It's never too late to grasp that if someone works full-time and receives SNAP, it means YOUR taxpayer dollars are subsidizing the COMPANY because it refuses to pay them a livable wage.

The Trump airline flight cutbacks reveal the weakness of a US transport system that has not invested in & delivered a 21st century national passenger rail system.

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

The Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper, was hacked by a suspected foreign actor, potentially exposing the key financial research data Congress uses to craft legislation.

US airport users can expect fewer flights as the government shutdown drags into a second month. apnews.com/article/gove... The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will announce where it is reducing flights by 10% before the cuts go into effect Friday and here is the list via ABC News:

You wouldn't know it from talking to most public officials, watching TV news, or reading the Post, but the 2019 reforms drove recidivism down, making everyone safer. hellgatenyc.com/bail-reform-...

Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.

I'm too lazy/out of practice/don't have a license at home to do this properly but close enough for posting work: I overlaid The City's new general election map over their primary map, and turned the general to 70% opacity. This produces four colors.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Roberts now going at the solicitor general like a cat with a wounded mouse. Keeps telling him that tariffs are taxes on the American people. "Who pays the tariffs??" Says Trump's argument would neutralize separation of powers between the legislative and executive branches. Incredible stuff.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition will be led by women leaders who’ve worked in the administrations of Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams and Michael Bloomberg.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Another view here, fyi, from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social: www.electionatlas.nyc/maps.html#!N... You can choose from 20 demographic/electoral map filters (or combinations of any of them), direct comparisons to 2021, and overlays to show subway routes, NYCHA sites, and City Council districts.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

Decision Desk has called the NYC mayors race for Zohran Mamdani.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

🎵 why would Lockheed Martin build a ballroom..... 🎶 This is TikTok Premium ☺️

CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

Fix the City, the largest pro-Cuomo super PAC, is displaying anti-Mamdani/Sliwa ads on LinkNYC kiosks now (photo from last night snapped by a source). The LinkNYC system is a public-private partnership between the city government and Intersection, a media tech company.

NEW CASE: Here is the multistate SNAP lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts. The case — Massachusetts et al. v. U.S. Dep't of Agriculture et al. — has been assigned to Judge Indira Talwani (Obama). Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... TRO memo: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The neighborhood Halloween decorations are good.

I find it to be another attempt at destabilizing larger cities due to the sheer numbers of Medicaid/SNAP recipients we have. Glad Hochul beefed up the food pantries but it's going to hurt.

My dad sent me this

Take a lesson from the Black Panthers who understood how to feed people

Day 1 Early voting numbers are in for #nycelection vote.nyc/page/early-v...

The President has immunity. Now Stephen Miller is telling ICE they have federal immunity while “fulfilling their duties”. We have a dictator with a secret police force and both have immunity from prosecution. This is fascism. They can and will do whatever they want.

Hey, just want to mumble that this is wildly illegal and inappropriate and would prompt impeachment proceedings if we still had a functional Congress instead of one run by a blind, deaf and mute Renfeld wannabe.

every member of congress over age 80 should have to testify under oath whether they've given anyone power of attorney

This should be seen as what it is: a huge step towards ending free and fair elections.

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

it blows my mind that anyone is still pretending like trump is anything but a dictator, here is steve bannon talking about how they, in clear and certain terms, intends to install trump as president in 2028

They’re distracting you with talk about healthcare premiums while a dictator runs wild...snatching Americans off the streets, looting hundreds of millions, and tearing down the White House. At this rate, healthcare will be the least of America’s worries.

More federal agents on Canal, counter protesters gather shouting the agents.

a reminder that ICE received an astonishing influx of money with the megabill this summer: boltsmag.org/how-the-gop-...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king