Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

Imagine a cat going to town on this and just killing itself like it jumped into a corn silo of toilet paper

New in PN: Ed Martin's peculiar view of pardon power "Since Martin neither knows what he’s doing or cares whether it’s legal, he’s perfectly willing to float the most unconstitutional trial balloons, such as 'Trump can pardon people for state crimes.'"

but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

/2 When London, Ont., resident Meg Jarvis was out training at the gym, she got a series of notifications on her phone. Help. Want. Mama. Kong. They were notifications from her dog, Ruby, who was home alone and whose favourite Kong chew toy had rolled under the couch.

According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally. Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.

How we talk about murder www.theredoubt.net/how-we-talk-...

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

For first time, scientists see the very early stages of a supernova reut.rs/47DUYCw

“Even in the early days, when they were overthrowing monarchs and taking the first tentative steps towards the modern conception of human rights, liberals conceived of their success in terms of achieving a specific kind of society.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...

“The pattern is one that involved modeling agencies around the world serving as fronts for human trafficking…This may very well be what Trump is trying desperately to keep quiet in the DOJ’s Epstein files.” tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-transnat...

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

My friend @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social wrote a great piece about the Ukrainian drone industry that features the only accurate diagram of a FPV drone that I think I’ve ever seen in a major publication: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford. www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...

I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

“Appearing to close his eyes” MODERN MAINSTREAM JOURNALISM LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

With advancements in computational science, high-resolution spectroscopy, and sophisticated sky surveys, astronomers are observing new puzzles and correcting the older diagnoses about the mysterious and invisible objects of the sky. cen.acs.org/analytical-c... #chemsky 🧪

The thing is … when Trump has stupid ideas that might be ok in fact, his viziers stop it from happening. He is a senile old ruler, evil and corrupt and venal, led around by even worse men.

New study finds “brutal drought and extreme heat wave that began in September 2023 transformed the lake into a steaming cauldron. The lake's waters reached 41C (106F).” 😱

PLURIBUS is fucking excellent so far.

your occasional reminder that if a police officer wants you to stop by the station and help them complete some paperwork, call an attorney and do. not. go.

he ballroom is the most visible, easily explained, and visually disgusting evidence of Trump’s destruction of our democracy and the public’s ownership of our institutions. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

ffs, @nytimes.com

I wrote this article! 🙂 This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪

Police are defunding cities.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

so voting matters, huh

"Only 19.75% of Washington's 5.1 million voters have cast a ballot so far in the 2025 general election. That's fewer than voted at this juncture two years ago, when the Evergreen State set the record for the worst general election turnout in its recorded history." And we have mail in voting!

[Dick Cheney on his way to hell] My belief is I will, in fact, be greeted as a liberator

Astronomy Picture of the Day Comet Lemmon Beyond Lomnický Peak Credit: Robert Barsa www.instagram.com/rob.barsa/ www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... #APOD 🧪🔭

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

From the House Oversight Committee report published last week: “The authority to grant pardons is not provided to the president’s inner circle. ... The president must make the decisions, and the courts can hold pardons void if the decisions are made by others.”

could not find a pumpkin to carve down here so I present to you: the Hallowatermelon

Something that jumped out to me about ProPublica's exposé on Paul Newby, chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, was not just the extremes Republicans go to in order to capture the courts but the extremes to *keep the media from talking about it!* ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

🧪You may have heard that large-carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park triggered one of the world’s strongest trophic cascades. Our new open-access article explains why that story doesn’t hold up: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.  This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting. 

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

Newfoundland Jays fans may well have this game extend into the time change period

Trey Yesavage, who famously was pitching to his fellow third graders at recess in Miss Reynolds's class just five months ago, is entering to pitch in Game 7 of the World Series

we've finally answered humanity's most ancient question, "What happens after you die?" the answer is JD Vance fucks your wife

This has been the best World Series maybe since 2001. It's only fitting that two future Hall of Famers face off against each other in game 7. I wrote about yesterday, today, and how MLB got everything it wanted and more: mollyknight.substack.com/p/world-seri...

On the Dodgers “ruining baseball” when it’s actually the opposite:

Another article about Alaska Earthquake Center and tsunami funding cuts www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/11/01/s...

They fuck you up, your King of Kings. They may not mean to but they do. They leave you trunkless legs of stone, And add some visage, just for you.

the whole plan for operation midway in chicago was to frighten and terrorize people, and the administration hasn't considered what can happen when people decide they're more angry than they are afraid