Tootfinder

Well that’s going to be an interesting dish, Hello Fresh…

@… 基準になる数字はサーバによって違うけど、ここに情報があります。
mastodon.socialの場合
https://

How could they be smart enough to create all this, then be dumb enough not to destroy it?

These are two REALLY gross flicks. Loved em. Some of the best, nastiest horror I've seen in a while. Sometimes you like something so much you need to buy physical copies. I try to be kinda picky and only keep physical copies of things I like a lot and might actually rewatch.
#horror #bluray

Just updated Node Pebble to support latest release version of Let’s Encrypt’s Pebble testing server.
#LetsEncrypt…

node-pebble
A Node.js wrapper for Let’s Encrypt’s Pebble (a small RFC 8555 ACME test server not suited for a production certificate authority)

I wonder what happened this past January that could cause this?

Getting ready for another work week

I just saw that we now have over 100 verified accounts on Gaza Verified.
https://gaza-verified.org/people/
That’s over 100 people that @…,

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

@…
@…
#nokings #October18

Current status: with a lovely lady

“People want software that is fast, modern, but also honest about what it does.”
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozillas-next-chapter-anthony-enzor-demeo-new-ceo/
No, you muppet, people want tools that do what…

Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company | The Mozilla Blog
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil

The murder of 15 people at Bondi Beach was a vile antisemitic attack and is rightfully being condemned.
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/australia/2025/12/15/bondi-beach-terror-attack-injured-gunman-expected-to-su…

Bondi Beach shooting: Australia vows stricter gun laws after 15 killed
Gunman wounded during attack on Jewish celebration ‘is likely to survive’ his injuries with second killed at scene

On July 18, a mild, overcast night in Nairobi, Kenya, a team of Donald Trump’s top foreign aid advisers
ducked into a meeting room at the Tribe Hotel,
their luxury accommodations in the city’s diplomatic quarter,
for a private dinner.
To press the urgency of the situation in East Africa, the embassy officials enlisted Dragica Pajevic,
a World Food Program veteran of more than two decades.
Pajevic arrived at the Tribe Hotel early. She brought props. The b…

Inside the Trump Administration’s Man-Made Hunger Crisis
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Folks, if you want to donate to our Gaza Verified families but don’t know who to donate to or are overwhelmed, here’s is a list of all the families, sorted by those who have raised the least in the last seven days:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
(The list is based on

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Four Republican lawmakers have signed onto
a Democratic-led discharge petition,
which aims to force a vote on a bill to restore tax credits for millions of Americans who receive health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Thot credits are set to expire at the end of this year, unless legislation can be passed to extend them.
Ordinarily, the speaker of the House of Representatives can block legislation from being considered.
But a discharge petition,…

4 House Republicans Join Democrats to Force Vote on ACA Tax Credits Extension
Millions of Americans' health insurance premiums could double if the credits aren't renewed by the end of this year.

Today, @… and I had the pleasure of talking to the families behind four Mastodon accounts from Gaza over video chat and we’re very happy to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Talal Naser – https://

Talal Naser (@tallalnaser1990@mastodon.social)
28 Posts, 601 Following, 138 Followers · Save a family from Gaza. I am Talal, a father of four children. This war has left us with no hope. https://gofund.me/4ce5a68a4

I feel awful for our expert civil servants who faithfully served our country only to be fired by unqualified, uncaring, irresponsible men who couldn't even make it one year doing government work.
Looking at you Elon and retiring FBI director Dan Bongino.
https://bsky.app/profile/amandacar…

Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter.bsky.social)
I feel awful for our expert civil servants who faithfully served our country only to be fired by unqualified, uncaring, irresponsible men who couldn't even make it one year doing government work. Looking at you Elon and Bongino.

Are there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…

Linux Is Best (@Linux@social.tchncs.de)
Attached: 2 images 1 of 2 First, let me say: what’s happening in Gaza is absolutely awful. But what’s also awful is that there are dishonest people taking advantage of others during a crisis. In one photo, from Facebook (my job, where I work), we had a woman claiming to be a 36-year-old mother of two children, ages 4 and 7. She spaced out the URL in her post, hoping it wouldn’t get flagged by spam filters (it did). The very next day, someone on the Fediverse posted the exact same messa…

Looking forward to holding our four video interviews for Gaza Verified today in 15 minutes and hopefully welcoming four new families from Gaza to ours.
You can find all our families, including ones who are not yet verified but scheduled for video interviews, at:
https://gaza-verified.org/people/

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

“God gave us this incredible gift of an intellect and curiosity and an opportunity to explore how nature works,”
Dr Francis Collins, former director of National Institutes of Health said.
“And God gave us nature as well
and we get the chance through science to do that.
I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind.
Science is almost a form of worship because what you’re trying to do there is to be completely caught up in the awe of what we’ve been given in natu…

Francis Collins and Marc Siegel say medicine is a gift from God
“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.

