Whit!

Trump is welcoming MBS, the Saudi crown prince, to the White House. This is the dictator who had a U.S. columnist murdered for criticizing the Saudi royal family.

Sadly, we have a president who prefers the Saudi model — an autocracy run by a trillionaire family — to democracy.

What the Trump Administration’s Videos From a Chicago Immigration Raid Don’t Show Detained and deported Venezuelans tell their stories of what happened when immigration agents raided their apartment building. 

NEW: The Trump administration’s slickly produced videos of an immigration raid at a Chicago apartment building in September showed federal agents rappelling from a helicopter and banging down doors.

These are the stories of the people who were inside.

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.

If your church is turning away people who show up to your doors in good faith, you don't have a church. You have a very expensive book club with scarcely any wine.

Enough with the division, let's try making Seattle a better place with a big tent, and bring the 49.99% of voters who went for Harrell along with us without ripping down their guy at every turn.

Seattle elected the progressive, pro-housing, pro-transit candidate, yay! Could we maybe just leave it at that? So many progressives come into this hopeful mayor-elect Wilson dawn still swinging at the previous guy, who, let's be honest, most urbanists in other cities wold give their eye teeth for.

“the truth about a city’s aspirations isn’t found in its vision. It’s found in its budget.” — Brent Toderian

Many city halls are deep in budget-time. Some are pushing austerity ideologies, and are ignoring the difference between costs and cost-savers/value creators. Citizens, PAY ATTENTION, and never forget that the TRUTH about a city’s REAL aspirations isn’t found in its visions. It’s found in its budget.

Dems: Stop. Governing. Via. Polls.

It also includes “any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election…”

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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

@desmog.com reviewed US tax records which show Bill Gates’ charity has donated more than $3.5 million to a think tank run by Danish academic and climate crisis denier Bjørn Lomborg www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

I'll wager that Spike Lee changed more lives than any other filmmaker.

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

ICE recruitment ads appearing on Spotify, HBO Max and other streaming services DHS says the ad blitz has led to more than 175,000 applications and 18,000 tentative job offers

Here’s a list of companies to file complaints with and boycott for running ICE advertisements.

I have never seen such a perfect image

There's a big difference between annoyances (playing tinny music in public) vs endangering others (speeding). It's the latter that matters, and you're right, those things are increasing.

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

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I have such mixed feelings about this

20251018_No Kings Day 2 Protests Unofficial Attendance Crowdsourcing

Based on early numbers, there are easily more people participating in the second No Kings Day than in the first. Trump's strategy of constantly talking about this on TV and GOP govs sending in the national guard obviously energized the left. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers

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True story: my car got impounded for not being moved for a couple weeks. Car was in front of my old place and needed a new battery - I was traveling and unpacking the new place, no time to fix. Partner's ex reported my car to the city just to be petty.

I notice them daily when walking dogs. I've seen far more expired tabs in QA than I did in the CD.

Hot take: renewing tabs is part of the cost of driving a car, just like tipping is part of the cost of eating out. You must budget for both

If you haven't heard yet, stopice.org is a fake website made BY ice themselves and it would be a shame if they received thousands of submissions under Stephen Miller's name

The man has exhibited visible disgust for anyone with a disability for years. They’re eugenicists.

Even if this gets overturned by the courts what are parents supposed to do in the meantime if they live in a red state?

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Thanks to Republicans, some Americans will pay $22,000/year to keep their health insurance.

Thanks to Republicans in Congress, some Americans will have to pay more than $22,000 every year to keep their health insurance coverage.

$22,000.

That could be a matter of keeping health care coverage or just giving up—and for some people, life and death.

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”