Mary Giddings 🐸📎🌻🏳️‍🌈

@shaheen.senate.gov @senatorhassan.govpeeps.us @senangusking.bsky.social

A reminder that the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days.

They didn’t cave.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas.

But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.

It was standing room only.

Sick.

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”

What are we doing?

Unbelievable.

Page One.

@theguardian.com #ICE

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

Good people working hard in Ohio and getting results.

Katyal is merciless. He is embarrassing Alito’s fanciful hypos and Alito is getting mad. But Katyal is unfazed and instead going in for the kill. Wow. Well done.

Mamdani pushed back not just against the smears thrown his way during the campaign, but also against the deliberate division of the country that has been a staple of Republican rhetoric since 1972, when President Richard Nixon’s vice president Spiro Agnew embraced his role as the key purveyor of “positive polarization.” In its place, he called for community and solidarity. “In this new age we make for ourselves,” Mamdani said, “we will refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate to pit us against one another…. Here, we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall. Your struggle is ours, too.”

Not enough people talk about this, let alone make this connection, enough.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social shows why we have to understand history to understand the now.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-5...

If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!

Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.

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Oregon’s hazelnut harvest could break records 2025 is expected to be one of the best years ever for Oregon hazelnuts, that's despite an ongoing and mutating hazelnut blight effecting crops throughout the Willamette Valley.

Oregon is known for growing many tasty things, but there's one crop in which the state reigns supreme it's hazelnuts, at least in this country

The state produces roughly 99.7% of the hazelnuts in the U.S. & is now neck-and-neck with Chile to become the 2nd largest producer in the world after Turkey

While Americans suffer & health care costs skyrocket, Donald Trump is hard at work enriching himself and his family.

“‘I have papers,’ a child care worker shouted in Spanish at Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during an arrest Wednesday morning at a Spanish immersion day care in Chicago.” 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*

Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

4 court hearings today:
1) Review of Trump's tariffs in SCOTUS
2) Hearing on FBI's review of Jim Comey material w/o new warrant
3) Closing arguments and deliberation for sandwich guy in DC
4) Preliminary injunction hearing for CBP/ICE invasion of Chicago, featuring Greg Bovino vids

07/21/25: district court orders OMB to show how it is spending tax dollars
08/09/25: D.C. Court of Appeals denied OMB Director Russ Vought’s stay and required OMB's website show how tax dollars are being spent.
08/19/25: CREW is reviewing the apportionments OMB to ensure required by law is posted

Our democracy should be owned by voters, not bought by the wealthy few. In our new poll, Montanans are sending a clear message that echoes around the country. https://tinyurl.com/yktb5ju3

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Remember this.

It’s gonna take a legal mind of greater heft than Kavanaugh possesses to best Neal Katyal on constitutional interpretation. Enter Justice Alito with endless, detailed, reality-defying hypos.

In a sign of Mike Johnson's juicelessness, Fox News and even Newsmax are not taking his press conference this morning

Just left the latest hearing in Jim Comey's criminal case. It did not go well for DOJ

The magistrate judge scolded them for an "indict first, investigate second" posture and ordered them to turn over reams of material — including all grand jury info — to Comey's team

Details TK

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.