Can You Hear Us?: Five Voices from Gaza – Hot Press Magazine, Ireland
https://www.hotpress.com/opinion/can-you-hear-us-five-voices-from-gaza-23113207
The five voices are those of my partner at Gaza Verified, @…

Can You Hear Us?: Five Voices from Gaza
It is hard for us, here in the relative comfort and security of Ireland, to even begin to imagine what is has been – and what it is – like in Gaza, where...

The "People Over Billionaires" March Tours San Francisco's Ritziest Neighborhood
Activists assembled in Alta Plaza Park, San Francisco's billionaire epicenter, on November 15
for a rally and march to demand,
"housing, healthcare, and food for all," from the ultra-wealthy.
During the rally,
Socialists and Communists set up literature tables,
and people distributed kits containing a whistle and ICE reporting instructions.

People Over Billionaires Rally and March in San Francisco's Ritziest Neighborhood : Indybay
Frogs, an octopus, a squid, a school of orcas and activists bring their "People Over Billionaires" demands to the ultra wealthy in colorful march and rally

Over 100 people from Bay Area faith communities
🔥 shut down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office at 630 Sansome Street this morning,
chaining themselves across the two main entrances to stop ICE from kidnapping community members at their immigration check-ins.
 
Between May and October 2025, ICE arrested over 120 immigrants at the San Francisco ICE Field Office and San Francisco immigration court.
 
"We can no longer stand by and watch as our neighbors a…

Bay Area Faith Communities Shut Down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office : Indybay
Call for an End to ICE Kidnappings

House Speaker Mike Johnson says
he won't call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act,
effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.
That means higher insurance premiums will go into effect for millions of Americans who get coverage through Obamacare next year

House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won't call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month.

Trump vs BBC
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion
over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021,
in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.
Lawsuit's claims
The lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation and violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act,
seeking $5 billion in damages for each claim.
BBC's response
The BBC says it will defend the lawsu…

Trump sues BBC for $10B over edited Jan. 6 speech
President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a documentary that edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the Capitol Ellipse.

At least a dozen people have died in Gaza
as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians
forced to shelter in makeshift tents
among the rubble of collapsing buildings
severely damaged by Israeli bombing.
That rubble is being eyed by
U.S.-based contractors,
who are already vying for
lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza
under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal.
“People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruc…

From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
At least a dozen people have died in Gaza as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in makeshift tents among the rubble of collapsing buildings severely damaged by Israeli bombing. That rubble is being eyed by U.S.-based contractors, who are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. “People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruction in Iraq,” says Aram Roston, whose latest investigation f…

Strong winds topple Brazil's
Statue of Liberty replica
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-12-16/Strong-winds-topple-Statue-of-Liberty-replica-in-Brazil--1J9N9EgK8ve/p.html

Strong winds topple Statue of Liberty replica in Brazil
A replica of the Statue of Liberty collapsed during a powerful storm in Guaiba, Brazil, on Monday. The replica, nearly 24 meters tall, was installed in 2020 as a promotional symbol for a Brazilian retail store chain called Havan. No injuries were reported,

Zoe Weissman came to Brown from Parkland, Florida,
where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018.
“Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,”
says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life,
“my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger …
because we are the only country where this happens, a…

“We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence
The two victims in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University have been identified: freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook. We speak to another sophomore, Zoe Weissman, who came to Brown from Parkland, Florida, where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018. “Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,” says Weissman about surviving a second s…

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice
— the oldest on Earth
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/16/all-science-no-fiction-northwest-researchers-6-million-year-old-ice/

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice — the oldest on Earth
To find the oldest ice on the planet researchers had to go somewhere that’s been cold for a long time — where the ice builds up in layers instead of melting away.

Donald Trump deeply misjudged his response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner,
and he's incapable of understanding why.
https://bsky.app/profile/mirror.co.uk/post/3ma4h4dojyc26

The Mirror (@mirror.co.uk)
Donald Trump deeply misjudged his response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, and he's incapable of understanding why. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/9-unhinged-donald-trump-moments-36410478?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765898033

Labor market lost 41,000 jobs over October, November;
Unemployment rate is up
The October loss of more than 100,000 jobs was particularly striking,
-- the sharpest losses since the covid pandemic-era recession.
But economists expected losses in October
-- because the data reflected tens of thousands of federal workers who deferred resignation and officially parted ways with the federal government in October.
Federal government payrolls fell by 162,000 j…

Unemployment rate rises, signaling weakness in the economy
The labor market cool down continued this fall, according to new jobs numbers released on a delayed scheduled by the Labor Department.

