Mike Johnson has a constitutional duty to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Americans are demanding Congress release the Epstein files.

Respectfully, Bill Gates Needs to Shut Up

BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.

Minnesota Senator @amyklobuchar on Trump’s failure to bring Congress to the table on the shutdown: “You wrote the art of the deal. Show us your stuff.”

Yikes! www.livescience.com/space/space-...

Did the New York Times ruin journalism?

Thanksgiving as been shrinkflated to Angstgiving Thank you for your attention to this matter

There is not one face of the Democratic Party. Tonight proved there are many faces, but each with a commitment to fight back against the reckless failure of the Trump regime and actually serve people. Thank goodness.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Trump confirms he is weaponizing hunger

This is your daily reminder that: 1. Republicans shut down the government; 2. to make sure that 15 million Americans lose health care and 20 million Americans’ health care premiums double; 3. all so that billionaires get tax cuts. It’s that simple.

TEXAS GO VOTE TODAY 17 Constitutional amendments. If you don't want to bother learning about them, vote against everything, I don't care. There is so much bad in there, we can make do without the good ones. Here's a guide if you do want to learn about them before voting. lwvtexas.org#gsc.tab=0

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.

They 👏 are 👏 breaking 👏 the 👏 law. Two judges have just ordered that the Trump Administration must release funds for SNAP benefits. The GOP and Admin trying to use hungry kids as political leverage is beyond morally reprehensible. And it’s against the law.

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.

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

No confidence exceeds that of the #MediocreWhiteMan

THE LIST OF 25 STATES & DC SUING TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOR WITHHOLDING SNAP BENEFITS! 1) MA 2) CA 3) AZ 4) MN 5) CT 6) CO 7) DE 8) DC 9) HI 10) IL 11) KS 12) KY 13) ME 14) MD 15) MI 16) NV 17) NJ 18) NM 19) NY 20) NC 21) OR 22) PA 23) RI 24) VT 25) WA 26) WI storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Listening to @milestaylor.bsky.social on @jimacosta.bsky.social live and learned about Defiance.org Just joined. Defy Trump, TOGETHER. Sign the declaration at defiance.org. Unless you want a dictator — in which case, carry on.”

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

This indictment of @katmabu.bsky.social and five other protesters is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read (this week), and I imagine it will be laughed out of (lower) court. They’re being charged with the conspiracy of slowing down an ICE vehicle. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.

GOP: I can't believe Dems are trying to stop us from taking away your healthcare. Just for that, no food for you.

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers ask judge to cancel hearing on vindictive/selective prosecution next week & instead dismiss case due to govt 'stonewall[ing]' by refusing to have high-level DOJ witnesses testify. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

High school students in Latino neighborhood in Chicago start walk out in protest over ICE. If/when kids from other neighborhoods start joining, as they did during BLM, that feels catalytic on possibly a grand scale www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMXv3283/

So...we have our own Rocket Man?

Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown

He’s gonna be gone. Next week or 2030…he’s gonna be gone. All the revisionist history in world won’t change the complete moral collapse that is his current followers. Remember who did what in the run up…when it was easy to hide from it. Not when the exit strategy was already being executed.

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

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.

The Justice Department locked two federal prosecutors out of their devices and placed them on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol.” https://bit.ly/3X6Q6iU

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Trump has been lying about elections since he first ran. Even when he won. At one point I thought cynically he knew he was lying, but I'm starting to believe he's told himself the lie so much, his elderly brain believes it...and no one is bringing him back to reality. #Narcissist

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Israel's strikes in Gaza killed 46 children, health officials say

Out of control!

The federal emergency funds are intended to be used to fund programs like SNAP during a shut down. Refusing to release these funds is a choice by the president to intentionally starve Americans. #Pinks Tiktok creator: cynicalurbanhomesteader

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Lofgren: Now, instead of the president weighing in, we’ve got him doing weird little dances as he lands in Asia, and he’s missing in action. The Senate is refusing to negotiate across party lines, and the House of Representatives isn’t even meeting. I mean, I’ve never seen anything like this.

Breaking: Trump just banned states from being able to wipe medical debt from Americans’ credit reports. The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies. Trump just won’t release it. 440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.

If you are able to, please contribute to your local food bank this week

BREAKING: We're suing North Carolina over its congressional map that disenfranchises Black voters in the state. The newly passed map shifts thousands of Black voters out of their communities of representation.

We are officially ONE WEEK out from Election Day. Make your plan to vote for Democrats up and down the ballot at IWillVote.com.