Friends of the Everglades ICYMI: “Alligator Alcatraz” is STILL open, in defiance of the National Environmental Policy Act, which we filed suit under in June. We’re still working to shut it down. www.everglades.org/stop-alligat...

They know what they’re doing is wrong.

If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

Washington Post Editorial Page: praising Elon Musk trillion dollar payout, berating Dems or downplaying their successes

“Let us not forget that the great seal of the US says E Pluribus Unum. That means Out of many, one Every life matters no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here, no matter how you identify. You have the right to live a life that is free” DC Sandwich Guy Sean Dunn

new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz." the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness. via @katieprout.bsky.social

A staggering two-thirds of Americans say that the country is "pretty seriously off on the wrong track," while just under a third say the country is moving in the right direction, a sentiment we clearly saw show up in the massive victories by Democrats on Tuesday. Read more: https://bit.ly/4oF3zdW

Trump arrives in FL for another weekend of parties and golf while his attorneys fight in the Supreme Court to deny food to SNAP beneficiaries despite a court order.

Short-term legal win, long-term political loss.

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds. apnews.com/article/snap...

/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.

So immigration agents drove off in a citizen’s car with a toddler in the back. **Then DHS refused to answer questions about it.** www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

“State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence white noise,” Hawaii Justice Todd Eddins wrote in a recent ruling that assailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority.

The father was a U.S. citizen. But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

They are starving veterans and killing unions open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens Covertly Released From Jail - The New Republic newrepublic.com/post/202897/...

Even right-wing propagandists think X has a right-wing propaganda problem that is poisoning people's brains. That should cause concern among the many media / politics types who still use it and who consider their feeds to be representative of the public's views.

Failed country.

Judge says Trump violated federal employees' first amendment rights... Editing federal employees’ emails to blame Democrats for shutdown violated their First Amendment rights, judge says... www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/p...

Breaking news: A federal judge blocked President Trump from deploying the National Guard in Oregon, the latest setback in his administration’s bid to send troops into Portland.

SCOOP: Trump Has a Secret List of 24 “Designated Terrorist Organizations.” We Got Some of the Names. The U.S. claims it is engaged in “armed conflict” with Tren de Aragua, Ejército de Liberación Nacional, and Cártel de los Soles, among others. theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024. Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion. American capitalism is off the rails.

The government forcing employees to mouth its partisan messages always seemed like more of a constitutional violation rather than (just) a Hatch Act violation

Shitty people, shitty values, shitty culture.

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

The Supreme Court really just said the emergency around SNAP benefits is that not *enough* kids are starving. FOH.

It’s almost like the guy running the country isn’t really America First.

Date: 11.07.2025, Broadview, Illinois: Fourteen suburban moms form silent circle outside Broadview ICE facility, refusing to move until deputies drag them away www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...

Trump is a direct danger to democracy.

15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.

I know AI is “just a tool” and any tool can be used for horrible things, but at least a hammer doesn’t tell you to end your own life

Given the Mamdani discourse, I wrote a bit about billionaires. If you were given $100 a day and aimed to have as much wealth as the world’s billionaires, you’d have had to have started about when animals first developed the ability to breathe oxygen. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

Crockett: Marjorie Taylor Greene voted for this point blank period. Her constituents were the ones that were on the receiving end of this.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...

I need someone to tell me that this is not real That the most important building in America has not been turned into a sleazy 80s AC casino

When your presidency runs on manual transmission.

Why is the Associated Press letting a White House official speak anonymously about why Trump pardoned a corrupt Tennessee Republican politician? And for 3 whole paragraphs, providing the defense that he only got $5,000 from his illegal scheme, which makes it OK In Trumpworld.

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.

You know what would be a great way to celebrate Mamdani’s historic win? Donate to a food bank. Give to community fridges. Call and check on your disabled or elderly neighbour and see if they need groceries. SNAP still hasn’t been funded and people need help now.

Yep. Politicians who mindlessly promote data centers are buying into a political liability. Data centers are even worse than the old 'subsidize my factory' scam, creating fewer jobs and draining local water & energy supplies, problems that will get increasingly worse under Trump's bad policies.

My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...

HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.

Just left the latest hearing in Jim Comey's criminal case. It did not go well for DOJ The magistrate judge scolded them for an "indict first, investigate second" posture and ordered them to turn over reams of material — including all grand jury info — to Comey's team Details TK

To no one's surprise, Trump and his enablers are refusing to release the Epstein files because they will confirm that Trump was a key figure in Epstein's ring of abuse and sexual assault on children and young women. #epsteinfiles #trump

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

Ah, yes. Exactly the way they talked about food prices when Joe Biden was president. A marvel of honesty and consistency.