More train wrecks from this administration.

So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.

This is going to be a shitshow, so we need to remind each other to be patient and kind. TSA has been working without pay. 📌 The FAA announced major restrictions that experts say could lead to thousands of flights being canceled as the government shutdown drags into day 37.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Bravo I AM SO HAPPY !! PROJECTED WINNER EXCELLENT NEWS

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.

He should have died in The Hague.

Kavanaugh being emotional and erratic you don't say.

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

they keep not understanding that people aren’t going to blame the democrats if they do this as long as they keep claiming the authority to do it

Ladies and Gentlemen: The President of the United States.

I will not, as discussed before, read another single story that is clutching pearls about people's reproductive choices. But every time I see one, I'll remind you that there is no economic problem that cannot be solved with immigration and/or taxing wealth hoarders.

Obama: The weird videos of a U.S. President with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens… All of that is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.

Lmao literally having a "we're rich" party while they cut SNAP is like cartoon level evil it's like the villain in a Dr. Seuss book

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me. He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits… …while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

I think a lot about how Halloween has been fucked up for the last 5 years. At the beginning of the pandemic we put runners on our porch so we could stay well more than six feet away and still give out candy. Now we have to patrol our neighborhood for stormtroopers looking to kidnap people.

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Undocumented immigrants don't get SNAP benefits. Thet should, though, if they need it. Making people starve to death is fucking evil. Going across an imaginary line is not.

Drug testing people for food assistance is just telling people who have addiction (which is a disease) that they should fuck off and starve to death. I don't believe in starving people because of health conditions.

The network that was literally sustained on the backs of women & people of color is now firing exactly those people. CBS/Paramount might not have survived w/o Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz's Desilu Productions, & the weight they then lent to making a bunch of other shows happen. I mean what the hell.

“This language from the Vice President betrays so much of the promise we have as a nation.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

Saying this was considered so beyond-the-pale overtly racist it made Enoch Powell a pariah in the woke cancel culture of 1960s Britain.

it's almost like they're ideas and plans aren't popular with the American people or something. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem represent “a growing list” of senior Trump-administration political appointees now living on military bases — “where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest” Wonder why www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

What makes the unhinged Nancy Mace calling TSA agents "fucking incompetent" all the more galling is that because of *her* incompetence, they are not getting paid." As my mother would say, she is not a well woman. www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

Medicaid is vital to a healthy public education system. We must keep care within our kids’ reach. The more you know 🎯

WE FOUND THE WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE: FBI Director Kash Patel used a $60 million government jet for a booty call during the shutdown. Not the first time. In April, he made multiple trips to Nashville to see his 26-year-old country-singer girlfriend and even flew her around to hockey games.

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

Thanks to government food assistance, JD Vance had food to eat as a kid. Now he's an elitist MAGA prick who wants to strip food assistance from kids like him.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"

The Trump administration & Republicans think it's okay to send untrained, unprofessional, violent forces to brutalize and terrorize the American people. Their injuring children & the elderly, of even US Citizens! Call Congress & demand accountability and an end to #ICELawlessness Call 202-224-3121

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

BREAKING: A federal judge says L.A.-based US attorney Bill ESSAYLI has been acting in the role unlawfully since July, declaring him disqualified from the position. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

This is so blatantly fascistic I don’t know what to say.

BREAKING: The full bench of the 9th circuit has agreed to take up the Portland National Guard case and vacated the panel decision that had blessed Trump’s deployment.

“.. Andrea Soria, whose daughter plays at Luna y Cielo, overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: ‘We have to be good or ICE will get us.’” @apnews.com #Chicago apnews.com/article/chic...

We live in an episode of Veep

Sheryl Lee Ralph delivered a powerful #CupOfJoe. Drink it in. “Just because you have rights today does not mean you will have rights tomorrow. Don’t think the fight is over, the fight has just begun.”

A grocery store calling the cops to keep people from pulling food out of a dumpster is permanently etched in my brain as people with money and power deciding if they can't profit, they would rather see food rot and people starve.

My guy did you miss the part where they turned trans people, a similarly sized minority, into an issue that they're still using to mobilize their base? Or are we that fucjin invisible to you? Cause we're not invisible to the GOP.

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies. Trump just won’t release it. 440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...