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Trump's stupid attacks on Canada sovereignty have hurt our local economy. While we value our friendships with our Canadian brothers and sisters, it's going to be a long time before they forgive our nation for the vitriolic attacks made against them by our president, and I don't blame them.

This is what happens when you have a president who doesn't value strategic relationships among friendly countries; a president who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple; and, frankly, a president who has no idea what he is doing. www.seattletimes.com/business/can...

NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign. We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.

ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American. Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’. Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared. www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Investigate the Sulzbergers.

Trans Awareness Week honors & uplifts the trans community in a time when anti-trans bigotry & political attacks are on the rise. It’s more important than ever that we listen to, learn from, & show up with compassion for trans folks. 🏳️‍⚧️ Hear more trans people #SpeakOUT: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Truth for me as a sexual-assault survivor—and am holding all survivor my heart as well. I will continue to fight to help blow up the wide and sprawling rapist-protection racket.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sending emails to her staff saying "please print" or Donald Trump sending letters to Jeffrey Epstein alluding to child rape, both candidates sent some questionable messages to people that they knew.

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Perhaps conservative feminism could figure it out

Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map

I think the thing that depresses me the most is watching how many people here look at events and seem to have decided to max out on cynicism and apathy. Deciding they’re smarter than anyone else because they know nothing is going to change and everyone is a villain. Thanks, dipshits. Good work.

It is wild, if not surprising I guess, that whether people could fly somewhere at Thanksgiving seemed to have more political effect than whether people could *eat* at Thanksgiving.

Nancy Pelosi was a groundbreaking Speaker, but she was too focused on getting Democrats to respect the will of their voters. by Chuck Schumer

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

In the event you were wondering whether it was important to provide opposition, trump’s IRS is gutting the alternative minimum corporate tax law via “unlegislated tax cuts” that help eg crytpo, private equity, real estate investors, and MNCs, stealing $222bn from revenue

Every ICE hire participating in the chaos should expect consequences when this regime ends.

Would love to see some reporting on how the airline lobby put on the pressure.

If only Chuck Schumer could be just 5% Mitch McConnell and not 100% Charlie Brown.

Chuck Schumer cannot agree to any deal that does not include, at minimum, a one year extension of the ACA credits. A pinky promise from John Thune is meaningless.

Email Chuck Schumer right now and let him know you do not want him to cave! Protect ACA subsidies!

In 1961, my Mom, who was married to my Dad at the time, was fired for being pregnant. She was unable to have her own credit card at the time because she had a vagina & was unable to use birth control without permission from her husband. But sure, things are much tougher now.

Still waiting for an answer! bsky.app/profile/did:...

I’m reminded of the William Gibson quote about the future is here but it’s not evenly distributed. The same with fascism, currently.

A 50 year mortgage is a terrible idea because (1) you pay a ridiculous amount of interest, (2) you are basically in perpetual servitude to a lender, especially after having paid nothing but interest payments for decades, and (3) there is a good chance you will die before you pay off the debt.

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

Populism

Guessing some people weren’t following illegal orders?

I am relieved that families across New York will finally start to see their SNAP benefits this weekend. My office will continue to fight to protect this lifesaving food assistance for New Yorkers and all Americans.

Don’t look away from these state-sponsored atrocities. Demand that your congressional representatives and local officials intervene.

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

By serving as the first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi made history. But in doing so, she ruined the House of Representatives as a workplace. by Ross Douthat

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If Biden had tried doing this move to Harris it would have been the top news story for 8 weeks

There’s not enough attention being paid to the fact that ICE deported a man in a persistent vegetative state Or the fact that he was perfectly healthy when he was detained, and his family have no idea what was done to him to cause such a severe decline He died shortly after being deported to Cuba

I love the little free pantry library things, but please remember that canned foods are hard for a lot of people for a lot of reasons, and if you are going to stock cans, stick to ones with pop tabs. Please remember the varied needs of the real people experiencing food insecurity.

In a major victory, a court has ordered the Trump administration to send full November SNAP benefits by tomorrow.   I'm relieved that people will get the food they need, but it's outrageous that it took a lawsuit to make the federal government feed its own people.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?