NEW: Voters have a highly favorable view of SNAP, including 71% of Independents and 69% of Republicans. Voters trust the Democratic Party (51%) more than the Republican Party (43%) to handle SNAP. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/11...

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

"Israel attacked first." This admission undercuts the Trump administration's collective self-defense justification for joining Israel's military campaign against Iran over the summer.

Vaccine shedding

"We haven't changed our processes to take votes by secret ballor" despite death threats.

A May 2025 presentation by its (Meta's) safety staff estimated that the company’s platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the U.S. (Think about who these scams target - the sick, homebound elderly)

heritage foundation sounds like a great place to work and I hear there's openings

Don't forget that just this past week, Trump said these raids are not going far enough.

Honestly, am I reading this wrong or missing something? Isn't "VP TELLS GOP OPEN RACISTS WHO ATTACKED MY WIFE WELCOME IN THE PARTY" news?

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens--and Lying About It (Harry Litman/New Republic) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

Ross Douthat is only 31 years old.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

His questions and conversations rarely reveal any kind of honest inquiry, but instead are a way to push the boundaries of how one group of people ought to be acknowledged as inferior to another, and how the lesser group should therefore have fewer rights, in some very concrete way.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

You'd think it would be bigger news at all that the Vice President of the United States demanded that his party be more accepting of literal Nazis, including the one who spewed gutter racism at him and his wife!

"It’s pretty clear my demographic peers—Gen X white men and women—along with Boomers are the electoral villains in the current U.S. voting narratives. Don’t try to shift that onto anyone else."

lol

Mr. Brob

School lunches get a bad rap, but they're healthier than the average packed lunch. And making them free for all amplifies academic and health benefits for low-income kids by removing stigma/shame. So I'm glad Colorado voted to raise taxes on high-income households to make school meals free for all.

When we were on Twitter the line was “Twitter isn’t real life” and now that Twitter is deliberately stirring up bigotry it’s “Bluesky is a bubble you have to be on Twitter” and I think that is a pretty clear statement of value.

Reminded of Gisèle Pelicot in France asserting "shame must change sides."

Even before the tariff hearing yesterday, I was wonder whether Kavanaugh was in such a shitty mood earlier in the week bc: 1) The case before him abt contractor abuse 2) His moral responsibility for escalating Kavanaugh stops 3) Knowing how the tariff hearing would [have to]. go I keep wondering.

In the UK they have a way of dealing with a situation where you feel your conscience no longer permits you to fulfill your duties and it's called resigning

PUNCHBOWL: HMMM, why has Trump's focus on terrorizing most of America bummed people out?

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

You'll be shocked to learn that the guy who had us scrambling for toilet paper last time is at it again.

You study fascism, buddy? Well, I live it!

Holy crap. MAGA diehard Danielle Jurinsky lost her city council seat in Aurora, Colorado. She more than anyone is responsible for ginning up the false claim that Tren de Aragua had "taken over" the city. She also repeatedly tried to dissolve the city's groundbreaking public defender office.

We're having our next @darktimesacademy.bsky.social Reading Room discussion group this weekend! Friday evening if you're in the USA. The registration form is in the link in the quoted thread. It's a safe third space for people to talk about what we're reading! More info on the time and date here:

It's the most advanced radicalization machine ever created, and we've already discovered what happens in America when the government just lets that happen.

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

there is an actual nation of people trying to keep the russian boot off their head in a defensive action and WSJ wants to do regime change in a more hostile environment against a LatAm regime that could recruit more anti-American sponsors. sure. this makes sense. clearly a coherent plan of action.

Sergey Brin is even more MAGA than Bezos or Zuckerberg

This isn’t even an OpEd by some MAGA talking head, it is an editorial by the Wall Street Journal calling for regime change in Venezuela.

Tyler Lemons Narcs out Pam Bondi: She COULDN'T Have Ratified Lindsey Halligan's Actions www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/05/t...

Today on Volts: sustainable transportation policy is under comprehensive attack by the federal government, but states can soften the blow. Specifically, governors have a little-understood authority to transfer existing federal funds to EV charging, bike lanes, & transit. But time is running out!

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

Good review of the Nazi mess on the right. Since this was written, Vance has signaled support for the groypers and Carlson by coming out against “infighting,” refusing to take his or his family’s side. despite Fuentes spewing gutter racism at him and his wife.

The idea that his support for Palestinians is offensive at all is just toxic yet extremely normalized Trump-style antisemitism.

Inflation on groceries has gotten worse under Trump

Fed. judge issues TRO to address constitutional deficiencies in ICE detention facility in Broadville, Illinois. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NICUs have volunteers that come hold babies bc their parents can’t be with them in the hospital, usually because they have to work. My oldest was in there for 21 days and I cried every fucking might even though we spent all day there. If you can see that all the time and not be radicalized…idk man

zohran: i will cherish & protect nyc’s jewish community & prioritize their safety but i won’t abide israel’s treatment of palestinians jewish orgs: 😡 trump: jews are stupid ungrateful idiots who owe me for giving bibi cart blanche & persecuting palestine supporters, also i ❤️ nazis jewish orgs: 😍

Daycares in our neighborhood are no longer answering their doors after morning drop-off. Parents have to call the daycare when they arrive and they let them in for pickup. It's insane how we live now.

Contempt then pardons, she predicted, all part of Trump covering up his latest crime scene.

42 million Americans are being starved, and billionaires spent $40 million to help Andrew Cuomo lose by almost 200,000 votes.

Also a special place in Trump's ballroom

being scared of people who wouldn't care if you exist if you weren't trying to terrorize them shouldn't be a job

If the administration thinks it has a compelling case to use military force against Venezuela, it should seek authorization from Congress as required by the Constitution. Instead it is trying to convince senators to abdicate their constitutional responsibilities. www.politico.com/live-updates...