Senator Durbin voted for the Republican bill to end the shutdown. I wonder if this is what he got in return for his vote?

Dem Sen. Tim Kaine wanted a “moratorium on mischief” from the Trump administration in return for his vote to end the shutdown. He didn't get it until Sunday night. What Senate Republicans had to concede to win the last vote to end the shutdown👇

Breaking: They're leaving?! Border Patrol Chief Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago. Federal immigration agents part of Trump’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, sources said the mission was rapidly winding down. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...

"Always let the truth get in the way of a good story, because it's no longer a good story when it's a lie." - me

Exposed: 5,000+ Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Got Access to U.N. Climate Talks & Helped Block Climate Action. As #COP30 begins in Brazil, the role of the fossil fuel industry is overwhelming. www.democracynow.org/2025/11/10/n...

Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for at least $1bn over an edit of a speech he gave on January 6 2021 if it does not meet a series of demands by Friday, deepening a crisis at the broadcaster. www.ft.com/content/758d...

Meanwhile, Musk gets $878 billion pay day.

"We'll continue to wage this fight no matter what comes over to us from the Senate this week. Our position as House Democrats has been clear, we'll sit down with Republicans anytime anywhere, but we're not down with their 'our way or the highway' form of government."- @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Proposal to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies shows signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump is now ordering states to halt their own payments to fill the void Trump and Republicans made by freezing SNAP - the payments millions of low-income Americans rely on for food. Your local food bank was already under strain, now it really needs your help. www.capitalareafoodbank.org

“Forests are vanishing, water levels are rising and, in turn, peoples’ livelihoods are being disrupted,” Salah Jama, the deputy prime Minister of Somalia, said. “In a nutshell, we are living on a planet in crisis.” #COP30 begins. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/c...

Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

Democrats propose deal to reopen the government: add a one-year extension of the ACA tax credits to the CR and create bipartisan committee to continue negotiations.

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

The big wins by Democrats in Tuesday’s elections across the U.S. turned into a rallying cry at an environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro ahead of #COP30, where Climate-Friendly Mayors Find Hope in Trump’s Big Election Setback. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s travel ban inspired Ghazala Hashmi to first run for office. Today, its fighting bigotry and the “chaos” of Trump’s second term. Virginia makes history electing the state's first woman governor and the first Muslim woman ever to statewide office in U.S. history. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

Upon winning the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday with a majority of the vote, Zohran Mamdani quickly took the fight to Donald Trump. “Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.” — latest from @andrewperez.bsky.social & me for @zeteo.com

The election was a mandate on Trump and Trumpian politics of pain, including Trump's energy policies that are costing Americans billions of dollars in skyrocketing energy bills, tax subsidies, and catastrophic climate costs that are literally being handed over to Trump's Big Oil billionaire bros.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

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

Voters to Trump: You Lose. Democrats make a massive sweep in large and small races across the nation and right there in Trump's home town with Zohran Mamdani handily taking New York City. Abigail Spanberger becomes Virginia’s first female governor. Mikie Sherrill sweeps New Jersey's governor’s race.

A federal judge ruled today that the U.S. DOT violated the constitution by trying to coerce states to cooperate with ICE if they want federal transportation dollars.

• Mamdani is not in the country illegally • Mamdani does not have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism • Mamdani hasn’t said or done anything antisemitic • Mamdani did not call to "globalize the intifada" • Mamdani is not a communist

I wrote a book in 2005 called, The Bush Agenda, which is about the George W. Bush administration and thus, in many ways, primarily about Dick Cheney. Cheney perfected the art of the steal. He soaked the nation dry for his favored industry--Big Oil--even going to war for them.

New Yorkers are HITTING THOSE POLLS. It's the highest turnout in about two decades.

