Other outlets are now reporting. First to report tonight was Anna Giaritelli at the Washington Examiner, whose story if anything missed how big the purge was. It's not just five cities; ICE Field Office Directors are being fired in at least a dozen cities, and will be replaced by CBP people instead.

Holy shit. Midnight massacre at ICE.

Don't watch Maddow tonight if you own a smart phone and ever want to sleep again. All about the spyware ICE is using. And that this Admin is using on all of us. JFC.

“.. Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between Oct 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles. Musk’s partisan activities also increased the sales of other automakers' electric and hybrid vehicles 17-22% ..” www.nber.org/papers/w34413

When hungry people who lost their SNAP benefits show up at Republicans’ district offices angry since they are running the country, their staff can attempt to explain to them that it’s not their fault because of the intricacies of the senate filibuster rule. While they hide.

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While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION (not a typo)

NEW: A federal judge slammed DHS Secretary Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi for publicly attacking Kilmar Abrego Garcia in “exaggerated” and “inaccurate” ways — violating rules meant to protect the integrity of criminal proceedings. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Mamdani's policies are very popular and mostly pretty good for US Trump's policies are extremely unpopular and will cause untold suffering & death Yet, Media & Political Elite tells US Mamdani is extreme and Trump is mainstream?

Millions of Americans are already learning that their health insurance costs for 2026 are going way up. I want to hear from you so we can make this impossible for the GOP to ignore the consequences of their policies. If your premiums are going up, reply below and please share your story.

so mike johhnson lied when he said earlier today that there was no legal way to access the contingency funds

I was definitely wrong about this the visuals of him destroying a landmark to build a dance hall nobody asked for while furloughed government employees wait in long food bank lines really resonated in useful ways

Trump Promised Peace & Prosperity — America Got Chaos Instead For Trump & MAGA, it's all projection, all the time. All his promises have failed, & the truth is replaced with gaslighting & lies to cover Trump's disastrous record that has made America crap again. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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Was curious about the relationship between congressional district politics and SNAP recipients. While there are more households receiving SNAP in Harris-voting districts, there are more vulnerable people (kids, disabled and elderly) receiving them in Trump-voting ones. www.pbump.net/o/breaking-d...

That’s a big one: “.. nearly 10% of the company’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees. “.. the largest job cut at Amazon since .. late 2022.” @reuters.com $AMZN www.reuters.com/business/wor...

During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive only a day or two of press coverage.

BREAKING: AMAZON TO CUT 30,000 JOBS. Trump's economy SUCKS!

Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits. No, they don’t have to.

If he can find a way to do it, he will. Full stop.

OK, PIMCO. 🙄

Fantastic piece by @brianmerchant.bsky.social. I'm no economist, but when I see a large economy sustained entirely by AI, chip, & tech companies sending billions of dollars back & forth to one another without producing anything of particular note ... yeah, it looks like a bubble to me.

“.. These ads should not be allowed to run because they are FAKE!” he added. @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"There is a clear mental health crisis going on in the Oval Office right now. He is detached from reality. Every politician and pundit, every journalist...knows this. It should be the biggest story in our media. But, shamefully, it isn’t." Me for 'First Draft':

Let me get this straight: Trump found tens of billions of dollars to give to Argentina for a bailout during our government shutdown, but he couldn't find funding to keep SNAP program benefits going for 42 million hungry Americans past this Friday?

This is another lie. Trump & Republicans find every conceivable way to plunder funds and redirect them to things they weren’t appropriated for, but money specifically set aside to feed people in a shutdown situation are now untouchable. DIDN’T JESUS SPEAK ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

WATCH: “If you think things are going well, I’m not your candidate.” TN-7 candidate Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social tells NC5 Washington Republicans have broken government and sent health care costs skyrocketing, so TN-7 doesn’t need to send another to D.C.

John Dickerson announces he’ll be leaving CBS at the end of the year. Not a great sign for the network.

worst branding campaign of all time

The Republican message: Let us jack up poor and middle-class people's health care costs or we'll let poor people starve.

They're *laughing* at you, Mark Thompson. They're laughing at *you*. @cnn.com

Gov. Bill Lee warned SNAP recipients Friday to prepare for a lapse in their benefits starting Nov. 1 and blamed congressional Democrats for failing to end the government shutdown - but Lee will also not tap into the state's $2.2 billion rainy day fund to cover the funding gap.

Gallego: "How can I negotiate? The president is in Asia for 5 days. Johnson is basically keeping the House out until January to protect pedophiles. So who am I negotiating with right now?"

MAGA nut who's close to AG Pam Bondi says a federal grand jury has been empaneled in #Florida that will begin meeting in January to investigate what he calls a decade-long conspiracy against the president who's already a convicted felon. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru... h/t @fark.com

A good overview of SNAP benefits by state. usafacts.org/answers/how-...

Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"

KERNEN: Republicans are refusing to be blackmailed-- GALLEGO: 24 million Americans want their insurance KERNEN: Can I finish? GALLEGO: No KERNEN: Ok. We're finished

Fox threatening us with a good time again

ICYMI — Trump sanctioned the president of Colombia after he said fishermen were among the 10+ boats Trump bombed without evidence (Republican Senator Rand Paul calls them “extrajudicial killings… it’s wrong)

I am speechless with admiration.

Tom Emmer: "God bless Donald Trump and Kristi Noem for what they are doing."

“.. There is between $5 billion and $6 billion currently in that fund .. “.. On Friday, however, USDA released guidance saying it won’t use those funds .. a move that appears designed to maximize the pressure on Senate Democrats ..” @thehill.com #SNAP thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Exclusive: Seeking to get the classified documents case against Donald Trump to a jury before the 2024 election, special counsel Jack Smith made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep. New details reveal the inner workings of Smith’s highly secretive team.

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Congress is rapidly proving itself irrelevant, and the only person who benefits from that is Donald Trump.