FEDERAL WEBSITES ARE PLASTERED WITH MAGA PROPAGANDA. IT IS'NT LEGAL The Trump administration is using taxpayer money to blame Democrats for the shutdown https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/hatch-act-trump-admin-violating-dems-shutdown-1235460985/

“If you look at affordability, which [Democrats] campaigned on, they lied,” Trump said. The numbers show he and his administration are the ones lying about rising costs https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-affordability-crisis-reality-1235462508/

Patriotic Millionaires, a group of high-net-worth individuals who advocate for more progressive taxes in order to close the wealth gap, is suggesting an alternative that it says would spare commercial airline passengers and still offer relief for air traffic controllers: Just cancel all private […]

With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors. The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, through a series of new notices and proposed […]

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Any Democrat voting for this should be primaried as quickly as possible because they're stupid, aren't capable of recognizing they're winning, are incapable of representing their constituents, and are cowards not up to this era's challenges.

The Trump administration told states to “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if they do not comply. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Trump administration is telling states NOT to pay full November food stamp benefits, revising its previous guidance after winning a temporary victory at the Supreme Court on Friday https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/trump-administration-tells-states-to-undo-full-snap-benefits-00643887

Trump’s threat to go “guns-a-blazing” into Nigeria concerned U.S. military officials in Africa and surprised even those who had been pushing the issue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/09/nigeria-trump-christians-military-action/

A row over bias at the BBC has been led by its rightwing critics in the media, who have kept up a drip-drip of stories and interviews with politicians similarly hostile to the broadcaster […]

Trump is pressuring Republican-run states to redraw their congressional maps outside the usual once-a-decade schedule and lock in as many additional safe Republican seats as possible. Texas has gerrymandered an additional five GOP seats, Ohio two, and Missouri and North Carolina one each, and […]

Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions […]

Trump & Co. could effectively debase the dollar. They could do it through policy choice or sheer incompetence. Arguably, they have already started. They will not like the outcome. https://c.im/@cdarwin/115521484203642117

A heavy dose of hocus pocus will be needed to make the Trump administration’s dollar policy work in the interest of the United States, for it appears that they want to end the US dollar’s supremacy in global finance. Stephen Miran, the president’s chief economic adviser, on leave to act as […]

A year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections, Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged attack on almost every aspect of voting in the United States and raising what experts say are troubling questions about […]

In recent months, youth-led protests have toppled governments around the world, from Nepal to Peru, driven by rising disillusionment with political elites and high rates of unemployment. These uprisings have followed in the footsteps of last year’s protests in Bangladesh, which have been […]

Alexander Smirnov, the ex–FBI informant who admitted to lying about the Biden-Burisma connection, has been released from prison just months into his six-year prison sentence. In a plea deal in December 2024, Smirnov admitted to completely fabricating the conspiracy that became central to a […]

The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with fat people. https://newrepublic.com/post/202898/trump-us-visas-deny-fat-people-obesity

Two days before Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met with Mr. Trump at the White House, the United States halted funding for Szabad Európa, the Hungarian-language branch of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. In a Nov. 5 letter to Representative Mario Díaz-Balart — Kari Lake wrote that the […]

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t actually own the planes – and that the aircraft lacked engines. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/kristi-noem-spirit-airlines-planes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Using unique data from the Shift Project, our new study, co-authored with Julie Su and Kevin Bruey, offers the first direct, large-scale comparison of working conditions for drivers and fulfillment employees at Amazon, UPS and FedEx based on survey responses by more than 9,000 workers. What we […]

A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office Trump appeared to struggle to stay awake as his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and two other deputies took turns explaining the announcement. Clips of the scene have circulated widely on social media […]

Trump demands ACA subsidy changes as Senate remains divided over shutdown “Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt? He is so unserious,” Senator Chris Murphy wrote on X […]

Patriotic Millionaires, a group of high-net-worth individuals who advocate for more progressive taxes in order to close the wealth gap, is suggesting an alternative that it says would spare commercial airline passengers and still offer relief for air traffic controllers: Just cancel all private […]

