I WANT MY TAX MONEY PAYING FOR KIDS TO EAT LOBSTER AND STEAK AND COOKIES, NOT PAYING TO BOMB PALESTINIAN AND SUDANESE KIDS AND INVADING VENEZUELA.

This is dope. In the spirit of the BPP free breakfast program, but fancy.

People in the tank for Platner are not ideologically aligned, they’re aesthetically aligned. It’s not “far left” and it’s not “centrist” it’s about masculinity

This is bad enough in Idaho, but that's a low population, remote state. Doing this in one of the most populated, urbanized, and traveled-to states in the country is just disastrous.

To the the extent that the government shutdown is about ACA tax credits, this is what it boils down to: Democrats want to keep ACA tax credits looking like the BLUE version, permanently. Republicans want to let it change to the ORANGE version, immediately. That's it.

When Congress pushed back the end of Daylight Saving Time in 2005, it ensured that our annual plunge in to darkness will almost always occur just before the November election. I am CONVINCED this is voter suppression—quite possibly to the persistent benefit of Republicans! slate.com/news-and-pol...

straight women do not touch a man's head like this when they are just friends

I have never seen a politician hate his wife in such an insidious way.

the one-two punch for Usha Vance of your husband making a public statement that he hopes you renounce your faith and then showing off his new widowed side piece is crazy work

A federal judge criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi and other top Trump administration officials for making “troubling” statements against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly sent to El Salvador, that threaten his right to a fair trial. https://bit.ly/47vjJQ2

Put another way: Trump's DOJ is sending their No. 3 lawyer (a go-to attorney for Trump's allies) to shield their No. 2 lawyer (Trump's criminal defense attorney) from a subpoena, all in an effort to argue that Kilmar Abrego Garcia isn't being vindictively prosecuted by the Trump administration.

NEW: A federal judge slammed DHS Secretary Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi for publicly attacking Kilmar Abrego Garcia in “exaggerated” and “inaccurate” ways — violating rules meant to protect the integrity of criminal proceedings. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The “Hi, Abigail” series is also back this week

RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-greets-trick-or-treaters-with-big-bowl-of-ape-glands/

I can’t stress this enough. They want to do inside the US the kind of extrajudicial murders they’ve been doing internationally. This has always been about normalizing the ability of Trump to smite his personal enemies without suffering legal consequences. Trump’s testing for compliance & resistance.

yeah, guessing those poor immunocompromised Make a Wish kids are not gonna be able to go to the Florida theme parks any more, what with the state deciding to let the anti-vaxxers spread pestilence everywhere

Anyway I agree that it’s Time to Actually Finish Reconstruction

And I’m using liberal in the actual historical sense, not in the deranged and amorphous way that the left in 2025 tends to use it to describe “anyone who I believe is less left than me and who reminds me of my mom” nor in the way the right uses it to describe “everyone I hate”

you know someone hasn’t studied the history of liberalism when they assume that if you anger and demean liberals past a certain point, they’ll just politely give up

Leader Jeffries: It's been 5 weeks that Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva has not been sworn in. Mike Johnson is doing his boss's bidding. Trump clearly doesn't want the American people to see the Epstein files released

Oct 17-28 poll of 1,179 Virginia likely voters (+/-4 points) % who did/will/would vote for Spanberger | Earle-Sears in the 2025 election for governor of Virginia Virginia likely voters 55% | 41% Democrats 97% | 1% Independents 58% | 34% Republicans 6% | 92% today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Two new New Jersey polls: —Sherrill leads 50% to 45% in Fox News (twas 50/42) —Sherill leads 52% to 45% in an FDU poll.

Fox News Poll - New Jersey Governor 🔵 Mikie Sherrill (D) - 52% 🔴 Jack Ciattarelli (R) - 45% Oct 24-28, NJ LV ±3% www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

Rachel Maddow and I discuss a shocking new move by the Trump administration: sending Department of Justice “poll monitors” — handpicked by Pam Bondi — to California and New Jersey just days before the November elections and why this poses a grave threat to free and fair elections.

miami herald apparent scoop: venezuela strikes are imminent www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Venezuela claims it has captured CIA-linked mercenaries plotting a “false flag” attack to justify US military action.

Venezuela doesn't produce fentanyl Venezuela doesn't produce cocaine Venezuela produces oil

The 5 things I will miss most about New York when I move back to the suburbs next week. by Andrew Cuomo

Exactly. Some people scoffed that Pritzker even raised this. But now Noem is on record, which looks awful AND ALSO may help win legal cases.

You haven’t heard as much about Sudan because people in Sudan aren’t able to broadcast their suffering on social media the way many others are but it is really bleak there. This is just the tip of the iceberg. 🎁🔗

Is It 'Anti-Christian Extremism' To Note How Often Conservative Christian Leaders Abuse Kids? According to Trump's Nazis, sure enough bet it is! evanhurst.substack.com/p/is-it-anti...

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally. Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

This is a good way to put it. I'm not going to write anyone off as an irredeemable human being but as a political matter, the American right is animated by bigotry and misinformation. It just is.

I know this reinforces a narrative about condescending leftists calling all conservatives bigots but I'm sorry, every form of data — anecdotes, polling and public statements by conservatives — indicate that these are the main drivers. It's a doomed quest to keep looking for good underneath evil.

We've gotten so many of these pieces where a liberal engages in a good-faith effort to understand Trump voters. Every time, they discover that there's no deeper sympathetic reason they hold their views. They're just misinformed and hateful. My own efforts have found this too.

Katie Miller, wife of top White House aide focused on immigration and extrajudicial boat killings, got angry that Cenk Uygur called her and her husband liars.

The average American family has ~$6000 of their taxes go to corporate subsidies and ~$100 of their taxes go to SNAP for 42 million hungry Americans. Remember—we don't lack money to serve our neighbors in need, we lack the money needed to satisfy billionaire greed.

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city. So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

Speaker Johnson is turning his back on survivors of horrific sexual predation and human trafficking.

Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis. Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.

Oh. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

We're now on ten years of Trump / GOP having no healthcare plan whatsoever. Not even a suggestion of what direction they want to go with it except repealing some overwhelmingly popular elements of Obamacare. Worth remembering when pundits talk about the importance of nuanced policy messaging.

Hundreds of Somerville families are set to be impacted by the SNAP shutdown. Every school in Somerville has put together a fundraiser in record time and are collecting grocery store gift cards and money to buy more gift cards. If you’re able to help, please pick up a couple gift cards...

Ruben Torres reunites with his wife in Indiana after being detained by ICE for nearly two weeks. He is headed back to his daughter Ofelia

"What the plan describes, in essence, is a shadow logistics network built on agreements with local police under the 287(g) program. These once symbolic gestures of cooperation are today a pipeline for real-time biometric checks and arrest notifications. Transportation is the next logical step."

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Pritzker makes a direct appeal to Greg Bovino to not terrorize kids over the Halloween weekend

Print edition @theonion.com ads don’t miss

"But Josie, you don't have any *evidence* that JD Vance and Erika Kirk are having a sweaty affair involving Crowleyan sex magick! You're just making shit up!!" ME:

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light. newrepublic.com/article/2023...