Good Things Friday (401) and Link Love
November 6, 2026

2026 midterms: absolutely astonishing results. Just amazing. The result of so much hard work by organizers on the ground in deep red states and powered by collective fury. I’m so proud of all the people who made this happen.
May Mamdani only be the first of many people who are good at their jobs, good at communicating their work, and dedicated to the lives and health of the people they work for.
To hell with this presidential administration and every single corrupt and complacent tool who helped him take power and grift from this country.

The DOJ Official Who Spent 19 Months Terrorizing Colleges Is Resigning
It’s time for all our Congressional reps to support this: Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
How The Golden State Valkyries Won The Most Unlikely Championship
GET THEIR ASSES, it’s way past time for consequences for their crimes: Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents
I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy. He planned to make good trouble. But he didn’t expect to be handed a Fox News mic.
Good, it needs to drop further to break through the massively inflated fake money no actual value bubble that’s been formed around all these planned data centers and tech that doesn’t deliver: Global tech stocks plunge as US midterms add to AI slowdown fears.
The quotes in the article are deeply annoying of course. Tech leaders still don’t get it. They are determined to believe it’s about messaging when it’s about their garbage product built on stolen work meant to put most of us out of work at a steep cost to our environment when it isn’t even good at the job it does!