There are more and more places stepping in every day (and they don’t have all those donors) Most of them will provide meals to anyone who asks- not just SNAP recipients. www.oregonlive.com/food/2025/10...

Oh shit I just googled the Oregonian article - they're up to 200K

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

Legally, this is no different from Iran sinking a Disney cruise in international waters and then saying "it's all good, they were terrorists carrying drugs." Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Also #capitalism "According to a June report from the market research data firm Numerator, Walmart accounts for roughly a quarter (24 percent) of SNAP shoppers’ total spending." www.newsweek.com/walmart-set-...

The federal government shutdown means heating aid will not be released on Nov. 1, leading to stark worries from those who manage the program here.

“Bc of a lack of funding, those of us who make more than 90c/hr are having our pay cut. I’m going from $2.45/hr to 90c/hr. I was hoping to save for when I get out but I won’t be able to now “ -letter from woman in prison

Burchett doesn’t understand what he’s voting for way too often 🤡

Great messaging from the OR GOP that will totally resonate with people who will be going hungry. No notes.

“New polling illuminates how the Supreme Court got Citizens United wrong and shows bipartisan momentum for money-in-politics reforms, including proposed Montana ballot measure” electionlawblog.org?p=152805

JD Vance on the NY Post Pod Force One Podcast: "If you remember all of the migrants who came in from Haiti. You blink and eye and literally a third of your town is Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs."

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August. A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

Here's a news story about the video Schoening was talking about, where a federal agent told a Portland police officer to "help or get out of the way."

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.

We had a LOL-ing good time that day. Here is the video in full size: bsky.app/profile/timt...

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago? NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations. www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

“Now, I know for a fact that the working class in this country looks more like a Latino woman who cleans houses than it looks like Platner, a former defense contractor turned oyster farmer with some leftist political beliefs.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social always.

every day a new rubicon is crossed

That’s uhh insane.

From @sludge.bsky.social & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — “TRUMP’S CORPORATE COLLUDERS… corporations circumvent campaign finance laws to buy favors... We analyzed 150+ top donors to Trump's inauguration fund and ballroom to figure out what they got in return.” perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo...

Breaking on MSNBC: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

Protesters swarmed an ICE facility in Durango, CO demanding two children detained with their father be released to their mother. Durango Police say they also offered to help reunite the kids with their mother. They were unsuccessful.

and yet still, TODAY, Democrats in the Senate are voting in favor of Trump's judicial nominees

You know, growing up in the Bible Belt I was always told that stuff like this would be the signs of the Antichrist

This is probably the funniest headline of the year.

Here are some more specifics about the surveillance dashboard and how Zignal Labs obtains all this data to begin with, I learned something quite fascinating. #zignallabs #ice #surveillancetools #cybersecurity #data #tech #osint

Breaking WaPo: The White House just fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of Trump's construction projects, including his planned arch in Washington. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

What an odious thing to say. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Why Trump’s White House is using video game memes to recruit for ICE

MUST WATCH: Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Following three years of significant investments in addiction services, opioid overdoses have declined by 32% in the last year. We’re saving lives and showing what’s possible when we meet this crisis with compassion and action.

DHS's position is now that if they, the government, take too long to process your work permit renewal application and you have to stop working and lose your job, well, deal with it, that's just the price of security. Federal Register notice here: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19702.pdf

FYI: The state of Illinois is now collecting documentation of just this kind of abuse. Check it out: ilac.illinois.gov

these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Nice detective work by WaPo, finding that DHS viral videos are full of false imagery. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Trump is turning the entire US government into a glorified casino operator. Remember how that worked out the last time?

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

From a Costa Rican English news site ticotimes.net/2025/10/27/c...

🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US. Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight. He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.

Reporters (one of whom is my daughter) were ousted from covering immigration court hearings. Trump regime using shutdown to impinge on free press and coverage of their actions. @hcrichardson.bsky.social cnsmaryland.org/2025/10/28/l...

"In less than 36 hours since we announced that we will be sending payments to disabled SNAP recipients in the South—$100 to individuals and $250 to households—we have received more than 12,400 applications, totaling $2.7 million in requests." - they have to close the form tomorrow... no way to cover

From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.

NEW: “As of Sept. 30, the department no longer presumes service connection for male breast cancer,” a Veterans Affairs rep confirmed to @propublica.org, meaning newly diagnosed veterans will have to show that their cancer is linked to their military service. By @ericumansky.bsky.social

Israel just launched a wave of strikes on Gaza, killing over 100 - including, reportedly, dozens of children… then declared the ceasefire is back on. They have killed over 200 since the “ceasefire” www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/m...

Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes" wapo.st/4nuDGwf

I know these incidents are several days old but I cannot stop my heart from breaking with the contrast between the happy, fun halloween decorations in the background, and what is in the foreground

Sticker shock for ACA recipients: Clint and Cindy Kittrell, Oregon: $305/month --> $2,500/month. Chad and Tara Smith, Idaho: $710/month --> $1,000/month. Jessica Bunger, Florida: New premiums quadruple to $1,100/month. "I’ve never felt so powerless in my life" www.wsj.com/health/healt...