Gavin Newsom just said the quiet part out loud: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black. Period. Full stop.” And he’s right. “Anti-woke” was never about ideas, it was a marketing campaign to sanitize racism, roll back progress, and make bigotry sound intellectual.

Walmart employees? On SNAP. Junior US military personnel with families? On SNAP. Wherever workers are being underpaid, they are on SNAP.

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.

Deeply racist, yes, but also deeply stupid. Rural counties have higher enrollments than urban ones. Some of the largest enrollment states are red ones like Louisiana, Oklahoma and West Virginia. Undocumented immigrants are ineligible. Most beneficiaries are required to work 80 hrs/month.

The U.S. is “on a trajectory” toward authoritarian rule, according to a sobering new intelligence-style assessment by former US intelligence and national security officials, who warn democratic backsliding may soon become entrenched without organized resistance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“I’ve never seen more active propaganda coming from the federal government,” said WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell. “When I’ve seen something with my own eyes and then I see a completely different characterization coming from the spokesperson in Washington … it’s hard to know how to respond to that.”

In Addison, Illinois an immigration agent using an American flag as a mask smashes a woman’s car window while her family sits in the vehicle. Video from social media.

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon: "We had 19 members of congress go out to Chicago to have field hearings...What we did find was chaos and fear and lawlessness—but that chaos, fear, and lawlessness was being brought by armed and masked federal agents."

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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."

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

Congress may as well not exist at this point under this Spineless Speaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Imagine if we did this but instead of paying people to racially profile and terrorize communities and grab mostly innocent people we did it for teachers

The House hasn’t shown up for work in weeks. Members of Congress should be required to meet work requirements to maintain their own health benefits. Can we see how that'd go?

Another case bites the dust! Prosecutors found that James allowed a niece to live in the house rent-free in 2020. She only reported collecting $1,350 in rent money to cover utilities on her tax return. The small sum undercuts the DOJ theory that she was using it as an investment property.

Americans urgently need our Congress to take up the Constitutional duties it has abandoned. Continuing suspension of our Constitution will profoundly harm all Conservative and Liberal Americans.

The AG dept has the gal to say “the well has run dry” so hungry Americans won’t get food assistance in Nov? Meanwhile, BILLIONS are being spent on ICE, more American concentration camps, farmer bailouts, an Argentinian bailout, tax cuts for the uber rich & trump’s gaudy ballroom? That’s obscene.

Israel faces ‘dire future’ unless it addresses past crimes, says leading genocide scholar Omer Bartov calls for acknowledgment of the past and a truth and reconciliation-style process to break the cycle of denial www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

Democrats should just start rolling out ad after ad of Reagan voiceovers.

It’s still hard to grasp that there aren’t 4 GOP Reps (who will otherwise be forgotten forever after retiring & likely defeated next year anyway) aren’t interested in going down in history as all-time 🇺🇸 heroes by caucusing with the Dems & giving them the majority to impeach Trump & save the Republic

Tax the Mellon like it's 1979!

This is my nightmare hurricane. For years I said the two scariest kinds of hurricanes were Harvey (slow soaker that won’t move) and Michael (TS to Cat 5 in like 36 hours). This is BOTH and it’s about to hit Jamaica

Congratulations to the Blue Jays & our Canadian friends for not only winning last night, but also presenting one of the finest national anthem performances I've ever witnessed. Spectacular choir! I'm an American & my eyes welled with tears of admiration for your country! 🇨🇦 youtu.be/7qDJIlppk8E?...

In a deportation system filled with backlogs, where a win might not produce a green card immediately, all previous administrations, (including the first Trump admin!) have had some basic forbearance policies to align the intent of the law with the reality of execution. No longer.

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.

When ICE comes to Philly it’s going to be brutal

Advocates say some tactics used by officers to target Latinos in Trump’s deportation effort draw from Joe Arpaio’s playbook. “The model was Maricopa County — the very public, very humiliating, demoralizing approach to the raids, and the cruelty.” With @azluminaria.org

Thumbs down 👎 to Union Pacific, which has money for President Trump tear down the White House and build a gilded ballroom, but apparently no money to build safe railroad crossings for Houston school kids. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

Congratulations to Tim Mellon, the far right billionaire who just volunteered to become the literal poster child for ads about billionaires whose tax cuts are a primary reason why the govt is shut down. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Timothy Mellon of the famous Pittsburgh Mellon family is the one who provided $130 million to pay US military personnel. His views on social safety nets are that Democrats “buy” votes by providing government funds to pay for food for infants.

Donation from a patriot? Fascism is literally this!

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Tom Nichols about White House Press briefings: “Every one of these press conferences becomes a Saturday Night Live cold open. Except that you couldn’t write something like this. The writers at Saturday Night Live would throw that one out — it’s just too over the top.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Just a reminder that the government has made it almost impossible to hold agents accountable for abuse. They are even more shielded from suits than police. And Trump has gutted the office that handled complaints. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Sarah Longwell, publisher of the (sort of) conservative news and opinion website, The Bulwark, as interviewed by Dylan Byers of @puck.news

Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social , I learned that there are 52,000 elected offices up for election on 11/4. That’s 52000 chances to vote in candidates who share our values and who will protect the constitution. I voted and returned my ballot. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

In 1995, a single missile was headed near Russia. The Russian high command brought Yeltsin in the nuclear football because they were concerned, it might be a preemptive strike. It was a Norwegian weather satellite

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Just watched House of Dynamite on Netflix. Very sobering & essential viewing. We need a competent Administration .

ICE is up, with Border Patrol seen on the ground in Waukegan this morning. DHS helicopter had been seen heading this direction earlier.

We have leverage over Russia in that when we delay or signal doubt on Ukraine's cause, the Russians attack more and harder. In that sense, we are also participating in the killing of Ukrainians. www.thebulwark.com/p/mixed-sign...

Right now, our amazing service members with the California National Guard are helping power expanded food bank operations across the state. California refuses to let the Trump government shutdown's halt to federal food assistance abandon Californians in need.

Houston, we’ve got some possible serious weather heading our way this weekend. Before the rain moves in, you can prepare by signing up for CenterPoint’s Power Alert Service and bookmarking their Outage Tracker (English and Spanish) at CenterPointEnergy.com.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

The promises (cheap, serviceable recaps of news stories) and the perils (not grokking how our democracy is being wrecked) of AI news www.thebulwark.com/p/ai-and-the...

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

56% of Americans now agree that “President Trump is a potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.” From @prri.org & @robertpjones.bsky.social baptistnews.com/article/most...