More Insta snaps from the let them eat cake ball at Mar a Lago

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18." p.s. Older people are really showing up.

Between grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks

There’s a name for this. C O R R U P T I O N

Many of the Marylanders who voted for this president are unsure of how they’ll put food on the table because of him. None of them should be left in the cold because Washington failed to do its job. We’ve stepped up, with $10 million in emergency funding to fight food insecurity across the state.

Hopefully the tide is turning. I saw my neighbors’ pumpkin this morning walking my dog, and it made me 😀. Republicans who did NOT vote for him and attended a 🚫👑 rally on 10/18. My dog, their pumpkin.

After whatever happened in Butler, PA, when Trump got to the hospital, the first thing he said to aides was, "How is it playing? How does it look on TV?" Are those the words of a man who had just survived a real assassination attempt?

Such amazing work raising orphan elephants and reintegrating them into the wild. I love to see the former orphans return with their newborn babies to show them off to their former keepers. Such proud mamas!

The government is shutdown, and millions of Americans are about to go without food and/or medicine because of him. So what does Donald Trump do? Keeps bragging about his $300,000,000 golden ballroom and throws a Great Gatsby party at his private resort. He is so stupidly tone-deaf.

Very few people know this, but the little pocket in your jeans is for your paycheck after taxes.

Stephen Miller goes to bed (well, actually, it's a coffin) every night hoping that the former Proud Boys in ICE costumes will provoke such a response so his lies about violence in the streets (a pretext for martial law) become prophecy.

Sooner or later, someone is going to respond to one of these ICE goons by returning the violence and it's not going to end well -- not for the goon, not for the victim, not for any of us.

A lot is happening right now. Make a note to yourself to remember, heading into the midterm elections in a year, that GOP senators & reps asking you to vote for them were willing to starve their constituents—your friends, family, maybe even you—for Trump.

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abc7chicago.com/post/ice-eva... This is what’s happening in my neighborhood. ICE causes an accident to arrest citizens trying to protect our immigrant neighbors in Evanston. I am terrified. It looks like the SS rounding up whoever Hitler deemed undesirable. We must stop ICE, CBP and Trump

Cool that renewables have become the cheapest source of energy in the world just as a bunch of reactionary-centrist US pundits have taken up the right-wing "climate vs. cheap energy" framing.

We collected 4,368 pounds of food in two hours for Circle of Concern Food Pantry today at UFCW 655 Local from incredibly generous and caring Missourians. Our @wellmanformo.bsky.social team put this together in four days to help our neighbors.

"In just three months, the Trump people have made the unthinkable much more likely. They have created the conditions for terrorism, and thus for terror management. This is true at several levels."

Couldn’t love this more.

Not even a year in, and here are the brownshirts.

You need to understand that he actually believes it is illegal to criticize him. Why? Because Trump believes he - not the people - decides the law. This is why we are in the middle of, not on the verge of, a totalitarian takeover.

We are $38 trillion in debt, millions are losing food benefits, millions more are about to see their healthcare premiums skyrocket, and he's busy building himself a gilded ballroom and throwing lavish parties. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

San Francisco-based Zignal Labs is aiding ICE’s crackdown on free speech. Its AI surveillance program monitors 8 billion social media posts a day. Clients include the Israeli military and the Pentagon. Surveillance as a service, authoritarianism as a business model. truthout.org/articles/ice...

One day after ordering the Trump administration to continue funding food stamps during the shutdown, a federal court gave the government a choice. It can either make full payments by Monday, or partial payments by Wednesday, to spare low-income Americans from hardship.

Studies increasingly find links between higher concentrations of certain pollutants in the air and the prevalence of dementia. Yet such findings are emerging when the U.S. government is dismantling efforts to continue reducing air pollution by shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.

"After 31 days without pay, air traffic controllers are under immense stress and fatigue," the Federal Aviation Administration warned.

The President’s priorities are gilded ballrooms and marble bathrooms, while the American people are trying to figure out how to afford health care and put food on the table.

Mar-a-Lago bathroom selfie

Were there any leftovers at Trump's Roaring 20s party at Mar-a-Lago last night?

Real life hunger games aesthetic

Kind of bad news if a former two-term president of the United States is only now getting a realistic view of America's 1 percent.

America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

In the midst of the government shutdown and the termination of SNAP benefits, America’s ability to track the real-world impacts of the shutdown on hunger is disappearing.

Mar-a-Lago guests at Trump’s Halloween party

I think 🤔 I see the problem.

Federal immigration agents fanned out across Chicago and its North Shore suburbs on Halloween, chasing suspects through front yards, driving SUVs onto sidewalks and using chemical agents during confrontations with furious residents.

If you want to pay attention to the one thing that will decide the midterm elections for Congress, pay attention to redistricting. In this video I explain what the GOP is doing and how Democrats are fighting back! youtu.be/cEKnZlsFkFE

Trump is hosting a car show at his golf club today as millions of Americans struggle under his economy

As open enrollment begins, remember that 80% (!) of the ACA subsidies about to expire go to people in states that Trump won in 2024. Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich.

Obama is better than caffeine…any day. I had almost forgotten what it sounds like when a fine orator is at the podium.

NEWS: A federal judge in Rhode Island has released her written order demanding the Trump admin use emergency funds to pay SNAP food benefits. The court gave the gov until Nov 4 to ensure payments are made and says if the contingency fund runs out, they must continue to fund SNAP via other means.

"It’s basically Groundhog Day." Israel's violations of the Gaza ceasefire are part of a long pattern of the country breaking truce deals as soon as they are signed, says Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada.

Federal immigration officers are using chemical irritants to disperse protesters in ways that violate American policing norms and test the boundaries of use-of-force laws, video footage from Chicago shows.