One evening in early 1976, a bushy-haired Jeffrey Epstein
showed up for an event at an art gallery in Midtown Manhattan.
Epstein was a math and physics teacher at the city’s prestigious Dalton School,
and the father of one of his students had invited him.
Epstein initially demurred, saying he didn’t go out much, but eventually relented.
It would turn out to be one of the most fateful decisions he ever made.
At the gallery, Epstein bumped into another Dalton…

The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich
For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from. A Times investigation reveals the truth of how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society.

Federal data belatedly released Tuesday shows that the
US unemployment rate
rose to the highest level in four years last month
as Donald Trump’s administration continues its assault on the government’s workforce
and American corporations lay off workers at a level not seen in decades.
The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November,
up from 4.4% in September,
according to the Labor Department report, whose release was delayed due to the recent governme…

Trump Economy 'Stalling Out' as Unemployment Rate Hits Highest Level in 4 Years | Common Dreams
"Trump may give himself an A++++ on the economy, but these latest jobs numbers are failing working families."

New York City housing advocate
Patrick Markee’s new book,
"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age,"
looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States,
“has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,”
explains Markee.
“There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels…

Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States, “has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,” explains Markee. “There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels of homelessness that we have, and that’s b…

Remind me, who was president in 2020?
Oh, the *same* Donald J. Trump who is president during this *other* worst year for job growth, you say?
-- Mrs Betty Bowers
https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3ma5p47h6k22g

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social)
Remind me, who was president in 2020? Oh, the *same* Donald J. Trump who is president during this *other* worst year for job growth, you say?

The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying?
Wouldn’t that be better PR?
Unless maybe it’s all a big scam.
-- @ambientheat.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ambientheat.bsky.social/post/3lyvo6edkrk27

MJ (@ambientheat.bsky.social)
Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying? Wouldn’t that be better PR? Unless maybe it’s all a big scam. 🧐

Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in a national park in northern Italy.
The footprints - some of which are up to 40cm (15in) in diameter - are aligned in parallel rows,
and many show clear traces of toes and claws.
It is thought the dinosaurs were prosauropods - herbivores with long necks, small heads and sharp claws.
"I never would have imagined I'd come across such a spectacular discovery in the region where I l…

Stelvio national park: Thousands of dinosaur footprints found on Italian mountain
The footprints date back some 210 million years and show traces of toes and claws.

Mice can be trained to drink water
as a way to ‘tell’ researchers they see something
https://theconversation.com/gazing-into-the-minds-eye-with-mice-how-neuroscientists-are-seeing-human-vision-more-clearly-…

Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly
It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision is shaped by their environment and behavior can clarify the same in people.

The privately funded National Trust for Historic Preservation last week asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s project.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever
— not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit states.
“And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
Trump had the East W…

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons. It also says a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue. The court filing Monday was in response to a lawsuit filed last Friday by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt President Donald Trump’s project until it goes through multiple independent reviews…

Trump officials were told that cutting aid to South Sudan would exacerbate a deadly cholera epidemic. -- They did so anyway. 

Aid Charade: Even as lifesaving programs closed in South Sudan, Rubio and other officials maintained they were still active and that no one had died. -- We found that wasn’t true.

A Surging Outbreak: After the funding cuts, cases in South Sudan spiked. -- It’s the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a result.

I’m Dr. Richard Pan
-- a pediatrician who’s spent my life protecting kids and families
-- and I just launched my campaign for Congress in
California’s 6th District.
When the measles outbreak hit Disneyland, I stood up to RFK Jr. and his anti-vaccine movement. 
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀,
𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲.
𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗷𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲.
Now those same lies are spreading across…

Dr. Pan for Congress

Donald Trump on Monday blamed Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing,
delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a shocking post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-…

Trump levels political attack on Rob Reiner after his killing
President Donald Trump is blaming Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a shocking post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy. The statement on Monday, even for Trump, was a shocking comment that came as police were still investigating the deaths of the beloved director and his wife as an apparent homicide. The couple were found dead at their home Sunday in Los Angeles…

It’s definitely a long shot.
But Rae Huang, a 43-year-old community organizer, minister and dues-paying member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,
is making her move, throwing her hat into the ring for mayor of Los Angeles.
The virtually unknown candidate is the deputy director of Housing Now California,
a coalition that fights displacement of tenants at the state and local levels.
Huang, who announced a campaign launch on Sunday, i…

She's challenging Bass from the left. Could she become L.A.'s Mamdani?
Rae Huang, a 43-year-old community organizer and democratic socialist, is waging a long-shot campaign for L.A. mayor, focusing on free buses, public housing and police abuse.

