The first woman nominated to lead the Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her promotion abruptly canceled — and military sources blame Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's hostility to women in combat roles. www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...

Donald Trump appears to be preparing to open up California coastal waters to new oil drilling. LA, Long Beach and Orange County have active coastlines that do not need new oil rigs. We will fight this with everything we have.

be our guest please, sir

“How to make a $450,000 home cost you more than $1,000,000” By Donald Trump

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

Colombia’s president again recalls his ambassador to United States

Felony vandalism? They were hanging a cardboard bug on a wall.

Dems will almost certainly flip one seat on Utah's new congressional map if it stands. It creates a safely blue Harris+24 seat in Salt Lake City, replacing a GOP gerrymander that split the SLC area four ways to ensure every seat was dark red. Interactive map: davesredistricting.org/join/cf1048c...

Trump’s solution to the housing crisis is a lifetime of debt

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Great, but also...WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?!?! It's been almost 2.5 months!! And the fact that it's mass murder was obvious from Day 1.

While the PedoPrez, his houseboy Mikey and clan continue their quisling behavior, this is the abhorrent unforgivable shit they are doing behind the scenes. Our Black veterans do not deserve this disrespect. Our veterans are not suckers & losers. #Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

Guillotine earrings, ca. 1793

It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.

Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.

I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

One appeaser, Sen. Angus King, explained his decision with, “Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work.” Well sure, when you prematurely fold rather than see a fight through, you fail. And why should Trump opponents vote for anyone who thinks standing up to Trump isn’t worth doing?

literally what's happening at a species / planetary scale

Reporter: Dr Oz said that— Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.

You know what 100% will definitely cause them to experience “differential treatment”? Having a gender/sex on their passport that doesn’t match with how they present or identify.

If pardons by autopen don’t work then dementia patients pardons are worth less.

We need Separation of Church and State, but we really, really need separation of church and hate.

Giving Trump whatever he wants but shaking my head so people know I'm not happy about it bsky.app/profile/atru...

Do this to switch tracks of democracy, which is racing toward authoritarian government on fast speed. #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks #DV1

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Shout-out to all the students still writing papers the old fashioned way; reading them feels like reaching an oasis of humanity in a desert of AI-generated slop.

PANTHEON: Last week’s #UMich confidence survey — the 2nd-lowest of all time — is “too weak to completely disregard.” It now signals consumer spending “slowing to near-zero early next year, from around 6% early this year.” 👀

I voted “NO” on tonight’s budget proposal. The fight for health care continues.

This! 👇🏽 Focus might be on 8 Senate Dems, but do not forget that Hakeem Jeffries held the House, all 212 House Democrats! The very House that will have to *open* to pass the CR and simultaneously sign the Epstein files into existence. Good morning. ☕️✨

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

Queen Ghislaine even has a puppy at Club Fed. This is how convicted sex traffickers are coddled by the Trump admin. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

💯. It wasn't about just the ACA subsides—it was about those and … everything else.

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

These pardons are not backward looking, but forward, telling the next group of election conspirators that they will be pardoned too www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“New York Times conducts hostile interview with children’s education influencer questioning her recognition of comprehensively documented war crimes” is not a sentence I could have imagined a few years ago

‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster - “Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP" says Simon Stiell #COP30 #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Shaheen: "All those people who oppose this agreement -- staying in a shutdown mode was not getting us anywhere. They need to train their fire on the people who are responsible. That's Trump, Johnson, & the Republicans who have blocked every attempt to get healthcare. We need to be working together."

It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The corruption never ends

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Nope never gonna happen

It’s good Dems are speaking up against this real but remember the first cave earlier in the year: Schumer’s tactic is to recruit ten fall guys and then let the rest of the party be mad about it (or frequently, pretend to be mad)

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

Every Democratic Senator who is even pondering breaking line should hopefully have property in a country with which the US has no extradition treaty because this is, essentially, treason. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

Slotkin seemingly a no

Yes, a small cash handout to each household will definitely cover heart surgery and cancer treatment. It's incredible that the GOP are able to pretend this would work, but even more unbelievable that some Dems would fall for it.

Say they send $2000 checks to 50 million Americans. That’s $100 billion for a 1-time stunt. Meanwhile, ACA premiums triple, costing nearly every recipient more than $2000 a year – for monthly payments that never end. Unfortunately, Covid dividend checks paid off big for Trump in the last election.