I'm sure I'm not the first person to observe this, but the irony of it all just hit me this morning. Donald Trump is obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize. Why is he obsessed with the NPP? Because Barack Obama won it. Why did Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize? Because he wasn't George W. Bush.

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On the topic of sports, to the extent that trans people and advocates for trans rights actually do talk about this, it's always been "Hey, sure, let's figure out how to ensure fairness, balancing it with inclusion." The less competitive something is, the more you should err on the side of inclusion.

YOU ASKED FOR THIS! Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For most of my adult life, very broadly speaking, it has usually been the case that partisans and people who don’t get in the weeds of policy want to see politics through the lens of a simple, cartoonish moral binary with a good side & an evil side. And *usually* it’s more complicated than that.

"And the rush by Trump officials and their cult-like followers to justify it? That’s American too. The lies, so blatant, so obvious. These people have learned that truth doesn’t matter anymore, so long as they can repeat the lies enough on enough friendly TV networks."

Things worth really hammering to any family and acquaintances whose reflexive attitude is “but we gotta enforce the law”: (1) Lots of the folks being targeted came here legally; the administration has retroactively declared them “illegal” despite having done nothing wrong

New, from me: Defenders of police abuses will sometimes talk about “bad apples” spoiling the barrel. This is the wrong metaphor for ICE and CBP. The barrel itself is rotten. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

New in PN: The dehumanization machine speeds up "Months after the nation and world were appalled by George Floyd’s murder, it became an event with two different truths. With the killing of Good, the right has not even deigned to admit the heinousness of the event before deciding she had it coming."

“Nail a game of screaming Simon Says with a gun pointed at you or you die” is not a free country

Fuck this administration. Fuck their supporters. And fuck anyone who buys into their bullshit.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I have what you may call an eclectic taste in music. I had Pandora playing in the background while trying to get back to work after reading the news out of Minneapolis. And Weird Al's song Trigger Happy came on.

The MAGA base has long been ok with othering groups because, for the most part, they're insulated from that othering. But I know some MAGA personally where this will hit home. Whether or not they turn a blind eye to it or dismiss it as "just words," we'll see.

“The juvenile actions and accusatory language spouting from every orifice of government may be among the most superficial features of our current crisis, but it is symptomatic of a larger disrespect for professionalism and professional competence.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

"Shutdown hoax"

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

On the way out from voting tonight, there was a woman collecting signatures for a petition to "keep boys out of girls' sports." I understand that's an issue that many people may find reasonable, but the reality is, it's a bigoted attempt to attack trans and intersex students. 1/4

"If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." --Brett Kavanaugh, Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

This did so much damage to the exact sort of message we desperately need right now and candidates who can convey it who do NOT have a Nazi death's head tattoo on their chest. God Fucking Damn it.

The redemption story of a disillusioned veteran who shitposted some pretty abhorrent views on the internet to a man who found community, renounced those views, and worked hard to bring together the people of his state could have been inspirational. But a Nazi tattoo is disqualifying for a US Senator

That's not an oxygen mask he's wearing in the poop jet video. It's a direct line to the verbal diarrhea that's dropping out the bottom.

Lots of great signs in Brunswick, ME today #nokings

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Ahh, the Good Old Days. When people also yearned for the Giod Old Days.

Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies. Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this. Me, in @msnbc.com:

You cannot torch your own home and then demand applause for watering the neighbor’s lawn. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

"Masked, secret police, profiling people and now targeting entire apartment buildings, making everyone prove they're not guilty of something, is the province of tyrants. It is the opposite of America."

This is the gulf of America that truly matters

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

@dadchats.bsky.social may not know how to order Munchkins, but his On Law & Littles newsletter is a great source for keeping up with how the administration is running roughshod over the Constitution open.substack.com/pub/dadchats...

There's so much to unpack -- his childish understanding of the world, his raw nerve of grievances, his sociopathy -- but I can't get past what a whiny, pathetic loser you'd have to be as president to stamp your little feet and cry that the media isn't "allowed" to be mean to you. Mom said so guys!

Ro Khanna: "They're making comedy illegal. Brendan Carr pressured ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, and Disney cancels Jimmy Kimmel. This canceling from an administration that lectured us about cancel culture. That's why today I'm introducing a motion to subpoena Brendan Carr."

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

"No, I do not think tweaking the wording of some New York Times headlines would single-handedly change millions of disengaged voters’ minds, thereby transforming American politics. I think tons of headlines, framing choices, points of emphasis, uncritical repetition of lies, and...

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

This week's "hate speech isn't free speech" calamity has, somehow, reached another new low: The president of the United States suggesting that speech he finds unfair to him is hate speech, and targetable by the Justice Department. We are in deeply dangerous territory.

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

On the plus side, a bunch of people on the left who have not yet grasped it are about to viscerally understand why some of us, despite despising bigots to our very core, keep insisting that allowing the government to prosecute "hate speech" would be a bad idea.

Remember, nobody on the right would ever advocate for political violence www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Charlie Kirk's assassination is a tragedy, and I don't really have much to add that hasn't already been said. But when I saw this, it made me go "holy shit"