"Viruses don’t take vacations. The longest government shutdown ever puts everyone’s health at greater risk because the data and reports that are essential for monitoring the spread of diseases haven’t been updated for weeks." — me in @huffpost.com

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

She wants an order from the First Circuit upholding the trial court. That would give the liberal minority a foothold to argue the Supreme Court should do so as well. a strategic stay to increase chance of restarting SNAP benefits.

The big science accounts are talking about immune dysregulation due to COVID-19 now. I. Told. You. So. Infection does confer antibodies and T cells against C19… but it also takes a wrecking ball to the immune system as a whole. Stop burning down your house. (Metaphorically.)

"They want everyone to know these thugs they’ve deployed to terrorize cities are battle-hardened and impervious to pain. But in court, they're such delicate flowers that if they are, say, lightly grazed by a sandwich, they are entitled to justice because of the horrific assault they have suffered."

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

A distraught man came to Broadview searching for his wife of five years after she was taken by ICE at her court hearing. He wasn’t told anything, tracked her by her phone, and was left weeping in the parking lot.

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

WTAF.

The Trump administration has filed an emergency request with the First Circuit Court of Appeals to block U.S. District Judge John McConnell’s order requiring it to fully fund the SNAP program using alternative funding sources by today.

While often given attribution, Mark Twain didn't write this. Doesn't mean it isn't true.

Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come

Brother Warnock lays it plain.

Who remembers this news story?

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.

Trump sure seems eager to starve the poor

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)

DHS is effectively trying to turn our communities' police officers into ICE agents through its 287(g) program. Find out if your local agencies are participating.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

The first honest thing Steve Bannon has ever said.

I realize this prediction wasn’t especially difficult. But yes, it got worse. And it will continue to get worse. Vote every god damn enabler out of office.

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

Many are unaware how close we are to the next Pandemic. Defra has already an avian flu control zone across England. If this jumps to human transmission we are in an awful place. Still no understanding of airborne transmission or ffp3 respirators. It’s very concerning.

Holy crap! Please vote!!!

This picture tells you exactly what's up in the United States of America.

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

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Can't top this one I got in a text

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.

It blows my damn mind they’re making AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS and other safety dependent jobs work without pay, but congress is still enjoying a PAID VACATION despite working 12 days since summer. Mike Johnson and those who agree with him need to be removed and replaced.

"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.” Gov. Andy Beshear

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

Robert Held Witnesses Chilling Testimony in Chicago Lawsuit Against ICE ICE is terrorizing and traumatizing Chicago

The Feds deceived them by conducting a green card interview, subsequently arresting his wife, and mocking them while taking selfies.

Wait, did he just say "Hello?" 😲🥰 Come over here, pet me and tell me I'm a good boi. Play with me, I'm a great sport. 🩵💛💖 #dog #germanshepherd #goodboi

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

ICE, other Federal Police agencies, and local police departments in Texas have started setting up checkpoints on major highways. This is US Route 59 near Houston.

Sending out only half of November’s SNAP benefits over a period of weeks and months is half compassion, half cruelty. It shouldn’t take a federal judge to make Trump care about hungry Americans. And even then, he’s only pretending.

Oh we will not forget who bent the knee.

"I study fascism. I’ve already fled America." On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

And they're living it up with dancing girls at Mar-a-Lago and drinking bubbly at the new Café de Rose Garden and hitting companies up for Trump's opulent ballroom and squeezing a 747 from Qatar and selling watches and crypto and sneakers and otherwise making a mint. It shouldn't be hard at all.

The beaver moon rises over Minneapolis as seen from Bde Maka Ska on Wednesday. November's supermoon is the closest moon to Earth since 2019. 📸 Kerem Yücel | MPR News.

This is what a New Era looks like.