LemonBirch ❌👑

Memorize it:
2 tbl butter
2 tbl flour
1 cup milk
1 1/2 cups shredded cheese
+ cooked noodles

You will always have yummy mac & cheese in about 20 minutes 🥰

Mamdani's youthquake in New York City | Weekly roundup for November 9, 2025 The Mayor-elect drove historic turnout and a historically young electorate. Plus: Democrats made inroads with Trump supporters Tuesday; The role of cable news in Trump's 2024 win; + more!

scheduled the weekly roundup for tomorrow morning! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/mamdanis-y...

I am proud that my law firm is representing this amazing organization in this critical fight for the right to vote.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

More broadly, officials across ICE say Noem and Lewandowski have directed them to use a $170 billion infusion of cash from Congress to launch splashy ideas that have proven ineffective or impractical. Among the examples some ICE officials have cited: A few weeks ago, the pair ordered ICE officials to buy 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights— and for their own travel, according to people familiar with the matter. Some officials warned the pair that the effort would be prohibitively expensive compared with hiring more flight contractors, the people said.

Once the officials looked into the proposal, they learned that Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn't own the planes. The planes also don't have engines, which would need to be purchased separately. The project has since been put on pause, though DHS recently purchased two Gulfstream jets for $200 million, according to Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, who were notified by the department. A spokesperson for Spirit didn't respond to a request for comment.

The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are.

I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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.

With Trump’s massive tax cuts for the wealthy currently exploding the deficit, and now this, Trump and his oligarch cronies want to make us debt slaves from birth to death while truly owning nothing, while they buy bigger yachts and more mansions.

They weren't terrorists. They weren't cartel members. They had no fentanyl. And they weren't coming here.

They were transporting cocaine. To Trinidad.

Most importantly, they were human beings.

And they were murdered.

By the government of the United States of America.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

$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.

Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.

A The Atlantic The Coming Swell of Scientists-Turned-Politicians Instead of trying to depoliticize science, they're running for office. By Katherine J. Wu "Politics came for us," Andrews said. "You can't fight bad politics by staying apolitical." Andrews is running to unseat Lindsey Graham in the U.S. Senate, but she said she has found success in casting Kennedy -arguably the country's most polarizing health secretary to date-as an opponent, too: "The more I speak out against the absurdity of RFK Jr. and his recent actions, the more traction I am getting." DR. ANNIE ANDREWS

Politics came for healthcare and the only way to fight back is by getting political.

So proud to be one of many doctors running for office this cycle and so grateful for @314action.bsky.social and their support. 🇺🇸

Today I protested ICE fascists at the Broadview, IL facility, as I have for several months. I've shared before every time the escalation of violence has been by the State against peaceful protestors.

That happened again today.

1/4

November 8, 2025 A picture for tonight after a very long week.

November 8, 2025

Infighting at DHS Is Complicating Trump’s Deportation Push White House pressure to speed up the pace of deportations has led to internal discord in the Department of Homeland Security over tactics, people familiar with the matter said.

"CBP have been forced to later release many people they have taken in, finding out they are US citizens or have legal protection from deportation. Noem said recently no citizens had been arrested, but at least one citizen has sued the admin for arresting him twice..."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Venezuelans begin fleeing U.S. as protections end and threat of war looms TPS expired for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans on Friday. Many are shuttering business, selling homes and boarding planes, or scrambling to find a way to stay.

“These are people who did everything by the book, paid taxes, had no criminal records, opened businesses and contributed to their communities...now they have become collateral damage in this cruel, unjust and inhumane political game.”

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Here's a clip from my interview with Paul Krugman on what just happened in the 2025 elections, plus many of the other things I've been writing about US politics recently. Online tomorrow morning www.gelliottmorris.com/p/podcast-wi...

As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years

🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

Glass flute - Wikipedia

Remember the last innocent, joyful thing that happened on Twitter before Twitter became irredeemable? To me, it was the time the Library of Congress hooked Lizzo up with James Madison's crystal flute.

I co-wrote this article about the instrument and fought a battle about the definition of twerking.

Watch to the end

American Conversations: Sarah Botstein and Ken Burns YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

@hcrichardson.bsky.social
with
@kenlburns.bsky.social
and Sarah Botstein

Friday Nov. 7, 2025
American Conversation
American Revolution documentary to air next weekend on @pbs.org

www.youtube.com/live/MFy1etR...

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.

12 days of work in 107 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.