Chapter 4: The Party That Sold Itself Out open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

But..but...he said he was going to make IVR free....78M American voters fell for the snake oil salesman (doesn't absolve @democrats.org of all their failures...but...). From the ashes a new republic will rise...I just won't be around to see it. bbc.com/news/article...

If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.

Alas, the existential threat that @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I detail in #ScienceUnderSiege grows more acute w/ each passing day of this administration: www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

No doubt the worst is yet to come. Looking for a ray of hope? If you get near the end of the great @wajali.bsky.social talk with @hcrichardson.bsky.social she gives an on point history lesson -- the person to lead us out of this has yet to be IDed. thelefthook.substack.com/p/heather-co...

Internal documents suggest Trump aims to undercut a key program for unaccompanied children and potentially outsource those legal services to a for-profit ICE contractor and Angelina Jolie’s NGO. www.levernews.com/trump-is-poi...

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is cheering on Trump using his pardon power to end a high-profile corruption prosecution. Ladies and gentlemen...The Democratic leadership! sirota.substack.com/p/endemic-co...

"Not by moderating. By transforming." TN-07 Aftyn Behn This Was Supposed to be Impossible open.substack.com/pub/americas...

#tdih 1980, three nuns (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, and Dorothy Kazel) & one lay worker (Jean Donovan) were abducted, raped, & murdered 💔 in El Salvador by members of U.S. backed National Guard. Reagan administration blamed the nuns for their own murder. Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/nu...

In their defense, how could six Republican Supreme Court Justices have predicted in 2024 that allowing the most powerful person in the world to commit crimes with impunity could have a downside?

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

#tdih 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery. One of countless actions in decades of protests of racism on public transportation (incl. Claudette Colvin & others earlier that year). Women's Political Council mobilized boycott. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ro...

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Trump’s “mass deportation” is not deportation at all. When people are captured without due process, that's kidnapping. When they’re sent to another country against their will, that's human trafficking. When they're put in a prison with no way to get out, that's a concentration camp.

Tell me what reality we live in???!! Stock market at record highs today...play this video. It's all good right?🙃

Imagine that...for-profit health insurers putting $$$ before MAHA..who could have known? "As money gets tighter, including red ink with privatized Medicare Advantage plans, insurers have been cutting back on choices and benefits." replica.startribune.com/infinity/art...

⚠️ REVEALED: A bombshell move at the SEC could wipe out 98% of shareholder proposals — the mechanism investors use to push companies on pay, governance and climate risks. Legal experts say this interpretation of Delaware law would silence millions of shareholders. www.levernews.com/wall-streets...

"But when you staff a government with loyalists instead of experts, this is the inevitable result: foreign policy by group text." "Peace Over a Piece of Pie" open.substack.com/pub/therealm...

Why do we as a country accept the fact that medical care is based on for-profit insurers who create mythical things like "in-network?" No other educated country on the planet accepts that. Single Payer (HR 3421) by 2030...there is no other answer. replica.startribune.com/infinity/art...

A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities. #COP30

Let’s keep turning up the heat on corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi

Great piece for those of us old enough to remember: "The contrast between the father we remember today and the son who disgraces his name tells the whole sad story of American decline." On RFK's 100th Birthday, the Kennedy Name's Tragic Arc Mirrors American Decline open.substack.com/pub/theplane...

Is there anyone in their right mind who thinks Trump's toadies are going to turn over all the files? I've done a lot of courtroom document discovery, and NO ONE ever turns over the real files. We are about to get the expurgated grease job of the century.

I know many people on my lists don't follow this. But in a world upside down this has brought more 24-hour joy than I can remember. Announcer proclaimed "it rattled the ribs and stirred the soul." And that was just the first goal!! #Scotland #WorldCup. Worth finding the highlights.

It was an honor for MK and me to meet with Pope Leo XIV – a son of Illinois – to express the pride and reverence of the people of this great state. Pope Leo XIV’s message of hope, compassion, unity, and peace resonates with Illinoisans of all faiths and traditions.

The Saudis paid Trump a lot of money this year for what they got today in the Oval Office.

INVESTIGATION: Private equity giants are buying up youth sports facilities & banning parents from taking photos/videos of their own kids, instead forcing them to pay for photos. When parents ignore the bans, the companies punish the kids. What stage of capitalism is this?

Here's another way to Medicare For All (HR 3421 - check it out)...make it so expensive that for-profit insurers dump us all...this story began with UCare dropping 158,000 Medicare Advantage enrollees this year. Special place in hell for Medicare Advantage replica.startribune.com/infinity/art...

"Elements of irrationality"...Hmmmm...you mean like the entire world these days? www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW: The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S. Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.

It's too easy to be distracted by the economic story of the day. The more important story is of our system fraying: The rule of law is decaying, Bribery spreading, crony capitalism normalized. It won’t show up in next quarter’s data, but when our kids try to build their lives.

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: An Anti-Monopolist Takes Manhattan www.levernews.com/you-love-to-...

Mexico and Japan are staying at the same hotel for the U17 World Cup and have struck up a real friendship 🇲🇽🤝🇯🇵 This footage, of the teams celebrating in unison as Mexico's place in the knockout rounds was confirmed, is just wonderful 🖤

Fabulous read...right to the final two paragraphs. We Didn't Kill American Manufacturing—We Let It Die open.substack.com/pub/americas...

We started Indivisible in 2016 because a future Trump appointee was talking about the WWII Japanese internment camps as a model for immigrants at the same time that Schumer was talking about finding common ground with Trump.

"Memo to Democrats: This Is a War and Not a Moment for Peacetime Generals." The absurd culture of the Senate has produced a Democratic caucus of wimpy pushovers, writes @ryanlcooper.com: zeteo.com/p/centrist-s...

Always read Will's columns 🎁 share.inquirer.com/LEzpFV

Someone should tell @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com that the world he knew is long gone... Chuck Schumer’s Quiet Betrayal: The Day the Democratic Party Forgot Who It Serves open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

A story idea for @allinwithchris.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com? Anybody? #Courage blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/l...

🔗 Read the full story here: www.levernews.com/inside-ices-...

To everyone at @debsmuseum.bsky.social who keep the spirit of that great man alive...I had tears in my eyes when he quoted Eugene....what a beautiful tribute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfB...

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k

“Sixteen of the 24 donors have received federal contracts with the cumulative sum totaling $279 billion over the past five years, according to the study by Public Citizen. The majority of those awards have gone to defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Healthcare for All: The Democratic Promise That Could Heal a Broken Nation open.substack.com/pub/thomhart... And HR3421 is already introduced - they just have to run on enacting it - just because it's simple doesn't mean it's easy: www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

Donald Trump showing his appreciation for his Black soldiers, by Godfrey the comedian.

Cause who wouldn't want ICE and Border agents in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area???!! 78M people voted for this chaos...I can't ever forget that. replica.startribune.com/infinity/art...

Tom Emmer was given free rein to tell lie after lie on CNBC this morning with zero pushback from hosts

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

"The Last Paycheck In America" open.substack.com/pub/therealm...