41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.

listen

I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before

but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply

‘She’s been degraded’: A man’s battle in Washington to free his Irish wife from Ice detention Jim Brown tells representatives about the plight of his wife, Donna Hughes-Brown, who has been detained since July after returning from Ireland

Donna Hughes-Brown is a wife, mother and grandmother who’s lived in Missouri for 37 years.

She’s an Irish citizen who’s husband served in the US Navy & voted for Trump

ICE revoked her status because she wrote a bad cheque in 2015 for $25.

She’s being held in a camp in Kentucky

leave

Given that the emails in question were about him exploiting his position against a junior-scholar mentee, he should not be allowed within a million miles of a classroom and should not be allowed to serve on any dissertation committees, etc etc etc.

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

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

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley late 1950s - 60s and I can remember our lungs/chest hurting sometimes when we played outside all day. That was back when kids actually played outside. I also remember smog warnings/advisories.

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.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?

Senators @kaine.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov and Angus King - you are quislings. Go fuck yourselves. Join MAGA, you fit there

Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings

So true!

"In the end, the bizarre idea that a choice must be made between Trump and the economy reflects something deeper: a broad reluctance to accept that Trump is really, really unpopular."

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Red-to-Blue, Everywhere

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Historic wins in Virginia, New Jersey and California.

Critical judicial wins in Pennsylvania.

An incredible case study of why you run everywhere, with the stunning results in the Virginia House of Delegates…

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I’m gonna suspect that media willl still not be able to find a trend in a 99.8% pattern.

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."

It wasn’t just tonight.

Dems have dramatically outperformed 2024 in nearly every special election also in 2025 before tonight.

But Republicans still don’t get what is happening out there.

Keep enabling all the worst abuses of Trump and many of you will be voted out next.

Yes, an important test for the midterms.

Here they are- donors for destruction of WH

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

We have friends everywhere.

#NoKings

I know Donald Trump is a pathological liar, malignant narcissistic sociopath, racist, antisemite, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, hater of our troops and believer in euthanizing folks with disabilities, but we too often forget that he's *also* an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

Street art in LA: Guardians of Pedophiles

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social