🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge in Rhode Island rules from the bench that the Trump admin **must** pay SNAP benefits. "The court is orally ordering that USDA must distribute the contingency money timely or as soon as possible for the November 1 payments to be made." Story to come.

Someone should come up with a slogan about this and organize mass protests or something

Richard Hasen: “This is not normal. I do think we have to take seriously the possibility that people are going to have to get around federal troops if they want to be able to vote.” slate.trib.al/PYLBU0T

"Trump’s boat attacks, by contrast, are an almost gleeful bloodletting without any consultation with Congress, evidence, or legality. The people in those boats may or may not have been criminals. The people ordering the strikes are." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...

Pretty sure "attacking another country's military infrastructure within its own borders" has a name...

Intellectual diversity is important, critical we have both columnists whose content is fact-checked and those who can write lies for a living bsky.app/profile/gbro...

Presumably a legal immigrant is also a taxpayer?

Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."

Turner on the admin's briefing on Trump's deadly boat strikes: "Yesterday, there were not very good answers as to what is the standard, what is occurring ... people were very frustrated with the level of information that was provided and certainly the level of legal justification that was provided."

EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

"Elon Musk has substantial business interests before the Navy...Mark Hertling believes that the installation of Rachel Riley atop the Office of Naval Research could be part of a larger effort to reduce the vendor pool for federal contracting." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

So it begins.

A little frightening how glaring and provably false the lies have become. It implies they know there’s no need for accountability.

"If we had a contingency fund." You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded? www.notus.org/trump-white-...

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

Do they typically award Nobel Peace prizes to someone who murders people every day by blowing up their boats while claiming they deserved it for transporting drugs, but doesn’t give them due process, a fair trial, or present any evidence or proof of guilt to anyone?

This is next level authoritarianism.👇 "Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

They must expect a lot of people all over the country to be really upset about something next year. I wonder what that could be?

Reporters must stop accepting this. Options: -Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others) -"It's your job to be informed" -"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?" -"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often" -"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"

The automaker says the president’s claim that "they’re gonna spend $10 billion, and they’re gonna build new car plants,” is unfounded. Trump was either making it up or mixing it up with a deal from his first term nearly eight years ago. trib.al/zqGCiNM

Today, as the Fed cuts, is another good day to note how we’ve just totally normalized & moved on from the unprecedented violation of central bank independence that Stephen Miran represents. This would’ve been a huge scandal requiring his resignation from at least one post in any prior admin. Now? 🤪

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

💯👇

I honestly have no idea why people continue to report his big announcements when they always turn out to be bs.

BREAKING: DOJ puts 2 prosecutors on leave after they sought prison sentence for pardoned Jan. 6 rioter in separate case. @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social has the latest

Scoop: The Trump admin's videos boasting triumphs on immigration have used misleading footage from months ago or thousands of miles away When we showed them the errors, DHS said they make a lot of videos and the White House said it'll keep making "banger memes" wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Excellent summary. When I discuss the Constitution in class with students, we pay attention to the fact that Article I is about Congress and it takes up about half the text of the document. If the Founders had “intent,” it was for Congress to assume a massive role in the federal government.

They all know how to play him. It isn’t difficult. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

It’s not law enforcement. It’s a deputized partisan militia.

Maybe hospitalizing a FOOTBALL player will get the attention of right wing Texans.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

A federal judge issues a GAG ORDER barring Trump's DOJ and Department of Homeland Security from violating Kilmar Abrego Garcia's right to a fair trial, citing a record of "troubling" statements that are "exaggerated if not simply inaccurate." Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.

Elbows waaaay up in the polls.

I can only assume that the CEOs of huge companies and leaders of foreign governments who continue to bribe Trump while getting tremendous benefits and breaks from the govt think that Republicans will stay in power forever or Democrats will forgive and forget.

Dear CBS News personalities: The Canadians' ad did not portray Reagan's tariff policy fraudulently, and you do not have to repeat the president's false characterization of it. Or if your new boss insists that you do, you can at least point out that it's false. www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-b...

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this. But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Arguments already getting re-written. 🤡

Ontario ran the tariff ad again during the World Series. It’s a damn good one.

The Doug Ford ad using Reagan’s words to make the case against Trump’s tariffs just aired AGAIN during the World Series.

I don’t really think the framers intended for a president to have the power to slap a tariff on products from a particular country because he didn’t like a TV commercial they ran about him, but I suppose it is presently up to the Supreme Ct to decide how far the Mad King can go.

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

Perhaps there’s a reason that the Constitution doesn’t leave the powers over taxation and foreign commerce to the whims of one man. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by 10% because Ontario’s commercial that accurately used Ronald Reagan’s words about tariffs made him sad