Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

While we’re on the subject of Ronald Reagan.

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

“The president demolished the White House.” “The president politicized the FBI and DOJ to go after his opponents.” “The president is why life is more expensive today.” “The president was besties with Epstein.” Messaging isn’t hard and makes you wonder why Dems aren’t saying this every day.

"It won't touch the building." "It will just be the East Wing facade." "It will just be the East Wing." "It will just the whole White House." (If no-one stops them, why would they stop?)

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the table—then called it “restructuring.” The cuts: 📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage) 📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage) 📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage) 📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)

🎵 Big Mama Thornton - "Hound Dog" Also, by the way, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was the first Rock 'n' Roll artist/singer/guitarist, way before Elvis & Chuck. #MusicSky #TheBlues #RockNRoll #SisterRosettaTharpe #BigMamaThornton 🎵

FIRED DOJ LAWYER: “I responded up the chain of command - that’s a lie. I cannot sign my name to that.” Erez Reuveni says he was fired by Trump’s DOJ for refusing to lie that KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA was a terrorist & gang member.

Dec. 14, 1955. Chicago, IL. TRIPLETS born. ONLY 2 BABIES WENT HOME. Family was told 3rd baby died. There's reason to believe child was "stolen" Unfortunately this wasn't uncommon. Do you know anyone who looks like these women? Baby may've grown up in Indiana PLEASE publicize this search by sharing

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and… I was purged from the voting roll. PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation. youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...

I’m just gonna leave this here. When it speaks for itself, why try to add more clutter? This is succinct and on point as is!

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Elon Musk and Stephen Miller both tweeted against judges today. A South Carolina judge's house burned down and almost killed her family.

Breaking on MSNBC: An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey. This news was first reported by Reuters.

Please!! @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files. My team has now filed motions to defend those states against this attack on federalism in 6 of those states: ME, MI, MN, NH, OR and PA. I suggest that tomorrow DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining two: CA and NY.

How is this sustainable?

😵‍💫 he wasn’t hired for his competence 🍸

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

I’m telling you, there’s just not enough outrage about the craven actions of Speaker Mike Johnson.

This is SO important, but gets lost in the chaos of the day… she was FIRED for following the LAW 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

We need to build a new opposition movement. In this video, I lay out the challenge ahead and what I think we need to do to make it happen. Please watch, comment, and share. youtu.be/_GUgnpAYMCc

I still am stunned, years later, that dozens of cops at Uvalde waited 77 minutes to kill the shooter while kids died. Has ANYONE been held accountable?

There is only one way to resolve this. RELEASE THE HOMAN TAPES!!!

Wow. Not at all surprising, but wow. Blatant corruption is perfectly fine (encouraged, even) in this administration.

The title of this post from @riana.bsky.social says it all. This is a blazing big deal for the 4th Amendment. Then again, it's a blazing big deal for like ten other reasons. Mostly because lets the FTC decide if platforms enforced their speech rules correctly. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/18/t...

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

mass shooting at minneapolis homeless encampment days after a fox news host calls to kill all homeless people

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

Brian Kilmeade wants to murder unhoused Veterans then?

I have no words for this.

Pointing out Charlie Kirk's hate speech is not hate speech. It's objective reporting. Apologize to Matthew Dowd and rehire him. A full-throated embrace of genocide is hate speech – beyond all measure. Fire Brian Kilmeade. Immediately.

And then, they say it's the "radical left" who are the most violent 🤷‍♀️

Poland’s prime minister 👇🏽

#GVerse #Sandyhook #FuckCharlieKirk

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