NYT: “Muscular” policies USA Today: An “anti-immigration champion”!! France:

Le Monde in English@english.lemonde.fr · 8h ago

Stephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration

For the first few months of Trump 2.0, ICE largely kept up business as usual, albeit with a manpower influx. Stephen Miller did not want that. So in May 2025 he called the heads of all ICE field offices to DC and screamed at them to raid Home Depots instead. The LA raids started two weeks later.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 16h ago

Stephen Miller in 2023 pitched “indiscriminate, or large-scale, enforcement activities ― involving basically going into any place where there’s known congregations of illegals and holding everybody on sight, determining who’s there illegally, and then taking [them into custody.]”

The Trump admin has arrested and detained tens of thousands of immigrants who are legally working while they await a decision on their status through the U.S. government's bureaucratic and backlogged immigration system. It's legal, but totally senseless; an effort to hit quotas.

R. Scott Rogers@arrscott.bsky.social · 20h ago

ICE has kidnapped a Wisconsin state trooper whose family brought him here from South Africa seeking asylum.

Hinojosa included on her transition team a Republican who was an opponent of the private school voucher plan the state legislature approved in 2025 - which drains money from Texas public schools.

Gina Hinojosa@ginafortexas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, I announced the leadership for my By and For The People transition team. In the coming days, we will announce ways to get involved in the transition and the incoming administration. You can learn more about our team here: https://governorhinojosa.com/

Everybody who had "Trump will be his most dangerous abnd violent as a lame duck" can now step forward and cash your ticket.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 24h ago

BREAKING: Trump announces Stephen Miller will become White House Chief of Staff

this is remarkable

Vitamin K Deficiency and Associated Bleeding in Infants. As the % of newborns getting vitamin K fell from 98% to 95%, rates of vit K-related bleeding in babies <6 months soared 350%. Brain bleeds in infants can cause strokes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Vitamin K Deficiency and Associated Bleeding in Infants

This cross-sectional study examines changes in intramuscular vitamin K receipt and incidence of vitamin K deficiency and vitamin K–deficient bleeding among US infants between 2017 and 2025.

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Huge return on investment in COVID vaccines.

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · yesterday

Health and economic benefits have been grossly underestimated www.newscientist.com/article/2597...

NEW: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has tens of millions of dollars invested in the AI industry. Meanwhile, he is leading the Trump administration’s charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.

Trump Official Who Wants Data Centers on Public Lands Has Tens of Millions Invested in AI Industry

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.

propublica.org

Ok. For those confused - At 1 pm Thursday, a federal commission packed by Trump began final hearing on the triumphal arch - At 10:30 pm, the commission approved the arch - Around 11:40 pm, Trump admin officials signaled they were ready to build arch - Around 11:45 pm, Judge Chutkan blocked it

Judge blocks Trump’s arch after federal panel approves it

U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan halted the planned 250-foot project, which opponents say is illegal and needs to be approved by the current Congress.

washingtonpost.com

BREAKING: In October, *every single one* of the 1,309 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. This is the 10th time in the past 11 months that the U.S. has blocked any legitimate refugee from arriving in the country. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · last mo.

BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.

Construction on Trump’s ego project, an arch, was going to be done 20 hours a day.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: Judge Chutkan has blocked construction of Trump's proposed "triumphal arch" for at least 14 days while litigation against it remains pending. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

THIS.

Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2d ago

if "your item is shipped" means a label was printed, straight to jail

Texas Governor-Elect Hinojosa asks Gov Abbott to put sale of a state park to Elon Musk on hold

ESG Hound@esghound.com · 2d ago

👀 Texas Governor-Elect Requests Pause on Land Talks With SpaceX bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-05/texas-governor-elect-requests-pause-on-land-talks-with-spacex

Trump on the White House: "If anyone ever decides to come and start knocking down walls, call me wherever I may be, and I will make sure it never happens, okay?" (The East Wing could not be reached for comment)

Van Hollen is currently saying that Dems will claw back money set aside for ICE, and use it to replace funds stolen from Medicaid and SNAP. Y'all. We're there.

