Jim Whitney

Day two of #MozFest starts with the Mozilla Foundation's Bourree Lam interviewing the Onion's @bencollins.bsky.social. He brags that the Onion is now the 11th biggest print paper in the U.S. "Our goal next year is to beat the Washington Post... and they're making it pretty easy." [Audience LOLs.]

Mike Johnson Wants You to Believe He Lives Under a Rock House Speaker Mike Johnson has made a habit of pretending not to know about Trump-related news events when asked to comment by reporters.

“I don’t know about that.”

“I just saw a headline as I walked in.”

“I didn’t see it.”

“I was a little busy.”

When winning is unfamiliar it becomes uncomfortable and so you don't pursue it, said someone....

The more we learn about Zohran Mamdani's upbringing, the clearer it becomes that he owes everything to his connected, well-to-do parents.

by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.

'Oh my god': WaPo analysis shows Trump 'was sleeping for 20 minutes during a live event' Donald Trump caught heat for closing his eyes through a press conference, and a new Washington Post analysis reveals the president spent nearly 20 minutes sleeping or battling sleep during the event.T...

WaPo analysis shows Trump 'was sleeping for 20 minutes during a live event'

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Rare that i say this -- but it seems Schumer has a point here.

I sense a pattern here...

A test for the new owner. Clearly a decent relationship with Administration would make things easier for Commanders. But a Trump stadium would alienate a not insignificant share of its fan base. Choose wisely.

He has tapped into something and gets credit for moving aggressively on redistricting. No wonder that TX people appreciate that fight!!

The only redeeming features of this editorial page these days are the AI summaries of reader comments:

"There is a recurring theme of dissatisfaction with the Washington Post's perceived shift towards right-wing perspectives, with some readers expressing a loss of respect for the publication."

Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" "Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

Oddly, it seems that was/is the goal.

Poll: Democrats have no idea who their leader is Only one person hit double digits.

Pretty dumb stuff here, even by Politico standards. Of course Dems don't have an identified leader right now -- and they won't until they have a 2028 nominee for president.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for.

@wsj.com

They're a little behind me

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.

They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.

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‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard Karin Immergut said earlier she ‘found no credible evidence’ that protests in Oregon city were out of control A federal judge in Oregon on Friday blocked Donald Trump from deploying national guard troops to Portland, ruling there was no evidence of widespread violence to justify federal intervention. The US district court judge, Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, delivered her final order in the case on Friday. She found that protests near Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility were “predominately peaceful, with only isolated and sporadic instances of relatively low-level violence”. Continue reading...

‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard

Judge blocks Trump from deploying National Guard in Oregon The judge, who was appointed by Trump, said the attempted deployment in Portland exceeded the president’s authority.

Breaking news: A federal judge blocked President Trump from deploying the National Guard in Oregon, the latest setback in his administration’s bid to send troops into Portland.

Nothing quite as important as ensuring 42 million Americans don't get the food assistance they are counting on. Definitely a matter to be decided by the highest court .

The easiest political layup for Democrats in recent memory. That’s even compared to a lot of other easy layups.

Administration goes back to its friends for help.

Republicans didn't pay too much attention to Reagan's time in office, it appears.

It's pretty amusing that 25 + billionaires spent millions to help Cuomo get his 42%. He couldn't have done it without them!!!

After voting to give billionaires tax breaks and making health care more expensive, Derrick Van Orden has refused to hold a town hall to talk to the voters he works for in a face-to-face conversation. So, I'm heading to Wisconsin to help give the people he's supposed to represent a voice.

Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.

Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.

American capitalism is off the rails.

This has not gotten much attention, but it should.

Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.

Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

Now we all know why just last week Trump said he wanted to end quarterly reporting

Senate Democrats Offer Shutdown Compromise: One-Year ACA Extension Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked Republicans for a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked Republicans for a one-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies.

In the 2000s, just ten percent of Americans believed the government was doing a poor job on economic policy. Today, that's 64%, higher than at any point in our history, beating the oil shocks, wage and price controls, the great inflation, any major recession, financial crisis or pandemic.