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead’s last trip to the #rochester war memorial, their local home since ’73. a show for weir lovers. dude’s really on one. fall ’85, show #11. soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1985-11-08.139717.sbd.miller.flac2496 oade […] [Original post on heads.social]

Private jets make up one in six flights handled by the FAA, and taxpayers already foot the bill for their ‘jet setting,’ says Patriotic Millionaires. https://www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa-should-cancel-all-private-jets-during-shutdown-say-millionaires

We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. CBS News is gone; CNN seems about to follow. The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers […]

The Trump administration has been giving additional massive tax breaks to uber-wealthy corporations through under-the-radar notices, according to a report. Through proposed regulations, the Treasury Department has offered tax relief to private equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real estate […]

There’s nothing good about him. Good people hate him.

Trump wants his name on DC’s new NFL stadium and has lobbied the team owner to make it happen The D.C. Council and the National Parks Service would have to sign off on the stadium’s name before it could bear the felon-president’s moniker […]

2020 taught us that we can live perfectly well without our millionaires, so long as the working class keeps working

Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions […]

Flooded disused coalmines could be a significant source of energy and provide cheap heat to thousands of homes, a new report argues. Mine water geothermal heat (MWGH) systems use the water in flooded coalmines, which is warmed by natural processes, to supply low-carbon heat. Heat exchangers and […]

Big Ben has over 3000 followers https://mastodon.org.uk/@bigben/115514674674000990

With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors. The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, through a series of new notices and proposed […]

Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli PM, ministers and army chief accused of crimes against humanity ‘perpetrated systematically’ in Gaza […]

Over the last decade, the Russian satellite Luch/Olymp conducted a series of deliberate proximity operations with commercial and military spacecraft, including Seasat 2, Intelsat 7, Intelsat 901, Intelsat 905, Athena-Fidus, Skynet 4C, Astra 1G, and Turksat 4. Its persistent “shadowing” of […]

Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes has led to a major reckoning in the Republican party. https://www.wired.com/story/gop-civil-war-over-nick-fuentes-antisemitism/

I see my departure as a blessing, to be honest. I think in this moment, not being a part of corporate media is actually a gift. Because from now, on the outside looking in, I don’t know that I could live with the kind of restrictions that people in corporate media are facing […]

We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. CBS News is gone; CNN seems about to follow. The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers […]

Breathless, I make it to the sweet spot and turn to face the monument. Before I can fix the camera to the tripod, the scene before me stops me completely. I’ve reached the monument not only at the edge of sunrise, but on the brink of the metaphysical - as if I am the final piece in a vast jigsaw […]

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, authorized the purchase of Spirit Airlines jets before discovering the airline didn’t actually own the planes – and that the aircraft lacked engines. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/kristi-noem-spirit-airlines-planes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

France starved, Louis and Marie build magnificent buildings, threw fancy parties, and glutted on exotic foods. Too bad Trump slept through history classes. It didn’t turn out well for them, and I hope Trump eventually sees accountability.

The story of Bruce Springsteen’s father shows what is obscured by the nostalgic narrative about a lost golden age of American manhood, Mitchell Duneier writes. “Today’s crisis didn’t begin with the loss of manufacturing jobs, and simply bringing those jobs back won’t solve it.” […]

BBC is ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s Minister of Lies https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/08/bbc-100-fake-news-says-donald-trumps-press-secretary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Judge rules Trump administration failed to meet legal requirements for deploying troops to Portland https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-11-07/judge-rules-trump-administration-failed-to-meet-legal-requirements-for-deploying-troops-to-portland

Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day […]

Country singer Alexis Wilkins, who is dating FBI director Kash Patel, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against a Utah social media influencer — arguing the man fabricated his claim that she’s a honeypot' Israeli spy […]

Construction is underway at the Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium mine in southeastern Utah, the first project approved under the Interior Department’s accelerated permitting process.

The hearing was a bloodbath for the Trump administration: Six justices lined up to bash the Justice Department’s defense of the tariffs, barely disguising their annoyance with the government’s barrage of blustery nonsense. At the halfway point, it would’ve saved everyone time had the court just […]