A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.

On November 8, 2025, in Chicago, a masked ICE or CBP GOON point-blank sprayed pepper spray at worried neighbors, including several elderly individuals, after causing a car accident.

This is another Trump crime against humanity.

10 November 1929 | A Czech Jewish woman, Helga Hošková-Weissová, was born in Prague. Deported from Theresienstadt ghetto to #Auschwitz in Oct 1944. Her father was murdered in a gas chamber. Helga & her mother were moved to Freiberg & liberated in Mauthausen. Today she turns 96. Happy Birthday!

The 🪶Florida Scrub Jay is a bird I have only seen once, and even though I have a number of photos of this particular individual, it could be considered one of my #least photographed birds. #BirdOfTheDay #FloridaBirds

Tonight was a very bad night.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS: “If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Caving on the shutdown won’t make you “moderate.” It makes you WEAK! Giving Republicans what they want for NOTHING more than a “promise” of a vote and risking millions of Americans’ healthcare isn’t compromise—it’s surrender and it’s the most RADICAL thing you could do in this moment. 1/

I'm interested to know what you think about this deal. Please respond below with your thoughts.

Not a deal. It's a Dem surrender.

DO NOT CAVE!

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Under Biden, the IRS launched a program for people to file their taxes FOR FREE (finally!) Well, Trump ended it because TurboTax donated $1 million to him. This White House is just one big grift while the rest of us pay more for everything.

It’s not over until it’s over. Call your senators: reps.fyi If you don’t know what to say, here’s a script: 5calls.org/issue/federa...

“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing

This 🪶House Wren was in the process of constructing a nest in my garden and frequently used this as his perch. #BirdOfTheDay #StandingOnThings #VermontBirds

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask. Cowards

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #takeoffs That time a Cooper's hawk launched itself straight at me. It flew about three feet over my head. #birds #hawk #raptor

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #takeoffs. A perfectly timed nest exchange of black woodpeckers — one takes off while the other stands guard. #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography #sonyalpha

Here are a few of my favourite #takeoffs for #BirdOfTheDay - a Mandarin Duck, a juvenile Blue Tit, and a Great Egret. 🪶 #birds #birdphotography #birdsinflight #EastCoastKin

#BlueskyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Photography #Evening #Sunset

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It's just amazing how hard Stormzy is fighting and how much support he has. What a dog ❤️

An 🪶Altamira Oriole leaving its nest. #BirdOfTheDay #takeoffs #TexasBirds

The fading light on the trail #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening #Vermont #MtMansfield

Moonrise over the garden #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

After sunset on PEI #BlueSkyArtShow #Evening

Huge wins this week mean we have to start talking about how we get even bigger wins next year… act.link/gi-shalm youtu.be/6hMDmr1GUzc

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now. Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it. Don’t forget this.

#Fighting??? Nope! These lovely 🪶Blue-winged Teal were only participating in some friendly springtime copulation. #VermontBirds #BirdOfTheDay #MissisquoiNWR

May the calm and colorful beauty of the morning mark the beginning of a 🕊️peaceful day. #Vermont #Scape #EastCoastKin

Really? You're gonna make me do this one? Thou Shalt Not Starve Your Own People. There you go.

Oligarchy: a word I've been told not to use because it's too confusing. I looked it up, and it's just a description of what the hell is going on.

Brother Warnock lays it plain.

BREAKING: Our team @democracyforward.org and co-counsel just WON another court order to secure #SNAP. Judge finds Trump admin didn’t comply with prior order. FULL PAYMENTS must be paid across nation by tomorrow.

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #lunchtime , birds with food in their mouths. The alternative is #fluffy , birds with feathers fluffed up. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdsinflight

A great egret captures its #lunchtime meal. #birds #heron #egret #birdoftheday #nature #wildlife #protectnature #photography #EastCoastKin

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #lunchtime and alternatively #fluffy Did I mention that birds have extraordinary power? Imagine yourself during #lunchtime and with the other leg/arm you are doing some workout and all this in an camouflage environment: Long Tailed Tit

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is about #lunchtime. I watched this coot dive for tasty sea weed in the Roskilde harbour, next to the Vikingeskibsmuseet. #EastCoastKin #photography #birds #animals #nature

This migrating 🪶Sanderling seems to be in a tug-of-war with its #lunchtime meal. #BirdOfTheDay #VermontBirds #MissisquoiNWR

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

i’m at damen/belle plaine in chicago’s north center neighborhood for an emergency anti-ice rally. around 7 a.m. this morning, masked federal agents chased a preschool teacher *into* nearby rayito del sol and abducted her—in front of traumatized children, parents, and coworkers.