BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

the first rule of Dunning-Kruger club is you don't know you're in the Dunning-Kruger club

With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

I'm gonna put this out there, because this seems to be the latest maga talking point. Yes, there was a bill to continue SNAP funding. Yes, Democrats voted against it - because republicans placed into the bill a NATIONWIDE ABORTION BAN! The reason they did that? So they could say shit like this.

Of course I don’t post selfies. Like normal people my age I grew up hating the way I looked

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

started from the bottom, now we here (a new bottom)

ICE is still being paid. Congress is still being paid. Private jets are still being bought. The White House is still being renovated. In the most prosperous country in the history of the world... This.👇

Contrast this with the video I just posted of Americans standing in food lines this weekend, in the rain and cold. Don't have to wonder where the SNAP funds are.

There was a couple on our long-haul flight who were walking around the plane IN THEIR SOCKS. Went in the bathroom that way and everything. I think there is a solid chance we’re talking about the same people. 😂

Got back to my hotel. Group got on elevator same time. Man (probably mid 40’s) sees a drink on the floor of elevator. Says it looks “brand new. Ice isn’t even melted.” Him and his girl both start drinking it. “It’s great. Rum and Coke!” THE FLOOR DRINK! THE DRINK FOUND ON THE FLOOR OF AN ELEVATOR!

They say 73% of all internet traffic is the result of bots engaging in malicious activities, so my bearded clam tweets are directed at only 27% of you

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

They never say this “liquid” bullshit when it comes to tax cuts for the rich or wars or giving money to their friends (in Argentina) etc See through it

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here

just thinking about billionaires panicking because all their money couldn't stop mamdani and that warms my heart

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump looking away from a man in need should be the portrait for his second term youtu.be/vtP8GvdDzcE?...

Handy chart update 1 million seconds = 11.6 days 1 billion seconds = 31.7 years 1 trillion seconds = 31,688 years

You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.

The man who gleefully did this was just awarded a trillion dollar pay package by his shareholders. Karma is a myth and life is defined by injustice.

Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, can't afford to feed their families, and struggle with cuts to the safety net made to finance tax cuts for the super-rich. American capitalism is off the rails.

it's like some of you never went to Posting Etiquette school smh

Nick Fuentes says people better be careful about calling him a Nazi "because if I'm a Nazi, then there's millions of young people that are following a fucking Nazi." Um, yeah, that's exactly what we've been warning about!

Pretty sure 42 million starving Americans counts as a catastrophe

Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."

I once worked in an office where the tradition after completing something really difficult was to have a “Mai Tai Thai No Tie” party. The deputy boss would make mai tais, the boss would order Thai food, and everyone would dress casually.

Baby’s first Mai Tai (and she’s in Waikiki). 🌴🍹

I am a Huge Football Supporter. If FIFA still hold this World Cup in the USA and give Trump this Fake "Ego Stroking" Award, then I am staying at home. I won't buy any match tickets. I won't travel to any stadiums. I won't watch this World Cup. Join me if you want. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Did the New York Times ruin journalism?

Wow!! She nailed it.

Trump: "I want my cabinet to behave like [Xi Jinping's staff]. I'm demanding that....I've never seen men so scared in their lives...JD doesn't behave like that. JD butts into conversations."

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

Mamdani's message to Trump 👏 "If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Trump how to defeat him, it's the city that gave rise to him." 'New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Stranger: I like your neon pink glasses. Me: Thank you. They used to be my rave glasses, now they're my aqua groove aerobics glasses.

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.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

meanwhile

I think it’s good for ME to be in an echo chamber, but not other people because they have wrong opinions

If you are in an area of West Virginia where they pronounce the word push as “poosh”, you are REALLY in WV (complimentary).

In a shocking reversal, Trump said federal food benefits won’t be distributed during the shutdown, despite a court order

I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Dick Cheney died? Been waiting a decade plus to bring this out.