Woot woot! I happened to take this photo at our kitchen store Stan's Kitchen at Standard 5&10 Ace in SF yesterday!! Timely! #MomSky

BREAKING: 1st Circuit denies Trump administration request to stay judge's order forcing full payment of SNAP for November. Opinion by Rikelman (Biden), Joined by Barron (Obama), Gelpi (Biden). Order remains on hold for 48 hours per Justice Jackson. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

When you live in a purple state and you overhear folks complaining at the grocery store about what families get with their EBT card...SNAP Moms should be able to get their toddler a small birthday cake ... GMAFB !!!! ... YES I SAID IT LOUD & CLEAR

“We will keep fighting for our health care and our democracy.” —Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi And might I add to her good statement: WOMENS RIGHTS. #Pinks Never give up, never give in. 💙 #ProudBlue Keep fighting on for #WomensRights 💖

This is horrifying.

A few weeks ago I wrote about a 13 year old boy from Massachusetts who had been abducted by ICE and sent to a detention center in Virginia. I wrote about the trauma of a child being separated from his family and community, and I posed the question: What are we doing here? I have some updates. 🧵

Elise Stefanik’s husband Matthew Manda works for National Shooting Sports Foundation, an extreme gun lobby group that used to be headquartered 3 miles from Sandy Hook School. It spends way more than the NRA on lobbying efforts to block all gun control efforts. www.timesunion.com/news/article...

This is what Trump meant when he said "And so it begins". I'm a proud Indian American, US Citizen, USAF Veteran and am disgusted by what ICE and DHS are doing. Enough.

Nancy Pelosi was the first national leader to believe in @votersoftomorrow.org, back when we were all just a bunch of teenagers. For the past few years, she’s been there whenever we’ve needed her, always providing encouragement — and squeezing my cheek when I see her. I’m just so grateful for her.

Q: Food prices are still going up. Grocery prices are still going up. How do you respond? MIKE JOHNSON: All of the economist have shown that food prices always go up. There's an inflationary level that's built in to grocery prices.

Very grateful to @pelosi.house.gov for her years of dedicated service and serious badassery!! She showed how it's done--standing up to Trump's nonsense, passing legislation, and how to pass the torch with strength and grace. Importantly, she showed girls they belong in power! Thank you!

Ummm...Virginia here! Just flipped our Gov, Lt Gov & AG Blue.

This will increase Mamdani's margin of victory by double digits. #ETTD

TODAY: Don't BOO... VOTE! ✅ CA: YES on PROP 50 ✅You poke the Bear, the Bear bites back! NJ: MIKIE SHERRILL for GOV. ✅ VA: ABIGAIL SPANBERGER for GOV. ✅ GHAZALA HASHMI for Lt. GOV. ✅ Let's All Stick Together & #StickItTo_tRUMP!!!!!

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Virginia, Election Day is TOMORROW, Tuesday, November 4. Here’s what you need to know before you vote. 🧵

SNAP is a domestic violence intervention. Being able to feed your family is foundational to leaving an abusive relationship.

This is disgusting anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric coming from the current Governor. Ghazala Hashmi is an American name. Immigrants in Virginia are our neighbors, store owners, and friends. They are valued and welcome. Vote 🗳️ @senatorhashmi.bsky.social for Lieutenant Governor

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

"To any governors or state legislators out there... if you are in a position where you have the power to redraw your maps... if you have the ability to meet this moment with the urgency that it deserves, I'm calling on you to do exactly what we're doing in California and to fight fire with fire."

oh just straight up gutter racism!

Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown

Virginia Tech is ready to VOTE! It was amazing to be surrounded by so many energized students in Blacksburg this evening. Now let’s go win.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

There are good people amongst us. If you are a furloughed government worker In the Baltimore area This popular restaurant EKIBEN is offering free meals just bring your government I.D. Thank you We're all in this together

Pepper ball rounds Trump immigration agents are firing at protesters: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/v...

The US & UK constitutional traditions both assume that the best way to constrain a tyrant is to ensure parliamentary control over "the power of the purse". If a president can pay troops via a private donor, & impose taxes at his personal whim, a key pillar of Anglo-American constitutionalism falls.

🚨CALLING EVERYONE TO PHONE BANK TO WIN THE VA GOVERNOR'S SEAT. Join the call & SURJ will give you a script, training & support to make calls to VA voters. #MomSky www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Weeks ago I wrote about 13 and 17yo sisters missing after ICE abducted their mother from a Worcester, MA street. Today I come with a story of another 13yo victim of ICE terror. But in this case, we know where the mom is. The 13yo was disappeared by ICE. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/ruthzaka...

SOUTHBOUND: 1) Leesburg: 3:10, 5:15, 7:36PM 2) Dulles: 3:39, 5:44, 8PM 3) Manassas Park: 4:35, 6:40, 8:37PM 4) Dale City: 5:10, 7:15, 9:07PM Details: www.princewilliamtimes.com/localnews/bu...

We finally have a bus linking Manassas Park to Dulles! ✈️ NORTHBOUND: 1) Dale City commuter lot: 4:30, 6:25, 11AM 2) Manassas Park VRE station: 5:05, 7, 11:35AM 3) Dulles Kiss & Fly lot by the Metro: 5:49AM, 7:46AM, 12:27PM 4) Loudoun County Government Center in Leesburg: 6:21AM, 8:12AM, 12:55PM

The shutdown is hitting where it hurts—our kitchens. SNAP funds might stop but hunger won’t. It’s time to share food access resources that keep families fed without red tape. Free, low-cost, and local options exist. Let’s start with Feeding America: www.feedingamerica.org #Pink #MomSky

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. This isn't the bumbling, directionless Trump first term. This time, they are implementing a plan to let Trump and his people rule forever. But it's not too late to stop them.

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

If this ruling goes through in favor of the GOP you can count on our party from ever winning again. It’s a big deal and it’s happening Wednesday. 🔄 www.salon.com/2025/10/08/s...

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance. If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

In town near me, a 13 yo was abducted by ICE and sent to a facility in Virginia. He is sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum sheet for a blanket, and is being held with adults. He calls his mother crying. I can’t imagine how traumatized this child is. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

My statement together with Muslim leaders from across the Commonwealth in response to John Reid's pattern of Islamophobic statements.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

Final numbers for #JoeBiden.

#MomSky What are Biden’s final numbers for his 4 years in office? www.factcheck.org/2025/10/bide...

It's my first time experiencing a democracy devolving into authoritarianism. I don't have to be good at it. None of us do. It's okay to be sad & confused. It's okay to be really bad at dealing with this. Just try to get up in the morning, join a community & love your loved ones.