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Tim Cook, of Apple, is at this dinner.

The likes of Musk and Schwarzman—sure, that's who they are.

But Cook has been groveling more than strictly necessary.

Or more like medicare for all!

Time is a flat circle and Trump is coming around to the structural problems with America’s private insurance-based system.

Trumpcare = Public Option?

The revolving door between politics and profit has corroded trust in government, which is why people believe the system is rigged – because too often, it is.

Here is my plan to tackle corruption and self-dealing in Washington D.C. —>
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#NJ11 #NewJersey

Other discharge petitions might be more salacious, but it is HUGE news tonight that two Republicans just got the Protect America’s Workforce Act discharge petition to 218 to restore federal workers’ union rights.

Let’s get the job done. ✊

I've known Cammie for almost two decades now. She's running for Congress in #NJ11 to succeed Gov.-elect Sherrill. Hate congressional stock trading? She does, too.

Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"

I had the privilege to work with @cammiecroft.bsky.social on Obama’s 2008 campaign & White House. She’s the real deal, with her heart in the right place and a track record of getting shit done.

Check out her campaign and get involved!

No, I will not be voting for a bill that significantly raises people's healthcare premiums.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Excited Mamdani won!

I'm less excited about how much the Democratic Party showed its ass waiting to support the guy over some terrible alternatives until the last minute.

Pres Obama: Remember when Ted Kennedy endorsed you just before SUPER TUESDAY in 2008? Little more of that energy please.

The lawyers and intelligence professionals didn't even show up to the House Armed Services Committee briefing today on the U.S strikes on Venezuela. I didn't hear anything to prove otherwise – these strikes are illegal. They are murder. And they should stop immediately.

I usually feel a sense of hope and new beginnings this time of year, because school starts this week. But the national guard in DC is newly armed, and I mostly feel a sense of foreboding.

Being interviewed by Terry Gross ruined all other interviewers for me.

"Well prepared" doesn't even begin to cover it, and she is just so generous in the conversation.

It's like playing tennis with Serena Williams but she only wants to keep the volley going as long as possible.

Don’t think we need “describe” here. It just kind of…is

Also, let’s remember how those quarters came to be vacant.

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

Democratic electeds distancing themselves from Zohran but totally fine with the current mayor bought & paid for by Turkey & the former governor who resigned in disgrace after sexually harassing women & killing seniors during COVID?

OK. Sure. The young guy is the problem with the party. Come ON.

We are being lied to

The vote on Vermont’s biggest education bill was called before anyone could speak. The speed by which a voice vote was called caught many legislators off guard. No debate. No roll call. Here is my open letter to leadership explaining why that moment demands accountability.

The Vermont House just opened its session one hour late. The morning session was very brief. H.454 (the education reform bill) won't be taken up until late afternoon. Which means they don't have the votes, at least not yet.

The biggest winners of the Republican-backed spending bill are the wealthiest Americans, a new analysis from the Congressional Budget office shows, while the biggest losers are the poorest.

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I am so sick and tired of roomfuls of men legislating over women’s rights. Genuinely sick and tired of it.

Watching all the anti-anti’s freak out about the tariffs is a little funny, considering Trump absolutely said he was going to do this. I mean, the economy and the post-WW2 order might collapse, but at least you guys are sticking it to trans people, amirite?

NOTE: Tonight, John Mulaney has the chance to do something important. Neal Katyal is a partner at Milbank, which just capitulated to Trump.

Someone who knows Mulaney, please tell him about this and ask him to talk with Neal about it. I have laid it out here: www.lawdork.com/p/law-firms-...

Our freedoms are guaranteed to us by the Constitution and laws. The courts enforce those when lawyers hold the government accountable to those laws.

Attacking lawyers like @marcelias.bsky.social and every other lawyer who does this is a threat to all of our freedoms.

We must stand together.

Live: Vermont Director of Medicaid Policy is discussing the impacts of federal changes on Medicaid. Hundreds of millions of dollars likely to be removed from Vermont's Medicaid system. Brutal, and devastating. www.youtube.com/channel/UCHt...