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A professor at Harvard released a study that indicates that the death toll on Gaza is close to 400,000 people. Incredible. Just insane. And the USA enabled and sponsored every single death. One of the most disgusting things to happen in my lifetime.

This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

There need to be social consequences for enacting anti-evidence policies that kill kids. One of Danielle Smith’s staffers just called me over (??) at an event wanting to say hi. Once I realized who she was, immediately questioned her about trans rights.

Mamdani probably got home, turned to his wife, and let out the longest, loudest “this fucking guy” of all time

WATCH — @thejaampod.bsky.social : “ICE drove past and sprayed mace into the car, into a one year old baby’s face… A BABY just got pepper sprayed. They should be arrested and prosecuted.”

Do you hate the new Vaccines and Autism webpage revisions as much as we do? Yes? Great. Some action items: 1. Submit your concerns through CDC INFO: www.cdc.gov/cdc-info/for... 2. (if not a fed employee) Consider adding "vaccines do NOT cause autism" to your signature line 😈

A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.

In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.

BYLINES NETWORK SPECIAL For 30 years, survivors of abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed have been silenced, threatened and blocked from justice. Their voices must be heard. Isabella reveals the barriers they face and the vital changes that need to happen. Read it at sussexbylines.co.uk & bit.ly/LegalAbyss

Mamdani is going to implement Scaramouche law. Everyone will have to do the Fandango.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Federal immigration agents once again moving through Chicago's Little Village neighborhood this morning; Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino among them. Video shared online a little after 10 am shows Bovino and another masked federal agent carrying long guns in the street near 26th and Troy.

A reminder that before he was blowing up boats under supposed war authority based on bogus accusations of terrorism, the President sent hundreds of men to CECOT under supposed war authority based on bogus accusations of terrorism. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

We stand in solidarity with our @condeunion.bsky.social siblings at @teenvogue.com who were unceremoniously laid off last week. Layoffs are not a solution to unbalanced budgets, especially when those laid off come from marginalized backgrounds typically not represented at major media orgs.

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.

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has now been waiting 36 days to be sworn in to office — setting a new record that any member of Congress has had to wait following a special election.

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

October 29, 2025

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

NEW: Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) called the indictment of Kat Abughazaleh and five others an "alarming abuse of power." Full statement below:

This week's note is all about SNAP and how to help. It includes lots of resources—from food bank and community fridge locators to mutual aid ideas. It also includes resources to help kids understand food insecurity and involve them in your community care. When you're hungry, food is hope.

Disobey! Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), specifically Article 92, Service members are required to refuse orders that are manifestly illegal. An order is considered manifestly illegal if its unlawfulness is clear and obvious, such as orders to commit war crimes or target civilians.

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As an educator, as a fellow woman in science, I’m fucking horrified that Lia Smith who was just a year from graduation felt her only option was to take her own life. I lay her death at the feet of all the people hounding trans women athletes like her, you fucking monsters

Every Albertan should be outraged. Our govt just rammed thru a full on attack on our constitutional rights. If they’ll do this to our teachers, nobody’s constitutional rights will be safe. This cannot be allowed to stand.

Kris and Dave

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.” open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

The BIGGEST political FLUFF piece I've ever read SHAME on you NYT ... your readers deserved AND expected better

Digging up more pictures of the WH garden (East Wing) that has been now completely destroyed

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At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

With its higher-education compact, the Trump administration is pushing schools to embrace an admissions policy that “might ensure that the next generation of diverse leadership is stopped before it begins,” Kevin Carey argues:

In Opinion “The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.

Never mind every other single abominable or corrupt thing to this miserable moment, the extrajudicial and unevidenced execution of 34 human beings by the U.S. Navy on the orders of a U.S. President acting in peacetime is sufficient for his impeachment and conviction. If we were a republic, I mean.

"There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you." Pitch perfect @schatz.bsky.social 💥

It's October 21st, 2025 and a white man from the Deep South is *still* denying representation to 800,000 Arizonans because he refuses to swear-in a duly-elected Latina to office. This is Jim Crow 2.0 and it should be more of a national outrage than it is.

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Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?” @aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

On top of his crypto grifts, real estate deals, and other corrupt ways he profits from the presidency, Trump now literally wants his own DOJ to pay him $230M. He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans. An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.

SNAP benefits will run out in some states next month because of the government shutdown. Low-income families will be unable to feed themselves during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. Trump and his GOP cronies don't care about Americans being hungry. Those who voted for this should be ashamed.