Our review of 700+ videos of the Portland protests shows a wide gap between the reality on the ground and the characterizations by Trump, Fox News and DHS, which said its office in the city was under “coordinated assault by violent groups.” By @robwdavis.bsky.social and Steve Suo

ALERT: Baby Formula 13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more. Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.

True. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...

Half a year into his papacy, Pope Leo has done what no world leader — religious or political — has dared: he’s taking on Trump’s empire of lies, head-on. I was there the night Leo was elected. I’ve spent the last six months watching him find his voice — and it’s shaking the foundations of power.

Nothing religious Christians hate more than the actual teachings of Christ.

Republicans seem to think that the norms created by the social contract are just sort of a immutable laws of nature and that therefore, tearing up the social contract will have no negative consequences for them, and I am, very much not looking forward to that thesis being tested

Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp was reportedly "heckled" during his speech at a New York Bar Foundation event on Friday, just seven months after striking a controversial deal with the Trump admin. Good. More of this please. www.rawstory.com/trump-paul-w...

Lying?? Not shocked at all, but Faux News is still running with today's shooting report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID. He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

I know one of them that went ballistic was Bernie Sanders.

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"The Top 1% in America now make more money than the entire middle class, and the top 10% are spending as everyone else is tightening their budgets to try to buy groceries they can’t afford. Anyone who isn’t a millionaire can appreciate why young people are moving away from capitalism."

Trump’s plan is for people to pay his banker friends hundreds of thousands more in interest on mortgages while they own a piece of your home until you die.

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

Trump isn’t going to do anything to address ridiculous prices, but he will let you mortgage a house for 50 years! His banker buddies will LOVE that. A $400,000 house will cost you a million dollars over 50 years. What’s next, 10 year auto loans? 🤢

Trump fired the BLS director for reporting data he didn’t like. Now we can’t trust any of the numbers coming out of the govt because they lie about everything.

Don’t miss this misogyny gem. So glad all these men are still influential in our society and promoted by other men so our “papers of record” can ask with a straight face whether women have ruined everything for men or not

This scorching obit of James Watson features a narrative & cast still referenced by modern eugenicists—quite eerie His obsession with challenging “the establishment” meant he couldn’t stop blowing up his own legacy What a warning it should be to all today’s goons www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

"The planes also don't have engines, which would need to be purchased separately."

I’m shocked that Nikki Haley has raised an arrogant, entitled brat

You will not be shocked to read this, but you will likely be both disgusted and amused. We have morons running the country and it's probably better to laugh than cry.

JFC, America is such a shit show.

"Repeal and Replace" was actually repeal and don't replace with anything because they never thought people deserved healthcare to begin with.

OK, so I was fooled. I can either delete this or share it as a joke, as it is kind of funny.

Ghislaine is super happy with her new digs, raving about how great it is in her letters to family and friends. Probably doesn't hurt that she knows she'll get a pardon in the next couple of years. Imagine how bummed she'd be if his cholesterol catches up with him. www.rawstory.com/ghislaine-ma...

Larry Kudlow continues his decades long record of being completely wrong about absolutely everything. It's quite an impressive run.

How dare ANYONE suggest a sitting president is enfeebled! - Team Trump, 2025

2. Just 11 months ago, the United States had a $10 million bounty on his head, which President Biden cancelled. Twenty years ago, he was held for years at the U.S. military facility at Camp Bucca after being captured by American forces in Iraq during the insurgency.

1. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa just landed in the United States — the first time a Syrian president has visited the U.S., not part of the UNGA. He’ll be meeting with President Trump this week. And here he is playing basketball with the Commander of CENTCOM, Brad Cooper.

The "Department of Government Efficiency" eliminated the most efficient thing the federal government has come up with in decades. All so a few billionaire donors can make more money.

Congrats, MAGA voters. You voluntarily destroyed yourself for Trump's billionaire friends. Enjoy eating racism instead of food. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

No ballistic evidence. No one hit. No injuries. No damage from gunfire. Local cops can’t find a “crime scene.” DHS claims shots were fired. I don’t believe them. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

A 50 year mortgage would be just great for the banks. We'd all pay more for the same amount of house, and banks would reap the profits. This is not the way to make buying a house affordable. Building more housing and paying a livable wage will benefit everyone except banks and their shareholders.

Trump's only goal (besides greedily scooping up as much money as he can get his hands on) is aggrandizing Trump. If something doesn't personally enrich him, or make him more famous, admired, and worshipped, it doesn't interest him. The only reason he'd consider helping Americans is to brag about it.

Part of me is glad Trump is now unconstrained, and is defacing and demeaning everything he touches. It means that for the next three years we’ll have constant reminders not just of the need to defeat him, but also of the importance of ripping out Trumpism’s poisonous legacy and beginning anew.

It's easy to look people in the eye and lie to them when you think truth is a totally irrelevant and meaningless concept. In Trump's world, truth is whatever he says it is, and that's how it's supposed to be. He finds it insulting when anyone questions this.

Add how health insurance works to the very long list of things Trump doesn't understand, doesn't care to understand, and will glibly lie about to get whatever he wants in the moment. www.rawstory.com/trump-267427...

One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.

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Greg Bovino is right back on the streets — tear gas grenade in hand.

I think when he put up that portrait walk everyone was so focused on the dumb Biden trolling (Autopen! Har har har!) there wasn't much mention of the whole "Walk of Fame" aspect. FAME. He really thinks being POTUS is like being the ultimate star, not at all about public service.

Two thirds of Latinos in the US now think it's a bad time for them here, which is approximately the same percentage of them who voted for Trump.

Any evidence that shows Trump in an unflattering light is a "hoax." Trump is frustrated any time he can't control "the truth" in such a way that people believe what he wants them to believe. It constantly astounds me how successful he and clowns like Comer are at making people believe lies.

Orbán sees independence—whether it be independent media, universities, or civil organizations—much like Hungary’s former communist overlords. That anyone would work in support of democracy for all is simply a ruse. Those who give their lives for it are, in the words of Trump, “suckers” and “losers,”

Trump is far more willing to go out of his way to help Russia than to help Americans

Why would he do that?