I smell state prosecutions.

Wells Fargo scammed millions of people by opening fake accounts. The Trump Administration just reduced a former Wells Fargo exec's $10 million fine to $0. Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.

Hey folks: Looks like @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having a YouTube chat at 10:30 AM EST tomorrow (Saturday) morning. You can catch it here: m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

Trump’s Demolition, from the East Wing to Western Democracy https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/23/trumps_demolition_from_the_east_wing

The U.S. and the Philippines are the only two countries with a for-profit bail industry, says civil rights lawyer @equalityalec.bsky.social. The insistence that people in pre-trial detention pay to get out of jail leads to "millions of coerced guilty pleas" by poor people each year, he says.

BREAKING: Hegseth says U.S. is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military buildup in the region.

A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to the legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial.

Food insecurity experts say this is the first government shutdown in which SNAP benefits have been at such severe risk.

This is, hands down, one of the worst witness accounts in a long line of horrifying accounts of cruel and unusual capital punishment in this god forsaken country

Crony capitalism, all the way down

I wrote about No Kings Day in Los Angeles. What bothers me most about reflecting on police response to protests in LA is that the brutality begins to feel...expected. Like, "Oh, that's just LAPD." Frankly that's bullshit. Pretty tired of watching my neighbors get their shit kicked in by the cops.

Health insurance is not healthcare. It’s an unnecessary middleman designed to restrict access to healthcare and transfer wealth upwards by exploiting people for profit. Medicare for All: $0 premiums $0 deductibles $0 copays …and would cut spending by $650 billion per year

Inflation is up 3% When inflation rises faster than Social Security increases, seniors get less and more are pushed into poverty. The Social Security cost of living adjustment should be tied to inflation.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

“FARMAGEDDON” Hayes lays out how Trump’s trade war is screwing over American farmers and cattle ranchers as he helps his buddy President Milei in Argentina take their market share and billions in American taxpayer💰 #MakeArgentinaGreatAgain 🇦🇷

Online censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org

If a temporary resident of the White House can totally demolish the East Wing to build a gaudy ballroom, without any authority, approval, or regulation, he can tear down the rest of the White House to build a Walmart. That this destruction is allowed underscores how off the rails our country is now.

Starving can cause chronic illness and disabilities. Malnutrition is not to be trifled with. Cutting off SNAP funding will cause people to suffer. Some will get ill. Some may die. There’s no excuse for this. 40 million people rely on that program. It’s a cull.

"Hopefully the truth will someday come out. And anyone who abused & tortured these underage girls, no matter who they are, how wealthy & powerful they are, or which party they belong to, will find themselves in a courtroom answering to the survivors & the law" andyostroy.substack.com/p/the-horror...

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

The private detention centers ICE contracts with to hold thousands of people — including journalists it arrests — shouldn’t be off-limits to FOIA requests. Use our action center to tell your member of Congress: FOIA should apply to private facilities.

☝️ agree….

"Tearing down the White House and replacing it with a facsimile of Mar-a-Lago isn’t any less appalling because Trump cajoled companies into paying for it. Indeed, it might be worse. Funding a pet project via the coercion of private donors creates a closed loop and complete lack of accountability."

In Oakland, California, an ICE GOON shot a local clergyman point-blank.

"Congress approved funding for the renovations in 2008—before Obama took office—'after a Bush administration report revealed some systems in the White House were periodically failing.'"

Absolutely no one spends $350 million on a remodel to a house they plan on leaving in three years. No one!!!

October 23, 2025

@hcrichardson.bsky.social October 23, 2025 Political Chat www.youtube.com/live/b0ze3Oa...

Illinois has now achieved its 10th credit rating upgrade since I took office. It reflects our continued growth in financial standing and speaks volumes to our state's commitment to fiscal discipline. With each upgrade, it means saving Illinoisans millions of dollars.

American Conversation Thursday, Oct 23rd @warren.senate.gov @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/P1ZLqOp...

CZ pleaded guilty to a criminal money laundering charge and was sentenced to prison. But then he financed President Trump’s stablecoin and lobbied for a pardon. Today, he got it. If Congress does not stop this kind of corruption, it owns it.

We asked Donald Trump to cut health care costs. Instead, he cut off a wing of the White House.

I’ve been evicted from the Pentagon, a building I’ve covered for 18 years, Nancy A. Youssef writes. I’ll keep doing my job anyway.

🚨 oh look! Jack Smith is calling Marsha Blackburn’s bluff. Surely she should want him to testify publicly if she isn’t entirely full of 💩, right? Right?? www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

This is chilling. And it doesn't exist anymore except on the Internet.

The East Wing was built in 1902 & rebuilt in 1942, long after asbestos was used as a fire retardant. So, I’m sure the White House took steps to prevent a known carcinogen from entering the air during the current willy-nilly demolition. Kidding! These irresponsible assholes don’t care who they kill.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Chauncey Billups is going to fight Trump’s racists. Don’t F with the #NBA. Statement via Chams on X

Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office. n.pr/47ll5Nc

A court could rule on legal challenges surrounding the National Guard deployments in the coming days. And, a new policy for Pentagon reporters has led many to turn in their press passes. n.pr/4o1G1j7

$40B to Argentina

Day 23 of the #GOPShitdown y’all. Tomorrow is the first full missed paycheck for Feds who are working without pay or furloughed. So let’s keep sharing resources. If you know of resources to assist with bills, cash, groceries, gas to get to the jobs that aren’t paying us, please drop them below ✊✊✊

The shutdown has exacerbated a growing drone problem in Yosemite.