h/t @adamwren.bsky.social Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."

So, Hegseth illegally ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water. — This is the real reason why Trump & Hegseth absolutely freaked out about the video against illegal orders.

Chef's kiss. "in early Christian times there was no state welfare" Correct. The poor either died, or were forced into slavery.

A guy in Tennessee spent more than five weeks in jail because of an anodyne Facebook meme that did not even jokingly threaten violence: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/life...

Impeach.

I just subscribed to The Onion because our dumbass President just announced a White Nationalist Ethnostate and all of my "serious" news apps are giving me push notifications about edible dining table centerpieces and fart walks.

I still can't get over how Tether, the largest liquidity stablecoin, was banned in the US for never publicly auditing their reserves 😬, but they donated to Trumps ballroom and are now operating in the US again (still without an audit) 😬😬😬 what a slush fund. crypto.news/ripple-tethe...

When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.

"There are costs to performatively deploying members of the military—one of which is the risk of endangering them" From @juliettekayyem.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Trump DOJ played down the risk of deploying the National Guard to DC, despite warnings, and now one of them is dead. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Keep asking the important questions.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

you've tweeted 452k times since december 2013. that's 103 tweets a day. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's a new tweet every ten mins for twelve years. talking about how to attract a high value man. brother, you need to attract a HIGH VALUE JOB

Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.

america: too corrupt to function

DC shooter suspect approved for asylum in April 2025

Compounding tragedy with malice is this administration's Viagra

Private fundraising for presidential transitions and inaugural galas is an invitation to patronage and corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...

It’s not that complicated, people.

I grew up around some expertly twisted Mean Girls. But it's still conservative men who sweep the gold in the Petty C**t Olympics:

I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.

Rewatching Zurowski v. Texas and amazed at how we all just got used to denying pregnant women care for failing pregnancies.

From my anecdotal experience, this is absolutely true

Happy Thanksgiving, Tina! I, for one, am grateful to Colorado's law enforcement and courts for your "finding out" phase.

NEWS: A federal appeals court pane upholds the $1 million sanction against Trump and Habba for a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, Comey, et al. "Many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous," Judge Pryor wrote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

you don’t understand, under Biden doordash was expensive

Please watch this. The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill. You need to know this, so you can help stop it.

Free Market boyz gonna crap their shorts:

"The unusual government intervention into the private market is fueling some concerns, including the opacity of the process, the potential for favoritism, corruption and market distortions, along with the possible loss of taxpayer funds should the investments fail." Ya think?

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Did the turkey also storm the Capitol on January 6th?

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Health Issues in Middle Age Can Be Linked to Pregnancy Years Earlier www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/w... GIFT ARTICLE. “More women die of heart disease than anything else, and we do not know all the risk factors,” Dr. Lundberg said.

Un-effing-real. This plan is an obscenity wrapped in malice wrapped in corruption. As an American, I feel _slimed_ to be associated with this:

1/3: It is with great excitement and tremendous sadness that the AGO’s own Colleen Melody has been appointed to the Washington State Supreme Court. Governor Ferguson made the announcement this morning alongside Colleen at a press conference in the Temple of Justice.

You know at one point in my life I went through kind of a lot of public ridicule and personal consequence because I didn’t think that sex should be a prerequisite for women to have media careers.

Today we filed 1st Amendment lawsuit against AG Pam Bondi & Dept of Justice for illegal firing of senior official w/o any due process for personal comments of public interest he made on private date that turned out to be targeted O'Keefe operation. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

People have to sign up for ACA marketplace coverage by December 15 to have health insurance January 1. Even if Congress passed an extension with tweaks to the premium tax credits, computer systems could not be reprogrammed immediately.

I was genuinely interested to see President Trump's health plan today. Guess we'll have to wait longer.

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"

Would make Cox the THIRD Republican governor in recent years to expand his state's Supreme Court to shift its ideological balance rightward, after Arizona and Georgia.

DOGE did what they were created to do: bsky.app/profile/robv...

Thanks for everything, DOGE. 🤡 @birdyword.bsky.social

A federal judge also dismissed the criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

I know people are going to revel in the schadenfreude here, but this is really just an admission—given how close the House is split—that they’re just mad it didn’t work. Fewer than a dozen House GOPers could change America tomorrow. That they’re not proves this is just about losing, not principles.

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

the rage that reading this makes me feel. just full 'need to stare into the middle distance because we are so, so lost' stuff.