In VA and NJ, 7 percent of 2024 Trump voters flipped to vote for the Dem gubernatorial candidate. And in a recent CNN poll, 7 percent of Republicans said their next congressional vote was meant to send a message of opposition to Trump. www.pbump.net/o/tuesday-an...

Get ready: Receipts, our new economic newsletter from @crampell.bsky.social, is dropping the first edition tonight! Subscribe now to get it in your inbox: www.thebulwark.com/subscribe

Lots more on Pelosi here from biographer @mollyesque.bsky.social www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

So much to say about Nancy Pelosi, now retiring Plausibly the most effective House leader of modern times A telling episode, from early 2010 when Democrats were *this* close to giving up on what eventually became the ACA us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Republicans looking for someone to blame should look at Trump @saletan.bsky.social breaks down Tuesday’s results www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-republ...

Democratic leaders now have their eyes firmly on winning back the Senate @lauren-egan.bsky.social on what they’re saying — and where they see new opportunities www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate @abdulelsayed.bsky.social has recreated and adapted the (in)famous Harry and Louise ad www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYJk...

Nationwide, 1 in 5 child care workers are immigrants, most of them Latinas. In Chicago, it’s 1 in 4. @chabeli.bsky.social reports.

New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.

I was told New Jersey would be close Is this close?

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Some of the people in this story are criminals. The others are in boats. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...

"I want to talk to you about a remarkable individual I met, a program that may have literally saved his life, and why that program's future is now in jeopardy." Read about it from @citizencohn.bsky.social in the latest edition of The Breakdown: www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...

This Is happening because the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold nutrition assistance, pretending it wasn’t allowed to deliver benefits despite its own guidance (that it has since deleted) saying it was allowed to deliver benefits.

-Sep 30: USDA releases guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse -Oct 23: USDA deletes guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund -Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds -Nov 1: no funds go out

The agency is called SAMHSA It funds programs to help people with mental illness, substance abuse Trump is ripping it to shreds Here’s one story about what could be lost www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...

NEW: The most important Sunday read. Drug courts are saving lives. Red states love them. People depend on them. But Trump could very well blow it all up via @citizencohn.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...

This is a story about one particular program But it’s also a story about the mindless approach that the Trump administration has taken to attacking agencies on which we all rely www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...

"I think that the people who are making these cuts don’t really understand what it is that these programs do" -- a former official, speaking about some successful substance abuse initiatives that are beloved even in deeply red America www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...

What @dandrezner.bsky.social says here: Thank you baseball, for this extraordinary World Series open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

"They can talk all they want about streamlining and addressing waste, fraud, and abuse. They haven’t done that. They have cut programs simply for the sake of cutting government.” -- @reppaultonko.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...

The long list of GOP officials who have praised this program includes Newt Gingrich Rick Perry Several current governors One of Trump’s own cabinet members So why his administration gutting the agency that oversees it? www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...

Today at @thebulwark.com I wrote about an agency Trump is ripping to shreds And a particularly promising program that could suffer as a result www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...

What to make of the Trump administration's new policy on IVF? This @publichealthpod.bsky.social episode w/ @drjoshs.bsky.social is a great explainer podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

This is a big issue Immigrants are the backbone of our health care system across rural and other under-served parts of the country

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@cheetah.bsky.social has some breaking news in Press Pass: Rear Admiral Kurt Rothenhaus was recently removed from his post as chief of naval research, the top post at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and replaced with a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience.

Trump's ballroom fiasco looks even worse against backdrop of bad economic news: *layoffs mounting *food stamps expiring *health care premiums soaring *consumer sentiment sliding On the pod, Elizabeth Pancotti is great in explaining the opening here for Dems: newrepublic.com/article/2024...

Thinking what this will mean for STEM labs and departments, especially at places like UFlorida

When we were working on the first round of drug price negotiations during the Biden Administration, I kept thinking “dammit, Trump’s gonna win the election and take credit for all that we’re building.” www.statnews.com/2025/10/30/t...

KFF: ACA premiums for current subsidized enrollees will go up 114% on avg. if enhanced subsidies not renewed. CMS: Premiums for subsidized enrollees will go up 26% (and be cheaper than in 2020). Are they both right? Yes... depends on what you're buying. xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/trumps-cms...

Another important internal Dem debate, this one playing out mostly behind the scenes Latest from @lauren-egan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"Ever since the Affordable Care Act became law, Republicans have been promising this magical mystery Obamacare alternative." And they're at it *again.* @citizencohn.bsky.social breaks it down in the latest edition of The Breakdown: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...

📣 GOOD NEWS: HealthCare.Gov window shopping is LIVE! BAD NEWS: HealthCare.Gov window shopping is live. acasignups.net/25/10/29/goo...

This article captures two realities @svdate.bsky.social is a terrific, clear-eyed and utterly professional reporter The White House press office operates with the mentality of a 12-year-old www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

I see we’ve entered the “don’t worry, we have a magical Obamacare alternative” stage of the debate www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...

Getting rid of VRA districts in Southern Republican states might be the ultimate cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. Democratic presidents continue to give a damn about southern red states because members of the Congressional Black Caucus represent them. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Warning: If you happen to be the parent of a child who loves baseball, this @jvl.bsky.social article might make you cry (To be clear, you should read it — whoever you are) www.thebulwark.com/p/why-we-fight

They have thoughts of an inkling of a theory of a concept of a plan.

@citizencohn.bsky.social: "The string of empty promises of a supposedly fantastic, about-to-be-revealed GOP health plan has long been a running joke in Washington...that stretches back more than a decade." Read the latest Breakdown @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...

"Even when Trump's instincts take him to policies that really could help a lot of people, he struggles to see them through." That might be putting it nicely. @citizencohn.bsky.social on Trump's empty free-IVF promise and why and how it went wrong at The Breakdown: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-empt...

Trump's instincts lead to some interesting ideas on prescription drugs But turning them into reality would require him to be the kind of president he's never been His whiff on IVF drugs is a case in point www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-empt...

This agreement falls way short of making IVF free, which is what Trump had promised as a candidate. Read the latest Breakdown now from @citizencohn.bsky.social

An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists. www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

A+ sign at College GameDay

Great points from @leahlitman.bsky.social explaining how conditions for Trump's $230 million heist were partly created by SCOTUS, the immunity decision, and unitary executive theory. Trump cited immunity ruling in docs seeking this money. So much packed in here: newrepublic.com/article/2022...

Some exceptions but a good rule of thumb to understand which federal employees will be paid during the shutdown is whether their job involves carrying a gun. No gun, no paycheck. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

New, from me: Trump is prioritizing paying the armed forces over other federal employees during a shutdown. He is trying to win over the rank and file even as he tells military leaders to target “the enemy within.” 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

What has happened to America's public health infrastructure in general, and the CDC in particular, is shocking. @citizencohn.bsky.social on a public health corps in exile, in the latest edition of The Breakdown: www.thebulwark.com/p/cdc-diaspo...