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We live in a unserious circus.

He didn’t get elected again.

He lost to Biden.

Desperate to stay out of prison for his crimes, he courted the oligarchs and offered them America on a platter if they’d get him back in power.

Which is what he’s doing now.

GoHealth cofounder sells Lincoln Park home for $4.5M Brandon Cruz and his wife also paid $5.7 million in 2023 to buy the late Chicago businessman Andrew McKenna’s mansion in unincorporated Winnetka.

Brandon Cruz, the cofounder of Chicago-based GoHealth, and his wife Catherine on Oct. 9 sold their seven-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot house in Lincoln Park for $4.5 million.

No one has ever had the guts to say no to little Donnie

Just a reminder: millions of people who live in “red” states didn’t vote for any of this shit.

The best part about the school voucher scam? Private religious schools use vouchers to recruit athletes.

They are defunding public schools to make their football teams better…

Avian flu detected in house mice in Washington state www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

Chicago's children are getting caught in the chaos of immigration crackdowns In Chicago, children and families have been traumatized by an immigration enforcement action involving tear gas.

"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'"

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A Little Party Never Killed Nobody — But Starvation Sure as Fuck Has Trump’s Halloween gala at Mar-a-Lago was The Great Gatsby rewritten by a moron.

A Little Party Never Killed Nobody, But Starvation Sure as Fuck Has
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The image shows a tweet from Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) that reads: “The Trump administration firing nearly all of the Special Education workers at the Department of Education sends a clear message: They don’t believe that children with disabilities deserve an equal education. The cruelty is staggering.”

Many red-state families with special-needs kids will be affected, too, when funding for their children’s programs gets cut off.

Writing “Happy Monday!” in an email as a cry for help

Turns out saying “oh that was my childhood dogs name” when some introduces themselves isn’t the ice breaker I though it would be

One of many GOP Senators covering up the #Epstein child sex ring to protect the rapist in chief.

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New Jersey! Election Day is tomorrow, November 4th. Make a plan to drop off your vote-by-mail ballot or cast your vote in-person at your polling place.

Trump raised $8 million for Hurricane Helene survivors. Where did it all go? • NC Newsline Trump raised $8 million for Hurricane Helene survivors. The money went to faith-based organizations who do not have to say how they spent it.

Trump raised $8 million for Hurricane Helene survivors. Where did it all go? ncnewsline.com/2025/11/03/t... Story via @grist.org

"The approval process for the resort, which is a collaboration between Hung Yen Hospitality, a subsidiary of Kinh Bac City Development, and The Trump Org, took place as Vietnam’s government sought to stave off a threatened 46% tariff on exports to the US — levies that were later reduced to 20%"

Good. Keep hammering the oligarchs and their Gatsby party. New polling out today shows 72% say the economy is in bad shape, and 61% blame Trump.

I heartily encourage ALL of my fellow Californians who may see this to go out tomorrow and vote yes on prop 50, let's fuck up the GOP's hopes and dreams!

U.S. made $19 trillion off tariffs... Use an EO and make ALL AMERICAN FOOD FREE in November and December!!! Ya Know The Jesus Months!!!

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priceless / he thinks we are so dumb

President @barackobama.bsky.social knows how high the stakes are this Tuesday — so make sure you have a plan to vote!

We can win this together. abigailspanberger.com/vote

In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…

Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:

This is brilliant

"It turns my stomach to see how we pollute the water—draw the drapes, please." John Fischetti, March 1969. The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire several months later. It had done so many times before. But, in 1969, the reaction to the river fire helped launch the modern environmental movement.

This sums it up nicely in a nutshell.

The Washington Post Has Become Right Wing Even Faster Than I Thought It’s not going to happen. It’s happening: The mainstream media is becoming right wing. What are wealthy liberals going to do about it?

New Column: Chew on this. The nation's capital, one of the most Democratic cities in America, no longer has a liberal newspaper. The techbro takeover of the mainstream media is a crisis rich liberals must wake up and address. newrepublic.com/article/2025... via @newrepublic.com