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Voters didn’t know what they were getting last November. Now they do — and they don’t like it

Voters didn’t know what they were getting last November. Now they do — and they don’t like it

G. Elliott Morris writes: The headline story from this year’s elections is simple: Democrats increased their support across the country and swept all the marquee contests in key states. Democratic Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger won Virginia by ~14 points, while Mikie Sherrill kept New Jersey blue by a double-digit margin. Georgia delivered two more statewide wins for Democrats, flipping both Public Service Commission seats for the first time in recent memory, and Pennsylvania elected a new Democratic lower-court judge (while keeping…

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Trump is an albatross the Republicans can’t shed

Trump is an albatross the Republicans can’t shed

Jamelle Bouie writes: As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump is a phenomenally effective vote-winner, capable of turning out millions of otherwise infrequent voters to deliver the White House and Congress to the Republican Party. But as president, Trump has been an albatross around the neck of his party. Consider his record as party leader. In the 2017 elections, Republicans suffered sharp defeats in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, with Virginia Democrats sweeping all three statewide offices and winning…

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‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care

‘I have papers’: Child care worker detained by ICE officers inside a Chicago day care

  The 19th reports: As parents dropped their children inside a Spanish immersion day care in Chicago Wednesday morning, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stormed the building to detain a child care worker, a scene that before this year would have been unheard of in the United States. Child care centers were previously protected under a “sensitive locations” directive that advised ICE to not conduct enforcement in places like schools and day cares. But President Donald Trump removed that…

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Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen bet big on Trump and it’s paying off for Silicon Valley

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen bet big on Trump and it’s paying off for Silicon Valley

By Jake Pearson This story was originally published by ProPublica For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the traditional financial system and sidestep its burdensome regulations. At the same time, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has policed that effort, going after such businesses for deceiving, overcharging or otherwise taking advantage of their customers by enacting rules, filing lawsuits and shutting down the…

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CBP agent reminisces about the sandwich that landed on his chest: ‘You could smell the onions and the mustard’

CBP agent reminisces about the sandwich that landed on his chest: ‘You could smell the onions and the mustard’

The Hill reports: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent struck by a sandwich in Washington, D.C., this summer testified Tuesday during resident Sean Dunn’s federal misdemeanor trial. CBP agent Gregory Lairmore, who was called as the government’s first witness, told jurors that the sandwich “exploded” on his chest, saying he could feel it strike even through his ballistic vest. “You could smell the onions and the mustard,” Lairmore said. Dunn doesn’t dispute that he threw the sandwich at…

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How AGI has become the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

How AGI has become the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

Will Douglas Heaven writes: Are you feeling it? I hear it’s close: two years, five years—maybe next year! And I hear it’s going to change everything: it will cure disease, save the planet, and usher in an age of abundance. It will solve our biggest problems in ways we cannot yet imagine. It will redefine what it means to be human. Wait—what if that’s all too good to be true? Because I also hear it will bring on the apocalypse…

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Israeli dissidents can show Americans how to be a good citizen when your country does terrible things

Israeli dissidents can show Americans how to be a good citizen when your country does terrible things

Masha Gessen writes: When your country pursues abhorrent policies, when the face it turns to the world is the face of a monster, what does that say about you? In my experience, it is strikingly easy to shrug off one’s responsibility for the country where one pays taxes, contributes to the public conversation and, at least nominally, has the right to vote, if that country is the United States. It seems one can just say “Not in my name” and…

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FBI warns that criminals are posing as ICE and urges federal agents to ID themselves

FBI warns that criminals are posing as ICE and urges federal agents to ID themselves

Wired reports: Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct. “Ensure law enforcement personnel adequality [sic] identify themselves during operations and cooperate with individuals who request further verification,”…

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Dick Cheney’s war on terror paved the way for the rise of Trump and the destruction of democracy

Dick Cheney’s war on terror paved the way for the rise of Trump and the destruction of democracy

Spencer Ackerman writes: The week before Dick Cheney died, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, one of the bureaucratic venues through which the most powerful vice president in U.S. history disfigured the country, informed Congress that it would have no say over Donald Trump’s rapidly coalescing military aggression against an oil-rich country. While self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted over social media about treating the Caribbean fishermen that he insists without evidence are drug smugglers “exactly like al-Qaeda,” Office…

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‘Free speech protects the right to speak; it does not compel anyone to provide a megaphone for a Nazi’

‘Free speech protects the right to speak; it does not compel anyone to provide a megaphone for a Nazi’

The National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, a project of @Heritage, has done valuable work. But free speech includes the right to associate—and not to. I cannot serve under someone who thinks Nazis are worth debating. Here is my resignation letter: pic.twitter.com/ccVHMdlDbO — Mark Goldfeder (@MarkGoldfeder) November 2, 2025 New York Post reports: One of the largest conservative think tanks in Washington, DC, has been roiled by its president’s embrace of Tucker Carlson after the conservative podcaster hosted white nationalist…

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Judge chastises DOJ lawyers for ‘waste of time’ in deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino

Judge chastises DOJ lawyers for ‘waste of time’ in deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino

Chicago Tribune reports: The deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino nearly ground to a halt last week as government lawyers repeatedly objected to questions by plaintiffs’ attorneys, including some about communications between Bovino and White House adviser Stephen Miller, court records obtained by the Tribune show. The impasse prompted attorneys for both sides to go before U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in the middle of Bovino’s sworn testimony on Thursday, where lawyers for the Justice Department complained that Bovino…

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Trump at center of governing chaos through contradictory statements on SNAP payments

Trump at center of governing chaos through contradictory statements on SNAP payments

HuffPost reports: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal food benefits won’t be distributed until after Democrats agree to reopen the government. Hours later, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt contradicted the president, saying food benefits would go out after all. As of Tuesday afternoon, it was basically unclear what was going on, except that Donald Trump had placed himself at the center of governing chaos. In a Truth Social post on Tuesday morning, Trump said Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…

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Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund votes against $1 trillion compensation for Elon Musk

Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund votes against $1 trillion compensation for Elon Musk

electrek reports: A major Tesla shareholder announced that they are voting against Elon Musk’s CEO compensation package, but the odds are still in his favor. As we have been extensively reporting over the last few weeks, Tesla shareholders are set to vote on a new compensation package for Elon Musk worth up to $1 trillion. The package is highly controversial. On one hand, the board, Musk, and his fans are presenting it as an “all or nothing” situation on which…

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The rise of a new American oligarchy: Top 10 billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year

The rise of a new American oligarchy: Top 10 billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year

The Guardian reports: The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America published on Monday on the growing wealth divide. The report warns that Trump administration policies risk driving US inequality to new heights, but points out that both Republican and Democratic administrations have exacerbated the US’s growing wealth gap. Using Federal Reserve data from 1989 to 2022, researchers also calculated that the top…

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