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What Trump and Republicans are doing — using the shutdown to withhold emergency SNAP funds that could feed millions — is sadistic. Literally reveling in their own cruelty. They’ll cut taxes for billionaires but let children go hungry. A national scandal.

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

This is next level authoritarianism.👇 "Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

It's been 36 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

A quick reminder that the House is not in session because Speaker Johnson CANCELED it, not because of the current shutdown.

🚨BREAKING: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals voted to rehear President Donald Trump’s Portland National Guard case Tuesday — a step that vacates an earlier ruling that allowed Trump to federalize Oregon’s troops and deploy them against local protests. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There’s no bottom.

Well, after all, he did take an oath to defend and protect Donald Trump.

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?

It's been 35 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

Numbers are a liberal conspiracy.

If Trump actually cared about fighting cartels, his budget wouldn't cut funds from DEA and other domestic, LEGAL efforts to fight drug trafficking. These extrajudicial killings are illegal, not authorized by Congress, and must end.

We have our popcorn ready.

Reminder:

Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”

Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.

Gov. Gavin Newsom decried the DOJ's plan to send federal election observers to California for the November special election as "voter intimidation," warning the move sets a precedent for possible military and ICE presence at polls in the 2026 midterms. https://bit.ly/48LfHoT

“They got money for wars, but can’t feed the poor.”

🚨 BREAKING: A group of Virginia Republicans sued to stop Democrats from redrawing the state’s congressional map, arguing that they didn’t have the authority to reconvene a special session. They asked the court to block any proposed redistricting constitutional amendments.

We live in an episode of Veep

The United States is going through the largest number of layoffs since… checks notes… the last time Donald Trump was President. Every single Republican president in my lifetime has crashed the economy. Trump is the first to do it twice.

Everyone knew and people didn’t gave a f—

Trump is a paper tiger, he is not popular.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

🚨A federal judge is blocking Trump from firing federal workers during the shutdown — rightfully saying these illegal firings were likely "political retribution." Trump needs to stop punishing our dedicated public servants and actually come to the table to end this shutdown.

Awful piece. Just because so many white people are culturally ignorant and don’t know that Aunt, Auntie, Cousin are all terms to describe family members or close friends of our parents - even if that’s not their blood connection. The racism, the desperation, the sheer…..smallness of these attacks!

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

This is not a great way to run a society.

In comments to reporters Monday, President Donald Trump did not rule out running for a third term — something the Constitution explicitly prohibits. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The GOP in Congress are worse than useless. They are craven enablers of murder.

John Dickerson announces he’ll be leaving CBS at the end of the year. Not a great sign for the network.

Good fucking morning to everyone except Donald Trump and the Republicans who’d rather let food assistance expire for 40 million Americans than end this shutdown. The GOP controls Congress. They can end this whenever they want.

More on this please….

Congress is rapidly proving itself irrelevant, and the only person who benefits from that is Donald Trump.

I think there's consensus that we all should call it the Epstein Ballroom. And I propose renaming the rest the Gold House.

Mamdani is just killing the #BrokenTimes. Its coverage is like a five-year-old's temper tantrum over trying asparagus.

‘Pepper-spraying a 15 year old is cowardly’: Turnstile on hostile cops, playing through pain and taking hardcore punk global

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He’s just going to make things up to try and stay in power, like all fascist authoritarians do. We will not abide it.

Meet Andrew “Mac” Warner, the former red-state chief election official who has falsely claimed the CIA stole the 2020 contest. Now, he’s playing a key role in the conspiracy theory-fueled effort by the DOJ to investigate the vote. https://bit.ly/4ogXcgI

Please do not defend Nazi tattoos in the mentions of Black people. Or Jewish people. Or in my case, Black Jewish people. Enough is enough. Honestly

Republicans bowed to pressure from Donald Trump to midcycle gerrymander at the expense of minority voters — only to be sued by my law firm within hours or days. If they expect us to eventually give up and back down, they are sorely mistaken. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/repu...

NEW: Service cuts initiated under President Donald Trump’s first postmaster general could delay mail throughout most of the nation, putting millions of mail-in voters at risk of blowing ballot deadlines in future elections. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/pic...

I had the time of my life tonight watching this documentary, laughing, crying, singing, it was incredible. They did this recording overnight from 10pm-8am. I love all of them. Diana Ross was the last to leave

“There are some instances when a law is just on its face but unjust in its application.” —Martin Luther King

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

Let me just be clear here: there NEVER WAS A JEW EXCLUSION ZONE. The idea is absurd, a figment of Trump’s imagination. Did not happen. Did. Not. Happen.

It is absolutely heinous.