By th’ law of war thou wast not bound to answer An unknown opposite.

Rewatching “When France Fell“ presentation by historian Michael Neiberg at US Army Heritage and Education Center. Insightful: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_T67...

A breast cancer diagnosis can cost $80k in scans, surgery, chemo, and pathology within just a few months. Trump’s proposed ACA reforms wouldn’t come close to helping people cover that. More of my thoughts on @meetthepress.com ⬇️ www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Democrats say Donald Trump molests children. As president, he's been far more likely to starve or deport them. Two Pinocchios.

Could not agree with the FBI more on this. But as a journalist I covered questionable shootings in which FBI agents shot citizens and as bureau policy withheld their names -- including one who had two separate bad shootings and was quietly shipped from Baltimore to another field office.

Le Pen’s RN has become the party of billionaires By voting to save the ultra-rich, the RN has clearly positioned itself as the party of billionaires, as a right-wing party on every level, much like Trump’s Republican Party thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/l...

Who gets to be a doctor in America is about to change. Trump’s new federal student loan caps will push lower-income students out of medicine and make the physician shortage worse. As I have argued for years, it's time to shorten medical school to three years. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

New journal launching in popular music studies/performance studies, and they're looking for contributors- www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-l...

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

Every local government should be arresting ICE agents acting without a judicial warrant, especially those in masks. Stand up! Make your region not worth it, and hold those accountable who decide to f*ck around.

Funny cartoon. But this is precisely what the United States Supreme Court has presently decided is sufficient reasonable suspicion to legally stop and detain human beings. That court is now fetid trash. So is our republic as a result.

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Judges in every courthouse in the country should be doing this.

I’m wondering how many of these guys are from Russia or other BRIC nations.

"Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that banned federal and local law enforcement from wearing masks in response to Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration raids. At the time, Homeland Security wrote on X it would not comply with “with Gavin Newsom’s unconstitutional mask ban.”

I’ll have a Dunn sandwich with extra mustard.

From last night: How @runforsomething.net's plan to expand the map will actually work, why Schumer doesn't get a say in where we invest, and why it matters to create many paths to victory in the next five years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D_d...

NBC has a story on this as well already, and they've got an indicative quote as to how things will go: "'The mentality is CBP does what they’re told, and the administration thinks ICE isn’t getting the job done,;' one of the DHS officials said. 'So CBP will do it." www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Inevitable and tracks with the cycles of regimes

An incredible and prescient analysis by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social of how our situation harkens back to autocrats past ... open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

The ICE attacks are dividing AND inciting our society.

Donald is the only one cruel and manipulative through and through. He tried to get his father, at that age and desk, to sign a new will giving everything to him. His daughter, the one who became a judge, caught it in time.

Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

There's no legality to blowing them up in New York harbor.

All of this is true enough as far as it goes. But even more problematic is the fact that when the U.S. Coast Guard interdicts suspect vessels, boarding and searching for drugs, a quarter of the time they find no contraband. We're not just murdering drug smugglers. We are murdering innocent people.

Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan, And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.

It's bad. They really took a hit. And folks are now on the ground in Jamaica moving to help. They need our support: www.today.com/news/how-to-...

"The story of the Black Loyalists and their postwar diaspora highlights an irony long ignored: Thousands of those with the biggest stake in securing liberty ultimately had to flee a country founded on the premise that all are created equal."

My delinquent attendant was busy and forgot #caturday of all things. No kings indeed, clearly there is one king and it's me. Humph. #extracat #graycat #cat #cats #catsky #catsofbluesky

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

I’ll look for other ways to lend my voice to the fight—and I hope you will as well. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. There is a path out of the present darkness, but we can only travel its distance if we walk it together.

Contest every race. Have a candidate in every race on every ballot in every county in every state. Run even if you know you can’t win. Run because you know you can’t win. No seat uncontested. Bring the fight to every ballot.

It’s good to see that the Dresden bombing is controversial. Since learning in 2009 that my uncle was killed in action near Dresden — in April, three months LATER, I’ve been meaning to learn more about why there was still so much destruction.

Silencing dissent is now second nature to this administration. We have fully abandoned the premise of allowing public argument and debate and are instead entrenched in rote fascism. The thought police are entirely empowered, and they treat us no longer as citizens of a republic, but as sheep.

John Roberts and his miserable excuse for a high court of justice are presiding over a great disassembling of the United States and the rare American experiment in government by its people. It began with Citizens United and it continues relentlessly. This is a second civil war in slow motion.

This isn't national leadership. This is a tantrum of wounded and bitter men. Its simply division, cynicism and a civil war in slow motion. This administration is willfully and with every action destroying a union of states that is our republic.

I spent years in U.S. intel drug interdiction. A strike on a go-fast boat is unheard of. Majority of the crew are 'mules', w/ their families under threat. Pilot & navigator are the only actual cartel members. The rest are victims. I had 'mules' beg me to kill them so their families would be spared.

wtf is this?

Federal agents many in masks at Broadway and Canal moments ago questioning a man, a bunch more agents just walked away. "Can i call my mom," the man asks, he's now being loaded into a car and being driven away. More TK @thecity.nyc

Dump Spotify! bsky.app/profile/5050...

Stormé DeLarverié (1920–2014) was a singer, drag performer, bouncer, and LGBTQ+ activist. She was the master of ceremonies of the Jewel Box Revue, the first racially inclusive, traveling drag revue in the US. She is also credited for throwing the first punch against the police at the Stonewall Inn.

Stop parsing this as if any of it isn't murderous horror. We have courts of law. And even if these cases were brought into those courts, our penalties for the trafficking of drugs are not summary execution. Fuck what is "popular."

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Soullessness and greed seem to be winning and before enough people wake to it many good things will be destroyed and many people hurt. But the fight will be joined and after so much grifting and brutality a reckoning will come. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbm-...

Department of Who Gives A Fuck: Mandani identifies as a democratic socialist. So scary. You know who also governed as much like a socialist as any mayor in the history of New York? A fellow named Fiorello LaGuardia. The city was never governed better. Fuck labels. Elect the better man.

A really critical interview by Adam Kinzinger with Rich Logis about #LeavingMAGA - lots of really useful information. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KneB...

There’s a group, Leaving MAGA, led by Rich Logis, that is trying to help end the cult of Trump: leavingmaga.org/reaching-out/