McWhorter on Trump's speech patterns doesn't *say* that he's senile and demented. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/o...

Opinion | What Are Those Strange Noises Trump Makes? (Gift Article)

These are erratic executive eruptions.

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📬 ALASKA SENATE RACE: Mail ballots postmarked by Election Day must arrive at election offices by TODAY. Though Democratic candidate Mary Peltola is projected to win, recent comments from Trump suggest the administration may still try to block certification: https://demdock.com/4t6OkxB

Especially given as much time as @mattyglesias.bsky.social spends on Twitter, I am astounded that he would say this. This is Vance-level lying -- not only is it 100% wrong, it's trivial to disprove it. h/t @nameshiv.bsky.social

short king simp↙↙↙@yeospaceman.bsky.social · 22h ago

Matthew Yglesias: "The quote unquote Indian question is interesting... because there are no prevailing, seriously prevailing, negative stereotypes of Indian Americans..."

Trump’s AG Todd Blanche says if anyone in the Trump administration is impeached, he will be their lawyer. “Blanche is losing his marbles,” Marc Elias says. They want you to stop paying attention. Follow us so you don’t miss a thing.

Why is no one demanding to hear Kimberly Guilfoyle's take on the midterm elections?

Growing up, Marc Elias had a special connection to the state of Mississippi. “I did not expect that I would see the day that a Democrat would be elected to the United States Senate from Mississippi,” Marc says. Follow us and share this post to help this story reach the people who need it.

President Donald Trump blamed Republicans’ resounding midterm defeat on the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the SAVE America Act, likely the most anti-voting bill in recent American history. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump: Not passing SAVE America Act ‘devastating’ for GOP in midterms

President Donald Trump blamed Republicans’ resounding midterm defeat on the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the SAVE America Act, likely the most anti-voting bill in recent American histo...

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NEW: After winning Mississippi’s Senate race, Scott Colom attributed his victory to the massive mobilization response following SCOTUS’ gutting of the Voting Rights Act. “We’ve got African American voters understanding that voting rights are on the line,” he said. https://demdock.com/4zNrBcs

"The election showed that as goes Florida, so goes Florida. The Republican migration that’s made it redder has made the rest of America a little less red . . . ." A plausible alternative to the "all we needed was a little more money" take. cont'd www.nytimes.com/2026/11/13/o...

Opinion | The Swingiest State Has Gone Very Red (Gift Article)

A lot of Republicans have moved to the state since Covid, and those newcomers really like the way Republicans are running it.

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Can the new Dem majority end the every-two-or-four-year pendulum that has seen wave after wave, blue and red, flood the political arena only to recede? Maybe. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/13/o...

Opinion | The Worst Thing Democrats Could Do Right Now (Gift Article)

Democratic power in the final years of the Trump presidency must look, feel and be different from that of the past.

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So I went into this interview thinking that my reaction was going to be "great, my worst fear, Dems internally can compromise on everything except Israel", but that's not at all how it went. Piker is a "kochleffel", someone who wants to stir things and people up. But I'm with Ezra. cont'd

Opinion | Hasan Piker Wants to Win (Gift Article)

The socialist Twitch streamer describes himself as “pragmatic” when it comes to how Democrats wield power.

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Susie Wiles was a 100% MAGA loyalist. But Stephen Miller is much worse, Marc Elias says. “He is from the worst part of the worst wing of the worst political movement of a generation.” Follow us to keep watch on the people rewriting the rules.

But remember, Carter led to Reagan, Clinton led to Bush, and Obama led to Trump. I think you have to wait at least three election cycles--maybe even three presidential election cycles--before you call a radical shift in the electorate. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/o...

Opinion | The Political Center of Gravity Isn’t Trump. It’s Obama. (Gift Article)

America just isn’t a center-right country.

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If you could read my mind, AI, what a tale my thoughts would tell. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/o...

Opinion | I Saw the Future of Mind-Reading (Gift Article)

Thanks to A.I., it’s more possible than ever to glean the inner recesses of a person’s mind. The implications are big — and unnerving.

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Antisemitism can bite you from unexpected directions--Spanish dictionaries? But American usage has long sheltered the slur "to jew someone down". Motes and beams. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/o...

Opinion | The Spanish Shylock Problem (Gift Article)

The language’s watchdog, Spain’s Royal Academy, holds fast to a dubious definition of “Jew.”

