The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

Curtis Silva says a group of billionaires offered him $10 million to drop out of the NYC mayor’s race. “What the people allegedly offering that sum couldn’t have known about Sliwa…was that he disliked Andrew Cuomo far more than he wanted to be a multimillionaire.” time.com/7333748/curt...

Oligarchy is corrosive, it is undemocratic and it is ruinous to a nation's prosperity. But most of all, oligarchy is very stupid.

The NewsGuild stands firmly with striking workers @sbworkersunited.org ✊ Solidarity as they undertake a historic labor strike!

President Donald Trump has continued his purchases of municipal and corporate debt this fall, including bonds of companies affected by his administration’s policies

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

Oscar Isaac tells us that Victor’s final scene with the Creature in ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ was actually the very first he shot with co-star Jacob Elordi. “This was a moment when he’s coming in with quite a lot of rage, but I still found it so shockingly delicate and graceful.”

now watching: The Great Outdoors, circa 1988 (my personal favorite of John Candy’s movies). 🤩🍿🐻

could a depressed person meet the pope?

Rumor on the street is that hot guys read. 📚

Counting the theater & streaming Netflix at home, I believe I’ve seen @realgdt.bsky.social’s 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖐𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖎𝖓 no less than nine times since last Friday.

This baseball looks weird. 🦌🏀🤷🏻‍♂️

This would legit be in my S-tier of compliments ever received.

Soft launching a baby makes me think she's tossing it underhand onto a pile of pillows

How about instead of selling "bearista" cups, Starbucks bargains a fair contract with its unionized baristas? No contract. No coffee. Don't cross the picket line. Solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org ✊

Corruption’s corruption. Teapot Dome could never!

I just tried to type the phrase “snack muse” in a message to @joshuaowen.bsky.social — and my phone attempted to autocorrect it to “anaconda”, which would’ve shifted that conversation entirely. 🐍

Mornin’, divas!

Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Found myself on a long, winding, unexpected (all complimentary) journey through Dwight Yoakam’s greatest hits today. 🎙️

Pedro, let me know when you're ready to shift careers!

The AI that’s jacking up your utility bill, draining your water and threatening your job is also helping China hack the US. @wsj.com

I just put peanut butter on a brownie to make it a healthy snack. Follow along for more fitness tips.

Dismantling all govt agencies designed to protect us . . . here goes another one. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The SNAP fight at the Supreme Court is officially over. Trump's Department of Justice acknowledges that SNAP is now fully funded through the end of the fiscal year and thus withdraws its request for an additional stay. The end of the shutdown mooted the case before SCOTUS could touch the merits.

Saving all my Pennies for my penny loafers

BREAKING: Oklahoma has granted Tremane Wood clemency. This is good news. Tremane will not face execution for a crime he didn't commit.

Also, our culture (social media, in particular) has arrogantly disqualified the sentence “I don’t like _______.” Things that sentence DOESN’T mean: “You shouldn’t like ________.” “Nobody should like ________.” “You shouldn’t be allowed to like _______.” Things it DOES mean: “I don’t like _______.”

We're standing in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org as they strike for a first contract ✊ For over 4 years, workers have fought for a fair union contract. It’s time for Starbucks to bargain in good faith and for workers to get the contract they deserve.

Damn, I haven’t gotten that much immediate engagement on a 🟢 story since I asked to hear y’all’s most secretly conservative opinion (politically or culturally) and everyone said taxes suck and music in bars is too loud.

The Starbucks strike has begun with stores in 40 cities, as 12,000 unionized workers have been stymied from getting a first contract and relentlessly retaliated against. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports on the critical labor action: prospect.org/2025/11/13/s...

When you put it that way it almost sounds refined to dodge anti money laundering rules so you can bribe politicians / traffic children / fund terrorism or whatever else those anonymized and encrypted $500 million might do.

This is what Trump means by affordability.

Didn’t I just see/read some clickbait about how body hair is back? 🙂‍↕️ Only to see multiple folks on my skyline talking about shaving this morning? Seems pretty dark-sided to me.

Baristas REPEATEDLY called on Starbucks to offer real proposals that increase take-home pay, improve staffing, & resolve ongoing unfair labor practice charges. Instead, #Starbucks continues to stall & union bust — leaving workers no choice but to take action! #NoContractNoCoffee

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I know I said goodnight to everybody already but this one’s worth your time. Hooked me with the opener: “Lina Khan thinks beers at Yankee Stadium are too expensive — and that she has the law on her side.”

Night, y’all. 💤

I‘ve seen a lot of smug “well I don’t buy Starbucks anyway” responses (which is honestly fair I’m in the same boat) but as a former Starbucks employee may I suggest looking up if any stores in your city are unionized and dropping by with pizza/donuts/water/high-fives to show support?

If you haven’t been intentionally withholding your patronage from St*rbucks already, tomorrow is a fantastic day to start.

What I’m serving when I just tease y’all a bit:

About to watch this new Eddie Murphy documentary for the plot. the plot 😮‍💨:

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

There are some truly awful, awful people who’ve occupied the White House in American history. Even with an incredibly high bar, the current occupant may just be the worst. More nauseating or more baffling? Dealer’s choice.

Unaffordable electricity is fast becoming a major source of insecurity in the U.S. AI data centers are devouring power—and causing light bills to skyrocket—while private equity giants like Blackstone buy up utilities to extract maximum profit. This really needs to be a bigger story.

There will be a desire among many to declare that “nothing matters and it never will” today, especially — I urge you fight that desire, as it’s just about as unhealthy as it is unhelpful. Things do still matter; sometimes we must make them matter. Please, do not abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Follow-up: We have domesticated polio?

As told in the bible, I’m pretty sure this is the last joke he made before being m*rdered by his brother, Cain:

First teaser for ‘THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2’ is here. In theaters May 1, 2026. #TheDevilWearsPrada2