The corporations and billionaires funding Trump’s ballroom aren't paying for chandeliers or marble floors; they’re investing in power and a pay-off for deregulations, tax cuts, and government contracts.

Far-right pastor Joel Webbon declares that Christian nationalists are allowed to impose their values on everyone "because we're right": "Christians don't have to tolerate degeneracy, and degenerates absolutely must tolerate righteousness or they need to go to jail."

ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.

This is acting like a pure money laundering operation. They reported losing another $54 million last quarter. It has never made money. Investor money is just flying out the back door faster than in comes in to enrich a lot of shysters and grifters.

one year ago today, I wrote a post called "let’s celebrate acts of defiance." I think it still holds up. the people I wrote about three days after the election are still pretty much the people leading the way a year later.

"They are willing to keep the government shut down, they are so determined to make you pay more for healthcare."

Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Not pro-life. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What he said: 💯 🎯

We got to be getting close to the part where Melania tells us to eat cake.

The U.S. is denying visas to people with diabetes or obesity - calling them “too costly.” Borders keep expanding their control. But movement is human. Permission never was.

1/2 ICE/CPB thugs tackled a nonverbal autistic man outside a Family Dollar in Chicago’s Little Village claiming he was “noncompliant.” Witnesses begged them to stop. “Why they beating up this special boy?” one worker cried. “He comes in every day for a treat. He has the mind of a child.” 🤬🤬🤬

The whole billionaire/trillionaire this is getting a bit ridiculous. We need a law that makes it illegal to possess more than a billion dollars. If you have more than a billion dollars, you have one year to give it away or the state seizes it and pays for people's healthcare.

Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s failed congressional campaign still owes $326,000, including refunds for illegal donations, vendor debts to GOP firms, and penalties delayed as the FEC remains paralyzed. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Legal expert @thelisagraves.bsky.social says John Roberts, the Supreme Court chief justice, has been pushing a radical right-wing agenda for decades, despite portraying himself as a neutral "umpire" calling "balls and strikes." https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/tariffs_scotus

BREAKING: A Federal appeals court has just denied Trump’s request to lift a lower court's order that it fully fund SNAP for the month of November. Trump tried to not give Americans SNAP and the courts forced him to.

Trump claims to be a dealmaker. Well, let's make a deal.

Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control. But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept. 🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu

Trump promised to release the Epstein files. Now he’s breaking that promise—while GOP leaders scramble to bury the truth. Congress can force the DOJ to make the files public within 30 days. Add your name: peoplefor.org/ReleaseTheFiles

I could not be prouder of @indivisiblesantafe.org. Front page coverage of our ICE OUT OF HOME DEPOT action, amidst news about how ICE is “quietly” disappearing people from #SantaFe #NewMexico.

The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough. 25/47

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I love that the Subway Sandwich Case is a big embarrassment for obnoxious Jeanine Pirro (see video). She was an idiot for wasting the jury and court's time with such a frivolous case. The only thing that would have made it better is if the jury had pitched in to give the defendant a replacement sub.

Pope Leo:

I guess the Trump economic plan is for him to just make up a bunch of numbers and lie every single day about them and hope at some point people will believe him instead of their bank accounts.

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

Curious about what happened between @python.org & the National Science Foundation? Me too, so I asked PSF executive director @eximious.bsky.social onto @redmonk.com's MonkCast to discuss the situation & share her perspective redmonk.com/blog/2025/11... youtube.com/shorts/_DDWk...

Well, that certainly cleared that up.

Read my lips you silly man No it isn't. What planet are you living on? We are already commited to at least a Pliocene climate Pretending otherwise is not helpful Nor does it mean we stop fighting TELL THE TRUTH www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I live in a very small town and I know what keeps small town grocery stores open: SNAP.

Solidarity with Starbucks Workers!

BlackRock-backed fintech is going public in a bid to bring more credibility and capital to one of crypto’s hottest corners: real-world assets.

A Tops plant making paper closed in Logan, OH. A Case plant making light construction equipment closed in Burlington, IA. Devastating for these communities. What should be federal government response for these communities? newsforce247.com/tops-product...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Are they finally catching on to his eternal grifting and gaslighting?

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

US urges Europe to stick to oil and gas, not renewables reut.rs/480OBsS

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)

This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now. 100% serious here.

BREAKING: A D.C. jury found former DOJ paralegal Sean Dunn not guilty of assaulting a federal agent after throwing a Subway sandwich at him in August.

Remember: no matter who is in the Oval Office, you can always fight for change at the state and local levels. Just look at New Mexico.

Mike Johnson won't want you to see this.