Charlotte Jameson

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

The fuck does this even mean

Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.

Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In New Jersey, a single mother struggled to figure out how to feed her two young sons with $50. In Oklahoma, a 61-year-old woman questioned whether driving to a food pantry was worth the gas money. And in Colorado, a woman grabbed food from a Walmart dumpster.

Richest nation in human history

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

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

who would have guessed that the dumbass who won the popular vote by a sliver because median voters just thought of him as President Low Prices Who Will Make Low Prices Comes Back in January would be eating shit like this, after not solving any problems and kidnapping many defenseless people for fun

even the FBI under Patel can't keep a lid on this

"billionaires using media to manipulate public opinion in democracies is the problem of our time"

This is going to get spun as a "thermostatic shift" chart, but it should be properly interpreted as a "information environment is broken" chart.

In 2024, voters didn't know what Trump would do, and so they shifted towards him based on vibes. Now they are finding out, and they hate it.

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Again, I can't stress this enough: Democratic elected officials are not constantly talking about climate change and trans rights.

They are constantly talking about "kitchen table issues."

Centrist pundits: Do a single fucking content analysis of their campaign speeches and materials, I beg you!

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.*

They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets.

Duh.

The "Deciding To Win" centrists dismiss base mobilization, but the actual 2024 data shows: the more blue a place was in 2020, the lower its turnout was in 2024.

Swing voters weren't nearly as important as Dem-leaning irregular voters not voting at all. The base wasn't mobilized, so we lost.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

How Kyrsten Sinema Bullied an Arizona City to Approve Her Client’s AI Data Center Just months after leaving the Senate, Democrats’ former corporate villain is raking in money while lobbying for the AI industry and proudly working "hand in glove with the Trump administration."

Kyrsten Sinema's brief post-Senate career highlights: launching a business lobbying group, forming an advocacy org for AI firms, and bullying an Arizona city to approve her client's AI data center.

The story I was born to write is now up at @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/kyrsten-si...

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

If only Murkowski was a member of an organization that could do something about Congress being "adrift," that would be amazing.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

Around the state I’m hearing No Kings Day rallies today are as well or better-attended than in June.

I was in Mt. Pleasant around 12:30 and there were between (an estimated) 1,500 and 2,000 protestors lining the streets on one of the main thoroughfares into town.

Good morning.
I'm in love with Vic Mensa lol

Boys* will be boys**!

* 40 year old men
** outright Nazis

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

Sam Douglass, Vermont state senator

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

The decline in the middle class is driven entirely by more people being rich.

In 1970s–early 1980s, US fed government invested massively in transit, including in research & development ⏬, but also on new transit systems in cities like DC, SF & Atlanta.

In certain years, federal spending on transit almost equaled that on highways. But that momentum stalled out under Reagan.

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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...