YES!

Despite claims of 13-hour workdays, Kash Patel has used the FBI jet for personal trips, including a girlfriend’s wrestling performance—raising questions about whether taxpayer resources are being prioritized over public safety. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

One thing Republicans aren't talking about is how their mega-bill this summer was the largest SNAP cut in history. The bill cut $187 billion from the program through 2034, about 20% of the total funding. They cut food assistance to 4 million people.

Local cops now have access to sophisticated spy tech. Learn more about cell-site simulators, automated license plate readers, drones, and more at EFF's Street-Level Surveillance project. www.eff.org/sls

Jamaica is trying to keep people and property safe from damage while the strongest hurricane to hit the Caribbean island in a generation leaves devastation in its wake.

Dixie and her emotional support stuffed animal 😻 We’ve reorganized the sanctuary to better organize the cats. Change is tough, but some, like Dixie, find comfort in little things like this stuffed animal. I’ve seen Dixie curled up with him, and even napping alongside her new friend 💚

In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought. 🔗 www.404media.co/chimps-are-c...

Thread. For those who followed me this week? 100% follow Bill too. He's an airlines expert, and is closely tracking what the administration is doing around flying + aviation safety right now. If I didn't have Bill, I'd feel way less safe flying - seriously.

Higgins represents a district where the median household income is $59,359 with an average of 2.5 people per household. 18% are below the poverty level. 50% of the SNAP households have children. These are paycheck to paycheck numbers. TL; DR if you live in his district, he's fine if you starve

New from Miranda Williamson: "On Nov. 1, SNAP benefits will no longer be distributed. About 11.4 % (nearly 3.5M) of Texans will lose access to healthy, nutritionally complete meals. I will no longer be able to buy meat or fresh vegetables. I will lose the only reliable way I have to eat lunch."

Undoing the deeply internalized individualism that lives in most of us who grow up in capitalism is a massive undertaking of unlearning.

Being historically illiterate costs us a lot.

This week, ACA marketplaces announced huge increases in monthly premium payments. Insurers have the ability to raise premiums by that much due to a rule change that was quietly implemented by the Trump administration earlier this year.

This is an NYT link, but it's important so we're sharing as a gift link. From yesterday: A federal judge in Washington saw through the Trump administration's attempts to abuse subpeonas to intimidate providers of trans healthcare. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

Apple Maps is reportedly planning to let businesses pay to rank higher in your search results. Late-stage capitalism means you don’t just follow the map — you follow the money. Read the full story in today's Lever Daily 👇 www.levernews.com/from-riyadh-...

On this week's stream, we're talking US government agencies coopting Halo memes and Twitch drama, as well as Amazon layoffs killing New World and maybe also a Lord of the Rings MMO. We go live at 4 PM ET www.twitch.tv/aftermathdot...

Greater Greener Gloster has argued that Mississippi regulators should not reward past noncompliance at Drax’s Amite BioEnergy plant by allowing it to release more hazardous pollutants.

Whenever people invoke the Black Panther Party for self defense, I wonder if people know that there are still Panther members currently incarcerated.

Do people actually understand the war waged against the Panthers by the U.S government? I think that most people really do not.

this is evil

OPINION: "There are powerful signals that this it-can’t-happen-here surge of masked and heavily armed state terror that has turned life in Chicago upside down is coming to Philadelphia — and at least a half-dozen other major U.S. cities — very soon." — Inquirer columnist Will Bunch

Israel Bombs Khan Younis in Latest Violation of Gaza Ceasefire Agreement

The government shutdown is creating a lot of uncertainty and disruption for Alaska Native communities. "Our tribal citizens will have to decide between fuel and food,” AFN President Ben Mallott told a U.S. Senate panel.

An estimated 1.73 million vehicles were repossessed last year, the most since 2009.

My boyfriend just helped 2.2 MILLION people get their criminal records expunged in the state of Illinois. Shoutout to #CleanSlate and second chance legislation. 💕

"The stakes are much higher than one mayoral election. It’s about whether or not the rich and powerful can still command politics in the beating heart of American capitalism." www.salon.com/2025/10/30/p...

Rainy, windy miserable day outside Third nap after third breakfast, happiness on the inside.

Hoboken has had zero traffic deaths since the beginning of 2017. By contrast, Philadelphia had 134 traffic deaths last year, 59 of which involved pedestrians hit by vehicles. What can the city learn? Advocates say a “culture of accountability” is paramount. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/transportati...

Three monkeys remained on the loose as searchers scoured fields along a rural Mississippi highway where a truck carrying the primates overturned.

In hopes of convincing ChaCha to open the milk bar, Sashay and Tango give her a very sweet bath. (Didn't work, though - never does!)

Across my FedBook feed, I am seeing some comrades coordinating and encouraging others to buy out street vendors so that those people aren't exposed to potential kidnapping. While it's beyond distressing to know how at risk they are, I am also taking so much heart in how people are moving to help.

A judge has ordered the release of a cancer patient’s father who was arrested by ICE, citing no criminal record. blockclubchi.co/4nP2Fe1

A local teacher is going to pick up my small donation of a bag of apples and a bunch of bananas for her classroom's snacks every Monday. (I live near her school.) This will cost me $5/week or $20/month. It's not much but it's how I can help address hunger. Please consider ways to help if you can.

#COTD FedEx driver who delivered to us found Mr. Betty on the side of the road! If he had stayed outside one more night he would've died. He is now living the high life and is our Treat King! Read more: blindcatrescue.com/cats/betty.h

Handsome Legacy sure does miss Magnolia but we're hopeful he will find his own furever home very soon! Who can resist such a little stud muffin?! #Handsome #Stud #Cat #SweetBoy #AdoptDontShop

In his newly translated memoir I Deliver Parcels in Beijing, Hu Anyan captures the brutal labor and quiet grace of life at the edge of China’s booming ecommerce industry. www.wired.com/story/made-i...

A few weeks ago, I gave credit where credit was due re how DC Dems linked the shutdown to the astronomical rise in healthcare costs. I mentioned that even my politically disconnected cousin gave this as the reason for the shutdown. Looks like some polling is showing the message broke through too.

Quite a thread/story. www.propublica.org/article/paul...

Trump has said he has ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, an announcement made in a frighteningly vague social media post that threatens to shred decades of global progress and heighten tensions with China and Russia.

It was only my second story freelancing for WIRED at the time, but the rest was history. We ended up getting these door knockers paid after they were all denied pay and then fired. www.wired.com/story/canvas...

Adding this chart from N.C. for a sense of the scale we are facing

The same people who think buying junk food with SNAP benefits is “abusing the system” are fine with wealthy parents using vouchers to send their kids to private schools.

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

"A.i." is controlled by right wing billionaires who are channeling bullshit into your brains. Do not use it.

The press has decided if Trump says anything, no matter how outlandish, it must be taken seriously. "Normalization" is too soft a term.

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

Good morning! Thanks to all who supported my DoubleGood fundraiser for Detroit scholarships yesterday. Means the world to me! Now turning to the SNAP crisis. Does Bluesky have a plan to keep people fed? Any pledges & donations to local food banks? Who’s organizing? Can I help? @ me & I will boost.