Nowhere was quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara,
which experienced the soggiest three-day stretch of November rain in the county's recorded history.
According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between Friday and Sunday,
breaking the location's previous three-day total set in 2002 when it received 5.66 inches.
The downpour was so heavy because it pulled in moisture all the way from Hawaii as it rotat…

Santa Barbara hit hard by storms: record rainfall, flooded streets, moisture from Hawaii
According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between Friday and Sunday, breaking the location'...

Dozens of former US Department of Justice attorneys have now gone on record to describe the unprecedented corruption of federal law enforcement taking place during Donald Trump’s second term.
In a lengthy story published on Sunday by the New York Times,
the former DOJ attorneys described rampant politicization of prosecutions,
directives to dig up evidence on Trump’s political foes,
and orders to drop investigations into potential terrorist plots and white-collar crime…

‘Americans Should Be Enraged’: Reports Expose Unprecedented Corruption at Trump DOJ | Common Dreams
Former DOJ attorneys detail unprecedented corruption under Trump's second term. Politicization, pardons, and misuse of power exposed.

While immigrants do contribute to rising housing demand,
they are not the primary drivers of increasing housing costs.
Instead, factors such as housing shortages,
restrictive zoning laws,
and shifts in housing preferences in the wake of the pandemic
are the more dominant forces behind rising prices.
Furthermore, immigrant workers are essential to the housing supply, making up a crucial segment of the construction workforce that can address shortages and …

Vance Blames Immigrants, Biden in Response to Affordability Questions
There is no significant relationship between immigration rates and rising housing costs in the US, experts have said.

NEXLAB Satellite and Radar
https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=continental-w_southconus-15-96-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

COD NEXLAB: Satellite and Radar
Check out COD Meteorology's Satellite and Radar Data

It's Hakeem Jeffries. I’m about to let you in on what’s going on behind the scenes.
𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧: Republicans raised a record-breaking $36 million to keep control of the House.
𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗡: They used that massive war chest to launch attacks against 25 swing-seat Democrats. 
𝗡𝗢𝗪: The latest polls show a neck-and-neck race for the House majority.
Republicans and their billionaire donors think they can buy this election. We’re here to prove them absolutely wrong.
I’m launchi…

Hakeem Jeffries
For the People

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Urges Harvard to Cut Ties With Summers After Epstein Emails Surface
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/18/warren-summers-harvard/

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Urges Harvard to Cut Ties With Summers After Epstein Emails Surface | News | The Harvard Crimson
Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren (D-Mass.) urged Harvard to cut ties with former University President Lawrence Summers after newly released emails revealed years of personal correspondence between Summers and Jeffrey Epstein, CNN reported Monday.

Lawyers who care should run for positions in their respective state bar ethics committees.
We need to hold these people accountable, and make sure they never practice law again.
https://…

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

Donald Trump's family business and its Saudi partner are to build
a luxury Maldives resort that uses
blockchain technology to attract investment
https://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p41

Trump family and Saudi partner unveil tokenised Maldives resort
By Chloe Cornish / Financial Times. View the full context on memeorandum.

Democrats focused on the improving metrics
and lost voters who were drowning in the day to day reality.
Trump is doing something even worse.
He is telling people their suffering does not exist at all.
That is not optimism.
That is contempt.
And contempt has a way of boomeranging in politics.

THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS TRUMP WANTS YOU TO IGNORE
America is living through a cost of living crisis that is bigger than any talking point, any spin, any press event and the President is insulting our intelligence.

The recent election results proved something important.
Voters responded to candidates who spoke directly to economic pain.
When Democrats leaned into economic populism, they won.
They won by acknowledging reality, not sugarcoating it.
They won because they talked like people who know what a grocery bill feels like in 2025.
The mandate was clear:
tell the truth about the economy and fight for people who are getting squeezed.
And now comes Trump,…

THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS TRUMP WANTS YOU TO IGNORE
America is living through a cost of living crisis that is bigger than any talking point, any spin, any press event and the President is insulting our intelligence.

