Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

Its kind of insulting just how stupid they think everyone is

absolute beast mode

NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵

Neat to see a team of @washingtonpost reporters recreate my 2022 story, complete with v similar headline, aerial photog, charts and format.

If you would like to hire me to conceive of and report big, data driven packages for you, please give me a shout. I think I’m okay at it. :)

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed ‘Misconduct’ in Comey Case The ruling by a magistrate judge in Alexandria, Va., was only the most recent setback in the department’s efforts to bring charges against the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.

Breaking News: A federal judge said that the case against James Comey, the former FBI director, could be in serious trouble because of apparent misconduct by the Justice Department's inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to handle the matter.

We Should All Be Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Now Mehdi on the creepy dead pedophile who was threatening a creepy president, the latest from Marjorie Taylor Greene's revolt, and Gavin Newsom's ambitious attempt to unite the Democratic Party.

“To be clear: I am not saying Donald Trump had Jeffrey Epstein killed. I am saying that if the situation were reversed, there is no doubt that Donald Trump would definitely be claiming Joe Biden had Jeffrey Epstein killed” - me for Zeteo

Fact Checker Analysis Trump and Epstein had a relationship, but there's no evidence of Trump wrongdoing A year ago, we scrubbed the public record. Here are our updated findings. Today at 2:03 p.m. MT

The Bottom Line As we have documented, 17 women have claimed Trump engaged in sexual misconduct. A Manhattan jury found that Trump sexually abused and defamed one woman on our list. But no credible allegation has emerged to connect Trump to any of Epstein's crimes. If the full file is ever released, we are confident that no connection would be found. Rest assured - if Trump were prominently mentioned, it would have been leaked by now.

If my time zone math is right, Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler published this gem about two hours before the WSJ published their story hahaha

Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:

(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year

(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives

Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?

Graph titled: U.S. crime rates continue to fall, and preliminary data indicate that the 2024 crime rate was the lowest since 1961

Reminder: Crime in the U.S. is at its lowest since 1961.

Adam and Eve under an apple tree with a snake sort of peering down at them

Did Women Ruin The Workplace

(Bloomberg) - US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates ..

@bloomberg.com #Challenger
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Zohran Mamdani and the politics of trying - The Boston Globe Voters are tired of hearing politicians talk about what they can’t do. The newly elected mayor of New York has offered something different.

Wrote about Zohran Mamdani and the politics of trying—something Democrats can learn from, even if they live in places that aren’t as progressive as NYC: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/o...

Financial Times chart showing Republican Party ID share within each generation.

Some larger context to Zohran’s win: Millennials are now the largest adult generation in the United States. We are also only generation not getting more conservative as we age. Our generation’s politicians are just starting to emerge.

A multiple line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Views of Donald Trump among U.S. adult citizens, and among white, Black, and Hispanic Americans." The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Donald Trump] (% with a very or somewhat favorable opinion minus the % with a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion)." The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown."

NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among...
White Americans +13 | -3
Hispanic Americans -12 | -34
Black Americans -31 | -70
today.yougov.com/politics/art...

This is crazy! I hope some media reporters follow up on it.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

The Social and Individual Effects of Homeless Shelter: Evidence from Temporary Shelter Provision Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

A new study lands squarely in current news and finds that providing homeless people with shelter reduces crime (also emergency room visits and mortality). "Shelter functions as a public good with high social benefits." www.nber.org/papers/w34376

[Exit King.]

“All parades have a right to exist” is one of the all time funniest political statements ever made in earnest

“Many of these so-called advocates are actually engaging in violent and dangerous behavior,” Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS spokesperson, told me in a statement. She added, in reference to Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker: “From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale. This rhetoric is contributing to a more than 1000% surge in assaults of our ICE officers.” And yet this comes at a time when ICE itself has become more violent toward immigrants, protesters, and unlucky bystanders alike. In recent weeks, agents have shoved to the ground a journalist trying to document an arrest and a woman who was crying because her husband had just been taken into custody. Both were hospitalized. And in Chicago, they shot a woman who they say rammed an agency vehicle—a claim that the woman’s lawyer said body-camera footage disproves. Alongside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the FBI, ICE also stormed an apartment building in the dark of night, breaking down doors and detaining scores of people, including U.S. citizens. Bystanders reported seeing children zip-tied to one another.

The distance, between the claim that “advocates are actually engaging in violent and dangerous behavior“ to the reality that “bystanders reported seeing children zip-tied to one another,” tells quite the moral story.

Read @caitlindickerson.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...