Michael Derby

Mayor-elect Mamdani references the "Ruthkanda forever" tweet

Musk’s political legacy and it took less than a year’s work.

A story in 3 acts:

musk agreeing with an explicitly eugenicist post

Sam Altman and Jony Ive Say You'll Want to 'Lick' and 'Bite' Their New Hardware Prototype Just what everyone is looking for.

Oozing with Segway launch vibes.

The truly wild thing is this isn’t even true, a shit-ton of their oil reserves on paper are heavy tar sands and every US oil company will take one look at that at $80/bbl and walk away because it isn’t close to economically viable.

The ‘Godmother’ of Weed vs. Her Uncle, the DEA Agent Cannabis officials courted a rising pot star to join New York’s legal market. Then a stunning police raid upended everything and shattered her family.

Cannabis officials courted a rising pot star to join New York’s legal market. Then a stunning police raid upended everything and shattered a family.

Remember Andrew Wakefield?
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.

Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.

Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.

The orders for the killing spree at sea are so legal that the administration refuses to disclose the written legal justification...

We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)

Monday links: Does the Fed have "Broken Leadership?" Thoughts on arguments that no one should take seriously from Kevin Warsh, the debates about bank supervision, the abuse of US sanctions, and a preliminary report on the Philadelphia Marathon

Historian @petercontibrown.bsky.social on Warsh as Fed chair after recent op-ed praising Trump, pushing for rate cuts: "Warsh’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal is hard to read. I mean that quite literally. I really don’t quite know what his point is."

Fresh off defeat for NYC mayor, Cuomo eyeing another shot at elected office?

In cities targeted by ICE, empty desks and school disruptions follow One in five students in Charlotte missed school after a recent ICE crackdown began. It’s the latest city where schools felt the impact of Trump’s deportation effort.

More than 20 percent of students stayed home from school in Charlotte as President Trump’s immigration crackdown hit the city.

One wore a tag that read “I’m a U.S. citizen”; another carried an American passport to elementary school.

sen. kelly fires back

The former astronaut fires back.

Judge Dismisses Comey and James Indictments, Says Lindsey Halligan Had ‘No Lawful Authority’ to Bring Them The judge ruled that Halligan has no prosecutorial authority; therefore, the grand jury presentations were never valid.

Donald Trump's revenge indictments are gone.

A judge also says Lindsey Halligan isn't really the U.S. attorney of EDVA.

And as if that's not enough, the judge says *local judges* will choose her replacement.

A stunning rebuke of Trump's vengeance tour.

@notus.com:

www.notus.org/courts/linds...

Doing some reading up on this - and you know who the Pentagon didn't go after? Jan. 6 offenders who were retired military. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

You gotta figure there's a booming market for that insurance people in government get to deal with litigation right now.

I suspect that the UK and Japan have the same sort of political pathologies: an electorate that basically hates migration at the same time the political-economic system requires labour as a means of staying competitive.

Four in 10 Republicans say Trump is sugarcoating prices and the one cost killing them Two new polls show that most in US say Trump makes concern over prices and the cost of living sound rosier than it is and they list housing, health care, groceries and utilities as top concerns

One sign Trump is in deep trouble? Even Republicans don't believe his spin on prices. A CBS poll showed
-4 in 10 Republicans say Trump making affordability sound better than it actually is
-25% of Republicans disapprove of how he's handling inflation.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A disabled child’s mom reported him missing. He was in federal custody for 48 days. When Emmanuel Gonzalez walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October, Houston Police called ICE instead of reuniting them.

A disabled child’s mom reported him missing. He was in federal custody for 48 days. 19thnews.org/2025/11/disa... via @19thnews.org

After Iraq, I wondered if there was *anything* a conservative administration could do to really lose the popular mantle of "pro-military." It appears Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are engaged in a long-term experiment to find a definitive answer

I got to experience the original movies as they all came out and I still think the Ewok thing was just a ridiculous thing to put in those movies.

Is it an illegal order if you order an investigation into someone who says that the military should not obey illegal orders?

Mark Kelly said that troops should refuse to follow unlawful orders, which is the universally acknowledged legal standard. He's not disparaging the commander in chief or making remarks hostile to good order and discipline. Refusing illegal orders IS good order and discipline by definition.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.

Trump's going after astronauts now.

they literally hung obama in effigy and stormed the capitol when biden got elected

Congress is a co-equal branch of government and its members can do something about this treatment if they'd like beyond quitting.

Texas Business Outlook Surveys - Special Questions The Dallas Fed posed a series of questions on margins, demand, employment and productivity to executives in the manufacturing, service and retail sectors.

Dallas Fed survey labor market comment: "Current employees are being evaluated for productivity, and decisions will be made on retaining them or replacing them with individuals who will be tasked with increased productivity. Current productivity is not cutting it in this market."