Senate Republicans blocked a resolution demanding full funding for SNAP benefits. This, as Trump still refuses to fully restore SNAP to 42 million Americans. As we head into the midterms, don't forget: GOP lawmakers are fully complicit with Trump's weaponization of hunger.

Can’t wait for the corporate media to call sweeping dem election results a “problem for the left.”

It's the economy, stupid. Besides, the biggest immigration and crime problems are centered in the Trump administration's leadership. apnews.com/article/econ...

Go get him, Jack! youtu.be/Es8hPx4jpfA?...

Worth remembering…

"If, among all the disinformation and repetition Trump spouted in that interview, he did not know who he was pardoning, who’s running the Oval Office?" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The kiss of death…for Andrew Cuomo.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

"The modern Republican Party was always an uneasy marriage between business interests who wanted tax cuts and deregulation ... and the racist Dixiecrats and religious traditionalists who wanted to get rid of equal rights for racial minorities and women." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second? I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit

The cruelty is the point.

House Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Robert Garcia, launched a probe into Trump’s attempt to pay himself $230 million with taxpayer funds "You waited until you became President and installed your handpicked loyalists at DOJ ... That isn’t justice, it is theft.” trib.al/u7dothL

Obama: I believe in an America where we don't fear each other. But look out for each other. And if we want that story to continue. If we believe in that better story. We need leaders who believe in it too.

Tech companies are pouring money into AI, and they’re not making it back. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how everything could come crashing down:

Things are worse than you can imagine. youtu.be/mSFUg8bGCXc?...

RIP, Gov. Martha Layne Collins.   kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/01/m...

New information show that an investigation into Epstein accounts at J.P. Morgan was stop under G.W. Bush DOJ. Also there were people from J.P. Morgan involved in Epstein "activities". Some of the people who involved are in the Regime now. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Trump administration must restart SNAP benefits by Wednesday, judge rules. @janenorman.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/01/r...

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

WTF. Everyone, cameras out. Get it all on video.

“They began banging hard on the door, tore off the cameras so we couldn’t see them, and eventually cut off our electricity.” When asked if she knew why federal agents were after her husband or if he had committed a crime, Barrón said, “No, never any crime..." www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

The answer is yes. A must-read. FREE LINK. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nero fiddles. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Comment restrictions at @nytimes.com have gotten ridiculous.

Let's get the framing right. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“They were careless people …they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.”

Release the Epstein files. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. Paid Leave for the House GOP.

Sadly true.

And there it is... Announcement is made that the US House will be out of session again next week They haven't voted since mid-September

apnews.com/live/donald-... updates: Trump administration must fund SNAP payments during the shutdown, judges rule

The Atlantic today: Trump’s Plan Is Now Out in the Open It’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots. By Peter Wehner share.google/85w3HyTBu0GK...

"President Trump has been willing to reprogram the federal budget, but only selectively, safeguarding programs at the heart of his political agenda while leaving some Americans to face the risk of real harm." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

The real-life Halloween horror show playing out before our eyes. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...

"Today’s Justice Department is the law-enforcement arm of the Trump administration, and the Trump administration’s political dictates don’t just determine who gets targeted; they determine what facts the Justice Department is permitted to consider true." www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-ch...

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases. Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.

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."

So the DOJ is now suspending lawyers for putting facts into briefs. Just a remarkable attack on the truth by Department of (Alleged) Justice. The lawyers behind the suspension should be fired by any future AG and viewed as radioactively toxic by future law firms.

The burning of fossil fuels reached a new record last year. "Avoiding every fraction of a degree of warming is critically important." @williamripple.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org @sejorg.bsky.social

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

🤥 www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

HUNT: The president is talking about a third term. How seriously do you take that? GALLEGO: I don't take it seriously because he will be in violation of the Constitution and he should be arrested if he attempts to do that