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Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 1h

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

What the Tucker/Nick Fuentes fiasco really reveals is that the "white nationalist wing of the GOP" is "a major force within internal GOP politics," says @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social.

On the pod, David is so good on the GOP's 50-year refusal to police its extremists:
newrepublic.com/article/2026...

MAGA Rages at Tucker Carlson after “Nazi” Shocker Reveals Too Much

As Tucker faces criticism for hosting white nationalist Nick Fuentes, an expert on conservatism decodes how this tells the bigger story of the American right’s refusal to police its extremists for the...

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 4h

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This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week

DJT truth social - SNAP benefits .. will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up govt

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

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Nortuet @nortverse.com · 20h

"the genie is out of the bottle"

They are so desperate to normalize this as fast as possible.
All quotes I read from companies "embracing AI" are basically

"please just admit it's here to stay, just admit it, accept it, admit that this is the new normal now. It's here, JUST ACCEPT IT!!!!!"

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 23h

Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial is AI-generated again

The company used even fewer people to make it this year

“We need to keep moving forward and pushing the envelope … The genie is out of the bottle, and you’re not going to put it back in"

(via THR)

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 1d

If (knock on wood) Dems sweep Tuesday’s elections handily, can we ease discourse away from its obsession over whether Dems are too left wing to win, and take greater notice of the fact that Republicans are in a civil war over whether to be Nazis or merely lesser fascists?

Exploit The GOP's Nazi Meltdown

Are we really going to accept the conceit that the central issue in politics is whether DEMOCRATS are too extreme?

www.offmessage.net

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20h

“The measure has been polling particularly well with women, younger voters and Black and Asian American voters, although it’s received support across the board of all gender, age and ethnic groups.

So far, more than 6.4 million Californians have already voted early …” #YesOnProp50

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20h

“The survey found that the ‘yes’ vote was mostly coming from two of the largest urban areas in the state: Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay Area, which collectively contain half the state’s voters.”

LET’S GO BAY AREA

www.sfgate.com/politics/art... #YesOnProp50

Final polls leading up to Prop. 50 reveal promising outlook for supporters

So far, more than 6.4 million Californians have already voted early this year.

www.sfgate.com

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 20h

"Run the government like a business!"

Trump has never run any real business. He's never had to plan anything. He just orders lackeys to waste his money in personally pacifying ways.

Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 20h

As Democrats have said for 3 weeks, despite the shutdown, Trump had the money for SNAP all along.

He chose not to feed the poor and used the shutdown as pretext. If he hadn't held SNAP hostage, there would not have been a funding delay, and 42M people would not be going hungry.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 21h

"By presenting judging as a realm of pure law, insulated from politics, the justices offer a picture so implausible that it makes the opposite claim—that judging is nothing but politics—more credible. In their effort to inspire confidence, they deepen cynicism."-- Mark Graber

Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 21h

@mgraber1.bsky.social reviews Justice Barrett’s book:
“By presenting judging as a realm of pure law, insulated from politics, the justices offer a picture so implausible that it makes the opposite claim—that judging is nothing but politics—more credible.”

Justice Barrett’s Campaign Biography

Amy Coney Barrett’s book, "Listening to the Law," claims the Supreme Court is above politics. Its very existence proves otherwise.

washingtonmonthly.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”)

In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed.

Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…

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Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social · 21h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 1d

Conservatives spent the last few decades conjuring up a bogeyman of a communist takeover of the US government that would mean the incarceration of Christians and making practicing Christianity illegal, only to finally create their own version of such a bizarre fantasy.

RNS @rns.org · 1d

The Episcopal bishop of Texas said the priest was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials this week while returning home from his workplace.
religionnews.com/2025/11/02/e...

Episcopal priest has been detained by ICE in Texas, says diocese

(RNS) — 'We do not know yet why he was targeted,' said the Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, who leads the Diocese of Texas.

religionnews.com

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

TSA workers were told sick calls will bring “appropriate accountability measures to the fullest extent possible” after the shutdown ends—but airport screeners told Forbes such threats would likely backfire.

Houston’s Bush Airport TSA Wait Times Top 3 Hours—As Unpaid Screeners Tell Of Agency’s ‘Scare Tactics’

TSA workers were told sick calls will bring “appropriate accountability measures to the fullest extent possible” after the shutdown ends—but airport screeners told Forbes such threats would likely backfire.

www.forbes.com

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23h

Bloomberg: Duffy said he is prepared to close US airspace if the budget crisis makes flying unsafe.

FAA is already short on air traffic controllers, and many of them are working without pay.

More than 6,200 flights were delayed on Friday and nearly 500 were canceled.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h

the dread median voter is more deluded than stupid and/or evil. we have evolved a catastrophically broken information environment that misled people by the millions, but they dont like what they voted for

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 1d

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People

“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 23h

Kavanaugh stop

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

Paying half is classic of the Trump administration: it is going to create an administrative nightmare for clients but also states who now have to rejig their systems. And it remains unnecessary: the money is there to pay all benefits.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

Trump administration will provide only half of usual food stamp benefits in November | CNN Politics

The Trump administration said today that it will provide partial food stamp benefits for November by tapping into the program’s contingency fund amid the ongoing government shutdown.

www.cnn.com

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23h

From @publiccitizen.bsky.social: Corporate Donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom Beset by Conflicts, Received $279 Billion in Government Contracts in the Past Five Years www.citizen.org/news/corpora...

Corporate Donors to Trump’s White House Ballroom Beset by Conflicts, Received $279 Billion in Government Contracts in the Past Five Years - Public Citizen

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The corporate and billionaire donors to Donald Trump’s gaudy ballroom project are beset by conflicts of interest,…

www.citizen.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous.

Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: [email protected]

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

Conde Nast and Vogue (which Teen Vogue is being pulled into) are truly underestimating how much young people are impacted by and care about politics.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

us citizen shot by ICE officer after victim said 'not cool, bro'/'hey those are kids' is almost like a daily story at this point.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

better

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."

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