📚A Personal Opinion

Just a reminder that ICE head Tom Homan was caught taking a $50,000 cash bribe and the Trump administration covered it up.

Hours Before Expected Release, Rikers Detainee Dies After Apparent Seizure Edwin Ramos, 38, was slated to plead guilty and walk free Friday morning. Instead, he became the 13th person to die in city custody this year.

A man died today at the Rikers Island jail complex. He was just hours away from an expected release.

This year, 13 people have now died in the NYC jails. That is *nearly triple* the number of people who died in the NYC jails in all of 2024. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/r...

#OtD 21 Nov 1927 a massacre took place in Columbine, Colorado, when police and militia fired into a crowd of striking miners and their families, killing at least six and injuring more than 60 in an effort to break the @IWW union stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9421...

Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws Trump is launching an all-out broadside against states with strict AI regulations.

Huge @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop: Trump is preparing to try and ban all state AI laws, going so far as having Brendan Carr’s FCC pull rural broadband funds from states that try to regulate AI www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The hilarious part is that whenever Joe Manchin’s name comes up, pundits can only still!—Even today!—talk about “purity tests” and “big tents”, like braindead robots.

Manchin couldn’t bring himself to endorse Kamala Harris *when retiring*.

Fuck him and fuck those who defend him for any reason.

AI data centers are sucking up communities’ power & water.

AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects.

So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends.

Priorities.

now is a great time to get the family their flu shots!

it should still provide pretty good protection against severe illness, even if it doesn't prevent infections well this year.

last flu season, 280 US children died from it (a seasonal record). the vast majority of them were unvaccinated

REPORTER: “Trump accused the other side of encouraging political violence. Isn't that what he is doing?”

LEAVITT: “Why aren't you talking about what members of congress are doing telling the military not to follow lawful orders?”

REPORTER: “Actually, they said ILLEGAL orders.”

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Are these people high? Nursing is absolutely a professional degree!! It has strong science core requirements and requires a massive amount of hands on work!

1) @gene4va.bsky.social says Trump is more implicated in Jamal Khashoggi's execution than we knew
2) After that, MbS paid Jared $2B
3) We don't yet know where all the stolen docs ended up
4) Trump agreed to sell MbS F-35s even tho China will get the tech

It cannot be said enough how everyone that confirmed RFK Jr has endless blood on their hands. They should be asked why they did that every day until they acknowledge as much and beg forgiveness.

The GOAT Award goes to Mary Bruce of ABC NEWS! What she did today was totally and unequivocally awesome and amazing! I saw it live. ABC should give her a goddamn raise for this.

Calling the ABC reporter’s question “insubordinate” explains everything about how Trump sees press freedom.

Today is just one long demonstration of the One Special Boy virus that has consumed our polity. Immediate presidency-ending stuff for anyone else from at least Truman to Biden. We're not even pretending to care about the law or the Constitution or any of the norms or duct tape anymore.

It's worth mentioning: 40 million Americans receiving SNAP benefits is a population greater than the total population of Canada!

This is a true failure of American capitalism and American Democracy.

Keep voting for the correction! Reverse the permanent tax cuts for the 1%.

The judge said that the existence of TikTok in 2025 means that Meta didn't break the law by purchasing Intagram in 2012 or WhatsApp in 2014.
If I stole a million dollars in 2012 but the person I stole it from got his money back a decade later, I'll still be held accountable! Meta won't be.

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

Please, people, help Greg get ahead of Alex Jones and Bannon! Daily Blast is really informative, and it is amazing how Greg can get an expert in to talk about one of the main stories of the day, in depth and cogently.

Psyched to see that our pod just landed in the top 20 US politics podcasts on Apple, per Podchaser!

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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?

I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

BREAKING: Federal judges ruled that Texas Republicans CANNOT use their gerrymandered map in the 2026 midterm elections.

