Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

Reminder: The GOP could open the government tomorrow. They choose not to. The GOP could eliminate the massive health insurance cost spikes tomorrow. They choose not to. The GOP could ensure SNAP recipients get their aid tomorrow. They choose not to. ALL this pain & suffering is on the GOP.

Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

1/2 Louisiana’s worst whooping cough outbreak in decades: 387 cases, 2 infant deaths. After Surgeon General Ralph Abraham paused vaccine promotion, cases surged and the public was left in the dark. Antivaxx politics cost lives. Nice article from @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social

Dear Democratic Members of Congress: I am urging each of you to adopt a food pantry this week. Make it clear that Trump and the GOP are withholding $5 billion in a contingency fund that could fund SNAP benefits and feed Americans, so you're adopting a food pantry in your district.

Millions of Americans are already learning that their health insurance costs for 2026 are going way up. I want to hear from you so we can make this impossible for the GOP to ignore the consequences of their policies. If your premiums are going up, reply below and please share your story.

ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.” @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house. Remove him from office.

We’re putting food on the table in Argentina ($40 billion), yet MAGA Republicans are threatening to withhold SNAP funds already allocated by Congress. MAGA = Make Argentina Great Again.

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….” 🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

Russia was caught, red handed, interfering in the 2020 election. Trump never did anything to punish them.

I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food. I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.

This is just awful. If you are position to donate to your local food bank, they are going to need our help more than ever.

They denied him water for 8 days, until he died of dehydration, then covered it up. The US prison system permits — encourages — a group of prison guards to torture a mentally ill Black inmate to death. It happens over and over. You can't "reform" this.

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

The president demolished the East Wing to build a ballroom. It’s hard to think of a better metaphor for what’s happening to our health ecosystem—gutting Medicaid, weakening the CDC, and cutting SNAP. The symbolism isn’t subtle: luxury expands while the systems that keep people healthy contract.

. America, the East Wing Demolition was just the beginning... . . . finally understand what's happening here ! He won't stop !! 💠 😔 💠

@lisadiana.bsky.social You posted a question about East Wing contractors but thread doesn’t accept replies. Came here to answer. @psychopete.bsky.social has article filled with info. other articles list the donors to the grotesque ballroom. Needed applications & approvals NOT EVEN SUBMITTED YET!

My typing skills are poor, so I keep meaning "govt shutdown" but typing "govt shitdown" and that feels better anyway

A middle finger to erasure. More of this, please. Now do Black Lives Matter!

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

Burchett is Burchetting again.

Oh.

“The president demolished the White House.” “The president politicized the FBI and DOJ to go after his opponents.” “The president is why life is more expensive today.” “The president was besties with Epstein.” Messaging isn’t hard and makes you wonder why Dems aren’t saying this every day.

Jessica Tarlov just detonated the narrative: “The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no proof they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had evidence, they’d face a court — not a drone.” Seven strikes. Thirty-two dead. Zero charges. This #BlueSky #NewsSky

🧵Since Dems aren't educating people on what's really going on with the $40 billion bribe for Argentina, here are the facts: 1. This is not a gift. It is a Mafia-like policy used as leverage, both financially & politically.

Where past Moms for Liberty attendees were urged to run for school board, this year they were encouraged to turn their grievances into legal challenges. hechingerreport.org/at-moms-for-...

Trump’s Secretary of Lying shared the “your mom” text exchange — where she wouldn’t answer who picked Hungary as the site of the Putin-Trump meeting @svdate.bsky.social tried to explain the significance, which is almost definitely lost on her (and Trump)

272 days down. 379 days to go. We're closing in on halfway, folks. Hold the line.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" - Theodore Roosevelt

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

When at least 7 million Americans come together to say, "We will not accept this yoke of fascism," it is up to our electeds to do more. #NoKings is great, but what we really need is for people we elected to be doing the jobs we hired them to do. Congress, do better. Honor your oaths. Impeach.

They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages. They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely. They get pardoned when they commit crimes. They ignore the laws. There is zero congressional oversight.

Hundreds of people showed up in Homer, Alaska supporting #nokings rally today! Followed by a panel discussion on Free Speech and the Separation of Church and State at the Kenai Peninsula College. Together we are strong.

Unfrickin believable. She demands to sign off on every expenditure over $100K that goes to helping people before, during and after disasters but spends almost $200M on private jets for her and her boyfriend? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

protests might not change who is in charge, but they do change who is charged up

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Problem is, he doesn’t NEED it to be easier by now. If he impulsively, maliciously wants to, he does. Santos paves no path he needs.

Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers. It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror