Newsom: Let’s stand up for the rule of law. Let’s stand up for a system of checks and balances. And let’s stand up for our democracy—for all of us.

PAY ATTENTION: In this video I expose the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' voter suppression playbook — and what we must do now to defend democracy and feee and fair elections in 2026. youtu.be/7rSwJPz2MRo?...

A lesser-known resource: www.211.org

I am a federal contractor. I was told to stop work when the government shut down. On October 23, Pegasus Residential said they weren’t renewing my lease. We must move by mid-December. Today, they sent a 3 Day Notice to Vacate. Our ACA insurance is rising from $368/mo to $1496 in January. 1/2

Trump is now selling his Trump Wine on military bases. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

I remember reading a bunch of corporate media stories about Biden after he got new shoes with better support. Which, by the way, he did after he fractured his foot. bsky.app/profile/atru...

🚨BREAKING: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote. The lawsuit calls the policy part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”

it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

Quick explainer on Jackson's SNAP stay. www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w...

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

I just did an internet search for “Trump falls asleep in Oval Office” and found a couple stories from small left-leaning outlets and some foreign press. Major American corporate media outlets or local news? Not so much.

Angus: Well, Donald, the whole world watched you and your grotesque Great Gatsby gathering with all these barely clad young women and creepy old men at—what is it—the Mar-a-Lago Roach Motel where you live—and thought, this man doesn’t care about his own people.

Signature matching is junk science that has been used to disenfranchise lawful voters. It’s shameful that Democratic controlled states still use this. Voters should not have to spend time correcting the states mistakes or risk having their legal votes tossed out.

US Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed on Friday it will pay for food benefits for more than 42 million Americans. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yay! More states New York, Kansas, and Pennsylvania have announced they’ve started sending out full SNAP benefits. Meanwhile, Trump was apparently too busy napping to help make sure people got the assistance they need.

The shattering of faith in America’s goodness is the hardest part to watch.

L - What Trump is demanding from other people. R - What Trump is doing right now while he demands it.

“At City Hall, all 150 seats were filled as people began to stand and gather along the back and side walls…” elginobserver.com/23645/news/c...

Billionaire Marc Andreessen said in 2024 that the CFPB exists to “terrorize finance, terrorize financial institutions, prevent fintech, prevent new competition, new startups." Now, he and other Silicon Valley firms have benefited from Trump's gutting of the agency.

There already aren’t enough dentists who accept Medicaid patients, said Kimberly Raleigh of the Michigan Oral Health Coalition, and “if there is a reduction in community water fluoridation, it’s just a downward spiral.” By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

YES! Let him speak!👇

This will inconvenience a lot of the "important people" that lawmakers pay attention to. Not the ridiculously rich, who own their own planes, (they are apparently exempt) but a lot of business leaders fly regularly. IDK how this will factor, but it's definitely an escalation that will be noticed.

ICE! You're supposed to arrest the sexual assaulters, not their victims!!!!

l looked up the current delinquency rates in the US for the data re:mortgages, auto loans etc I found this article. It shows top delinquency metro areas R almost all MAGA ones. The lowest are blue. The overall worst state of all is LA Mike Johnson's state constructioncoverage.com/research/cit...

This move by Democrats today (which I called for 2 weeks ago) really exposed the Republican position. It smoked them out in the open. They refuse to extend the ACA subsidies which will cause insurance premiums to go up for 22 million people. It’s not about anything else.

I’m glad he agrees that Georgia is a deep blue state.

If you look at Trump's actions through the eyes of "what would I do if I was a criminal organization" it all makes a lot of sense.

🚨BREAKING: New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss the felony charges against her, arguing that President Donald Trump and his political appointees at the Department of Justice (DOJ) are selectively and vindictively prosecuting her.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 245. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

His mother, Maria Avalos, was later called to retrieve her granddaughter from an immigration office after hours of waiting. “We didn’t know what happened to her while she was in their care, and they wouldn’t give us information about when my son would be released or where he was,” #OpDeathEaters

Masked, heavily armed Trump regime agents abducted a U.S. citizen in a Los Angeles Home Depot parking lot during an ethnic cleansing raid, then drove away in his car with his one year old daughter, also a citizen, still inside. #OpDeathEaters #EndImpunity

Well, well, well. L - October 27 R - Today

🚨BREAKING: The North Carolina election board on Thursday announced a raft of new hires with backgrounds in Republican politics — the latest sign of the GOP’s partisan takeover of the board as it prepares for next year’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Dems need to start talking more about how Trump’s dementia means that he can’t distinguish his fantasies from reality. He has completely lost touch with the real world and only knows what his sycophantic courtiers are telling him.

This is important. He has a big audience.

NEW EPISODE: Despite major pro-democracy wins on Tuesday, the fight is far from over. In this video I expose the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' playbook — and what voters, lawyers, and journalists must do now to defend democracy before it’s too late. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rSw...

Jeffries: "It's incredible that Trump & Rs have decided to weaponize hunger & starvation by unlawfully withholding SNAP benefits from 42m Americans. But this is not surprise when you consider that in their one big ugly bill, Republicans already enacted the cut to SNAP benefits in American history."

Rep. Andy Harris: "A continuing resolution doesn't increase spending, but it also gives the administration the ability to tweak funding. Those Biden-era programs that aren't very favorable like USAID obviously are subject to rescission." (Yeah, that's the whole problem!)

lol wut

The contradictory messages are happening because we have a senile old fool who is mentally unstable who bases his foreign policy off things he sees or Fox and clips from social media that his hacks show him. The entire world is less safe as a result.

If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here

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It's the first Friday of the month, which means we've gone 2 months now without a jobs report. For Trump, this is a feature of the shutdown, not a bug, since private surveys show the job market slowing dramatically. But without official data he's able to keep lying about it.

Devastatingly CRUEL!!!!!!😢😢💔💔

Hassett: "I think that Secretary Bessent wisely said we're starting to see pockets of the economy that look like they might be in a recession ... if we go another month or so, who knows how bad the economy could be this quarter? And we know whose fault it would be."

Kevin Hassett: "To be sure, the labor market is a little bit softer right now."