re trying to hide. 📌 The Trump administration is suing California over its new laws banning ICE from hiding behind masks and forcing them to show IDs while they run operations in the state.

This is incredibly accurate😬 A “Maga Years” explainer…

UK to build new munitions factories to boost warfighting readiness reut.rs/4plTsuF

holy shit mike johnson is SHOOK on Epstein vote in Senate

The combination of unique politics, climate change, and bad luck have brought a true drought emergency to Tehran. "Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that Tehran’s residents would have to ration water—and eventually evacuate the capital—if there was no rain by late November."

just being out at night if you’re anywhere near roads is like actively painful at this point

North Carolina will be a blue state come November 2026. The anger they’re generating isn’t just in blue Mecklenberg county but in all the red leaning suburban areas/counties too. It will flip the whole state, and pretty hard.

My favorite thing the CFP selection committee does is tell us that teams aren't close enough to each other to directly compare them (aka use head-to-head results). But they're the ones who decided to put the teams 3-4 spots apart! No one forced you to do that!

Again, it is unbelievable that this man is permitted to walk free after causing the deaths of potentially millions of people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Not sure whether to laugh or look for cover.

To quote the person who filmed this unconscious mom who was tazed while already in zip ties in front of her small child and then tossed her like a corpse into the trunk: “this is fucked up”