Dana Gallagher

Why Dems Are Pouring Money Into the Tennessee 7th Party’s high hopes in special election leave Republicans rattled.

Democrats haven't felt this confident in a long time. And Republicans are rattled.

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Signs across Chicago mark locations of ICE arrests Signs resembling temporary no parking notices serve as reminders for the thousands of people arrested by federal immigration authorities under "Operation Midway Blitz" and the pain left behind for lov...

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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"

Trump is now amplifying posts calling Members of Congress “traitors,” “communists,” and “domestic terrorists.” His amplification of “get all those traitorous sons of bitches” is an escalation that increases the real-world risk to the people he is targeting. This is how political violence is primed.

Trump shared a QAnon slogan—“the military is the only way”—and imagery calling for “military tribunals.” Combined with calling for the execution of Members of Congress, this is an extraordinary authoritarian escalation and a grave threat to constitutional rule.

The Secretary of Snake Oil.

Here's some very practical thinking about the whole whistle thing -- very well done:

Your Thanksgiving gravy tastes better when you use union mushrooms. Let's give a huge thanks to workers like "Adan" who harvest mushrooms for Monterey Mushrooms under a UFW contract. On an average day, he picks 240-280 of the blue baskets you see in this vid. #WeFeedYou

This is the way!

Increasingly, the polluted heart of the climate crisis appears to be Donald Trump.

Trump feuding with Marjorie Taylor Greene but being in love with Zohran Mamdani was not on my November 2025 bingo card

Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

Unclear where this war profiteering plan came from or why it emerged right now, but clear that it is in every way disastrous

Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back | Robert Reich The Guardian has no billionaire or corporate owner: funded by readers, our fierce independence is guaranteed

Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy

In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.

Democrats scored big in school board races across Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio — flipping dozens of seats.

The party's candidates pushed issues regarding test scores and bus safety over debates about which bathrooms transgender students use and banning books from school libraries.

Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

Trump’s Border Chief Framed Protesters for Violence. Then the Bodycam Footage Came Out. The Trump administration faced back-to-back rebukes in a pair of cases that challenged the president’s efforts to intimidate or terrorize deep-blue cities.

"It’s too easy to say, Nothing matters, LOL, Supreme Court. But it matters a lot to have a judge say that the DHS officers themselves incited violence. They created violence and then they answered it with their own violence. And I think that is the moral of the story." @dahlialithwick.bsky.social

A million times spot on.

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.

They had misidentified the intern.

Iraq/Afghanistan veteran here—My best friends are still on active duty, and we’ve been having conversations about this for months now. They know the right thing to do, but there are always those willing to say “yes sir” no matter what. I pray the number that say “no” is greater.

Together, let’s flip Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. The special election is coming up fast voting day is December 2.

Jamal Khashoggi's widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi: "Try as much as you can to save democracy and freedom of the press and speech in America. Do not be a copy of a Middle East dictatorship. We look to you as a role model of Western civilization—please maintain it."

Bless These Veterans For Making Trump Freak Out Watch the video Donald doesn't want you to see.

Thou shalt not threaten veterans with execution.
#QuietPiggy

Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.

They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.

Don't fall for it.

Today we woke up to our public health allies telling the public that they can't trust CDC anymore More than a little demoralizing Because it's complicated The actual scientists at CDC - the ones you should trust - are not in control of public-facing webpages The conspiracy theorists are running the messaging And yet, most of us scientists... are still doing good science It's just not making it out We're still supporting local health departments We're still running our disease surveillance systems We're still on call for emergencies 24/7 Despite intense staffing shortages from multiple waves of RIFs And chronically being under-resourced Those of us left are still working hard to keep everything going We are proud of our mission And we persist, goddammit Yet We can also say... read the CDC webpages with skepticism Don't treat them as the gold standard. Corroborate the information with other trusted, independent sources. Many are still fine, but even we don't know when the political appointees are going to change their content And this is a painful thing for us to say So we just ask that, if you read or say "Don't trust the CDC!" You remember that we're here still trying to serve the nation, throw sand in the gears, and weather the storm

Hard day today
Here's what we think about trusting CDC

If a swastika or a noose isn't a symbol of hate, what on earth is?

buzz lightyear from the movie toy story says there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere ALT: buzz lightyear from the movie toy story says there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere

Every CDC-er knows EVERY public post gets layers of review — annoying but protects scientific rigor.

Until now.

DOGE’s eager admin lapdogs — like the 20-something who literally lives at Roybal — are rewriting CDC sites w/ dangerous nonsense.

No real CDCers approved it. But the public can’t tell.🫠