From coast to coast, Democrats scored huge blowout wins against Trump and the GOP this week. What does this mean for next year's midterms — and has Trump's failure to tackle affordability doomed him for good? Let's break it all down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azIm_JPnd9M

Trump’s new attack against health insurance companies will all go away after they buy some Trump crypto and donate to the ballroom.

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

NEWS: Trump lashes out at Republicans over pressure from Americans over shutdown, Trump suggests move toward universal healthcare, Maxwell gets special treatment behind bars, and more. The White House is feeling major pressure right now, and Trump is not happy. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.” Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Yep. I think it's pretty likely we're close to an AI crash. Bear Stearns starting the 2008 crash was poetic enough (especially, looking back, the Epstein ties). But if Palantir was the Bear Stearns of the AI crash, it'd be such poetic justice.

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight

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Somehow Schumer has managed to get the Republicans to the edge of a field of rakes, pointed out how to avoid it, and their plan is to confidently walk right into the middle of the field.

I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.

Over and over, Jesus made it clear: food is not something people need to prove themselves worthy of. This is not about humanity deserving to be fed but about the inhumanity of those withholding the meal. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jesus-fed-...

The Onion maybe but still true

It’s disgraceful that the administration chose to go to court instead of fulfilling its responsibility to the American people. I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table. apnews.com/article/snap...

Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else. Republicans said no. So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS. Republicans OWN this shutdown.

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

As Democrats offer to reopen the govt in exchange for keeping health insurance subsidies the same for one year, Trump orders his puppets in Congress to reject the deal as he flies back to Palm Beach for another weekend of golf and parties at his country club.

against the wishes of “dem base” online types, don’t the dems basically have one demand for reopening govt? Do the subsidies. The idea that any reporter (I know) is entertaining the idea of the gop trying to make a “deal” with Dems is ridiculous. It’s one condition that is popular among gop voters!

Lawless goons. Racial profiling isn’t just something they do, it’s all they do. www.instagram.com/p/DQu5q2pkc_...

Read @alexzfinley.bsky.social on the fine upstanding characters who showed up the latest RT gala. alexzfinley.substack.com/p/trump-russ...

Oh this will immediately be used to confirm the worst racial and gender biases and mysteriously put white dudes on top of the stack of applicants yet again

Here's a link to the paper if anyone is interested. It's interesting that all of the authors are Finance professors and not technology/AI experts. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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“Shocks the conscience” is a legal term of art. In this case it’s a pretty good description of the typical reaction to these paramilitary goon squads. Shocking.

So the terms we had Bukele agree to were basically “no lawyers, no abortions.” No mention about keeping them safe or not torturing them. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

"You know," she added, "once we start paying them again. Trump isn't shipping this wine off to the food banks."

It's been 45 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

Richest nation in human history

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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

Can you imagine the chaos of AI in medicine, with all the incomplete and fractured info for a each patient across different doctors and health systems, all being held together by the bandaid of family and self-advocacy

Yes, his concern was so evident from the statue-like way he avoided acknowledging the collapsed dude

Proof (if we needed it) that algorithmic amplification is dramatically accelerating, and perhaps even driving, the unravelling of our democracies. Fixing the problem means tackling the algorithms themselves, not just trying - and failing - to address the harms they cause. on.ft.com/49LNvCy

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

trial by jury clearly has a role to play today as it did then. you can read other lessons from this history - ways that multiracial groups people living and working in the North resisted slave power under Black leadership in the latest @hammerandhope.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/unde...

I wrote about the shutdown newrepublic.com/article/2028...

The Trump admin is making the planes run on time in the same way that Mussolini made the trains run on time—by not actually doing it, but by pressuring everyone to just say that’s what’s happening.

A woman ruined my workplace By Caravaggio (c. 1602)

Hundreds of thousands of people are dead, according to this New Yorker investigation. The reason? The Trump administration's shutdown of USAID. Read the full report on this devastating policy and its human toll.

The Trump administration is suing so they don’t have to pay for food stamps. Happy almost thanksgiving!

Founding Fathers fought a revolution against a king who sent his troops against them to enforce his laws. That experience was fresh in their minds when they adopted a Constitution that says that Congress alone has the power “to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union

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.

"They want everyone to know these thugs they’ve deployed to terrorize cities are battle-hardened and impervious to pain. But in court, they're such delicate flowers that if they are, say, lightly grazed by a sandwich, they are entitled to justice because of the horrific assault they have suffered."