The man who killed USAID, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of the poorest people on Earth, is set to be the world’s first trillionaire. That’s obscene.

That one person could horde such wealth is an affront to the very concept of society. For perspective, a new Ford F150 is $40,000. If those dollars were minutes, 40,000 minutes ago is about 28 days ago. One trillion is 1.9 million years ago.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Do I know any historians on here that has an interest in the reign of Charles I, the English Civil Wars, and/or the Scottish Covenanters?

If there's one thing we've all learned today, giving people sandwiches is no crime.

“I think my community should welcome outsiders and newcomers seeking a better life” and “I think we should only build new housing for the kind of people who actually deserve it” are fundamentally incompatible beliefs.

Nancy Pelosi was the dirty-fighting Democrat leftists say they want. They just think fighting is about performance instead of stealth and strategy. They hate her because they say they want to fight dirty but they don't want to get any dirt on themselves.

the future of electric vehicles is e-bikes, e-cargo bikes, electric vans, and small, shared affordable cars this also has a carbon footprint as large as an internal combustion engine SUV. this was greenwashing that was always going to fail - even before the massive subsidies were eliminated.

Why are we allowing the federal government to terrorize children?

On LAW & ORDER, it's gonna be a gyro.

Ellis: Chicagoans have been tear gassed, stared down the barrel of a gun and been "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street." "All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."

friendly reminder that socialist mayors governed Milwaukee for nearly half a century from 1910-1960 during this time Milwaukee achieved milestones such as being the healthiest, safest, and best-governed city in America

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

I dislike all of the shows she lists precisely because I find all the characters so detestable.

When you’re riding public transit you realize that what’s good for everybody is also good for you. If the bus runs faster, if the train is cleaner, if the AC works, we all benefit when you’re driving a car, every other car on the road is your personal enemy

My politics is banning this from city streets.

It’s an in-joke that when Black women get bored, we go get a degree & pivot. It’s a whole lotta Black women unemployed right now, watching Rep Jasmine & Kamala & now the Detroit mayor etc, and I don’t think *those people* understood what they’ve activated by forcing us to have time via layoffs

Suicidal for centrists to be begging for moderation when now would be a great time to pass some big, ambitious policies and remind people why Democrats are better than Republicans.

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

I've sent some variation of "We never have to care about that Grandma-killing sex pest ever again" to two separate group chats in the last 5 minutes. Feels good, man.

Talk to people who actually did the work on the ground tonight. The imaginary one-sided debates these nimrods waste their lives with on here have absolutely nothing to do with the actual day to day actions people took to work together in a broad coalition for a big win tonight.

The Democratic Party needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror and a whole lot of people should resign. We need leaders, not whatever Chuck Schumer is.

I had thought most of my naive idealism had been stomped out of me by now, but it’s amazing to me that this level of public animosity could be directed by Democratic leadership toward a sweet and personable young candidate of their own party seemingly exclusively because of his background.

We have government officials directing armed militias who believe they are perfectly entitled to arrest anyone opposed to them.

She violently resisted a kidnapping.

the divide is trans people simply wanting to exist vs a tiny number of cis gays who want us to fuck off

Voter suppression is treason in a government based on the will of the people.

Tell me this isn’t a war. www.wsj.com/video/how-el...

When I was little, I believed that adult people in charge of stuff were all really smart, because they wouldn't be in charge of stuff if they weren't; like, you couldn't be stupid and still have responsibilities. And while I have been wrong about many things in my life, I was wrongest about that.

Every last one of these ICE officers belongs in prison for this. Hold them accountable!

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

If you live in a major city, your mayor is almost certainly aware of @annehidalgo.bsky.social's record. If they're deciding not to follow her lead, that decision is a deliberate one.

We've got you 👍

Me: “The fixation on causal estimates is not the appropriate direction social science…What descriptive analysis provides us with are facts. Facts are nouns. Causal analysis gives us contextual estimates. They are adjectives. In the grammar of social science, we should prefer nouns to adjectives.”

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

If you have one dollar, you could buy a can of black beans to donate it or you could just let the local food bank turn ONE dollar into FIVE nutritious meals because they have better bulk purchasing power.

Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted: manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Poll: Americans say “too divided” Pundit: Dems are being too divisive Poll: Legal system unfair Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes Poll: Low trust in media Pundits: MSM is too far left Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.

NEWS: Trump administration’s Chicago immigration raids are coming to a city near you as Homeland Security sidelines old ICE leadership. “What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect. This is the new model.” Our story on what that means www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...

Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence. I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE." No. ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.

Some context to the viral videos: Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units. They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

These guys are racist AND divorced.

Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR

In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis

Basically: ‘Gosh, no! We don’t AGREE with Nazism! We just feel it’s VERY important for Americans to hear Nazi viewpoints & so we want to help those Nazi views be heard as widely as possible.’

In Albany Park, they fired pepper-spray balls to disperse an angry crowd and arrested two U.S. citizens. In Evanston, one repeatedly pointed his weapon at protesters while another knelt on a man’s back and punched him in the head.