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Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
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While all defendants are presumed, innocent, the Halloween takedown of the alleged terror plot in Detroit was the only responsible thing to do. My thoughts in Cafe.com. 
cafe.com/notes-from-c...
cafe.com/notes-from-c...
Acting Left of Boom In Detroit
Kash Patel’s announcement on Halloween that the FBI had taken down a terror plot near Detroit made me skeptical — but sometimes, even he gets it right.
cafe.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
While all defendants are presumed, innocent, the Halloween takedown of the alleged terror plot in Detroit was the only responsible thing to do. My thoughts in Cafe.com. 
cafe.com/notes-from-c...
cafe.com/notes-from-c...
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Professor Mamdani has a new book out, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, a study of his home country’s post-independence strongmen, and a memoir of his own political and academic journey. We talked about...
open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
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WATCH: The O.G. Mamdani
Every parent wonders: Are my kids listening? I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani, a renowned scholar, about watching his son Zohran rise to power pursuing many of the same themes that defined his father's life
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Professor Mamdani has a new book out, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, a study of his home country’s post-independence strongmen, and a memoir of his own political and academic journey. We talked about...
open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...
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The Supreme Court has DENIED Kim Davis’s petition to overturn its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage across the United States.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Supreme Court has DENIED Kim Davis’s petition to overturn its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage across the United States.
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Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
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MORE: The pardon language is extremely broad and could apply to many others too, since it covers anyone who advocates for the false elector slates or who investigated 2020 election fraud.
One person the pardon explicitly excludes: Trump himself.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
One person the pardon explicitly excludes: Trump himself.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
MORE: The pardon language is extremely broad and could apply to many others too, since it covers anyone who advocates for the false elector slates or who investigated 2020 election fraud.
One person the pardon explicitly excludes: Trump himself.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
One person the pardon explicitly excludes: Trump himself.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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The pardons are primarily symbolic: No one on the list has been charged with federal crimes, and Trump can't pardon those facing state charges in GA, AZ, NV and WI.
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The pardons are primarily symbolic: No one on the list has been charged with federal crimes, and Trump can't pardon those facing state charges in GA, AZ, NV and WI.
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
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I am working on a story that involves some of the ways people really are standing up in this moment. There really is a groundswell and it's not coming from DC.
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I am working on a story that involves some of the ways people really are standing up in this moment. There really is a groundswell and it's not coming from DC.
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Giuliani, Eastman, Cheseboro, and Powell are all unindicted co-conspirators in Trump indictment for the election crimes. Smith kept them off to streamline the case, with it always seemed future plans to indict. A total whitewash. Possibility remains of state charges, esp in Georgia. What a travesty.
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Giuliani, Eastman, Cheseboro, and Powell are all unindicted co-conspirators in Trump indictment for the election crimes. Smith kept them off to streamline the case, with it always seemed future plans to indict. A total whitewash. Possibility remains of state charges, esp in Georgia. What a travesty.
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A whole other form of partial and political justice. Trump pardons list of allies who worked to reverse his election loss in 2020. Many of them, especially Mark Meadows, know where the bodies are buried. A vile miscarriage of justice. Includes Rudy, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, & Ken Cheseboro.
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
A whole other form of partial and political justice. Trump pardons list of allies who worked to reverse his election loss in 2020. Many of them, especially Mark Meadows, know where the bodies are buried. A vile miscarriage of justice. Includes Rudy, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, & Ken Cheseboro.
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Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.
As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Democratic leadership as they refuse to rubber stamp the full-scale Republican assault on Americans’ health care and I am proud of the majority of Senate Democrats who opposed this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.
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Judge Mark Wolf retired last week ENTIRELY because of Donald Trump. www.wcvb.com/article/mass...
This is what he said:
This is what he said:
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Judge Mark Wolf retired last week ENTIRELY because of Donald Trump. www.wcvb.com/article/mass...
This is what he said:
This is what he said:
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
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Don't worry, Donald Trump, all those middle fingers were simply signaling that it was first down
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Don't worry, Donald Trump, all those middle fingers were simply signaling that it was first down
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The only question I have is “why were there 17 uncontested races?”
We should be running candidates in every race, everywhere, all the time.
Don’t let them ever run uncontested again.
@runforsomething.net
We should be running candidates in every race, everywhere, all the time.
Don’t let them ever run uncontested again.
@runforsomething.net
It turns out that nobody will vote for you to care for their children when your leader AND HER HUSBAND get arrested for being sexual predators.
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The only question I have is “why were there 17 uncontested races?”
We should be running candidates in every race, everywhere, all the time.
Don’t let them ever run uncontested again.
@runforsomething.net
We should be running candidates in every race, everywhere, all the time.
Don’t let them ever run uncontested again.
@runforsomething.net
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Folks this is not a candid shot of the man at 11PM on a weekend, this is what he was doing while sitting in the middle of an internationally broadcast major press conference in the Oval Office
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Folks this is not a candid shot of the man at 11PM on a weekend, this is what he was doing while sitting in the middle of an internationally broadcast major press conference in the Oval Office
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
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Just saw that an Indiana lectures was removed from teaching a “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice” class for teaching THIS graphic.
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Just saw that an Indiana lectures was removed from teaching a “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice” class for teaching THIS graphic.
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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Jeff Bezos abuses our infrastructure without paying for it
Jeff Bezos pays his employees an unlivable wage that we have to subsidize
Tax The Rich
Jeff Bezos pays his employees an unlivable wage that we have to subsidize
Tax The Rich
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Jeff Bezos abuses our infrastructure without paying for it
Jeff Bezos pays his employees an unlivable wage that we have to subsidize
Tax The Rich
Jeff Bezos pays his employees an unlivable wage that we have to subsidize
Tax The Rich
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Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
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Right-wing social media:
1. Grifters launch crazed conspiracy. Conspiracy spread by usual suspects.
2. Claim media is ignoring it to “cover it up.”
3. Conspiracy proven false. The arrests and investigations promised by grifters never happen.
4. Launch new crazed conspiracy.
1. Grifters launch crazed conspiracy. Conspiracy spread by usual suspects.
2. Claim media is ignoring it to “cover it up.”
3. Conspiracy proven false. The arrests and investigations promised by grifters never happen.
4. Launch new crazed conspiracy.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Right-wing social media:
1. Grifters launch crazed conspiracy. Conspiracy spread by usual suspects.
2. Claim media is ignoring it to “cover it up.”
3. Conspiracy proven false. The arrests and investigations promised by grifters never happen.
4. Launch new crazed conspiracy.
1. Grifters launch crazed conspiracy. Conspiracy spread by usual suspects.
2. Claim media is ignoring it to “cover it up.”
3. Conspiracy proven false. The arrests and investigations promised by grifters never happen.
4. Launch new crazed conspiracy.