“He was using the modeling company as a cover in part for the sex trafficking… They would send the youngest girls down to Epstein’s place in Palm Beach… When Epstein formed that company, he said to her, I want it to be set up just like Donald Trump’s modeling agency.” Julie K Brown @meidastouch.com

One in eight Americans will struggle to put food on the table if the Trump shutdown extends through next week. Yet Republicans in Congress are nowhere to be found. Tell them it's time to clock back in—because they work for us: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

The Trump regime could tap into a $5 billion contingency fund to ensure people continue to be fed through SNAP. They are refusing. Republicans know the pain they’re causing to Americans—they do not care. The cruelty is the point.

1. Reagan’s speech is real 2. It’s public domain 3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians 4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check 5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs

“The Russian can see us just from the other side of the river, and a minute later they hit you - and they are specifically targeting residential areas, kindergartens, hospitals.” read this horrific report from Kherson: open.substack.com/pub/twogrump...

We’re putting food on the table in Argentina ($40 billion), yet MAGA Republicans are threatening to withhold SNAP funds already allocated by Congress. MAGA = Make Argentina Great Again.

Reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon is the man behind the $130 donation to pay US troops during the ongoing government shutdown. The Mellon family has long been divided over his support of Donald Trump, James Reginato reports. Read more from his look inside the influential family:

These are the boot licking companies sponsoring Trump’s 90,000 square foot ballroom.

“A government of the people must be transparent. The public has a right to know who’s paying, how much, and for what,” said Hilary Braseth, executive director of OpenSecrets. www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/10...

The reshaping of the playing field is underway www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

NEW: Service cuts initiated under President Donald Trump’s first postmaster general could delay mail throughout most of the nation, putting millions of mail-in voters at risk of blowing ballot deadlines in future elections. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/pic...

“.. it was crickets on the Bari Weiss-controlled former home of Walter Cronkite.” @deadline.com $PSKY deadline.com/2025/10/cbs-...

The White House just issued a sweeping federal directive transforming how dissent might be policed in the US—here’s why civil liberties groups are so alarmed.

it’s beyond comprehension that scenes like this have become routine in chicago. masked soldiers are carelessly lobbing chemical weapons—that are banned from use during warfare—on random residential streets. this is the third time feds have tear-gassed residents in chicago *this week!*

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Trump’s latest target? The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of America’s last truly wild places. His administration just announced plans to open it up for oil and gas drilling, turning 1.56 million acres of pristine wilderness (home to polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds)

And so it begins...

The White House knows this. No surprise they’re pulling out “Socialist-lite” price controls on energy, pharma, etc., ahead of the midterms. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"On Thursday morning, Trump signed one of his most scandalous pardons to date. On Thursday afternoon, he couldn’t explain his actions from hours earlier..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

“.. The US now doles out nearly $200 billion in direct subsidies for favored businesses each year, and the president has imposed an expansive tariff regime, which will likely invite corruption, waste tax dollars, and sap ambition.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Trump’s agents have detained innocent American citizens and residents, from children asleep in their homes to an Alderman’s staffers.   All demanding proof of citizenship, without probable cause, with only the victim’s skin color as a reason.   This isn't about crime or safety.

Past week: @wsj.com $TAP $RIVN $TGT

With Trump pardoning Changpeng Zhao and accusing the Biden administration of persecuting him because it hated cryptocurrency, here's a reminder of what the IRS's cybercrime investigators dug up on CZ and Binance. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Mike Johnson shamelessly lies: "We strengthened Medicaid. We improved healthcare access and we lowered premiums with our legislation."

NEW: Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans for a wide-ranging investigation into immigration agents’ detention of citizens after a ProPublica story found that more than 170 Americans have been held by immigration officials this year. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

The GOP and Trump could force a record number of Americans off of health insurance next year.

That’s some chyron. 👑 @atrupar.com

New stats on voting restrictions: Already this year, states have enacted 29 new laws that make it harder to vote. 28 of them will be in effect for the midterms. Learn more in the latest State Voting Laws Roundup from the Brennan Center and @goldmanschool.bsky.social:

State police declined a request to immediately release a copy of the agency's incident report or a booking photo. Moynihan is not the first pardoned Capitol rioter to be arrested on new, separate charges. But he is the first to be charged with making a violent threat against a member of Congress.

Congressional Republicans are out again this week—the 5th week in a row they haven’t shown up to work. They’d rather hide than allow the Epstein files to be released or work with us to keep health care costs from increasing.

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

40 million Americans may go hungry in November because their SNAP funding is at risk. 40 million people at a time when most are already struggling to put food on the table. Trump just gave 40 billion to Argentina. That could feed every American. That could easily fund SNAP. America first?

Columbia, SC, march to the governor's mansion! #NoKings

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

More Than 1,300 Animals Overwhelm Berkeley and Charleston Sheltering System holycitysinner.com/lifestyle/mo...

Since @jkbjournalist.bsky.social hasn't posted this here yet: "Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with, a former top Florida prosecutor who worked on his sweetheart plea deal, new docs show." www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

SC residents face rising health insurance rates as shutdown impacts subsidies abcnews4.com/newsletter-d...

Profiles in Cowardice. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Sign of the day…

Christian nationalist podcaster Joshua Haymes says Christians must be willing to defend the institution of slavery because the Bible makes it clear that "it is not inherently evil to own another human being." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

These are great !

Don't let GOP distract you. the top issues Americans care about are (not crime): Inflation/prices 22% Jobs and the economy 14% Health care 11% Civil rights 8% Immigration 7% Taxes and government spending 7% Civil liberties 7% National Security 6% Climate change and the environment 5% Crime 4%

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social