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice,
which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.
https://bsky.app/profile/econmarshall.bsky.social/post/3m5p6dgmagb2a

Marshall Steinbaum (@econmarshall.bsky.social)
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

Ukraine eyes 250-300 jet fleet
with Rafales, Gripens and F-16s post-war
Ukraine wants France's frontline Rafale fighter
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/ukraine-post-war-fighter-fleet-rafale-gripen/

Ukraine's 250-jet post-war fleet plans with Rafales, F-16s, Gripens
Zelensky outlines Ukraine's post-war air force of up to 250 F-16s, Gripens and Rafales, with Rafales as premium asset.

IT'S THE WEEKLY GOOD NEWS ROUNDUP - 11/16/25
Here’s a recap of all of the good things that have happened in the courts and elsewhere over the past week in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration, and to turn this ship around!
https://annepmitchell.subs…

Weekly Good News Roundup - 11/15/25
Here’s a recap of all of the good things that have happened over the past week in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration, and to turn this ship around!

The effort to create authoritarianism is more likely to lead to a breakup of the state than to a total regime change.
This end of the United States is possible, in part,
because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible.
Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest,
without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country.
For them, America is a limitless passive resource…

The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse

Millions of Americans have a huge financial stake in the next few weeks of Senate negotiations over the Affordable Care Act's enhanced tax credits.
Absent a deal, health care coverage costs could double next year for people who rely on ACA exchange plans.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/1…

3 roadblocks for the Senate's last-ditch health care negotiations
GOP risks a political bludgeoning and key Democrats are facing the ire of their party.

Dozens of white clergy are signing up to run as Democrats in 2026,
as progressive faith leaders push back on the political dominance of the Christian right.
Democrats have a track record of Black clergy running for office, but
when white pastors have run, it's usually been as Republicans.
https://www.

"Shocking" number of white clergy run as Democrats in 2026
"We're tracking about 30 white clergy who are running for office as Democrats around the country."

Trump has been an outspoken critic of Biden’s use of the autopen to conduct executive business,
going as far as to display a picture of one such device in place of a portrait of his predecessor in a new “Presidential Walk of Fame” he created along the West Wing colonnade.
His Republican allies in Congress last month released a blistering critique of Biden’s alleged “diminished faculties” and mental state during his term that ranked the Democrat’s use of the autopen among “the gr…

Justice Department quietly replaced 'identical' Trump signatures on recent pardons
President Donald Trump is facing new scrutiny over the use of a replicated signature on several recent pardons. Online commenters noticed identical signatures on clemency documents for Darryl Strawberry, Glen Casada, and Michael McMahon. Two forensic experts told The Associated Press on Friday that the signatures were identical. The administration replaced the images on Thursday with new documents showing varied signatures. The Justice Department attributed the replacements to a “technical er…

Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity
— a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels
— after Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in 2018.
Tehran long has maintained its atomic program is peaceful, though the West and the IAEA say Iran had an organized nuclear weapons program up until 2003.
Iran says it is no longer enriching uranium at any of its nuclear sites;

Iran says it is no longer enriching uranium at any of its nuclear sites; AP explains
Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity — a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels — after U.S.

Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video
demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.
“It’s a call to action,” one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday.
“While we are Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell survivors, we are standing for so many victims of sexual assault and of domestic violence, as well.”

Epstein survivors push for release of files in new PSA, say fight isn't political
Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.“It’s a call to action,” one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday.

The Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades
The proposed lease sales in the Pacific Ocean would primarily be off Santa Barbara County, Calif.,
where a small amount of drilling is already occurring, according to two of the people familiar with the Interior Department’s draft plan

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”

Sending women who get abortions to prison for decades.
Outlawing IUDs.
Sharply restricting in-vitro fertilization.
These are the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation being considered by South Carolina lawmakers,
even as opponents of the procedure are divided over how far to go.
The bill faces a long legislative path and uncertain prospects, even if it clears the state Senate subcommittee that’s reviewing it.
But the measure up for a …

South Carolina senators to debate strict abortion proposal Tuesday
A group of South Carolina senators plans to consider a proposal that could introduce the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation. The bill, which faces a long legislative process, highlights ongoing divisions in conservative states over abortion. It proposes banning all abortions unless the woman's life is at risk and could criminalize those who assist in abortions. The proposal has split anti-abortion groups, with some opposing punishment for women. The bill's future is u…

We've seen some big news in outbreaks over the weekend with Marburg in Ethiopia and H5N5 in Washington, US.
See more on both below👇.
https://bsky.app/profile/altcdc.altgov.info/post/3m5rjz67als2a

Alt CDC (they/them) (@altcdc.altgov.info)
🦠Marburg in Ethiopia Ethiopia confirmed its first-ever outbreak, with 9 cases in Southern Ethiopia. Marburg virus causes severe hemorrhagic fever; it's in the same family as Ebola. It primarily spreads through contact with body fluids. There are no vaccines. https://africacdc.org/news-item/africa-cdc-statement-on-confirmed-marburg-virus-disease-in-jinka-southern-region-ethiopia/

"The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times.
Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value,
plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt."
-- Nicholas Grossman

Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social)
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar" https://www.axios.com/2025/11/14/trump-swiss-gifts-gold-rolex

A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA.
The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium.
It shows no signs of resistance so far, offering hope in the fight against drug-resistant infections and paving the way for new approaches to antibiotic discovery.

Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It shows no signs of resistance so far, offering hope in the fight against drug-resistant infections and paving the way for new approaches to antibiotic discovery.

For a president who wants to project vigor and command at all times, Donald Trump made the worst possible spectacle of himself in the Oval Office last Thursday
when a participant fainted and several officials on hand rushed over.
-- Not Trump, however, who, after turning to look at the fallen man, stood a few feet away at the Resolute Desk with his back to the action, wearing an indifferent expression.
This was pointedly reflected in news photos that instantly went viral.

Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever
Even though he doesn’t want you to think so

Federal Border Patrol agents
arrested 81 people in immigrant neighborhoods across the Charlotte, N.C., area on Saturday,
the first day of an operation that has already drawn significant criticism over its aggressive tactics.
An immigrant rights group said it was the largest single-day tally for immigrant arrests in the state’s recent history.
The operation has startled people in one of the fastest growing cities in the country, whose growth in recent years has been sp…

U.S. Border Patrol Arrested 81 People in Charlotte, N.C.
Border Patrol agents descended on Charlotte this weekend searching for immigrants in the country illegally. It remains unclear how long the agents will stay.

Popular podcaster and comedian Tim Dillon,
who’s credited with helping bring young male voters over to President Donald Trump,
now has a dire prediction for MAGA.
“Let’s look at Trump here, and I do think, unfortunately, this is, kind of is the end of
— and I say unfortunately not because I care, truly
— but I say unfortunately because it seems to not be doing anything good for anyone,” Dillon said.
He continued:
This is the end of the Trump admini…

Tim Dillon Claims ‘This Is The End Of The Trump Administration’: ‘It’s Obvious To ...
Popular podcaster and comic Tim Dillon, who's credited with helping bring young male voters over to President Donald Trump, now has a dire prediction for MAGA.

More of this energy from our representatives‼️ please‼️
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 (@chariselee.bsky.social)
More of this energy from our representatives‼️ please‼️

Trump has added tariffs on many components that comprise the building blocks of manufacturing,
including a 50 percent tax on steel, aluminum and copper.
And tariffs have hit autos to the tune of 25 percent — with many exceptions,
10 percent on lumber
and 25 percent on upholstered furniture and vanities.

Here’s what’s going on with Trump’s tariffs, prices and the Supreme Court
Here’s what tariffs are on, which are at risk and what’s happening with consumer prices.


The day after Democrats swept this month’s voting, a group of jubilant Democratic congressional candidates gathered on Capitol Hill to listen to Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colorado) explain how they could triumph in next year’s midterm elections, too.

Crow, dressed in jeans, boots and an open-necked shirt, urged them to campaign next year as if they were running for mayor:
Be local, be authentic, don’t listen too much to campaign consultants, he argued,
and be ready to separate f…

This rising House Democrat is a voice for the angry middle
Why I’m keeping an eye on the political trajectory of Jason Crow, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The case of this Maine woman’s tick bite shows how prior authorization rules can block coverage for even simple, medically necessary care.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/16/tick-bite-prior-authorization/

A doctor directed her to a clinic for a tick bite. Her insurer refused to pay.
The case of one Maine woman shows how prior authorization rules can block coverage for even simple, medically necessary care.

Unión del Barrio has been doing “know your rights” workshops
and training people on how to spot ICE and report to the community when they do see them.
Cardona said it is important to document ICE raids and kidnappings to help people understand what they have been seeing and the way ICE goes about these operations.
Advocates have also been organizing patrols and responding to reported ICE activity.
Cardona said there have been many instances where community members in L…

Racial Profiling Is ICE’s New Norm. Activists Are Mobilizing in Response.
Arizonans long endured grim racial profiling under SB 1070. Now the Supreme Court has greenlighted its use nationwide.

Trump illegally blends governance and family business -- particularly in Persian Gulf countries.
Since returning to office, the Trump family and businesses have announced new ventures abroad involving billions of dollars,
made hundreds of millions from cryptocurrency,
and sold tickets to a private dinner hosted by Trump.
Trump is set to host Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, in Washington next week.
He hopes to sign a mutual defens…

Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal
The chief executive of a Saudi firm says a Trump-branded project is “just a matter of time.” The Trump Organization’s major foreign partner is also signaling new Saudi deals.

