A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

Decided to book a train to Boston as a backup in case my upcoming flight gets cancelled and found that many of the trains were sold out. Not surprised, but just a note that you should book your train tickets well in advance.

Most science degrees never require students to learn how to communicate their work to the public. That gap fuels confusion, mistrust, and missed opportunities to protect lives. Let's change it. Sign the petition to make communication + public engagement training a degree requirement. bit.ly/3LbnfHB

This reporting is excellent... and pretty shocking.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

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

The real hero.

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

Oh no there’s gonna be a mistrial

It's interesting that one of the most effective and consequential Speakers in Congressional history has announced her retirement on the same day that one of the worst is holding another press conference. History will inevitably compare Pelosi and Johnson and he will not benefit from the comparison.

Thread. Also, as a veteran anchor and host, I can say that Douthat is not a good interviewer or host.

Now they’re coming after minors. ICE is planning to open a new call center with a dedicated unit to track unaccompanied migrant children, according to internal contracting documents.

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This is BAD. A reminder that George W. was president in 2003 and the country was struggling in between the recession of the early 2000s and the Great Recession that would hit a few years later.

But... but... when we give the rich people taxpayer money, it's supposed to trickle down.... Aren't they the job creators?????? -- Every Reagan conservative, probably

"Ok, but are trans people sad?"- GOP voters

NANCY PELOSI IS RETIRING www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Damn straight.

Sam Foster lost the Marietta GA mayoral race to a Republican male white by 87 votes. Your vote matters.

Of course the risk of doing radical mid-decade gerrymandering for Rs in midterms always was that they weakened a lot of formerly safe Repub districts by moving R voters into Dem districts, which would backfire spectacularly if you have a blue wave scenario - making it a tsunami.

LOCAL ELECTION RESULT: Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board. For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.

The modern Democratic party established its identity by backing civil rights; the modern GOP by opposing them. Civil rights are the values of Dem value voters—the party BASE. The Dems lose the plot when they don’t LEAD on public opinion of civil rights. This is the lesson they don’t learn.

These are counties that voted for Donald Trump. They are also extremely heavily Latino. The under-reported story of last night is that Latinos have turned on Trump massively. Many Latinos voted for Trump because of the "magic businessman will make me rich and only deport criminals" theory.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

The shift in Connecticut tonight is seismic. Possibly unprecedented. Loads of towns flipped from Republican to Democratic control. A partial list: Ansonia Bethany Branford Bristol Brooklyn East Granby Ellington Enfield Farmington Milford New Britain New Fairfield Norwich Plymouth Rocky Hill

Ready to hear apologies from the experts who told the Dems to abandon trans people to the conservative wolves if they wanted to win.

Let 'em laugh while they can Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends And the joke's on them www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r6A...

They f**king chopped down the beautiful willow trees that lined the Kennedy Center along the Potomac. www.instagram.com/reel/DP2BuVj...

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

The thing about the Bucks County flip is, at the start of the day, we were a purple county where we'd go blue on statewide candidates or president, but we usually keep it red locally -- and at the end of the day yesterday, it's pretty much all blue, snout to tail. Which is amazing.

Waiting for all the think pieces from pundits and analysts about how the GOP overplayed its hand, the people have rejected their policies, they've focused too much on culture wars & haven't governed competently, they should have abandoned their attacks on trans people, they are in disarray....

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

"It really is the case that Trump specifically, in his capacity as president, inspires ferocious energy and opposition against him among a large part of the voting public."

Fred Harran, who tried to bring ICE into Bucks County in 2018 & this year opted for the most aggressive ICE "force multiplier" program, was ousted last night. He lost by more than 25,000 votes to a 33-yr-old lawyer & former Army intel officer. buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/buck...

Black and brown took the town.

It was a great night for DEI.

New Mexico is now the first state to guarantee its residents free, universal child care, regardless of income. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Zohran Mamdani got more votes than the total population in five states.

"I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name." Mamdani 19thnews.org/2025/11/zohr...

JD Vance's half brother lost to the child of two immigrants, from Tibet and Punjab. www.firstpost.com/explainers/w...

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.

From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything. Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.

On the day that Dick Cheney died, New York City got its first Muslim mayor and a Muslim woman became the lieutenant governor of Virginia.

Detroit gets its first female mayor. Virginia gets its first female governor. NJ gets its first female Dem in the governor's office. NYC gets its first Muslim mayor. Seems like a pretty resounding statement of support for diversity and inclusion.