I really think what’s needed here is more gold.

CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social joined @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social tonight to to discuss what it means that SCOTUS has temporarily halted the full funding of SNAP benefits. "The administration is fighting tooth and nail to deprive over 40 million Americans of their food."

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Oh, this is wonderful. In a similar vein, when she was House Minority Leader in 2005 and W was putting forth a Social Security privatization plan, several Dems asked Pelosi when the party would release an alternate plan. According to aides, her response was always “Never. Does never work for you?”

I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

How can a civil society exist in which people control this much personal wealth. We need a wealth tax

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

Saw my muse Jeff Tweedy with his family band and love how they have transformed the live versions of Twilight Override (New Orleans!!!) and Sukirae/Warm tracks like Diamond Light and Family Ghost. Amazing he now has 8+ records worth of solo material and now two amazing touring bands

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Remember how controversial Obamacare was and how much Dems thought they had to run against or run away from it. Now people are seeing what it did, and seems super popular. Dems should learn from this

Never forget seeing this back when it came out and everything changed

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

Gov. Beshear: “The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”

I hope Gov Spanberger gets the same attention Youngkin got when he won 2 he was supposed to be the harbinger of change and enormously successful. Everyone who had that take back then owes her one today

If I was a GOP strategist, I’d be pretty worried about diluting my safe +15 districts into a bunch of +5 gerrymandered districts after tonight.

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority 👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Republicans are currently starving millions of people in order to force Democrats to cooperate in cutting health care for millions of people. We've gotten so inured to this shit. It's just monstrous, horrific behavior.

Wisconsinite here with a 45% increase in my family’s policy $1k more per month

“The rates for health care coverage purchased on HealthCare. gov in Wisconsin will rise by anywhere from 45% to 800% for 2026, depending on where a person lives, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday.” https://bit.ly/48TE7g0

Dear Indiana Pacers fans, this is how you welcome a player back who you cheered for a decade or more. In fact, many of us cheered his best shots as he scored 23 with 6 rebounds and 3 assists for the other team. Can’t wait for Brooke Lopez’s return to cheer for him. Myles was done wrong

Tens of millions of people are suffering from the shutdown, but at least Donald Trump is doing well with the money his family has made off the presidency. deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trump-fami...

Good morning from Milwaukee

There's so much kindness in our city. www.jsonline.com/story/entert...

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going. Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/factchecki...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

Saw David Byrne’s concert tour last night in Chicago. Beautiful. Joyful. Love and Kindness is the new punk rock and resistance. Hope this tour keeps going to I can see again.

Vile

Milwaukee #Bucks head coach Doc Rivers has call to action on delay on #SNAP benefits: 'This is about our kids.' www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

Bob Dylan said this in 1971 abt The Beatles. He wrote 'Chimes of Freedom' on an early 1964 roadtrip thru Colorado that is prolly the same trip he's talking abt here.

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More Democrats should get more combative with the media, in particular by calling out questions that have an unspoken premise of "GOP voters are realer Americans than you," or in this case, "the president can break the law if voters in a city choose a mayor according to their own preferences."

The US is the purple line bottoming out. Our economy may still roar, but we’re killing ourselves. Hoarding wealth, refusing to even ensure our kids have enough to eat. That line is an indictment. It reflects our warped values.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

While working families are seeing massive spikes in their insurance premiums and are going hungry from losing SNAP, Donald Trump continues to live in an HGTV episode focused on his marble bathroom renovations.

Slap this quote on the side of Air Force One, the White House, your front lawn, everywhere. We should hear this on every media outlet and echoing through the streets.

1. On October 23, Trump pardoned CZ, the founder of Bianance. CZ had pled guilty to willfully violating anti-money laundering laws. His conduct, according ot the DOJ "allowed money to flow to terrorists, cybercriminals, and child abusers.” A week later, Trump is getting his payback.

Unprecedented corruption

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.

The US needs to step up here and I fear we won’t. This is devestating

TERRIFYING! Did you know, Wisconsin’s current Republican representation in Madison is filled with creeps? Here are a few of the worst offenders. Bob Donovan: Literal peeping tom bit.ly/3WqGnE3

Please DNC create a meme with a running total of Trump family earnings since becoming president and put that against inflation and wage growth and update it constantly so we can share regularly. @kenmartin.bsky.social