Leah Willett

College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,

You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done

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! Chuck @schumer.senate.gov asks unanimous consent that the Senate immediately read and pass the bill to release the Epstein files, un-amended, "as soon as it comes over from the House." No objections. Motion succeeds. Bill is deemed to the Senate unanimously, will go to Trump to become law.

Goldman moves to rename a bill targeting immigrants who attack dogs “The Kristi Noem Canine Relief Act”

He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms. Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving ...

The Republicans NEVER cared about the unborn. It was always about controlling women and their bodies. The facts don't lie.

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Rolled. Note that there are Mueller report-type expectations being created that the documents will almost surely not fulfill even if they are utterly damning.

That includes this painting, which commemorates an event that happened exactly 65 years ago this week

again, the takeaway is not "MTG is good now". It's "MTG really wants to distnace herself from trump because she thinks he's doomed"

By surrendering so utterly and completely at a moment of their maximum leverage and momentum, Senate Democrats taught Trump and his cadre an important lesson: Do enough damage and your opponents will buckle. Because of this surrender, our democracy is more imperiled now than it was before.

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Happy 80th birthday to Mr. Neil Young.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

Shut us down for good reason.

Open back up without any of those reasons having been fixed.

You want us to have confidence in you?

You want us to think YOU can lead US?

Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have a chance to be back.. but our pain produced nothing in return.

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

📨What did you do last week?

To: House Speaker Johnson

Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.

Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.

Deadline is Monday, 11:59pmEST

👉Failure to respond = resignation

Keep fighting

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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We had all the momentum

•The American people were blaming Republicans

•A landslide Democratic victory

•Courts ordering Trump to fund SNAP benefits

Yet you couldn't convince your caucus to fight for us

It's the final straw that breaks the back of your tenure as leader, Senator

Time to step down

S.F. mass shooting: Five taken to hospitals after Outer Richmond attack Officers arrived in the area of Fulton Street and Great Highway around 9 p.m. Satuday and found multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds, the San Francisco Police Department said.

A mass shooting in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond neighborhood sent five victims to local hospitals Saturday night, according to the fire department. No arrests have been made yet, police say.

Armed Forces of Ukraine reports:
196 combat clashes
54 aviation strikes
126 KAB
4 697 shellings (>100 from MLRS)
5 276 kamikaze drones
#SlavaUkraini #Ukraine

It would cost $38 billion dollars to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for another year and ensure Americans don’t lose their healthcare.

The republicans said no.

Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina and they didn’t object.

Argentina first, America last.

Let people rise up, knowing they are not alone, with the same level of unfathomable confidence of Stefanik bid on the heels of Mamdani’s victory.

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I just finished my analysis about what comes next after last night’s blowout elections. Donald Trump and the GOP are going to do everything they can to rig the 2026 midterms.

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National Guard troops patrolling DC made themselves useful this morning:

Pushed a dead BMW out of traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Not obvious to me however that this needed to be a military function.

People are seeing healthcare premiums jump by 300%.

People will have to choose to either pay for health care or put food on the table.

People will have to choose to pay for health care or pay rent.

GOP Republicans are killing Americans by ripping away tax credits.

Not for nothing but I would love to revisit all those "the resistance is dead" narratives I had to refute the last year as we were seeing record numbers of candidate sign-ups at @runforsomething.net.

Seems relevant

NYT layout of election results, playing the California redistricting vote mainly for how it helps Gavin Newsom, not what it means for the state or the country.

Never change, NYT politics staff!

Hint: Main thing Calif voters were thinking yesterday was *not* "Hmmm, what does this mean for Gavin Newsom?" But that is clearly main/only thing on mind of politics staff, or unnamed people laying out front page.

Voters: Doing their job! Media: .... sigh.