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Wall Street Agitator to Lead Blue State Consumer Protection Drive A group of Democratic state prosecutors seeking to address rising living costs and widespread fraud hired Rohit Chopra, former director of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to lead the effo...

Rohit Chopra has by hired by the Democratic Attorneys General Association’s policy arm to help design national strategies for going after companies exploiting the most vulnerable consumers — using state powers. Gift link here ⬇️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

First of all, one of the reporters on that story was in the Army infantry in Iraq

DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”

Today is World AIDS Day. My whole career as a doctor and scientist was inspired by those impacted by HIV -patients and communities. That commitment has not wavered, even when my government won’t acknowledge this day. And, we will still be here when this madness is over, for patients and communities.

FEMA Puts Whistleblowers on Leave Shortly After Reinstating Them Days after reinstating a group of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees who publicly signed a whistleblower letter raising concerns about the government’s disaster preparedness, the agency has placed those workers back on administrative leave.

Days after reinstating a group of FEMA employees who publicly signed a whistleblower letter raising concerns about the government’s disaster preparedness, the agency has placed those workers back on administrative leave

When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call 'mutual aid' Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.

Organizers say that interest in local, grassroots initiatives to meet community needs has been growing.

Screenshot of Bloomberg story paragraphs saying: “Trump’s cardiovascular imaging was “perfectly normal” and showed “no evidence of arterial narrowing impairing blood flow or abnormalities in the heart or major vessels,” Barbabella wrote. The heart chambers are also “normal in size” and “vessel walls appear smooth and healthy” with “no signs of inflammation or clotting,” according to the letter. Abdominal scans also showed “all major organs appear very healthy and well-perfused” and “everything evaluated is functioning within normal limits with no acute or chronic concerns,” the letter said.”

My “no signs of inflammation or clotting” T-shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my T-shirt? Did I do this right? Anyway, happy Monday, hope you’re all well-perfused and normal!

I love business stories like this because they illustrate the impact of the new tariffs on a specific industry and explain why manufacturing and production can't be transferred to the US to avoid additional costs.

Did he suspend the flights?

Is China Preparing a Ukraine-Style Plan for Taiwan? China is drawing lessons from the Trump administration’s still unfinished “peace plan” for Russia and Ukraine, watching to see how far Washington will go to secure an agreement, and whether that means concessions to Moscow.

President Xi Jinping is using his renewed contact with the US to sharpen his long-declared objective: Unification with Taiwan (via Bloomberg Opinion)

“Imagine if we truly understand complex whale communication & can extend our term ‘language’ to them. Such breakthroughs would not only rewrite biology textbooks but also fundamentally redefine what it means to be human & pave the way to instituting new protections for whales, the ocean & beyond”🧪

When Canada deepens ties with China, it's not romance, it's risk management. If the U.S. keeps slapping tariffs and rewriting rules, partners diversify. Reliability is an economic asset; squander it, and trade flows and influence quietly move elsewhere.

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88

RIP, Tom Stoppard www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

After report Hegseth ordered second strike, top House Armed Services R and D stmt. “We take seriously the reports of follow-on strikes on boats alleged to be ferrying narcotics in the SOUTHCOM region and are taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation in question.”

NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation Dozens of masked federal agents were staging inside a parking lot when a spontaneous group of protesters got word of their presence. The NYPD helped clear a path for the federal agents to leave the ar...

NYPD Arrest More Than a Dozen Protesting Homeland Security Agents in Tense Confrontation www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/29/n...

Reporters: Data centers may end up being the new oil refineries. If there’s an outage and you want to know what’s up, call the fire department.

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That sounds adorable and also demonic somehow

I can’t even imagine that lol

Omg Ween in Boulder is a LIFESTYLE!

This Thanksgiving remember the cranberry sauce, but forget the Marijuana. Terry was convinced to take a "toke" of a joint with his friend "just to relax". Immediately after, Terry killed his friend who had given him the marijuana in a murderous craze. Not so safe, is it? Marijuana. Not Even Once. Ad Council

remember, folks,

Saw Ween on Valentine’s Day 2020. Amazing show, and some of the audience members were too high to care which direction the stage was. Divine.

“Heavy snow accumulation is expected downwind of Lake Erie…”

‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.

“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”

“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...

Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?

“The Surrealists were willing to look into the abyss of so-called civilisation, admit to ‘pessimism all along the line,’ and nonetheless wrench from that darkness a poetics of revolutionary change,” @naomiaklein.bsky.social writes www.equator.org/articles/sur...

What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea

Boats already stopped in the water. People about to die. Clues to drone and manned aircraft fighting systems.
—Findings of our freeze-frame study of the Trump administration’s promotional videos of its bombing campaign on suspected drug smuggling boats.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Rabbis and other Jewish New Yorkers join Mamdani’s 400-member mayoral transition committees Several of the rabbis stumped for Mamdani or brokered appearances for him in Jewish communities.

Zohran Mamdani named five rabbis and other Jewish New Yorkers to his 400-member transition team, including Rabbi Jason Klein, Rabbi Ellen Lippman, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Rabbi Abby Stein, Rabbi Rachel Timoner.

NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
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