Trump's latest pardons underscore the breadth of his efforts to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, which was won by Joe Biden.
Donald Trump on Friday issued a second pardon to Daniel Edwin Wilson,
whom he had previously pardoned for participation in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,
but was in prison on a separate gun charge. The action was announced Saturday morning.

Trump also pardoned Suzanne Kaye, who had been sentenced to…

Trump gives second pardon to Jan. 6 participant and pardons two others
The latest pardons underscore the breadth of the efforts the president has taken to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

'We blew it up. And we’ll do it again’.
‘I don’t give a shit what you call it.’
These words, of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President J.D. Vance, respectively,
refer to the first of five US bombings of boats in international waters near Venezuela in the last month,
which have reportedly killed twenty-seven people overall.
Washington claims the boats were carrying drugs destined for US shores but has offered no proof;
evidence indica…

Gabriel Hetland, Murder in the Caribbean — Sidecar
The campaign against Venezuela.

Santa Barbara is gearing up to host its 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18, 2025.
Free tours aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Blackfin and Tall Ship Mystic Whaler are offered,
along with harbor rides on Azure Seas and Kelpie.
This year, Santa Barbara Sailing Center will introduce sailing lessons for attendees.
To promote eco-friendly travel, MOVE Santa Barbara County offers a free bike valet for festivalgoers.
Visit before or after you get a sk…

Santa Barbara to Host 22nd Annual Harbor & Seafood Festival on October 18 - edhat
The day-long event at the Santa Barbara Harbor on October 18 is a free community tradition runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.”
https://amandalitman.substack.com/p/50-things-you-can-actually-do

50 things you can actually do
If you're feeling helpless

A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms as the law currently allows.
Nor does a protest become a rebellion merely because of sporadic and isolated incidents of unlawful activity or even violence committed by rogue particip…

"Not Guilty"
A not-at-all-subtle reminder to Trump that he's just the president — and that means his power is limited. And: The Seventh Circuit keeps troop deployment blocked in Illinois.

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

A large number of armed Customs and Border Patrol agents responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying at least three rounds of tear gas over the area,
even with children and seniors in the area.
At least four protesters were detained.
“When you’re using these tactics, you are asking people to be hospitalized,”
said Oscar Sanchez, a member of a rapid response network that tracks immigration enforcement activity.
He said h…

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who protested the tactics of immigration agents.

We're not looking for a show vote from Republicans.
We're looking for meaningful help so that people can afford medical care.
-- Senator Elizabeth Warren
https://bsky.app/profile/warren.senate.gov/post/3m3fmmifads2u

Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov)
We're not looking for a show vote from Republicans. We're looking for meaningful help so that people can afford medical care.

Trump has no idea what reality is
https://bsky.app/profile/amberspeaks.bsky.social/post/3m3fifsmlbc2u

Amber Speaks Up (@amberspeaks.bsky.social)
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -Orwell [contains quote post or other embedded content]

COUNTDOWN: 1 day to No Kings 2
Today's Action: commit to being there
It MUST be important to go to No Kings.
Because Trump, Mike Johnson and the MAGA establishment have all declared they don't want you to go
Local No Kings:
noon 10/18,
Alameda Park,
1400 Santa Barbara St.
#NoKings

Indivisible Santa Barbara (@indivisiblesb.bsky.social)
COUNTDOWN: 1 day to No Kings 2 Today's Action: commit to being there It MUST be important to go to No Kings. Because Trump, Mike Johnson and the MAGA establishment have all declared they don't want you to go Local No Kings: noon 10/18, Alameda Park, 1400 Santa Barbara St. #NoKings #indivisiblesb

The last few years have seen a veritable onslaught of the Supreme Court overturning major precedent
—precedent that concerned hot-button issues,
spawned huge bodies of law on which lower courts now rely,
stood for 50 years,
and had been reaffirmed multiple times by previous Courts.
And perhaps most gallingly,
the Supreme Court has claimed that these overturnings were justified by the “correct” readings of history
— expressly paving the way for Trump…

How the Supreme Court taught Trump to rewrite history
"He who controls the present controls the past."