The clearest signal from Trump at the moment is the lack of any signal. His public comments have ranged from resigned to cooperative to boasting. It’s one of the few times we’ve seen Trump seemingly unable to figure out how to react. It seems to apply to the whole White House.

"the mandate is to heal those who’ve been harmed, and to impede those who caused harm. Some might call it revenge, but if we look at the law, it’s basic accounting. The coyotes will always revisit the hen house if we leave the door open" @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/midterm-ma...

The midterm mandate

Winning is just the beginning. Now's the time to seize power.

thehandbasket.co

A big sell-off in tech stocks is underway. www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/s...

Nasdaq plummets into correction territory, Dow plunges 800 points as traders dump tech stocks: Live updates

The Dow Industrials posted its best day since April 2025, surging 3% after Democrats decisively swept Congress and oil prices fell.

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🚨BREAKING: Harmeet Dhillon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump who led the administration to an uninterrupted string of courtroom defeats in its crusade for states’ unredacted voter rolls, has resigned as head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Harmeet Dhillon, architect of Trump's failed voter roll crusade, resigns from Justice Department

Dhillon’s tenure leaves behind an aggressive anti-voting agenda whose most prominent objectives largely failed.

democracydocket.com

A man calls forth magical spirits in an effort to find his long-missing girlfriend in this new British comedy-fantasy. Original and surprising, Small Prophets imbues daily life with poetic touches. n.pr/4sJClFV

With humor, heart and homunculi, 'Small Prophets' is a gentle marvel

A man calls forth magical spirits in an effort to find his long-missing girlfriend in this new British comedy-fantasy. Original and surprising, Small Prophets imbues daily life with poetic touches.

n.pr

“Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, the famously anti-Trump GOP lawmaker, told CNN he plans to trigger a vote to impeach Hegseth when Congress returns next week — and multiple GOP sources said they expect it to pass.”

Republicans quickly turn against Pete Hegseth after midterms rout

President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for so...

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Attorney General-elect Nathan Johnson says he won’t sue out-of-state doctors who mail abortion pills to Texas.

Nathan Johnson won’t sue out-of-state abortion pill providers

Current Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued multiple out-of-state doctors for illegally mailing abortion pills, which abortion advocates say has chilled access.

texastribune.org

A bipartisan group of senators urged the Commerce Department to rescind its proposed rule that would exclude most noncitizens from the census population count used for determining congressional representation talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

Exclusive: Sen. Lisa Murkowski Joins Senate Dems to Oppose Census Rule That Would Shift Political Power

A bipartisan group of senators urged the Commerce Department to rescind its...

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So the Dallas NHL team, the Stars, might not be moving from Dallas to a suburb, Plano.

The Dallas Morning News@dallasnews.com · 3d ago

Plano voters rejected financing for the Dallas Stars arena Tuesday, a setback for the project’s funding but not a fatal blow to the hockey team’s plans to move to the suburb. bit.ly/4sBTzVH

One factor that helped fuel Democrats' dominance in Texas last night: Parental anger over the GOP's multiyear to war to force private school vouchers, ban library books and impose conservative Christian values on public schoolchildren. “Parents are just hopping mad,” one Republican told us.

Anger over GOP education agenda helped fuel Democratic sweeps in Texas, advocates say

Before they flipped Texas blue, Gina Hinojosa and James Talarico made names for themselves fighting book bans, private school vouchers and restrictions on classroom instruction.

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US prosecutors have dropped all criminal charges against a Russian scientist who was tossed into an immigration jail last year after she landed at a Boston airport with frog embryos intended for her cancer research at Harvard Medical School. https://cnn.it/3WOadFL

NYT: “.. In the history of the US, only three Black people were ever elected governor. Last night, five were.” (including Moore’s re-election.) @peterbakernyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/u...

Luci Baines Johnson came to celebrate last night. We just took back her dad’s Senate seat.