children no longer being safe trick-or-treating on american streets because of the president is where we're at

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I’m going to win, in the courtroom and on Election Day. But I need your help to do it: katforillinois.com/legal

"The sand in and around the city of approximately 400,000 is so caked with blood that you can see evidence of the RSF’s war crimes via satellite imagery, according to Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL)." Zeteo's Peter Rothpletz in today's First Draft morning newsletter, on Sudan:

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Leaked document. Yikes, things are about to get much worse. It looks like we’re on the verge of becoming a military state across the country. Step out of line, and the man come and take you away.

FACT: In July, Marsha Blackburn voted for the largest cut to SNAP in the history of the program. Now, 700,000 TN children, seniors & people w/ disabilities are going to miss meals and she’s pretending to care b/c she’s running for Governor. She thinks your too dumb to remember

Enough. We HAVE TO HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. This is madness.

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

hey guys are we ever going to talk about what's happening with DHS on social media

FOX: Pritzker has asked you specifically to pause immigration enforcement operations in Chicago so kids can safety celebrate Halloween. Do you have any plans to alter activity tomorrow? NOEM: No. We're gonna be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe.

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Trump on Ukraine: "Sometimes you have to let them fight. Crazy ... there's not a lot more we can do ... it doesn't affect China. It doesn't affect us."

Bunkering down in military housing. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

I voted YES on Prop 50 because we cannot let anyone silence the will of the people. California is fighting fire with fire and standing up for democracy everywhere. Vote yes on Prop 50 by mail or in person on Election Day, this Tuesday, November 4.

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Russia isn't just losing the war, it's also losing the cyber war too. Putin has now lost an entire bot farm worth $1 million dollars, it has been hacked and taken over by the Cyber Legion army. It's the first of many more to come. A long winter is coming. #opRussia ⛈️

Trump's approval ratings are already tanking, and the American people haven't even gotten to the part where they pay enormous costs for his stupidity.

Do they typically award Nobel Peace prizes to someone who murders people every day by blowing up their boats while claiming they deserved it for transporting drugs, but doesn’t give them due process, a fair trial, or present any evidence or proof of guilt to anyone?

CBS went to a military food pantry (those words, in order) to interview moms. 13% of military families rely on SNAP/WIC. When a military spouse of a deployed soldier on enlisted salary was asked if people should be surprised: “No they shouldn’t. We live in poverty just like everybody else.”

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

"A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought" - Ronald Reagan

Yes. This man would start a nuclear war to avoid being exposed in the a Epstein files. Because he is a psychopathic maniac that has surrounded himself with extreme psychopathic maniacs.

One Portland coffee ahop has raised $86K and counting for SNAP recipients www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMXveDQE/

Trump's ballroom fiasco looks even worse against backdrop of bad economic news: *layoffs mounting *food stamps expiring *health care premiums soaring *consumer sentiment sliding On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems: newrepublic.com/article/2024...

A long-deranged and deeply depraved man with a pronouncedly and acceleratingly deteriorating mind announces that he intends to play with the large arsenal of nuclear weapons he controls. But it's okay, because he's not seeking a third term.

> @governor.ca.gov

Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.

🚨Interview just before he met with the judge about excessive force. Now we know why she wants daily updates. 👀

Vance is an odd little man with truly disgusting and bizarre views. And a hypocrite of olympic proportions. His own family, is 'diversity'.

DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found. DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found. 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Melania Trump doesn't want people talking about her relationship with Epstein or the fact that he alleged that the first time she & Donald had sex was on his private jet. Michael Wolff is suing Melania, and he wants answers. Give this conversation a listen! open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Why do they KEEP giving Trump cognitive tests? That's IT! His niece Mary asked that yesterday and that's the question we've all missed. Forest for the trees! And the last two cognitive tests have been EXACTLY 6 MONTHS APART. New Countdown pod drops at midnight

Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.

if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

This is still the thing that scares me most right now. Generally, I think the National Guard would actually be less violent and abusive than what we’re seeing from ICE and CBP. But Hegseth and his underlings would be hand-picking these teams.

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives. All on the taxpayer’s dime. trib.al/TBvPo7A

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

MAGA is a terrorist movement and should be classified as such. Period

Masked ICE goons in Durango, CO, steal an elderly woman’s phone, grab her by the hair, and throw her down a hill. This was during a peaceful protest over ICE kidnapping a father and two children from a local school. #AbolishICE

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.