What's the difference between a President threatening to withhold money based on how people vote vs promising to give money in exchange for votes? In other words: how is this not illegal? Trump backs Cuomo, threatens to cut funds for New York City if Mamdani wins. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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This is incredible, even for Exxon. Exxon found to have funded right-wing think tanks to spread #climate change denial across Latin America in a "coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

East Coast Republicans to Trump: Back the F Off. White House removes Atlantic from offshore oil and gas lease consideration after political backlash politi.co/438t3I7

Former President Barack Obama is encouraging voters to elect Democratic governors in Virginia and New Jersey in races this Tuesday. Obama’s appearances for Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill contrast with Trump's weekend partying at Mar-a-Lago. wtop.com/national/202...

Americans broadly disapprove of how Trump is handling his job, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising the powers of his office. Trump's nearly 60% job disapproval is the highest since the January 6th Capitol riot. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump tried to seize control of our elections via an illegal EO We stopped him in court with @lulacorg.bsky.social & other great partners & clients Democracy keeps showing up and working I discuss this week on the @contrariannews.org 👇 contrarian.substack.com/p/contrarian...

CBS--an early climate leader--is gutting its climate team, @sammyroth.bsky.social reports. Of the 6-person #Climate team, 4 lost their jobs, a fifth may yet be reassigned to non-climate stories. Journalism is tough, expensive, time-consuming and requires skill and editorial support. It's essential.

This is a headline that should shock us. We cannot stop being shocked and appalled. My family includes survivors of war who came to the U.S. seeking refuge. I don't think I'd be alive if they did not find it here, like so many millions more of us. We are a nation of refugees. Or it used to be...

Well, that makes (the worst kind of) sense. Trump public posture good=reality very bad.

Posting on social media from Air Force One, Trump said the US was working with China to secure a “very large scale transaction” involving oil and gas from Alaska, without providing more details. www.ft.com/content/ceb9...

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Today Senate Democrats introduced legislation to keep SNAP and WIC funded (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants,and Children) in response to Trump's refusal to use USDA contingency funds to pay these benefits during the shutdown.

Today, speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate, @durbin.senate.gov praised "the extraordinary courage" of Chicago's Little Village high school students who held a protest against what Durbin called the "harassment and terror" of #ICE raids across the city. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/28/s...

Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh Indicted Over Chicago ICE Protest "The indictment makes Abughazaleh the latest Democratic figure to be targeted by the Trump administration for challenging the regime’s aggressive tactics." @tessastuart.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Happening Now: Despite the federal government shutdown, Alaska's Republican delegation has moved to advance Trump's Alaska Executive Order, removing protections for native communities, the climate, and environment in the state, including today's resolution on the National Petroleum Reserve.

#HurricaneMelissa leaves trail of destruction in St James, Jamaica. www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/10/29/m...

Live scenes coming in of catastrophic damage of Jamaica from #HurricaneMelissa. From The Jamaica Observer newspaper on X @JamaicaObserver

How Hurricane Melissa got so dangerous so fast. “The role climate change has played in making Hurricane Melissa incredibly dangerous is undeniable." grist.org/extreme-weat... #HurricaneMelissa #Hurricane #Climate #Weather #Cuba #Jamaica

Jeffries: "There's additional funds that are available to be reallocated so that not a single person in this country goes hungry. And if that happens beginning on November 1, it's because Donald Trump and Republicans want the American people to go hungry."

Fossil fuel pollution feeds the climate crisis, producing deadlier and more destructive storms. Now: #HurricaneMelissa "the storm of the century" has made landfall in Jamaica as a 185 mph Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history. www.cnn.com/weather/live...

huge: new york’s largest battery project has been canceled. would’ve stored enough energy to power more than half a million homes. why’d it die? a protest movement in NYC against battery storage, backed by curtis sliwa & national GOP politicians. my latest for @heatmap.news #greensky

"As fossil fuel pollution rapidly warms the planet—producing deadlier and more destructive heat waves, wildfires, storms and other climate disasters—it’s incumbent on journalists covering extreme weather events to help readers understand the link to climate change." open.substack.com/pub/climatec...

Seriously, how is this not the Onion? From the @theatlantic.com : “A donor-funded army wouldn’t just be illegal—it would be dangerous.”