Also another reminder that <10 people in Washington - all of whom are Republicans & all of whom keep getting total daily free passes from the media about their cowardice - could end most of the madness tomorrow by simply caucusing with the Democrats & giving them control of both the House & Senate.

The Texas law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in June, is being challenged by families who argue it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. https://cnn.it/48rTx9x

holy shit mike johnson is SHOOK on Epstein vote in Senate

This thread, plucked from this week’s newsletter, will likely change your perspective on extreme wealth.

The hardest working man in the politics business. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

Marjorie Taylor Green read the writing on the wall & promptly broke with Trump.

As his time in office steadily decreases, more and more people on the right will start trying to peel away Trump’s power. The vote on the Epstein files will be an accelerant to that process. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

A reminder that in 2022, President Biden signed the “Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act,” eliminating the statute of limitations to file civil action for federal sex offenses. Seems relevant.

If I was running for Congress, I would promise to appropriate money for USAID, b/c as far as I am concerned it remains an agency as no-one repealed the statute that created it in 1998. It blew my mind at the time that we were like, yep, sure, we will just close an agency without authorization.

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

Thanks to this heroic letter carrier, the story had a happy ending. #usps

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Oh FUCK yes, Mississippi!!!

Donald Trump said ICE raids haven't gone far enough. Kristi Noem said no citizens have been detained in these raids. But we know the truth. Because we have story after heartbreaking story that proves otherwise. Listen to these brave Americans in their own words.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Elon Musk is done with politics 🙄 #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

fabulous: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Oh boy... So I have an X account just made a few days ago so I could keep tabs on the team I work with and have a louder voice (I'm on most social media now, see linktree). This, I did not expect to see 🙃

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?

@malcolmnance.bsky.social what is the liability of military personnel blowing up people on boats without evidence of who they are or what they are doing?

Think about this for a minute

A person in Alabama was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor, and other items, intending to attack synagogues across the US South. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...

Thugs.

We all need to fight Trump's plan for voter suppression and election subversion. We need to recognize that it has multiple dimensions. We need to educate ourselves and our communities and then take action.

We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina. This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.

The Trump regime could tap into a $5 billion contingency fund to ensure people continue to be fed through SNAP. They are refusing. Republicans know the pain they’re causing to Americans—they do not care. The cruelty is the point.

Trump’s $230 million cash grab isn’t just wrong—it’s unconstitutional The Domestic Emoluments Clause says no And the rule of law will say no too We explain why in our new @contrariannews.org piece 👇 - TN contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-230...

Just checking: the republicans that attacked and sent marshals to arrest Texas dems for not showing up to work (in an effort to protect voting rights, btw) are the same republicans that are not showing up to work, yeah?

Donald Trump is telling his DOJ to prosecute people involved in defeating him in 2020. He will claim the 2025 California referendum was fraudulent. He is going to try to impose voter ID and ban mail-in and early voting for 2026. I will do everything I can in the courtroom and in public to stop him.

I received this the other day.

Jeffries on a death threat made against him by a pardoned J6 criminal: "Not a single Republican has reached out to me since that incident occurred, and that's no surprise because they cannot defend the fact that Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who brutally beat police officers."

2023: Gov. Bill Lee signs record tax break for corporations 2024: Lee signs new record tax giveaway for corporations ($2B most of which went out of state) 2025, Jan: Lee signs $1.1B voucher handout to private school parents 2025, Oct: Lee says state can’t afford to feed kids

@hcrichardson.bsky.social I couldn’t find this on Substack. I think a link would make it easier to read, But nobody should miss this 🦋 so all the screenshots!

cc: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

This Day in Labor History: October 19, 1980. The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) forced the textile company J.P. Stevens to sign a contract for the first time in North Carolina and Alabama. Let's talk this epic campaign, made famous by the film Norma Rae!

There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

“Kids”

SF Chronicle joins the LA Times in confirming MeidasTouch’s reporting

Some House Republicans are breaking ranks — and it isn’t rocket science as to why: Costs are up, rural hospitals are closing, and Speaker Johnson refuses to end week four of their vacation while the government remains shut down. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

“Swear her in! Swear her in!” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

Exactly so. And then there are the outrageous pocket rescissions

A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.

This Is Fascism

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...