"We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die." —W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

I eyeballed it. Okay, turns out it's nearly *half* of Senators got fewer votes than Mamdani.

Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

this would mean half of registered california voters voted in an odd year special election with a single arcane proposition on the ballot

How did we ever let this man pretend to be a genius

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

It's impossible to be an immigrant in this country. If ICE doesn't get you, a terrified, heavily armed, Fox News viewer will. This poor woman didn't even have the chance to say anything. He shot her through the door and said it was a home invasion.

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

Why are we treating a consumer product that can cause psychosis or even kill people as something like a microwave that needs a firmware update instead of being classified as the most dangerous hallucinogen on the planet?

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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Sarah Longwell: "Donald Trump took office, we have experienced a net decline of over a million jobs... Everybody in immediate proximity to trump is getting richer while the vast majority of Americans are getting poorer and people are losing their jobs."

The only thing I care about in a president for 2028 is holding every one of these people accountable under the law in the harshest manner possible. Anything short of that is a waste of time.

When power turns its back, love steps forward. Outside AWOL Andy Harris’ Salisbury office, we didn’t protest — we cared. 653 lbs of food + cash donations delivered to the Maryland Food Bank–Eastern Shore. When Andy and Trump dump you, your community carries you. #NoKings

Trump is treating inflation and high prices the way he treated Covid: claiming the numbers are going down. But like Covid, he can’t lie his way out of this one because everyone is experiencing it. And like Covid it will be his downfall.

About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Both sides? Explain your nuanced approach

I’m re-upping this, even though I know it won’t matter at all, but I want maybe a few extra people to know that the White House liaison to DHS—who is already known to have expressed Nazi tendencies—linked yesterday to a well-known white nationalist’s web site.

We almost missed this one 😆

Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

i know he’s fun to laugh at but we really need to start enforcing corruption laws again, and the statute of limitations has absolutely not run out

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

A Border Patrol agent who shot a woman five times on Chicago’s Southwest Side later bragged about his shooting skills to friends: “I’m up for another round of ‘f--- around and find out.’” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

🧵Brian Straw is one of the folks charged, along w/ Kat Abughazaleh, w/ felony conspiracy to impede federal officers in Broadview [Chicago]. As it happens, he's also my friend, a deeply decent man whose compassion shines & fairly shimmers off him, no matter what he's doing. If you can help, pls do.

Democratic leaders should not rely on litigating their way out of this. Take action now. Arrest these guys. Throw them in jail. Make *Republicans* file the lawsuits. Make *THEM* argue before a judge or jury why they were justified in kidnapping a preschool teacher in front of her children.

If I were the mayor or governor, I would simply not allow masked, armed men to kidnap preschool teachers in front of their children. If this isn’t a red line for you as a leader, then I don't know what you think your job is. Arrest them. Cut power to their facilities. Send out protection patrols.

“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?” Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.

Oregon Attorney General: Trump's Solicitor General looked Justice Roberts squarely in the eyes and said the American people, not foreign countries, are going to pay 30 to 80% of these tariffs. And then he had the gall to say that these are not taxes on the American people

Golden gives a lot of reasons. But the first one he lists is threats to his family and political violence in general. (despite the paywall, you can listen to it)

Bovino is asked, "have you ever taken any agent under your command aside and said, 'I see you firing pepperballs from a rooftop … that is a violation of policy, you shouldn't do that'?" Bovino: "I have never said that."

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan

This person took this when they called the race

A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this

This makes my heart sing, and I hope the only person I've ever dated who has probably voted Republican still lives there to see it.

Big day for people who care about other people

This is an excellent idea!!!

My gut says that there’s a real chance the groyper right wins their internet war with the last remnants of the old-school GOP and completely seizes the comm apparatuses, and there’s a decent chance that takes them out electorally because that stuff does NOT play well with the general public.

The only solution to this is for communities to respond with force. No American is obligated to accept this lawlessness from the federal government. Mayors and governors should say so.

Cuomo Makes 11th-Hour Pass At Female New Yorkers

Holy smokes www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.