This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

You don’t select for loyalty to build an effective fighting force. Just ask Russia or any other authoritarian country. They’re going to be less competent and less effective. The only real reason to select for loyalty is if you’re going to use them internally. Because they’ll do whatever you say.

Wonder how much money it’s gonna cost to *not* feed people

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

Let's be clear: Trump has the funding to keep SNAP running. He's choosing not to. There's even a Republican-led bill to fund SNAP with broad Democratic support. Republican leaders won't let us vote on it. Deliberately choosing to let families starve is as vindictive as it gets.

Alejandro Juarez got fired from Trump's National Golf Club Westchester when WaPo exposed that Trump employed undocumented people. Then he got deported by mistake, w/o a hearing, earlier this year. His son is in the military so he might claim status that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

Yes, and Todd Blanche has confessed there was no pardon for those whose prosecution were in progress (including Bisignano), but Pardon Attorney gave them out like candy anyway.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Weiss is marking her territory with a certain kind of "cleansing" 👀 at CBS. That network is dead. 🧾 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I’m telling you, it all boils down to race. They didn’t hate Obama because he was a Democrat; that was just the excuse so they wouldn’t have to admit they were racist. And for the record, Obama was never anti-Christian— he is a Christian.

JD Vance relying on SNAP to keep himself and his sister fed after his daddy fucked off and his mother was drowning in her addictions, just to turn around and help families that were just like him be stripped of benefits is peak republicuntism.

Glad to see some good old-fashioned self-enrichment, it makes me long for the halcyon days of 2017 www.thedailybeast.com/kash-patel-a...

Kristi Noem has $0 for victims of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina who lost their homes but $172,000,000 to buy jets to ferry her around to pose for photo-ops.

In more ways than one, Donald Trump has accomplished what Osama bin Laden could only dream of.

Everything MAGA accuses Democrats of doing is actually a confession.

It's pretty vital that 1) you personally sign up for traditional Medicare and NOT Medicare Advantage and 2) keep your older friends and family members out of Medicare Advantage. youtu.be/Ejoi9yfLVCc

Maybe hospitalizing a FOOTBALL player will get the attention of right wing Texans.

Another exciting round of Lying or Dementia

Trump is met with utter silence from the troops in Japan as he lies that "grocery prices are way down"

SNAP benefits are about to lapse because of the shutdown. Reminders: 1. About 1 in 2 children will receive SNAP benefits at some point and 1 in 4 children are receiving benefits in a given month. 2. Trump is already planning to cut SNAP in other ways. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Our new health insurance premium feels more like a shakedown‼️ Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you. Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No. 1/2

If you are attending the Nebraska Dems Ben Nelson Gala with Pres. Biden, Gov. Beshear and Harry Dunn on Nov. 7 please bring a non-perishable item for the local food pantries. We are collecting food to do our part to help as Republicans inflict unnecessary pain...

Billionaires not paying taxes while being bailed out by tax payers & receiving subsidies & members of congress who spend their time on social media attacking those needing food assistance rather than serving the American people are the problem. #Pinks

“He’s 70 years old!” CHICAGO — 🇺🇸 citizen gets cracked ribs and internal bleeding as Trump’s lawless thugs terrorize a neighborhood.

You can push back on authoritarian drumpf. 🐸 Register new Dem voters! Did you know most unregistered folks aren't registered because no one ever asked them? Data is key & @fieldteam6.org has it. We train you & up your skills. www.fieldteam6.org/all-voluntee... #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Congress has the power of the purse, not the president. But Trump has ignored this constitutional framework. Join us on Tues., Oct. 28, at 2 p.m. ET for a live virtual event with former Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young. RSVP: bit.ly/3IRO9Uo

Mike Johnson is still refusing to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. She was elected more than a month ago.

Trump’s America

The performative toughness is the point, not real strength, but the illusion of dominance. They don’t want strength, anyway; they want permission to be cruel. And he gives it to them.👇

The Republicans will hold SNAP as a hostage against the Democrats. They have work requirements already (and that applies to 16 -59 yrs okd). Now, they are doing withholding SNAP to make people hungry while healthcare costs could skyrocket! #ProudBlue Video crecit: thesilentmiddlechild/IG/Tiktok

Khanna: "We should ban any elected official from having cryptocurrency and accepting foreign money, which the Trump family has done from UAE and from this foreign billionaire."

idk exactly how the Washington Post put this together, but if it reflects the actual questions on the new citizenship test, it’s really quite bad. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

I was born at the children’s hospital in Washington DC

The Great Crypto Grift: How Trump & the Broligarchy Are Scamming America Trump & the broligarchy are grifting America through a corrupt Crypto scheme that has made them billions of dollars but threatens to destabilize financial markets & crash the economy. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-great-...

This paragraph seems pretty important ...

CBS been cooked www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Once again Elon Musk has stoked far right violence in Ireland or England. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

I recognize the remodeling style but I can’t put my finger on where…

There's a *lot* going on in the three different state lawsuits challenging President Trump's federalization of National Guard troops under 10 U.S.C. § 12406. Via "One First," my attempt to break down where things stand, how we got here, and what to expect next: www.stevevladeck.com/p/185-the-st...

This is far from the most important issue here, but the Ontario govt was under no obligation to "seek...permission to use and edit" any recording of Ronald Reagan that is in the U.S. National Archives/Reagan Library, as is the case here. And the Reagan Foundation has *no* relevant role here.

The US froze aid to Colombia Much of which is used to fight drug cartels Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels

Brought to you by the same voters who started losing faith in the government when government forces attacked the Branch Davidian complex in Waco in 1993 ....sigh

This is Trump’s make-believe story to justify murder. The Times never says so. The closest the Times gets to anything like that in the first eight grafs is calling it “legally questionable” in graf four. Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

When Tish James walks into a courthouse tomorrow — the target of a political prosecution demanded by a President obsessed with revenge — she does not walk in alone. New York has her back. Grateful to Governor Hochul for bringing us together tonight.

Phang: One man has single-handedly disenfranchised 813,000 voters in the state of Arizona, all because he wants to kiss the ass of convicted felon Donald Trump.