Shapiro: I just heard from a woman who spoke at the press conference where I announced the disaster declaration. She’s got 30 bucks left on her SNAP card to get her through the holidays here in November…

Mamdani: You know, there wasn’t a single New Yorker I spoke to who told me the reason they were voting for Donald Trump was so he could spend $300 million on renovating a White House ballroom.

The fact that a judge even had to order this is just insane apnews.com/live/donald-...

Federal immigration agents patrolling Los Angeles donned grotesque horror masks like Chucky and Momo, sneering at terrified communities amid Trump's deportation frenzy. DHS's smug retort? "Happy Halloween!" #ICE

🚨 Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff, claimed in an interview with Al Jazeera that the President is named in Epstein files. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Meiselas: As all of this information has flooded the zone, you’d think that would be a good thing—that people would get more educated. But paradoxically, I think it’s brought us back to the Dark Ages and feudal times, because a lot of information doesn’t necessarily mean good information.

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Meiselas: Right now, this idea of the bully has been glorified, and we have to disabuse people of that notion and say, “Nah, that’s weakness.” Stop blaming your problems marginalized groups. We have to proudly support communities that have been under attack—’cause they’re human beings, dammit.

Gavin Newsom and Ben Meiselas: Democracy gold! youtu.be/P0ffN2F1h5M?...

Popok: The blue states and cities effectively brought the cases. The red states are suffering, and their AGs are sitting on the sidelines. There’s no red state that brought a case. Think about that: not one red state attorney general brought a case to help prevent starvation and suffering. None.

Pappas: It’s a big tell that Republicans are trying to gerrymander their way into a permanent majority, because they understand how historically unpopular their ideas are. Whether it’s closing rural hospitals, kicking people off their health insurance, or taking food away from hungry families

Gomez: He’ll use these troops all over the country unless we put a check on his power. Winning the House is just the first step, because once we do, we’ll be dealing with a trapped wild animal…

Garamendi: If you look at the negotiations, there was a winner — it was China — and there was a loser — it was Trump… Trump went into that as a loser, and he came out of it as an even bigger loser. The fact of the matter is that China dominated that discussion.

Vladeck: Even if you accept the predicate that these drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, that still doesn’t get you anywhere close to legal authority to use military force. They’re trying to blur and sort of collapse the distinction between two regimes we have…

@barackobama.bsky.social A little help sir? Was the toilet always in an eerily compromising full view of this window, or is this another new "feature" courtesy of the current resident? Thanks in advance!

Tariffs are expected to start showing up more in consumer prices as holiday shopping season starts

"One former law enforcement official familiar with the matter, who spoke to Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivities surrounding the case, said the probe lasted 18 months and turned up at least tens of millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions."

Hey Donald, I don't think Prince Andrew would've been stripped of all his royal titles and evicted from Windsor castle if the Epstein files were a "hoax"

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New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Republicans spent the last 50 years shipping all our manufacturing jobs to Asia and now they wonder why so many people need SNAP

More lies from J.D. Vance. Here are the facts: Health insurance premiums are skyrocketing BECAUSE Republicans refuse to act. Republicans aren't worried about YOUR rising health care costs. They had the chance to extend the ACA tax credits this summer and voted it down THREE times.

Great.

The pandemic was a dress rehearsal for life without reliable official stats. We learned to read high-frequency proxies. Useful! But as Powell says, they’re a partial fix. There’s nothing like the real thing: BLS and BEA.

"All of those things say, you know, when you're driving through fog, slow down." That was the analogy Chair Powell kept coming back to—and it fits today’s mix of rising unemployment, 3% inflation, and a data fog from the shutdown.

John Fetterman is a guest on Lara Trump’s Fox show tomorrow. This is Lara before Fetterman started ripping Democrats daily, saying he is unfit for office, agreeing with her guest that he “looks like a bum - a homeless person,” and that his election was probably rigged.

I am motivated by the fact that I don’t think any president should get a blank check to murder as many people as he wants with zero oversight based on his opinion that they were transporting drugs without due process or proof presented to anyone. Jesus would agree with me. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Kristi Noem has claimed that "no American citizens have been arrested or detained" by immigration agents, despite copious evidence to the contrary. Immigration policy expert @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social says the Homeland Security chief "is either ignorant of the facts or not telling the truth."

Ah yes, "We the Democrats" is definitely what a Republican official in a Republican administration meant when she said "your government is failing you...we have failed you"

Didn't South Korea just give us $350 billion? That should make a nice dent

FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.

"All of you are going to have to make sacrifices and suffer, so other people don't accidentally get a little something too"

“We now have an open target on us.” Anti-fascists are recalibrating how they protest in response to Donald Trump's crackdown on dissent following the killing of Charlie Kirk. Story: bit.ly/47CpYS1

Update to this story here: obtained another internal DHS document, showing app may be used on people irrespective of citizenship or immigration status bsky.app/profile/did:...

I think this may be the first time a component of DHS has confirmed it is using Mobile Fortify too. Main DHS declined to comment. So I went to CBP instead. CBP confirmed www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

We first revealed Mobile Fortify in June. It takes the CBP system usually used when people enter or exit the US, and puts it into an app to be used on American streets www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Nothing but lies.

A really, really important point is that Republicans are unwilling to spend allocated reserves for SNAP because their plan is to gut the program, see HR1 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Attacking our rights & civil liberties. Spreading fear & lies. Profiting from hate & division. It’s what dictators do. Authoritarianism wins only when we let them bully us into silence. Millions of Americans are stepping up & speaking out! Republicans know they won’t get the last word. We will!

Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.

THE DAY AHEAD: Judge demands answers about disappearance of sentencing memo (After which a reference to Jan 6 and a reference to Trump were erased) youtube.com/shorts/Kn_xE...

CA, Vote YES on PROP 50 ‼️This NC Senator said the quiet part out loud. They redrew their congressional map to silence votes & steal seats in Congress. Fight 🔥with 🔥 & VOTE YES!

Per the Times: "But for the moneyed foursome that announced earnings this week, spending hundreds of billions of dollars on new data centers is not a worry — not when they churned out a combined $109 billion in operating profit, which excludes taxes and investments, in just the last quarter."

We now have multiple visualizations of this phenomenon from various news organizations. Which one is the best?

"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump ludicrously claims credit for a Nobel Prize in physics honoring quantum breakthroughs from 1984-85, predating his White House farce by decades, while slashing funds at the very lab involved. #TrumpNobel