Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president

FFS…

⬆️⬆️ Yep.

Imagine that.

Sit the fuck down, you quivering, gelatinous fool.

Meaningless words - since they refused to find the ones responsible for her death responsible. JFC.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Q: So Dr Oz said that--

JEFFRIES: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr Oz seriously.

Tapper: You sell trump kneepads—

Newsom: Signature series. Sold out at the moment. Because people have sold out and because universities have been selling out, because law firms have been selling out, because corporate leaders have been selling out, people are selling out this country.

Pentagion sends ground forces to train in Panama's jungle for the first tme in decades

Oh look, Vietnam is back.

The Pentagon has started sending ground forces to Panama to train in the jungle there.

US soldiers and Marines doing a three-week course once called the "Green Hell" because of its similarities to Vietnam.

The US Army Jungle Warfare School in Panama was closed in 1999.

"Vance is welcoming Nazis in all but name into the GOP. Their oft-stated goal is an ethnic cleansing of the United States and the vice president’s family. And Vance has moved to form a coalition with them, while the press cannot even attempt to explain to America what this means." @thefarce.org

Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope

SCOTUS to Hear GOP Lawsuit That Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: In a case with major implications for voting access, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether a mail-in ballot must be received by Election Day to count, or if it merely must be sent by then. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Explosion near Red Fort in India’s New Delhi This is a breaking news story.

This is a breaking news story.

Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

I highly doubt Johnson gets the House GOP to go for this and that’s if Trump even allows him to reconvene to vote on it.

Correct because reconvening for it means swearing in Grijalva which means she's the 218th vote which means the Thump sex trafficking operation may be exposed.

Do the Republicans save Trump or do they save themselves?

“Bipartisan bill” on healthcare.

Are you fucking kidding?

The Rs don’t give a shit about our healthcare - and neither, apparently, do you.

My husband planned to retire in December. I'm not eligible for Medicare until Aug so I planned to get an Obamacare policy. I found one in Oct that was $800/month. Now it's $2000/month.

So now my husband isn't going to retire. I hate Trump & GOP so much.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied

Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ

Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.

1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.

Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.

Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

Gifting this article from The Atlantic by a judge appointed by Reagan, who is resigning so he can speak out about how Trump is destroying the rule of law. Must read.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Black voters are the base of the Democratic Party. This cave was engineered by senators in New Hampshire & Maine.

The % of the populations in NH & ME that are Black:
NH: 1.5%
ME: 1.2%

a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

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.

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YouTube video by Eliza Orlins Shutdown NOT Over: What Tonight’s Senate Vote Actually Means

Is the shutdown over? Not yet.
Tonight’s vote was only step 1 of 5.
There’s still another 60-vote hurdle, amendments, AND then the House.
Pressure matters right now—especially on Kaine, Rosen, Hassan, Shaheen.
Stay loud.
youtu.be/mdFRfeGRKfI

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.

In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

Data-center projects that “may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.”

@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
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Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison "luxuries" In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell's treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel."

According to a new letter from @raskin.house.gov: "The deference and servility to Ms. Maxwell have reached such preposterous levels that one of the top officials at the facility has complained that he is 'sick of having to be Maxwell’s bitch.'"

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

LSU Student Senate votes against Charlie Kirk statue on campus - Reveille The Student Senate voted against putting discriminatory statues on campus, explicitly naming the Charlie Kirk statue Gov. Jeff Landry wanted.

LSU Student Senate votes against Charlie Kirk statue on campus

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