A TRUMP-APPOINTED JUDGE wrote in the ruling that "substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the map."

This is a HUGE WIN for democracy.

Cameron Kasky, a Parkland shooting survivor and co-founder of March for Our Lives, has announced a run for Congress in New York’s 12th District. He was previously a national figure in youth gun-violence activism, and is now centering a progressive platform: Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, regulating AI, and ending U.S. support for genocides in Gaza and Sudan. Kasky says Democrats have abandoned moral clarity and he’s running to force a reckoning.

Post See new posts Conversation Cameron Kasky @camkasky Medicare For All. Stop Funding Genocide. Abolish ICE. #YesWeCam Donate & Support: https://kaskyforcongress.com

Cameron Kasky, a Parkland shooting survivor and co-founder of March for Our Lives, has announced a run for Congress in New York’s 12th District. He was previously a national figure in youth gun-violence activism, and is now centering a progressive platform: Medicare for All, abolishing ICE...

Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set Could Violate Federal Law A site affiliated with Lee Greenwood sells merchandise with the seal—such as a $20 beer pong set with “Presidential themed balls”—and pays licensing fees to a Trump LLC.

Article is free, just a metered paywall. Much appreciated if you'd read and share!

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Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Seal That Could Violate Federal Law The Virginia property marks the sixth Trump golf course to display the presidential seal since 2021—despite federal law prohibiting its use in ways that suggest government endorsement.

While Trump’s golf courses have displayed the presidential seal, the beer pong set and record player appear to be the first time the seal has appeared on merchandise connected to Trump.

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§713. Use of likenesses of the great seal of the United States, the seals of the President and Vice President, the seal of the United States Senate, the seal of the United States House of Representatives, and the seal of the United States Congress (a) Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (b) Whoever, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by the President and published in the Federal Register, knowingly manufactures, reproduces, sells, or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured or sold, any likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof, except for manufacture or sale of the article for the official use of the Government of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (c) Whoever, except as directed by the United States Senate, or the Secretary of the Senate on its behalf, knowingly uses, manufactures, reproduces, sells or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured or sold, any likeness of the seal of the United States Senate, or any substantial part thereof, except for manu…

Federal law prohibits anyone—unless authorized under regulations prescribed by the president and published in the Federal Register—from manufacturing or selling likenesses of the presidential seal or “any substantial part thereof” in a way that could suggest a sponsorship.

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Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set Could Violate Federal Law A site affiliated with Lee Greenwood sells merchandise with the seal—such as a $20 beer pong set with “Presidential themed balls”—and pays licensing fees to a Trump LLC.

New: A site licensing Trump's name is selling merch with the presidential seal — including a $20 beer-pong set with “Presidential themed balls.”

Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.

me, for @forbes.com

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a close up of donald trump 's face wearing a suit and tie Alt: a close up of donald trump 's face wearing a suit and tie

GodBlessTheUSABible dot com pays licensing fees to CIC Ventures LLC to use Trump's name, likeness and image, according to its FAQ.

Trump is the sole owner of CIC Ventures LLC through the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, per his latest financial disclosure

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And to be clear, the six reported injuries were nosebleeds, which is what happens when you have barotrauma.

I’ve been asking since June, if a passenger is handcuffed and the handcuffs are attached to a chain around their waists, can they even reach up to grab their masks? Seems like no.

Coons on Epstein files: "My hunch is that AG Bondi, having just been ordered on social media by the president to open an investigation into a series of high-profile Dems, will promptly say, 'No, there's an ongoing investigation, we can't disclose any of this,' and the president will back that up."

Trump Tells Voters: Don’t Believe Your Lying Wallets From elections to the economy, he keeps denying reality.

"Trump’s denial of the election results in 2020 wasn’t a one-off. It was a forewarning of what we’re seeing now: his refusal to acknowledge the affordability crisis."

Americans reelected a plainly delusional president — and now they're surprised when he denies they're struggling economically.