Marine Colonel Who Resigned Because Of Trump Says Personnel Should Question 'Illegal Orders'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doug-kruman-marine-colonel-trump-pete-hegseth_n_68f15eeee4b061265b2c3530

Marine Colonel Who Resigned Because Of Trump Says Personnel Should Question 'Illegal Orders'
Doug Krugman couldn't swear to "follow a commander in chief who seemed so willing to disregard the Constitution,” he wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others,
tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him.
Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative
https://bsky.app/profile/davidj…

David Bier (@davidjbier.bsky.social)
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

The language in NSPM-7 is culture war language bleeding into operating law,
and the problem with that is, culture war stuff isn’t describing anything real
https://therealnews.com/no-kings-protests-to-sweep-us-as-trump-attacks-activists

‘No Kings’ protests set to sweep US even as Trump increases attacks on activists
Republicans are already smearing the protesters, but their intimidation tactics are out of touch with reality.

Trump corrupts the minds of Americans
Normalizes bigotry, misogyny,
graft and greed
From: @apron.rupar@threads.net
https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DP1koWjiWp9

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Neguse: "What Donald Trump and his administration are attempting to do is create this perception that he has all the power, and create a sense of hopelessness or helplessness in the American public. We've gotta resist the temptation. He is electorally unpopular. In fact, the most unpopular president at this juncture than any modern president in the history of our country."

“𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿” - Boebert’s poisoned worldview is trickling down to Young Republicans.
In a groundbreaking expose, Politico just released the messages of the GOP's "brightest" rising stars.
What they said is beyond disturbing.
They called for rape, violence, and for their opponents to be sent to gas chambers,
expressed their adoration of Hitler and Nazism,
and called Black people monkeys and the N-word.
𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. …

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ICE has used the pretext of combating antisemitism to target dissidents.
A branch of the agency previously used to target drug smugglers and human traffickers has reportedly been directed to scan social media for posts sympathetic to Hamas.
Though ICE is ostensibly still bound by constitutional limits,
the way it has been operating bears the hallmarks of a secret police force in the making.
They typically meet five criteria:
they’re a police force targeting pol…

How ICE is becoming a secret police force under the Trump administration
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement meets most criteria that have defined secret police forces in authoritarian regimes. And the worst may be yet to come.

A report from InfoVaticana — a Spanish outlet with close Opus Dei ties — claims that Pope Leo XIV is on the verge of approving new statutes that would effectively dismantle Opus Dei as it exists today.
In Rome and at Opus Dei’s headquarters, no one denies that the Holy See’s intervention is imminent.
Two independent sources tell Letters from Leo that the text of the reforms is finalized and its promulgation is only weeks away.
According to the leaks, the changes would “mea…

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approve a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

A new, seemingly not yet publicly disclosed U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean
has left survivors for the first time, reports say.
Reuters, citing a U.S. official, reported that the U.S. bombed what they claim is a drug trade-related vessel on Thursday.
However, unlike the military’s previous five strikes, which were publicly disclosed by officials, the attack did not kill all of the people on board, the source said.
Other news outlets confirmed that the strike had …

A US Strike in Caribbean Leaves Survivors, Reports Say
News of the strike comes as the US military’s top official for Latin America has suddenly stepped down.

Donald Trump Thursday refiled his $15B defamation suit against @nytimes.com, three of its staff members and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social.
A spokesperson for the newspaper dismissed the suit as a meritless PR stunt.
https://bsky.app/profile/pressfreedomtracker.us/p…

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (@pressfreedomtracker.us)
Donald Trump Thursday refiled his $15B defamation suit against @nytimes.com, three of its staff members and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. A spokesperson for the newspaper dismissed the suit as a meritless PR stunt. https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/media-in-the-courthouse/#Oct-16-2025-NYT

The capture of prisoners presents a major new set of legal and policy problems for the Trump administration in its escalating terror campaign.
https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/115391110182959524

Jay Kuo (@jaykuo@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image I want to know EVERYTHING about these survivors they have detained. Now.

Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) lived his peculiar life on the conviction that
art could create an awareness that allowed one to see into and communicate the essence of experience.
Throughout his life he searched for the state of being one with the object of his poems,
something he believed a poet needed to reach in order to write truthfully.
This life-long search brought Basho to wandering.
He thought that travelling would lead to a state of karumi (lightness), ess…

In Basho’s Footsteps: Hiking the Narrow Road to the Deep North Three Centuries Later
Matsuo Basho (1644–1694) lived his peculiar life on the conviction that art could create an awareness that allowed one to see into and communicate the essence of experience.

It will be the Frog, of course
https://www.newsweek.com/americans-dont-think-donald-trump-deserves-nobel-peace-prize-10896188#Echobox=1760717181

Americans Don’t Think Donald Trump Deserves Nobel Peace Prize
Some 54 percent of Americans say Donald Trump does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Gaza conflict.