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🗳️ Trump’s attempts to subvert the midterm election were thwarted by the courts. But ongoing litigation will determine whether he can enact his sweeping attacks on voting for 2028. Here’s where things stand on 📬 mail voting, 📝 state citizenship lists and more:

The midterms are over, but Trump’s legal assault on voting continues. Here’s where those cases stand

Donald Trump’s attempt to subvert the midterm election was blocked by the courts in a flurry of temporary orders ahead of Election Day, but ongoing litigation will determine whether he can enact his s...

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I love how world is 2x China even though all the other top solar adopters are so small, because it shows how it’s not one special nation but every nation around the globe where the mass solar rollout is happening with staggering speed, as millions of individuals & a hundred governments choose green!

Benne W. Holwerda@benneholwerda.bsky.social · 2d ago

Would you like to see an exponential?

Good interview of @stevenstrogatz.com by @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social You don't need any special skills to follow the discussion. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

What happens to mathematics when AI becomes an oracle?

Mathematician Steven Strogatz discusses his new book, Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to access Delaware’s full, unredacted statewide voter registration list and related records. DOJ is now 0-28 in these lawsuits. ELG remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/delawa...

🚨 United States of America v. Albence

Learn more here.

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In Trump’s “60 Minutes” interview, he was asked about UFOs, death and religion. Not once was he asked about election denialism. Good thing Democracy Docket covers the stories that the legacy media is ignoring, Marc Elias says: demdock.com/486Wj4b

🚨BREAKING: The White House threatened incoming House Oversight Chairman Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) for promising to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

White House steps up threat to prosecute Democrats over congressional oversight

"We are a co-equal branch of government and will not be deterred by baseless threats from a weaponized DOJ or from the President’s lawyers," Garcia said.

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Hear hear.

Chad Orzel@orzelc.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's Veteran's Day in the US, which means time for the twice-yearly reminder that the best tribute to the sacrifices made by those who serve in the military is to work for a world in which we need fewer of them.

ICYMI: The last of the DOJ’s lawsuits seeking states’ unredacted voter rolls has been ruled on — handing the department its 28th straight loss. Every single federal district court that has ruled on the issue, including one appeals court, has rejected the DOJ’s argument: https://demdock.com/4Ao4bdx

NEW: Republicans have chosen Rep. Jim Jordan as their new leader in the U.S. House following a disastrous midterm defeat. Jordan previously worked to subvert the 2020 election on behalf of Trump and pushed false anti-voting claims. https://demdock.com/3WF9N4A

Jim Jordan, who played key role in bid to overturn 2020, elected House GOP leader

Jordan aggressively worked to subvert the 2020 election on behalf of President Donald Trump and pushed false anti-voting conspiracy theories.

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Aaron, I love your work, but I wish you had just posted it in the original German: Befehl ist Befehl.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Hegseth notes that everything he did was "ordered by the commander in chief" (he was just following orders, you see)

So how can we impeach Hegseth without impeaching Trump?

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 3d ago

Aaron, I love your work, but I wish you had just posted it in the original German: Befehl ist Befehl.

A special @beforecast.bsky.social episode this week: me telling my BEST *modern* Vatican gossip story, the tale of the Vatican Necropolis and how they lost and found the Bones of Saint Peter! www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ew...

They found an ancient Necropolis beneath the Vatican | Beforecast Episode 10 with Ada Palmer

YouTube video by Beforecast

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"Some of us have been trying to warn you about this for years — that making Israel a wedge issue in American politics by aligning yourself with right-wing Republicans and evangelical Christians and abandoning Democrats and liberal Jews would haunt you one day." cont'd

Opinion | It’s Time for Israelis to Throw Out Their Trump (Gift Article)

The U.S. midterm election results should be a lesson to the Israeli opposition in rallying against Netanyahu.

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It's Reaganites versus the New Right, and Oren Cass knows which side he's on. The issues: 1. Sould government simply get out of markets' way? 2. How to balance the interests of corporations and workers? cont'd

Opinion | The Post-Trump Battle Lines Are Drawn (Gift Article)

Not since the Civil War has the party had so much up for grabs.

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Dunno whether this happened, or happened like this, but whew! www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

Trump and Netanyahu Clash in ‘Shouting Match from Hell’ Over Iran war: Report

Netanyahu has been pressing for renewed military action against Iran, while Trump has signaled that he wants to give diplomacy another chance.

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