Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

I'm old enough to remember when Dick Cheney was the worst.

Happy Election Day! One goal today: ezralevin.substack.com/p/one-goal-t...

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

This is an excellent idea!!!

This is disgraceful.

There's nothing "moderate" about surrendering in exchange for "strong assurances" from congressional Republicans. That's just stupid political malpractice. Republicans are losing this fight, and Dems should hold the line!

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

If you live in NJ, crawl through broken glass if you have to in order to vote for Mikie Sherrill. (You won't have to, but still...just go vote. We cannot have a Republican governor during the Trump administration.)

80% of the air traffic controllers in NYC are absent because of the government shutdown. This is so messed up. ATCs have one of the most stressful jobs in the country with hundreds of lives in their hands at any given moment.

You can't make this up.

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

New Jersey! Wake up, we are in mortal danger of a MAGA takeover if Jack wins. Please, get out the vote! Democratic mayors are flipping like pancakes & choosing to support Jack! @lizziekfoley.bsky.social @nj50501.bsky.social @democracyforward.org @democracydefendersaction.org

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

The Trump administration would rather let people starve than give them access to healthcare. That's the lesson from the shutdown.

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

Damn, @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social absolutely nails it here.

A very long time ago, I was an office and publications coordinator for an AFSCME local. I got to work with some really lovely and incredibly smart people. I learned so much. So this warms my stone-cold heart.

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.

A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors. The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.

Here's a good overview, from @xpostfactoid.bsky.social explaining all the different average premium increase percentages that are being thrown around for 2026: xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/trumps-cms...

📣 GOOD NEWS: HealthCare.Gov window shopping is LIVE! BAD NEWS: HealthCare.Gov window shopping is live. acasignups.net/25/10/29/goo...

In Durango, Colorado, a masked ICE agent ripped a peaceful protester’s phone out of her hand, then grabbed her by the hair and dragged her across a parking lot. MAGA is watching state-sanctioned brutality play out in real time, and pretending it’s “normal”. Someone call 911 yes. No ICE No Kings

🚨 ICE IN AVENEL, NJ According to Cosecha New Jersey and other orgs on the ground, more than 30 workers were taken by ICE during a warehouse raid this morning (10/29). www.facebook.com/share/v/17WB...

🚨 6 DAYS TO GO. #NEWJERSEY may seem like a blue state, but we can't take it for granted, especially for Governor. Massive #NoKings protest turnout won't mean ANYTHING unless people also VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS UP & DOWN THE BALLOT. Donate today! #Blue25 secure.actblue.com/donate/njblu...

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

Let him cook………….. 🔥

Next up on CBS News: Constitutional law scholar Nicholas Cage!

Least surprising thing ever.

So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?

The President is refusing to spend a cent of emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits from running dry, but he did move heaven and earth to send $40 billion to bail out Argentina.

I hope my California friends didn’t forget that Texas Republicans are so desperate to rig the midterms that a couple of months ago they held a state rep hostage in the legislature & wouldn’t even let her use her phone from the bathroom. Turnout to vote by 11/4! #YesOnProp50

🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡 I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

Tweeting this when you haven’t come to work a single day since the shutdown started is really brave.

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

The First Amendment is not a privilege to be purchased. Because of people power, the West Caldwell Township Council has officially withdrawn an ordinance that would have created burdensome rules for protests and other public events. Read more: https://bit.ly/47IclBX

Let me get this straight: Trump found tens of billions of dollars to give to Argentina for a bailout during our government shutdown, but he couldn't find funding to keep SNAP program benefits going for 42 million hungry Americans past this Friday?

Dear Democrats, please please learn to thoroughly vet your candidates and to check in with them, especially when they assume positions in power. There is a significant number of mayors, former mayor‘s alliance with the Democratic Party in New Jersey, who have swung over and are loudly endorsing

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

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.

This is the guy who lied on the stand at a trial in LA, telling the jury he witnessed the defendant assault the ICE officer, when the video showed the ICE officer assault the defendant. The jury took an hour to acquit. He's referred to immigrants as "filth, trash, and scum."

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.