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If a team you love is playing a close game in the playoffs baseball becomes the worst sport in the world. My deep regrets to Jays and Dodger die hards.

peak baseball is indistinguishable from the feeling of hitting your head against a cement wall

You mean we gotta spend an extra hour in the middle of all this

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.

Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

MONEY QUOTE
"Trump cannot legally be president again. Remember that when bad people with evil intentions try to scare you into thinking he can. Trump is not magic. He’s an old man wearing the costume of a president hoping to trick you into giving him what he wants."

A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail. The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.

A 61-year-old Tennessee man posted a liberal meme on Facebook after Charlie Kirk's death. A conservative sheriff had him arrested. Bail was set at $2 million.

He spent nearly 40 days in jail before charges were dropped. Now he's planning to sue. Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

Folks, please note this. The top military official overseeing Trump's boat bombings recently resigned with no explanation, and now Republicans in Congress are refusing to press for his testimony even in a classified setting.

Lots of new behind-the-scenes reporting in this piece:

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today:
*An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park
*Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston
*Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston
*An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

WTAF. See also www.pennlive.com/news/2025/11...

Nancy Mace berated airport police and TSA agents, incident report says The report claims Mace called officers “incompetent” and accused them of mistreating her.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is running for governor of her state, berated the police and TSA officials at Charleston International Airport, according to a report.

“She repeatedly stated [officials] were ‘F------ Incompetent,’” the report said.

Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report.

NEW: Police say Nancy Mace fully melted down at the airport Thurday, calling cops "fucking incompetent," etc. A TSA supervisor said they'd be reporting her to their superiors. @jakelahut.writes.news has the scoop! This is outside our paywall as it's based on public records:

ABANDONED THE TODDLER IN THE BACKSEAT

Arrest these motherfuckers for child endangerment

will kim is still in ICE detention

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Elie Mystal on why the GOP needs the illusion of a Trump third term

Why Has Trump Been Flirting With a Third Term? Trump cannot be president again. But he and his loyal followers have every reason for wanting to make people think he can.

"Can Donald Trump run for a 3rd term?"
No.
"What if he..."
Still no.
"How about..."
STFU, No.
"Then why are we talking about it!?"
Because evil MAGA apparatchiks need you to fear that he will.

I explain in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

*VANCE: WE'RE ALL TRYING TO FIND THE GUY WHO DID THIS

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo

“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”

“Alright, we just got to verify that”

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

This is all going to end very badly. He is putting a bunch of incompetent clowns in charge of our most sensitive and critical military functions.

SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."

www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

Jamie Raskin demands answers from Trump on East Wing demolition in letter U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent a letter to Trump Thursday questioning the legality of the demolition of the White House's East Wing. Raskin said the teardown — to make room for a ballroom — violates ...

Exclusive from me: @raskin.house.gov has issued a letter signed by more than 60 Congress members demanding Trump provide answers on the legality of the ballroom construction. The demolition is being led by a Silver Spring company: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

Every member of Congress should be asked what decision they’ve made about their own pay starting on November 1.