This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

The president is desperate to make sure Americans go hungry. Seems like a pretty big news story? Especially as he's throwing massive parties for himself and building a giant golden ballroom? If the media or Democrats are looking for a "kitchen table" issue, this seems like a *pretty* good fit

It’s game day!! Let’s go squish some fish, #BillsMafia!!!

As usual the "economic anxiety" argument is being deployed to whitewash the odious views of wildly privileged people who want to get into power and make thing even worse for the poor. If this kid is racist it's because he's racist, it's not because he's struggling.

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Republicans: "Don't call us fascists! It's not nice." These are the people Cuomo caucused with in a desperate attempt at victory. Paint him with the same brush because he's earned it.

Unless/until VA Republicans condemn Trump/Republicans' breaking all the rules and norms to redistrict Dems out of existence in the "red" states, don't listen to a single word of their faux "outrage" at VA Dems fighting back! bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund... h/t @atrupar.com

We can't find money to feed hungry children (SNAP) or to keep planes in the sky (FAA), but we can find money for this?

We're closing in on having a trillionaire and the government remains shut down and food assistance is being withheld largely because it might result in public details about our current president's connection to a sex trafficker. Did I miss any of the high points?

ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

The more we learn about Zohran Mamdani's upbringing, the clearer it becomes that he owes everything to his connected, well-to-do parents. by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Republicans waged a relentless, decades-long campaign to privatize Medicare and Medicaid They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers We are supposed to take this seriously?

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper. The actual existing Democrats gained two seats in the House in 2024, & they would have won control were it not for the late, illegal GA/NC gerrymandering.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating. And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.

It’s not just that they fear what Ds might do in the future. The filibuster allows them to support insane policies that they don’t actually want to pass, but don’t want to take the hit for voting against.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry. Amazing.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

The sense of entitlement from these people. Jesus.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

“in many ways” = no ways whatsoever

Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.

My students are really sick of being harassed by chatbots popping up when they are writing.

The absolute collapse of their stupid AI ruse — hopefully followed by a massive wave of tech regulation and imprisoning the politicians who enabled this — cannot come soon enough.

ICE unlawfully ripped a woman from Rayito Del Sol, a daycare and private business, in front of parents and children. They did not possess a judicial warrant and she was in America legally. Her children are also detained. We must abolish and prosecute ICE. This cannot go on.

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed

Red sky at night, sailor’s delight

Some will credit national winds for Virginia’s blue wave last night, but Speaker Scott and Chair Helmer built it from the start. Dems can win big when we elevate leaders with the vision, brains, and hustle to make it happen.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

How very "cocktails on the lido deck at 5 daily"

Big winners in yesterday's elections? The students, faculty, & staff at Virginia's public universities, who now have powerful allies in their fight to keep their schools' boards (appointed by our MAGA governor) from dragging the universities back to Jim Crow days.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'. Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy. [ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]

Sic Semper Tyrannis, y’all 🫡