Over half of the corporations bankrolling Trump’s vanity ballroom are facing (or recently faced) federal investigations into wrongdoing — including violating workers’ rights or misleading consumers. They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts. Follow the money.

The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free: (Published 2019)

Let’s ignore him until 2028 primary season.

Kimberly-Clark, the personal care product giant, will buy Tylenol maker Kenvue for $40 billion. Consolidating markets like this, especially in the medical industry, can lead to price gouging, life-threatening shortages, and mass layoffs. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

Mackenzie Scott donated $172 million to HBCUs in one week. Thank you!!💓🎉 Someone please tell her I am believing God to give her 100 fold return so she can bless to some more DEI people.🔥

THESE LYING ASSHOLES NEED TO BE IN PRISON.

In an interview Tom Hanks explained his mask wearing by noting “I’ve had Covid enough in my life, I don’t need to do that again,” and he is right, for he knows “life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to get” so you should try not to keep getting Covid.

Next time, let’s try a Speaker who isn’t eager for the rapture.

In light of the Trump administration ignoring yesterday's War Powers deadline for Congressional authorization of their ongoing use of military force, re-upping @rgoodlaw.bsky.social's excellent explanation Sunday of why this matters and what it (ominously) implies. www.youtube.com/live/lUeaFCu...

Chump Feeling Right At Home in His Whitehouse, with at least 19 Former FOX News Folks working For His Regime.......

The Hasidic Jewish Community Council of Williamsburg is endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !!! Tell me again about the antisemitism hysteria, centrist mainstream US rabbis, tell me. Via Rabbi @abbystein.bsky.social

Holder: The Supreme Court is a broken institution. And it’s something that has to be part of the national conversation in ’26 and in ’28. If there is a Democratic trifecta in 2028—and I think the possibility of that is pretty good—Supreme Court reform has to be on the table.

Trump says he's sending the National Guard to crime-ridden "hellholes," but homicide rates across major cities have been falling. In Portland, murders were down 39%. In Chicago, they were down 22%. Trump's deployments are about authoritarian control, not "law and order."

Today is Election Day in Texas and across the country. Let me be clear: every single election matters.
Not just the “big” ones. Every. Single. One. So if you haven’t voted yet, grab your ID, call a friend, and make your plan to get to the polls. Find your polling location at vote.org

Authoritarian logic: Only polls that praise me are real. All criticism is fake. The media is corrupt. When he says he ended eight wars, created the greatest economy, etc., he’s not describing reality; he’s describing the system he wants.

By noon Tuesday, turnout for the 2025 New York City mayoral election had already exceeded the total number of voters in 2021, the race Eric Adams won. There were still nine hours left to vote.

A lot of the people you see arguing against food assistance are actually on food assistance. They work at Walmart or a convenience store and think they are deserving, but others are not. This is projection and the way that the 1% keep poor people pitted against poor people so they don’t look up.

Mail in ballots give you codes & tracking numbers you get to check to see they were counted. YOU CAN CHECK OVER AND OVER. THEY DO NOT WANT you all doing that if they are going to steal it, which THEY ALWAYS TELL US IN ADVANCE what their plans are. EVERY ACCUSATION is A CONFESSION HERE, everyone! 😐

Chicago peeps: raise the fork of resistance.

ANOTHER 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥: Senator Tim Kaine & 29 Senators PRESSED Trump Administration to halt ILLEGAL efforts to shut down the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which guarantees educational opportunities and protections for individuals w/disabilities.🤬😢💔⬇️ www.kaine.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

🚨BREAKING: On Election Day, President Donald Trump renewed claims of election fraud — this time targeting California’s mail voting system, calling it “rigged” and threatening a “legal and criminal review” of ballots being cast in the closely watched special election.

Like a lot of political coverage, framing of the Carlson-Fuentes-Groyper-MAGA stuff focuses on power dynamics over substance. The US right is divided over Israel and anti-Jewish bigotry. But they’re largely united on anti-Black, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-trans, etc., so that’s a nonstory.

🤔How many times has Trump deployed the National Guard to a city? How many state Guard troops have been activated by the president? We’re staying on top of those numbers so you don’t have to. 🗺️Check out our map of all the deployments across the nation. https://bit.ly/42WhfJ0

I will never not be shocked that at approx 1/3 of this country wants authoritarianism/fascism. It's beyond my comprehension.

A socialist running the financial capital of the world can't be half as bad as a self-serving wannabe mob boss running the financial capital of the world into the ground, while taking a cut out of pretty much every transaction that happens in that financial capital of the world.

Kinda Orwellian how giant concrete and steel data centers are called The Cloud

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.) www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Donald Trump is telling the Republicans to "get tougher." Get tougher on who? The woman with malignant melanoma? Because he sure as hell isn't getting tougher on the billionaires he invited to his Great Gatsby party.

Two seats are up for grabs in the Minnesota Senate in separate special elections. The Senate is closely divided, so voters in the east metro and in Wright County will decide tomorrow who controls it. Here's what you need to know. minnesotareformer.com/2025/11/03/v...

MacKenzie Scott gifts $80 million to Howard University, marking one of the school’s largest donations in its 158-year history fortune.com/2025/11/03/m...

Let that sink in! This never gets old! Ijs ✅

Every so often, the US right finds some Christians being persecuted somewhere abroad to pretend to care about. Helps ease their cognitive dissonance of cheering so much cruelty to the stranger and the least among us while calling themselves "Christian." Hence Trump's performative threat to Nigeria.

After a 3-day trial, Judge Immergut grants preliminary injunction blocking the National Guard from Portland: "Based on the trial testimony, this Court finds no credible evidence that during the approximately two months before the President’s federalization order, protests grew out of control..."

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

2025 marks the deadliest year in ICE custody since '05. Immigration proceedings are civil, not criminal. Yet across the nation, our immigrant neighbors are dying under inhumane, coercive conditions designed to break their will & push them to give up their rights. 📲 youtube.com/shorts/Dbx6G...

The only way to avert this mutually assured gerrymandering destruction of democracy is.... wait for it... PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. So... what are we waiting for? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

Hmmm? Yes. CBS did exactly, precisely, what they did to Kamala Harris when Trump sued them for and settled for $15 billion. No different. @meidastouch.com www.meidasplus.com/p/should-we-...

Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge. As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city. Tomorrow, we win it together.

I thought there was no money for SNAP? #snap youtu.be/XWxQZHz4jx0?...

If Andrew Cuomo cannot answer hardball questions from a radio interview, he is certainly NOT the candidate to run NYC.

So was this by autopen or does he just sign everything handed to him without knowing the content?? Isn’t this the shit he complained Biden did??

The wealth of the 10 richest Americans has soared by $700 billion since Trump was reelected. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are going hungry because Trump is illegally withholding contingency funds that would keep food stamps funded during his shutdown. Two Americas.

The cars lined up at food banks now is eerily similar to the days of COVID, just this time there is no pandemic causing it, just The GOP.

They have poked the bear.

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