“It frequently matters what’s on voters minds, how they understand the parties and their leaders, in the moments before close elections, and it’s thus important to exploit issues that get people talking. Policy almost never gets people talking.” Yep. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...

Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.

The U.S. intelligence community concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the killing and dismemberment of a Post columnist, making President Trump's formal dinner for the prince on Tuesday a dramatic step in public rehabilitation. https://wapo.st/3LOwEFn

This is an important new line being crossed. Trump isn't just pardoning the act of attempting to overthrow the government on January 6: he's pardoning *those people* for committing crimes generally. He may be creating a group of (federally) legally untouchable people.

This offer obviously does not apply to people on the left who think Democrats have betrayed them or to non-voters who feel like it doesn't matter either way. Just the one move: win over and welcome conservatives who hate your guts.

The man recounts his experience here

TW: video showcasing a violent display of force by federal agents From Charlotte, NC. Seen it shared on a few NC based IG pages. Based on this video, federal agents using the same tactics we’ve seen the last few months in Chicago.

Monty is always too deep in his crease on point shots...#gohabsgo

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

there’s some truth in this, but the gap between deep red and blue states isn’t explained by voter suppression alone. the white populations in deep red states vote republican at very high rates. both things are load-bearing.

E.g. on point 1: the consultant class fondly remembers the "6 for '06" plan of moderate policy ideas Dems ran on in their successful 2006 midterm campaign. But what actually caused the bottom to fall out of GOP polling was the Mark Foley scandal in September which has been basically memory-holed

Hey @kenwhite.bsky.social how will this play in a motion regarding malicious protection?

To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

Cue the Roberts Court saying that it’s not a bribe if Trump didn’t officially ask for a gold bar in return for dropping tariffs.

There are 535 people missing from the table. www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

Pretty sure it’s racism which is tearing Britain apart

2/3rds of the US lives in the absurd 100 miles border zone where CBP claims the right to ignore the 4th amendment but Charlotte isn't even in there!

The thing about protesting at Broadview is that the law is whatever the cop in front of you decides it is that day. There’s a special zone for free speech, only during certain hours of course. Arrested another protester. For no fucking reason. Not in the magical “you have rights in here only” zone 🤡

“Solitary 100 percent makes it harder to return to society as productive members. It creates a deep-seeded hate and distrust for the system and all connected to it,” says Kwaneta Harris, who has experienced the practice in a Texas prison.

The U.S. bishops defended migrant families. Tom Homan snapped. Nan Hayworth called Pope Leo a “tool of our enemies.” Tim Burchett accused the church of getting rich off of sex trafficking. Matt Walsh, Lara Logan, and the rest joined in. This is what MAGA anti-Catholicism looks like.

Is there a clear reason why ICE/CBP decided on Charlotte after Chicago? Is it revenge on NC for electing a democratic governor?

That’s the bummer about extrajudicial violence, it turns out there are no rules to prevent it from turning on you

“But I never thought the enemy would be ME!” cried the leopard after running for office as a member of the Friend-Enemy Distinction Party

There are countless centrists making the argument that “A huge reason Mamdani rose to the heights he did is because of who he was running against” and then never question why or which of his opponents’ qualities became salient. It wasn’t Cuomo/Adams’ lack of focus on affordability…

Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild

Also, the Democrats fielding this bad advice are in the congressional opposition, not running for president. Also, also, Mamdani’s attacks on Cuomo for abusing women were brutal. Sharper, as far as I can recall, than anything Trump has faced from his opponents.

If Mamdani had eschewed those attacks to say ‘Cuomo will answer for his conduct when he meets his maker, I’m here to talk about affordability,’ Cuomo may have done better. Making Cuomo’s character salient was decisive to NY voters I know personally.

Gets to the core of the problem: - Most elected Dems STILL don’t understand the importance of using their platforms to drive a narrative. - Dem consultants don’t know when you should or shouldn’t use a scandal in their ads. - The latter never pay a price for their incompetence.

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

Seeing this exchange and we have just lost the plot. The greatest damage the trump era politics has brought to American political discourse is normalizing having a narrative over what is factual reality, and then not feeling any sort of shame about making up stuff because that stuff is convenient.

In a lifetime of classless, obnoxious, and disgusting things said by Trump, his social media post about Thomas Massie’s marriage is right up there. Meanwhile, all the Republican fake Christians will continue to follow and praise this gross shell of a human because they love it all.

This is once again where the addiction to fundraising over winning elections rears its head again. This is obvious barking nonsense, but it soothes rich donors, especially since they are likely to have friends like Larry Summers who are being embarrassed by all this.

It's really cuckoo how Democrat wonks can simultaneously believe "BUT HER EMAILS" lost Hillary Clinton the 2016 election while also believing that 10,000 emails all explicitly mentioning Trump's sex crimes against minors won't have an effect. Does this shit matter or not, guys? Which is it?

This is important context from Julie K. Brown. With alt text.

A former career DOJ guy told me a few weeks ago that prior to Trump, the FBI was the varsity team, DHI and ICE were junior varsity, and Border Patrol were like a drunken office softball team. And under Trump, the drunk softball guys are now in charge.

New on Knock: Trump is coming for public housing. By banning mixed immigration status families from public housing, the regime wouldn’t only send homelessness skyrocketing; the rule change would dynamite the financial support for the entire system. knock-la.com/trump-is-com...

I doubt anyone needs reminding that these pardons are a bright, blazing green light for Trump supporters to wield violence on his behalf.

Me: “We seethe over the betrayal by a supposedly democratic society that quickly averts its collective eyes and allows predators, mostly men, to get away with it and reinvent themselves right in front of our eyes as we’re punished if we speak out about our basic rights to survival and safety.”

Not that I believe really anything Nuzzi writes, given her record, but the far bigger scandal here is her claim that RFK Jr. was still actively using psychedelics last year, then became HHS secretary in an admin that is killing people for smuggling recreational drugs.

Food stamps are back, but millions will soon lose benefits permanently

I’d say that the imposition of this administrative burden is a solution in search of a problem (fraud and abuse, not a systemic issue), but it’s really a solution to a different problem: Poor people being able to exist with basic dignity.

There is no such thing as white collar crime anymore.

This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power. The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.

To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

Merrick Garland’s endless slow-walking of legitimate investigations has done literally nothing to stop Trump from fast-tracking completely illegitimate ones. and nobody has ever been able to explain why it would www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/pam-...

“Some cities have faced temporary gas shortages, &experts warn that if the assaults continue, millions could struggle to keep their homes warm. Turning to electric heaters is not an option…would only deepen the strain on Ukraine’s battered power grid. Recent attacks have led to hourslong power cuts”