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Shoud we be worried that Mark Zuckerberg built a multimillion dollar bunker in Hawaii. That Tr*mp is fortifying the White House bunker. And that several Tr*mp regime members moved onto military bases?

What a genius thing to say to a city that speaks 800 languages. (Literally.)

A girl holding a sign reading SET MY DAD FREE

I can't think of anything to say

Oh hell yes

Delicious

... even the term "drug cartel" itself is a fiction used to make criminal gangs that engage in drug trafficking seem bigger, more foreign, and more state-like than they really are.

Hombre lobo con intolerancia al gluten.

Frankenstein con dismorfia.

Terrorista disléxico.

Vampiro claustrofóbico.

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

One way to think about the tariffs is as a means for Trump (and his family) to establish leverage over other countries, which he can use to enrich himself and establish a separate base of power from Congress.

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Governor Newsom advances government effectiveness and efficiency with new executive order, launches task force with tech industry leaders | Governor of California

His outrage would be more credible if he extended it to the California gazillionaires most openly complicit and enthusiastic in this coup. Yet he goes after vulnerable universities instead of his old funder, Peter Thiel. He puts Anduril and Coinbase on his state “efficiency” panel.

I’m glad Gavin Newsom wants to be a liberal hero instead of a right-wing podcaster.

But why does he have so little to say about the tech oligarchs fueling and funding the fascist takeover? He cozies up to them, as do his closest advisors.

California incubated crypto corruption and tech fascism.

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New Mexico which is one of the poorest states steps up to feed those dependent on SNAP.

www.governor.state.nm.us/2025/10/29/g...

Trump’s campaign pitch to Americans used to include “what do you have to lose” and the answer is that no one has ever had more to lose and few have ever been so reckless with what they have

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

Here is Kat Abughazaleh's statement —>

But does anyone really believe that the Gulf states developed in their autocratic, repressive and distributive forms in isolation from first British patronage and then American security guarantees? The Arab world is virtually unique in its absence of consolidated democracies. But why assume this is because of something intrinsic to Arab culture rather than because the United States invests considerable resources in ensuring that friendly autocratic regimes will survive in order to enforce unpopular pro-American policies?

oh buddy.

oh pal.

Extremely creeptacular

This is a piece of the Mamdani campaign that I think is really underdiscussed—that in a moment of terror and despair, his premise is that standing up against fascism can be joyous.

I still can't believe that Eric Adams was Mayor.

Another bell-ringer by the tireless @willbunch.bsky.social. God, I love columnists who know what they believe and express it with clarity and without fear.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

It wasn’t so much what Zohran Mamdani said. It was how he said it. “We’re going to stand up for Haiti, because you taught the world about freedom!” the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York exclaimed to an elated crowd at a Haitian music festival in June, fresh off his upset victory in the primary. Mr. Mamdani pronounced the island nation’s name “AH-ee-tee” — near-perfect Creole elocution. “When I heard him say that, I smiled,” recalled Brian Purnell, one of Mr. Mamdani’s former professors at Bowdoin College. He also noted that Mr. Mamdani’s reference to freedom was a nod to Haiti’s status as the first republic founded by former slaves. “That’s straight out of the lessons from the Haitian Revolution that we teach in Africana studies,” said Dr. Purnell, who is now the chair of the Africana studies department at Mr. Mamdani’s alma mater. “I will claim that,” he added with a laugh.

Finally someone bold enough to ask, is new york ready for a mayor who opposes slavery? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

one of the most deeply infuriating aspects of american politics is close to half of americans would love if 20% of the country starved to death

I lived it. Yeah it was crazy as fuck and so were the 70s but nothing comparable to the president having his own fully equipped masked armies invading the cities and all the major media controlled by network-state billionaires. This is waaay crazier.

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