Lina Khan Wants to Amplify Mamdani’s Power With Little-Used Laws Former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said she’s exploring ways to maximize New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s executive authority through little-used laws already in place.

Just to reinforce that words mean something, a mayor or president following laws passed by their legislatures or city councils is NOT "expanding" or "maximizing" executive power. It's using the power they have.
Going to war without authorization of Congress, that'd be executive power expansion

All I can say is I attended a Democratic Party event in DALLAS, TEXAS 10 days ago with officials and candidates and the biggest cheers were for Mamdani and the most questions/most frequent topic of conversation was Epstein.

We should not overthink this.

Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:

Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.

So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

Oh you would not have been able to miss them. There are dozens (hundreds?) who settle into a tree and scream together all day and stay there for weeks/months.

Jeffrey Epstein Leaned on His Elite Network for Help as Investigators Closed In A cache of 18,000 messages shows the elite support the disgraced financier got in his “hour of terror.”

The professionals who surrounded Jeffrey Epstein defended and deflected, coached and countermessaged, burnished and polished. Together, they helped extend Epstein’s influence and freedom, even lending an air of invincibility. 

This is "The Network"
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Before this thread continues, a note for anyone who doesn’t know the lore:

Heartburn is based on the real-life breakdown of Ephron’s marriage to Carl Bernstein, who had an affair with Margaret Jay while Ephron was pregnant.

“Mark” = Carl Bernstein
“Thelma” = Margaret Jay
“Rachel” = Nora Ephron

At the Mairie (town hall) of the XVème arrondissement.

Upstairs: our group doing 19th century court ballroom dances.

Downstairs: Breton folk dance with bagpipey-type things.

If this is not recipe for a gang rumble I don't know what is.

And that means that democracy doesn't die in darkness, but in the light of a billion glowing screens.

When public priorities are shaped by engagement algorithms, politics turns reactive. Parties perform ‘control’ instead of solving problems. That’s how hollow discourse grows, and why extreme narratives gain leverage they could never earn on evidence.

An incredible @runforsomething.net winner.

somebody brought this up once in the context of Florida voters in 2000 and it fucked me up so much

just the cascading effects on our whole society from losing such a tidal wave of queer people

What’s going on in every aspect of life in the United States is criminal and nauseating. Something has got to give. The cruelty, inhumanity, insanity, ineptness is affecting all of us except the filthy rich and well connected to the insane man in the White House. Enough already, impeach&remove.

Need a Pick-Me-Up? Try Spraying Your Face With Hypochlorous Acid Everyone’s talking about hypochlorous acid sprays. Here’s how to use it without sabotaging your skin-care routine.

Further reading if you're interested!

Appears Coast Guard may have moved a rescue helicopter unit out of Newport OR to make room for DHS detention site at that coastal fishing town's airfield. City and OR State govt trying to prevent

Oh god, the were staying in a tree a neighborhood over, then they started flying over my L.A. house every afternoon. I was like "please don't relocate here...!" They are very very loud.

He Quit the Bench to Raise the Alarm Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 11/15/2025 · 1h 16m

Judge Mark Wolf -- who stepped down from the federal bench last week -- on his first podcast and also California's AG Rob Bonta on the blue state resistance

been awhile since I felt a literal chill down my spine but this honestly scared the shit out of me

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.

I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Zoey Deutch was incredible.

'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted Several lines of evidence, from chiseled inscriptions to missing horses, suggest that thousands of people survived the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

'People made it out of the cities alive': Tracing the survivors of Pompeii and Herculaneum, 2,000 years after Vesuvius erupted | Live Science
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Keep moving the needle!

Jeffrey Epstein appeared to text with Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) during Michael Cohen's 2019 congressional hearing and may have influenced her questions.

Text message time-stamp match up with hearing video reviewed by The Washington Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Six Jane Does filed suit against senior USVI officials, including Plaskett, and "John Does 1-100" in 2023. The suit alleged "defendants made the United States Virgin Islands a “safe haven” for Epstein’s sex trafficking." I'm no lawyer so this is where I step aside.

Yeah this is bad.

Is an old law helping PeaceHealth maintain its local monopoly? | Cascadia Daily News Through a state regulation, no opposition to the hospital’s expansion emerged

‘The bigger they get, the harder it is for someone else to come in’: the state regulation behind PeaceHealth’s expansion that critics say protects incumbents.

Oakland Police report Laney coach John Beam has passed away. What a horrible tragic waste

Rest in Peace

Is an old law helping PeaceHealth maintain its local monopoly? | Cascadia Daily News Through a state regulation, no opposition to the hospital’s expansion emerged

Fantastic work by @owenracer.bsky.social for @cascadiadaily.com breaking down @peacehealth.bsky.social monopoly in Whatcom County.

www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/nov/13/...

Just another reminder that the primary problem with Seattle law enforcement is that the officers they hire (usually not residents) have a deep and abiding contempt for the city’s residents fed by a steady Fox News diet. And their union chief embodies that.

Seems fine to me to uphold a consistent moderation policy that posting death threats, even non-serious ones, results in a brief suspension. The poster may not be expressing real-world intent, but maybe they're followed by nutjobs who hear it that way. & who couldn't use a 3-day grass-touching break?