Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. RFK Jr. must resign.

“We’re Just Reporting What He Said,” Say Journalists, As Civilization Burns in Background.

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

For Natives in more rural areas, there are food distribution centers for commodities which low-income Natives rely on because they are situated in food deserts. These centers will also NOT be distributing food, so this isn't just a scatter of individuals in need but entire communities.

This is why we can't just keep bailing out farms. Too many of the "small farms" are just more rich pricks socializing the losses as they privatize the gains.

Trump is sending Department of Justice federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections. Make no mistake, this is voting suppression dry run for Midterms next year when it really counts. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Man blowing up the east wing for a ballroom and getting gold bribes while the masses suffer. This is really really starting to feel very French revolutioney vibes.

I know some might be tired of me repeating this, but it bears mentioning again and again.... Trump is not leaving office. They are going to go for martial law if it looks likely that the GOP will lose the House. You just have to listen to them.

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

He’s so “busy.” What is he doing? Here’s what he’s told us he’s NOT doing. -reading/watching the news -negotiating with Dems -developing a strategy to end the govt closure - learning the details of the health “plan” he insists Republicans have -drafting/pushing legislation What’s left?

More on why you should cancel your Spotify subscription:

Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #BoycottSpotify

I did this yesterday. They even ask you to state why you are leaving. Cool thing is I'm going to save about a dollar a month.

Here in Portland, ICE dragged and slammed to the concrete a blind man; in NYC they're dragging off street vendors. This is nothing new:

Trump wants to build himself a gaudy ballroom at the same time he is taking food away from children.

It seems like 20 hours would have been plenty of time to get the details.

What is Mike Johnson doing all day? He claims not to know the "details" of anything happening in Washington. What a useless liar he is.

The media treated Biden's poll numbers, which were better than Trump's, as a major storyline that merited constant coverage and analysis.

“It is important to demonstrate that authoritarian gains are not permanent. That liberal society has the will to undo their grotesqueries. Demolishing the Trump ballroom and restoring the East Wing will be symbolic. But symbolism matters to authoritarians.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-te...

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.

Trump's spending around $250 million on a new ballroom — and now he wants taxpayers to give him $230 million back. Must be nice when corruption doubles as a refund.

Here's where "he'a a dictator" and "Trump's shutdown is about health care + kitchen table" go hand in hand. He's trying to steal $230M in taxpayer money to line his pockets, because dictators are corrupt and line their pockets, while taking away your health care and trashing the economy.

so in addition to cutting a $40 billion check of the tax payers money to his chainsaw friend in Argentina

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own. Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

These man-babies hate most of this country and its people so much, and yet they’re reduced to sputtering public tantrums upon discovering the feeling is mutual.

$40 billion to Argentina’s right-wing government. The entire USAID budget was $34 billion.

Fox News star Laura Ingraham spent years railing against the purported corruption caused by the business interests of President Joe Biden’s son. But now she’s going into business with Donald Trump Jr., federal records show. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Laura Ingraham regularly claimed the business dealings of Hunter Biden in the years prior to his father’s presidential election implicated Joe Biden in rampant corruption. Now she's gone into business with Don Jr. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

I’m not saying they’re Nazis. I’m saying being a Nazi isn’t a deal-breaker for them. I’m saying at a minimum they’re Good Germans.

22 arrests. All Maga. Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman. I think we know who the violent ones are. #NoKings

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

The Tea Party was a totally contrived astroturf psyop that dominated American politics for years. It was even obvious at the time, and yet we all had to talk about it seriously.

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration:

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Grotesque corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.” Damn. Just … damn.

Finished knitting Thursday night and made/attached the tassels last night. I was so excited that I took the photo before I trimmed the tassels, lol. #nokings #knitting #handknitting #colorwork #knittersofbluesky

You know what’s one of the great things about the No Kings protests today? No one is going to storm the U.S. Capitol.

I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Among George Santos’ many scams was a “pet charity” where he swindled people out of money who needed it for medical care for their pets. This is who Trump just pardoned www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/n...

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

Two more career prosecutors fired for refusing to indict NY AG Letitia James because they could not find probable cause to charge her. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Diligently working to finish my hat for Saturday! My colorwork knitting is a little rusty but this was good practice. Pattern is free on Ravelry www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #nokings #knitting #knittersofbluesky #colorwork

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.