Iroh's Protogée

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is reportedly “encouraging” a federal grand jury investigation into DOJ official Ed Martin and Federal Housing Finance Director Bill Pulte for potential misconduct in pursuing criminal charges against prominent Democrats. trib.al/6yAteiJ

We cannot lose sight of how f*cked up it is that Donald Trump threatened members of another political party with death. Now these Members need around-the-clock security. People treated his words as a call for violence, not routine political talk.

Since the disastrous Citizens United ruling in 2010, billionaires have increasingly had more political influence.

And their corrupting influence comes at a cost to working Americans through higher prices, weaker protections, and a government that answers to the wealthy.

One of the biggest categorical errors made by Americans of all stripes is believing that de jure annexation of the oPt, specifically the occupied West Bank, is more meaningful than de facto annexation which happens daily and has been happening daily. People inflate the import of symbolism.

WASH POST on Memphis-based Grok being programmed to glaze its master.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.

NEW: You've heard SCOTUS could soon upend the balance in power in Congress by gutting the VRA. But that'd also be a huge blow to Black voting power in *local* governments.

In west Tennessee, Black residents just won a new county map this year—but those gains now look very fragile.

Great reporting:

I don’t see you fuckers doing anything about the ACA!

Wyden Blasts Kristi Noem for Abusing Subpoena Power to Unmask ICE Watcher “DHS apparently is trying to expose an individual’s identity in order to chill criticism of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies.”

“DHS apparently is trying to expose an individual’s identity in order to chill criticism of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies.”

Benjamin Netanyahu - n'an jacobin.com/2025/11/epstei...

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”

Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

Our apologies if the same happens for all mentions of Trump in the Epstein Files

Weird how the “centrist” pundits who say Democrats must moderate are silent when Republicans are getting shellacked in elections and polls

A mirror account of the Redistrict Network is now active on BlueSky. If you're there, give us a follow! bsky.app/profile/redist…

@gelliottmorris.com's piece on what Americans actually want from parties is fascinating. It also (re-)produces a classic finding: Almost no one is in the "socially liberal but economically conservative" bucket, but those who are have very popular Substacks
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...

i will accept peace if you say "ideological moderation is overrated"

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Jay Jones texted that he thinks GOP and their kids should be shot. He literally wrote that. And then admitted that he wrote that.

He won Virginia by a wider margin than Kamala Harris. I don’t think the US or the Democrats themselves are quite ready for what the Democratic Party is about to become.

Even more true today: Democrats are ripe for a base revolt like the GOP in 2015 when Trump went down the escalator.

Ben Rhodes: "[The Democrats] should be the party for ending forever wars...we should be the party for dismantling the forever war infrastructure, which includes - what do you think the equipment ICE is wearing. That is stuff that was used in Iraq and Afghanistan." #crookedcon2025

70.5% OF NEW TARIFFS WERE PASSED ONTO CONSUMERS — PER LENDINGTREE LENDINGTREE DATA SHOW THAT OVER TWO-THIRDS OF NEW TARIFF COSTS WERE DIRECTLY BORNE BY CONSUMERS, HIGHLIGHTING HOW TRADE BARRIERS ARE DRIVING UP RETAIL PRICES AND ADDING TO INFLATIONARY PRESSURES.

Airlines cancel more than 700 U.S. flights as FAA-ordered shutdown cuts begin The cuts were ordered as air traffic controllers have missed their paychecks due to the government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history.

Thank Republicans for this.

I have long argued that the single best thing you could do to improve the functioning of the US government is double the salaries of everyone working on Capitol Hill. Serving Congress shouldn’t involve poverty wages in DC. You could attract a much wider set of perspectives netting a better result.

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions"

Read more in this @theintercept.com story by @jonahmv.bsky.social and Nikita Mazurov:

Abolish Border Patrol.

Why the fuck is the is NRCC spending on ads in the TN07 special that hasn’t elected a Dem in decades

We are all composed of stardust

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

An underrated storyline in 9 days: Youngkin has made it so people lose their voting rights for life for any felony at present. A Dem proposal that’s started advancing to restore voting rights hinges on Dems keeping the state House

Flights to Los Angeles International Airport halted due to air traffic controller shortage LAX is one of the world’s busiest airports.

We're a global embarrassment

This Reagan quote makes Dear Leader fuhrerious!