This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Lifelong Republican, former NH Supreme Court justice, former judge advocate general Chuck Douglas: “Just because an order is issued does not make it always lawful…For members of Congress to point this out is not sedition, it is the law.” www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...

The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders. The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The HHS report on gender affirming care released it's updated report showing they stacked its authors with anti-trans hate-group affiliated members, several of whom aren't even doctors with any sort of clinical experience. They selected their own ideologically friendly peer reviewers. It's a joke.

Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"

BREAKING: The HHS has re-released a May document purporting to review the evidence in youth gender medicine. The re-release includes authors from SEGM and the Manhattan Institute. Read our story here: www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Here's Lauren's podcast "The 13th Step" which exposed both the horrific abuses of the man who ran the biggest system of recovery centers in NH, and the ways in which he tried, and failed, to intimidate her. www.13thsteppodcast.org

Bazelon’s, group, Welcome PAC, funded by venture capitalists and corporate moguls like the Walton family, relied on *6-12 month-old* data from a push poll to draw its conclusions… which were predetermined since Welcome staff drafted the questions.

The period epics of the #Hollywood golden age were born of the popularity of swords and sandals on the #Victorian stage. ⌛️ Last chance to read this archive article for free www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Every word of this.

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

I had Evening Grosbeaks at my feeder today. Been a long time since I have seen these. They are getting rare ☹️

NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration. We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem. @justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

The national media isn’t going to mention this, so it’s up to the rest of us to do it.

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Music Hall in Portsmouth NH apologizes for canceling the Lovering Center fundraiser and gets rid of the director who made that cowardly decision in the first place.

1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics. From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Virginia Republicans leaned hard into anti-trans propaganda as part of their main messaging in the final months of this campaign. It fell completely flat with voters. It did not resonate. Virginia Republicans came across as bizarre and detached from working class families.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

31 Oct 2025 -- Washington State U. approves hate-group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM) to to teach medical professionals in its continuing ed program to maintain state licensure. SEGM is devoted to ending the availability of medical care for trans youth. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

31 Oct 2025 -- With trans rights under threat in UK, Glamour honors 9 UK trans thought leaders for 2025 Women of the Year Awards: "The Dolls: ‘What we really crave is to work, love and exist with dignity.'" In other news JK Rowling's head explodes: tinyurl.com/52vwkjhs @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

The Walton family surely does

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Josh Marshall: No plan to recover from or even seriously battle with Trumpism can be in any way capable of succeeding unless reforming the Supreme Court is the first order of business. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated #OTD 1886. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Utah has just approved a 1,300-person “mega camp” for homeless individuals,This camp lacks transportation, features locked units, and even imposes forced labor. They refer to this facility as “work-conditioned housing,” but we simply call it what it is: modern-day internment.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.

Marlon has overcome a rough start in life. Sweetest boi ever. #pitbulls 🐶

DHS spending its newly massive budget keeping America safe from the worst of the worst. Correction: ... from people shopping at Walmart while having brown skin. bsky.app/profile/davi...

2008 is calling. Have we learned nothing? Apparently not, cuz here we go again - maybe. Though last time we had a financial crisis, we got Obama. Here’s hoping. Gift link.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

The reason why you don't allow a president to unilaterally decide tariff rates according to his whims is so we don't end up with mad king shit like this.

Absolutely terrifying. You can see only tear gas, but the screaming in the background is the horror. In a nice, normal, suburban neighborhood. Where there are probably people living who voted for Trump. I hope these videos are breaking through to the Fox News crowd. Not that Fox will show it.