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60 Minutes Obeys in Advance Read more here.

When I read the full transcript of the interview, I realized there had been no pushback, no corrections, no challenging follow-ups. The entire interview had been an open-ended opportunity for Trump to tell rambling lies, only to have them cleaned up into a more polished product.

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Romania confirmed the first cut of U.S. troops on NATO’s eastern flank — ending a rotating brigade spread across several countries. This isn’t a full retreat— but will be read in Moscow as a win, and possibly as a US retreat from the defense of Europe.
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Opinion | Why is Trump politicizing the military? Ask the fired generals. Why are so many generals getting fired? Congress should summon them to find out.

The most immediate and important thing Congress can do is to call Adm Holsey, Lt Gen McGee and other cashiered officers to testify about their experience since Trump took office. Unless, that is, the GOP majority can’t handle the truth about what Trump is doing to the armed forces. wapo.st/4nEItvh

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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.

They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

We could do worse than have Page Six and People Magazine join the resistance.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I'm doing a big Bluesky column today! Hit me with your where-Bluesky-is-at-this-moment-in-2025 takes

this is from *the editorial board.*

interesting.

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

Factional infighting like this is stupid and self-defeating.

Bigger things are happening.

And everyone should stand with New Yorkers’ right to pick their own mayor in the face of authoritarian threats that, if they choose against the president’s preferences, he’ll break the law to hurt the city.

“.. More than 7 in 10 respondents rated current economic conditions as either ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’.”

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Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?

The government shutdown won't be completely recouped—and it could cost the economy up to $14 billion, estimates say | Fortune The report says lost goods and services from furloughed workers’ downtime won’t be regained once the government reopens.

Republicans in Congress are so hell-bent on taking away Americans’ health care that they don’t care about costing the economy $14 billion to do it. But yeah….sure…they’re “fiscally conservative.”

You can also get lots of current/former ATF employees to say "duh yes obviously this would be enormously helpful to us, the current system is stupid"

Carlos Jimenez, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen, was on his way to work at a food bank when he was shot by ICE officers in what a DHS spokesperson calls “defensive shots.” On Thursday morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., ICE officers were at Vineyard Avenue in Ontario when Jimenez, who was not in the target vehicle, attempted to pull in front of the officers. According to Javier Hernandez, executive director of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Jimenez was trying to assist and provide aid to the person who was being stopped by ICE officers. After Jimenez was shot in the shoulder, the LA Times and LA Taco reported that he drove to his brother’s house so he could take him to the hospital.

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them.
After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer."
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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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🔊 With no national policy on rounding cash transactions, retailers are coming up with their own ways to resolve a growing penny shortage. Full story on today’s podcast reut.rs/3LbVDCq

Scott MacFarlane & @MacFarlaneNews Trial begins tomorrow in the case of the DC man accused of throwing a salami sandwich at fed agent 5:38 PM • 11/2/25 • 22K Views

The judge is Nichols, a Trump appointee who put Bannon in jail for contempt, and who praised the work of the punished DOJ lawyers in the Taranto case the other day.

We have had 50 years to see how “free markets” foster wealth inequality, infrastructure collapse, death, disease, disability, grief, suffering, ecological destruction, and fuel fascism.

We’ve got ample research showing that the markets create, and do not solve our major problems.

The don’t care.

Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.

We are at a point where state and local police are repeatedly investigating federal law enforcement for systemically illegal behavior.

To the point that even CBS News has to note that pretty high up in the article.

A truly bad sign, at least in the short run (hoping prompts real change in future).

In St. Petersburg, a pensioner was found guilty of “discrediting the army” for wearing a badge calling for peace.

(But don't forget that according to Russia, it wants peace and Ukraine wants war!)

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Mom Says Tesla's New Built-In AI Asked Her 12-Year-Old Something Deeply Inappropriate Grok, now integrated into newer Tesla vehicles, is continuing to be the edgiest mainstream AI chatbot around.

You keep finetuning the bot to be more fascist, and quite unsurprisingly, this is what you get 🤷