Trump sure seems eager to starve the poor

IRS Direct File won’t be available next year. Here’s what that means for taxpayers.

Our top story: “The decision of these Texas agencies to enter into such agreements will lead to an erosion of safety … in addition to increases in racial profiling and targeting of immigrants, which are symptoms of this excessive, punitive and cruel mass deportation agenda.”

A federal judge said the federal government blew its chance to pay partial SNAP benefits and now must pay them in full. "USDA refused to use the congressionally mandated contingency funds. USDA cannot now cry that it cannot get timely payments to beneficiaries." minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/06/r...

America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine. n.pr/4onXnXP

There was a time when cage-free eggs were a rarity. Now, they comprise almost half of all chicken eggs produced in the U.S., according to a new report by the Open Wing Alliance.

Trump voters, you did this.

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.

⚡️ Ukraine sentences Russian soldier to life in prison for executing captured Ukrainian serviceman. This is the first life sentence in Ukraine’s history handed down to a Russian serviceman for executing a prisoner of war, the SBU said.

All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.

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The yuge victories keep stacking up Trump. Trump's unqualified, incompetent nominee for assistant secretary of defense gets shredded during his confirmation hearing....By Republicans for lying to them, not briefing them, endangering national security. So much winning www.alternet.org/amp/dahmer-h...

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch voiced concern Wednesday about granting presidents unlimited authority, pressing lawyers to define limits on executive power as the high court heard arguments over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. www.newsweek.com/gorsuch-trum...

The trump regime is a flaming failure and a bad joke. it turns out raping America and all the people in it isn’t going to be received very well. The pathetic thing here is how BAD they are at executing anything because they’re 4th rate losers. Hey magas! The good people are the nonterrorist dems.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history. She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

Just left the latest hearing in Jim Comey's criminal case. It did not go well for DOJ The magistrate judge scolded them for an "indict first, investigate second" posture and ordered them to turn over reams of material — including all grand jury info — to Comey's team Details TK

"And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power." ✊🏼 (Image credit: @motherhoodforgood.bsky.social A fellow Wisconsinite! 🧀)

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

The resistance to fascism is alive & well. The resistance to cruelty is alive & well. The resistance to golden bathrooms & ballrooms is alive & well. The resistance to a madman who singlehandedly fucked up the economy for middle class/working class Americans is alive & well.

Omg 7 seats flipped blue in Va!!!!

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Q: A lot of Rs, including the Lt Gov, ran on keeping the good times going. Given the Lt Gov lost by 15, Rs are on track to lose more than a dozen House seats, is it possible Virginians don't see your admin the same way you do? YOUNGKIN: I believe Virginians thoroughly support what we've been doing

They LITERALLY campaigned on making children go hungry as a political statement and they can't figure out why they lost.

Quote. Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech. FIRE! "After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power"

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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Truth!

bsky.app/profile/dian... Vote Blue 💙💙💙💙💙

Across New Jersey, bomb threats at multiple polling locations have prompted closures and relocations today

Somebody is probably going to lose in a landslide in New York City. I hope it's the guy 47 is propping up.

Let’s be honest. This Heritage Foundation Government wants anyone on any type of assistance gone. Eliminated. Starved ,shot, disappeared put into a Camp. Gone.

So. Much. White

A Step Closer to the Release of Volume II of Jack Smith's Final Report www.muellershewrote.com/p/a-step-clo...

This Is Pure Evil….

"Are Trump's handlers signing pardons with Autopen without his knowledge?" If they deny that, "Does the president routinely have no memory of documents he signs?" This is the way.

What can Dems learn from Mamdani? 1. He is an authentic human. 2. He cares about people. 3. He has a sense of humor. 4. He focuses on econ inequality. 5. He rejects corporate politics. 6. His policy proposals & messaging are laser-focused on affordability. www.americaamerica.news/p/six-lesson...

N.Y.C. Early Voting Ends With 735,000 Ballots Cast, as Younger Voters Surge www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...

POTUS has nothing on his public schedule today until phoning it in to a couple of tele-rallies in NJ & VA. At 7pm. Recovering from a long 3 day weekend in Palm Beach while 42M Americans go to work & school without SNAP benefits. USA is being destroyed by a lazy, spoiled predator.

It’s insane to me that not only did many people choose to send an evil vindictive tyrannical convicted felon back into office with full power of the govt, but they sent him knowing he would spend every day ensuring that all of us suffer and die instead of thrive and live.

Perfectly staged.....

Anyone with a normal functioning brain would know they did something wrong when they tore the East wing down and shut the government down. Donald is consumed with revenge. He is fucking with our children, grandchildren and our future. This is not sustainable

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