Christina Joy

November 4, 2025 (Tuesday) So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.

November 4, 2025

ALL of this, plus:
I shouldn't be dreading tomorrow, but I am.
Because the retaliation is likely to be ridiculously painful.

Relieved that voters resoundingly rejected this fascist bullshit.

Angry that we still have at least another year of it, probably another three, and that we're by no means in the clear.

Livid that it all could have been avoided if we had simply not reelected the asshole who tried a coup.

He’s gonna stroke out. Or tear down the west wing.

This is an Obama 2004 DNC Convention speech-level seismic event of a speech by Zohran Mamdani.

It's too bad he can't run for President, but this speech will be every bit as much of political earthquake that will be remembered.

A billion times yes to this.

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

A screenshot of the White House instagram with the Knicks logo except it says Trump is your president

The White House just posted this they are not mad they swear they are so not mad

Trump Has No Legal Grounds for His Boat-Bombing Campaign The Trump administration’s use of a “war” framing to target boats it claims are trafficking drugs is complicating its legal strategy in three ways.

“United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Volker Turk, declared that the US military has violated international law by killing at least 61 civilians thus far on 14 different boats in international waters in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.”

Trump has blown up another small boat in international waters in the Eastern Pacific.

Confirmed by TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense/War/whatevs Pete Hegseth.

Democrat Corey O’Connor has been elected mayor of Pittsburgh - AP.

Democrats have flipped two statewide offices in Georgia and JD Vance’s half-brother got smashed to pieces in the Cincinnati mayoral race. Incumbent Aftab Pureval re elected.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance.

Follow AP for live updates.

Moscow Just Gave Venezuela Air Defenses, Not Ruling Out Strike Missiles: Russian Official Pantsir-S1 and Buk-M2E systems were recently delivered to Caracas by Il-76 transport aircraft, a Russian lawmaker claims.

Russia could still give Venezuela strike missiles.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

BIG news for Texas. State troopers in Texas will now have the authority to make immigration arrests, same as ICE and Border Patrol.

Whether this means all state troopers, or only a subset of officers, will get trained and authorized to carry out this duty remains to be seen.

Shelter in place issued in Louisville following reports of plane crash Officials and eyewitnesses reported a large cloud of dark, heavy smoke in the vicinity of Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville Tuesday evening.

NEW: Shelter in place issued in Louisville following reports of UPS plane crash

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State: "We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

Oh shit. Something very bad in direction of Louisville airport.

Gods, he needs to GO.

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.

New: Citing need for cost-cutting, NASA is quietly closing buildings at Goddard, giving employees days to pack up highly specialized equipment or risk it getting thrown away, raising alarm. "The things they’re doing don’t actually seem to save money,” one employee said. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...

Worth remembering…

In Louisville, almost every kid being tried in adult court is Black Local experts and advocates say the disparity is alarming, but not surprising.

In Louisville, almost every kid being tried in adult court is Black. From KyCIR:

He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

Russian lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlev has announced that Russia is currently supplying weapons to Venezuela.

"I could smell the mustard and onions..." a thread:

This is why we so desperately need to take kids (and adults!) to museums and galleries and art shows so they can see the work in the artwork. Seeing Van Gogh’s brush strokes and Charles Schulz’s use of correction fluid up close made me understand and appreciate all art even more.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Paterson NJ is ~65% Hispanic,
~20% Black, ~10% white.

I’m sure that’s not at all a coincidence.

Democracy literally dies in bomb threats.