‘This blew past our worst-case scenario’: GOP in full-blown panic after election losses www.rawstory.com/elections-26...

FLAG: The Trump admin has told states to "immediately undo" any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families for the month of November — threatening financial penalties if they do not comply. SNAP helps roughly one in eight Americans buy groceries.

Lebensraum for the late American Century

From Alexandra Edwards: Here's the simple, four-step plan extremists can follow to dismantle vital university programs, attack diversity, and leave workers afraid for their safety.

By introducing Trump's own public comments on tariffs, his lawyers may have undermined their own case before the Supreme Court, legal experts tell @adamliptak.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Quick question: Do you feel swamped in life and overwhelmed with clutter? Don’t worry! Just follow this elegant, life-simplifying rule composed of 11 sub-rules, courtesy of New Yorker Humor. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/291XEL

There’s evidence Texas Democrats could do better than usual in the 2026 midterms. But will Republicans see it? | Opinion

Seems a bit hubristic to suggest God needs saving.

The Trump administration told states in a late-night Saturday memo that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, adding to the chaos surrounding the anti-hunger program. Here’s a timeline of the SNAP developments that led up to this point.

It appears that Donald Trump’s angry social media posts have once again landed him in hot water in the courts: The judge said the president and his allies had openly admitted they were withholding funding for SNAP benefits for “political reasons.” trib.al/okypylv

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out. He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

At the state legislative level, Mississippi Democrats have broken a GOP supermajority in the state Senate after flipping two seats in that chamber plus another pickup in the state House.

Democrats have vastly expanded their control of the Virginia House of Delegates and in New Jersey's General Assembly, the party gained a supermajority.

The number of foreign students in the U.S. decreased by less than 1 percent this fall, according to new federal data, despite predictions that their enrollment would plummet this year due to a crackdown by the Trump administration.

For those confused by state of play on SNAP right now: You're not alone Yesterday, *before* SCOTUS paused order telling Trump admin to send out SNAP $$, a handful of states rushed to issue full SNAP benefits to at least part of their caseload. This includes CA, OR, WA, MI, and WI—all blue states (🧵)

"Perhaps one of the biggest lessons of this week is that the anti-Trump vote appears stronger than ever. And, as notably, the pro-Trump vote appears as weak as ever," writes Aaron Blake. | Analysis https://cnn.it/4qP7l6b

After a cautious start, Leo has now begun to find his voice and on Tuesday called for a "deep reflection" on what has been happening to immigrants in the United States over recent months under President Donald Trump. https://cnn.it/47N4pya

If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:

Ticket sales for the Washington National Opera have collapsed since Trump took over the Kennedy center www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

All it took was a government shutdown to get Trump to move closer to a single payer universal health care system.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reached out to the White House. They deferred to DHS.

Shapiro, rebuffing Vance about SNAP: "(JD Vance) claims to be a person of faith. I know my Bible, and my Bible teaches us that we are to love thy neighbor and we are to feed the hungry. Deuteronomy says, If you see a person who is in need, you don't give them a clenched fist. You open up your hand."

One of the biggest upsets on Tuesday: Aurora, one of Colorado's largest and more conservative-leaning cities, has swung to progressives. The conservative mayor, Mike Coffman (who you may recall from his time in Congress), says he is 'stunned.' www.coloradopolitics.com/2025/11/05/c...

Yesterday, from @josephinelee.bsky.social: Institutions like Houston's storied public school, the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, might no longer be open to everyone under a new plan for Houston magnet schools which has education advocates up in arms.

This weekend, the Texas Book Festival, which will gather some 250 authors in a bibliophilic tent city out front of the state Capitol, ironically the launching pad of myriad political attacks on supposedly intolerable tomes and sinful librarians.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has said the Trump administration must fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. https://cnn.it/47KumOX

BREAKING: SANDWICH GUY ACQUITTED. NOT GUILTY!

Conflict is expanding between Trump’s immigration policies and the Catholic faith, Elizabeth Bruenig writes. “The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.”

The Trump administration’s fast-tracked rules grant the Federal Protective Service sweeping powers to make arrests off federal property.

Q: Do you agree that Americans are paying those tariffs? TRUMP: They might be paying something

WOAH. Texas GOP Executive Director Jen Hall and another top party official just resigned. In her letter to party Chair Abraham George, Hall said she "cannot in good conscience continue to work this way" but doesn't elaborate. Hall and George are both longtime Tim Dunn allies. This is...interesting.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

A judge delivered a damning condemnation of the use of force in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign in Chicago, saying federal agents’ actions against protesters “shocks the conscience.”

The cost of the ongoing deployment of Texas and Illinois Guard troops to Chicago — where they remain blocked by court orders from doing much of anything — is expected to reach $12 million by the end of November.

Always read @crampell.bsky.social

Judge Ellis is on the bench this morning about to rule in the case about DHS's use of force in Chicago. Things are not going well for DHS — she just accused Gregory Bovino of lying under oath about his use of force.

You don't want to be the Trump administration when the judge starts with a wind-up like this

Dadgum.

MTG: "I'm trying to lead by example to talk to everyone in kindness. We don't all have to agree but that's being an American. And thank goodness for that. Our freedom of speech, our 1A rights, allows us to do that. My personal belief is that I need to set an example by speaking nicely to everyone."

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Bailing our Argentina and blaming our cattle ranchers is not the way to go."

Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."

Marjorie Taylor Greene on the Epstein files: "I think it also played a part in Tuesday's election of why people are just mad and they don't want to go vote. It's not going away anytime soon."

NEW on CNN: Inside the “absolute shitshow” at the Heritage Foundation. Where staff are in open revolt, a major donor bailing, and resurfaced deleted tweets from Kevin Roberts show him praising Pence and seemingly bashing Trump on Jan. 6th. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Two bishops with ties to Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, including Bishop Robert Barron, criticized the administration’s treatment of Catholics detained by immigration officials this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

In public, Trump has portrayed Mamdani as a dangerous radical. But in private, he has also described the mayor-elect as a talented politician, calling him slick and a good talker. @tylerpager.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

2/ Hunter Bonner, a Republican county chairman in East Texas, said he's filed a complaint with Trump's housing agency alleging there is evidence Paxton has committed mortgage fraud. We got a copy of the complaint and write about it here. www.kut.org/crime-justic... #txlege

1/ The Trump admin has targeted the president's perceived enemies with allegations of mortgage fraud. Letitia James. Adam Schiff. Lisa Cook But recently one Texas Republican tapped the tactic to allege a statewide official here may also be guilty: Ken Paxton. www.kut.org/crime-justic... #txlege

A federal appeals court next year will hear Texas’ arguments against a ruling that blocked nearly a dozen school districts from displaying posters of the Ten Commandments.