Adam Serwer writes about the Trump administration: “This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.” Then points out the persistence and the longevity of the Mafia. Once the Mafia takes root, it is nearly impossible to extract it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

wapo.st/4oTia5k (gift article)

The 22nd Amendment bans electing a president twice but what about appointing one? Some are exploring a succession loophole that Donald Trump keeps hinting at. Proposed solution: Republican leaders must loudly and clearly shut down this constitutional fan fiction before crisis becomes Realpolitik.

It worked: numerous countries backed away from the plan in the face of US opposition. US officials denied making personal threats but acknowledged derailing the deal and opposing any climate policies that harm US fossil fuel interests. There's more: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c... (gift). 🌎

This time will it be ICE or the National Guard? "when protests against the Vietnam War turned violent on campus." Nope. The only violence was by the Ohio National Guard. CSN&Y's "Ohio" was immediately banned nationally by most radio stations, but not in Boston. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

If you are a fan of the Children of Time novel series, this will give you some strange-as-fiction vibes.

Cowatrds owned.

Hagsbreath, we will come for you with eveidence of every broken law, every murder. Because no one gives a shit about protecting you, not T, not his voters.... not even now. Mikey and the other children of the corn won't block us soon

No job, no aid, no spend. Sorry oligarchs.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. I try to average close to 4,000 steps a day at age 80. I figure it's 90% of the reason the part of me between the ears still continues to function at top speed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...

I would be furious.

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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Blackstone is unloading its senior living portfolio. Seems like they panicked in 2022. But also, it's not like other housing. It's like running a cruise ship with a big medical clinic. Gift article: www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

So it looks like sucking up to Trump is paying off bigly for the mayor. They are supposedly looking into "a foreign trip she took with members of her staff that was paid for by Qatar."

Mexican president presses charges against man who groped her www.thetimes.com/article/abf6.... Too right!

Exceptional essay. 💙 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Voters did not vote for restraint.

This is terrible.

Reposting because I forgot to include a trigger warning for quoting Matthew Yglesias www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o... The documentarian photographer has followed Paige & her family for years and has become a steady #mentor for the #Appalachian girl, now a young lady. #poverty #hope

Too late. The first solid progressive to run against him will win, I expect. He is a joke to us now, we have lost respect.

The old joke is that you might not believe in climate change but your insurance company does. Time to update that joke to include the stock market Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A @WSJ oped today on this advance vs cancer www.wsj.com/opinion/oper...

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer? A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by hundreds of thousands of years www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/s...

Excellent, clear, and on point. 'Mr. Trump offered a regressive idea of masculinity in which power over women is a birthright. That this appealed in particular to white men was not a coincidence — it intersects with other types of entitlement, including the idea that white people are superior...'

Saving coastal cities will take A LOT of money. We MUST tax the rich again, at the levels they were taxed pre Reagan.

"As [Malaysia's trade minister] told me: 'We signed this [US deal] on Sunday. On Monday, we signed an [Asean] agreement with China.'” www.ft.com/content/62e5...

He is a terrible CEO and has ruined both Tesla and DpaceX. But his board keeps paying him these ridiculous amounts. Those gvt contracts he brings will vanish as he keeps crashing launches and making shit cars.

Money corrupts.

They are going to fall apart without Trump.

www.bloomberg.com/features/202... The more we learn about Alan Fucking Dershowitz and his aggressive,sleazy zealotry on Epstein's behalf the more we know that he participated in the crimes. What the fuck was so interesting or appealing about Epstein to make Dershowitz a close friend?? Oh,yea...💃💃

They are profitable and more convenient for doctors, in spite of the high risks. And, medicine doesn't advance equally for women. "Good enough" and "mostly works" should not be where we stop advancing women's healthcare.

🤭 www.thetimes.com/article/ec03...

Preschool teachers are saints.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social If Mikey won't come to work and negotiate on real issues, accept that Epstein's dossier is coming out with or without him, How about you and a group of Dem leaders go to where he is. And camp out. Make it a media circus. Force him to show how his cowardice.

Doggie Hush commercial on CNN had me in stitches during morning yoga. Noise canceling / muffling for anxious puppers. I am not sure if they love it.

Local elections matter, and every vote really counts. Here's a local election where a state gop rep tried to keep her public paycheck, even tho she participated the last decade with MAGA. AND, my district is going to Blue from Purple, and with strong progressives leading.

Cool fever dream. Pretty sure the GOP wil.be a mess without an eager-beaver mafia wise guy to lead it. All the crass, uncivilized, violent basis of the current administration won't be forgotten this time. Pretty sure elections and the largest protests in history mean we want CHANGE.

People with private jets don't care if you can get home from the holidays. They don't care if you old people lose medicare and die. They only care about being embarrassed by Trump’s rapes.

Anti gerrymandering wins!

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social delivered a scalding hot #CupOfJoe! “The extremists are all in on the Pedophile Protection Program, but could care less about healthcare for everyday Americans.” #TurnUpTheVolume

June 15, 1215 King John signed the Magna Carta under threat of Civil War. 'declaring the sovereign to be subject to the rule of law and documenting the liberties held by “free men,” the Magna Carta provided the foundation for individual rights in Anglo-American jurisprudence.' -Enc'dia Britannica

This is excellent! A big win!

The Fed has conducted business as usual and resisted the chaos of all the massive sweeping economic changes under trump. Tarrifs, DOGE, and the the massive cuts to already allocated funding and programs, closing entire departments, firing people, closing businesses..... But sure. It's the rates.