Two headlines. Two economies. Same day. Poetic. @nytimes.com @bloomberg.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission just scrapped a table saw safety rule that could have prevented amputation injuries and saved over $2B in healthcare costs a year. This comes months after Trump fired all three Democratic CPSC members. "Make America Safe Again."

You know who often relies on SNAP? Foster parents who are taking care of all those babies you DEMAND be born. #EndTheRepublicanShutdown #StopPunishingAmericansForYourFailures

My two takeaways on this: 1. CNN's CEO is utterly craven. No surprise there. 2. The White House is getting very nervous about how poorly the demolition of the East Wing is going over with most Americans. Good.

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

Heads up: Indiana's Republican governor just called a special session to consider a new congressional map. Trump and JD Vance have been pressuring Republicans in the state for months to further gerrymander their map.

Crazy to run across yet another corruption scandal, realize the story is from yesterday and it just made no impact, like all the others.

Trump has pardoned billionaire crypto mogul and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao — who pled guilty to money laundering charges. This comes after Zhao helped prop up Trump’s family crypto business. Trump’s crypto corruption is off the charts. https://youtu.be/gpCxV-cRY4o?si=5EwStmYLCoIwvSV1

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Gee, I can’t imagine why…

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

RJ O’BRIEN: “.. I will say this. This looks like a clear loss for the United States. China's control of rare earths is and will continue to be significant .. This is a loss.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A district court would preliminarily enjoin the razing but SCOTUS would stay the PI and allow the razing to occur while litigation concerning the razing’s legality proceeds.

Trump’s DOJ allies can’t legally approve his $230 million payout They’re bound by ethics rules and the Constitution itself If they cave, they betray both Our new @contrariannews.org piece explains 👇 - TN contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-230...

“Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study.” www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.

Feed cleanser.

Wait! They tore down the East Wing even though plans for the new ballroom haven’t been approved yet? Why the rush?

From the administration that has systematically removed historical representations of people of color, from the regime that reinstalled confederate statutes and names of military bases

In 1970, cattle ranchers earned 70¢ of every consumer beef dollar. Today, they get just 30¢. Where did the other 40 cents go? Straight into the pockets of JBS, Tyson, Cargill, and National Beef.

NEW: Don Trump Jr.--after helping pick top Pentagon officials to join his dad's administration--has now become an investor and advisor to Pentagon drone builders. This as President Trump orders Pentagon to buy more drones. A NYT investigation of this latest conflict. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Love him or hate him, he understands the way the game is played now and he's playing it better than anyone else. Call ‘em out Newsom!!

"Obama built a basketball court." ACTUALLY, he converted an existing outdoor tennis court into a basketball court by painting lines and installing hoops. He didn't bulldoze a wing of the White House.

Ted Cruz whines all over the internet about Obama's $370 million spent on White House renovations. However, Cruz failed to report that Congress approved the funding in 2008 under President George W. Bush. The work was completed during Obama's time in office. Funny how spin works, huh?

Bravo California 👏🏼👏🏼

National park sites across the country aren’t collecting entrance fees during the government shutdown, and it’s adding up to a staggering amount in lost revenue. via @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/national-par...

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Being a lawyer right now is weird because you're sitting waiting multiple years for an Appellate Court to rule on basic shit, meanwhile SCOTUS rules every ten seconds that a different precedent doesn't mean what it very clearly says

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Aliens are going to be super confused when they show up threatening to overthrow our leaders and we're all stoked and offer to help.

Holy shit 🫡🤣

There’s $5 billion sitting in SNAP reserves right now. The money’s there. The Administration just decided feeding families matters less than bailing out Argentina.

the mango mofo sics doj against everyone it hates on an ever-growing list. orders the random m*rders of anyone on a boat in int’l waters. its cowardly gop enablers on vacation while collecting their fat paychecks. while ‘real americans’ suffer. the grand experiment of US excellence-long gone

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

After demolishing the East Wing for his oversized Vegas showroom, Trump now wants to extend his reach in the city with an arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Cemetery. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/another-mo...

Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with: “Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.

The White House belongs to the American people, so if it's okay for him to bulldoze it, we should be able to bulldoze Mar-a-Lago.

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

Wow, Todd Blanche is really going with "resistance is futile."

Call me a conspiracy theorist but I'm starting to think that the government shutdown is part of their hostile government takeover. Go read Project 2025, again.

I'm filing a brief in support of the case against Donald Trump's illegal tariffs now in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. California families and businesses shouldn't pay the price for actions that Trump never had the authority to take in the first place.

The company brought Junior in right after the election as part owner. They just won the largest drone motor contract awarded by the Pentagon.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America