Another court has ordered the federal government to stop holding food assistance hostage.      There is no excuse for their refusal to feed the American people. 
  The USDA must release full SNAP benefits so families across the country can put food on the table.

I've been raising the alarm about the expiring tax credits for nearly 2 YEARS. Republicans have had all the time in the world to fix their MAGA health care hike. There is no later anymore. Republicans already pushed us over the ACA tax credit cliff. The time to fix this is NOW.

As America falls apart behind him. #shutdown

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

This morning most North Carolina SNAP beneficiaries saw partial payments on their EBT cards, and I am grateful to NCDHHS for working quickly to get the rest of November's payments out the door as soon as this weekend. We will keep working to make sure families can put food on the table this month.

Denver offers to pay airport staff during shutdown to avoid cutbacks

Oklahoma tribes step in to feed citizens as federal shutdown threatens food aid. www.readfrontier.org/stories/okla...

This Republican shutdown isn’t about responsible governance. It’s about cruelty and control — and a president who treats hunger as a weapon against his own people.

Judge rules Education Department messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown unconstitutional www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump Will Leave DC Early for Palm Beach Amid Record Shutdown Trump to party in Florida as poor families starve meidasnews.com/news/trump-w...

It’s about to be a cold winter, and many Maryland families rely on federal programs to heat their homes. One of those programs, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, is being delayed because of Trump’s federal shutdown.

In other words, they are giving Trump straight-up bribes. #epstein

The two parties are not the same.

Senate Democrats have a common-sense compromise: Let’s extend the ACA enhanced tax credits at the current levels for a year, and start a bipartisan working group to find real, long-term solutions to our country’s health care crisis.

youtu.be/xWMe5_asETA The Orange Failure's embarrassing and clueless behavior in the Oval Office today made me suddenly remember this. I'd forgotten all about it. A pleasure to watch and remember. And the tears still sting my eyes every time I hear him say "I gotcha.'" This is how you president.

As of Halloween, annual homicides in Chicago are the lowest since 2014 and the second lowest since at least 2001. No amount of murder is acceptable, but a 50% drop from the pandemic spike is pretty remarkable. And there's still a chance that we'll hit a 25-year low by the end of December.

Trump may tell Americans — even his own supporters — that they won’t pay the tariffs. But at the same time, his own lawyers are arguing before the Supreme Court that American businesses and consumers pay the tariffs. Listen for yourself.

That one time when President Obama caught a fainting pregnant woman during a speech

Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari outside of Speaker Mike Johnson's office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.

After voting to give billionaires tax breaks and making health care more expensive, Derrick Van Orden has refused to hold a town hall to talk to the voters he works for in a face-to-face conversation. So, I'm heading to Wisconsin to help give the people he's supposed to represent a voice.

BREAKING: Senator Schumer just proposed a completely fair deal to open the government. All he asked for is that the Affordable Care Act subsidies be extended for one year. This is in Trump‘s court now. Democrats are trying to protect our healthcare. Republicans are trying to protect billionaires.

Maths... If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars. If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars. Tax the rich.

Nothing says ‘fit to lead’ like napping through your own medical endorsement. Get Grandpa Don to bed. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

Thank you, Madame Speaker.

I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

Another difference between Democratic and Republican administrations - Democrats stick with science. Not bleach. #rfk #autism www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

He went to get the bleach.

He went to get the bleach!

Trump's like "Who do you think I am? Cory Booker?"

Trump's like "maybe this will distract from the Epstein files." #epstein

"How long do I have to wait?" Trump #whitehousefaint white house faint

Pre-school children react more compassionately when a classmate falls. #whitehousefaint www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

No picture has so adequately captured how this man feels about anyone’s suffering other than his own than this.

While the IRS hasn’t officially confirmed that Direct File is dead, the IRS website indicates that the program is closed and past users will have to file a special form to get their previous tax return.

It’s day 37 of the Republican shutdown. They continue to refuse to work with Democrats to lower health care costs. Now they’re trying to use SNAP as a bargaining chip. Americans are sick of the Republican chaos. Reopen the government. Negotiate with Democrats. Get back to work.

Who said we didn't love billionaires? Thank you!!! ❤️ 💙 💜 #blacksky

MacKenzie Scott’s $80 million gift to Howard University this week is the latest—but not biggest—recent billionaire donation to an HBCU. These 9 billionaires have put more than $1 billion into historically Black colleges and universities.

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

#Voters #MadeTheirPoint Love this cartoon 🌊🌊💙

We interrupt the rare cheerful political news to bring you some rare cheerful health news. Researchers have developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine that prevented several kinds of cancers in mice, apparently very effectively. www.umass.edu/news/article...

"Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left." Hey, @governor.ca.gov are you listening?

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Yep. There was just no way of seeing this coming. 🙄