SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now. Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it. Don’t forget this.

50% of workers can't afford healthcare. People are using buy now, pay later apps to go into debt to buy groceries. GoFundMe has 250k pages for medical bills and 40k for tuition. … and Elon Musk gets a $1 trillion pay out. And people think moms getting SNAP are the problem.

If anyone needed another reminder of how deeply unpopular the Trump-MAGA Republican agenda is, tonight was the night. But we cannot relent and we cannot become complacent. The midterms are right around the corner.

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Reminder: Election closing times. Please make sure to vote and remember, if you’re in line when the polls close, you still have the right to vote. Don’t get out of line! - 7 p.m. ET - Virginia - 8 p.m. ET - New Jersey - 8 p.m. ET - Pennsylvania - 9 p.m. ET - New York City - 8 p.m. PT - California

Turnout in the NYC mayoral election: the highest since 1993. Give people something to vote for (or against) and apathy falls away.

A court said food stamp benefits must be provided to recipients. Trump is simply saying, not until the government reopens. We are soon going to find out if he can get away with it.

I posted this, then went to get a bagel and ran into Curtis Yarvin. Life remaining very strange as I finish my book!

Reminder: The government is shut down because Trump and Republicans don’t want to fund healthcare. They are so against it that they were even willing to let 42 million Americans go hungry — until courts stepped in. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...

An excellent essay well worth your time to read.

Reaching Goblin Arms - Taranaki, New Zealand. #photography #landscape #nz #halloween

The threat of global nuclear annihilation will never go away until Putin goes away. He will keep threatening the world with every new country he invades. Russia must be defeated today in Ukraine.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

This is exactly why they’re dumbing down schools in red states…

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Layers. The Eastern Sierra comes alive in winter and spring with these layers of color and light. #landscape #photograph #photo #photography #sierras #layers

What if your coworkers were AI? What if AI agents, not humans, monitored security camera feeds? Does that sound like absolute hell on Earth? 🔗 www.404media.co/a16z-is-fund...

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

I was at the Getty Villa last week and it was a reminder that the wealthy in this country, evil as they might have been, once believed in human progress — which they thought they represented, naturally — and feared retribution. They now fear nothing and are ambivalent about the human being.

Two Illinois National Guard members speak out: "I won't turn against my neighbors."

The government is shut down because Trump stooges want to double health insurance costs for struggling Americans. And now, because Mike Johnson hasn't even had House Republicans show up for work since Sept. 19, many of those Americans are losing food benefits.

Trump is executing people on the high seas by deeming them "enemy combatants" without any proof. He's also called his political opponents — immigrants, Democrats, protesters — the "enemy within." Put it together: How close is Trump to ordering attacks on them, too?

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

America went from the best economy in the world to breadlines in 9 months.

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Just before the rains arrived 📷 🍂…

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed" Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reporting this story, the same details kept appearing in police investigations around Europe: the perpetrators turned out to have been recruited and offered cash over Telegram. European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Will ANY Republican in Congress who isn’t retiring say ANYTHING about Trump destroying our White House? Are they just going to this madman do whatever he wants like a king? This desecration should be used by every Dem candidate against every Repub for every office everywhere.

Trump: “It won’t touch it” It’s the Epstein Ballroom. Trump will let it touch whatever it wants.

White House changes course and will now be demolishing the entire East Wing.

We’ve received a lot of questions about Trump’s demolition of the White House East Wing. Here’s how the process is supposed to work:

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Let’s be blunt: this is taxation without representation. That’s why, today, alongside Congresswoman-elect Grijalva, we sued the House of Representatives. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Donald Trump is too simple-minded to realize that when he brags about the White House's tacky new Caesars Palace Ballroom being "privately funded," he's admitting to taking bribes from influence peddlers, millionaires, and corporations that want something from him.

@brockm.bsky.social: "...in authoritarian systems, the point isn’t good governance—it’s demonstrating who’s subordinate. This is about oligarchs discovering that the authoritarian systems they funded don’t stop at the people they don’t like" www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/elon-musk-...

The Pasadena No Kings protest yesterday was a wonderful experience! Lots of friendly, conscientious people exercising their right to peaceful protest. #NoKings

They are estimating 7 MILLION protesters today. 7 million people who believe in peace, love, and #NoKings

I mentioned my guilty pleasure recently was reaction videos by The Youngs learning about the classics. This is a perfect example: #music #thekidsareallright #elo youtu.be/uNzEouqE0OY

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

TOMORROW is #NO_KINGS_DAY!!! Give me your Tired, your Poor, your Huddled Masses of Frogs, Unicorns, Pandas, T-Rexes, Mushrooms, Sharks, SpongeBobs & everyday Folks yearning to peacefully protest a clownishly incompetent buffoon of a Prez who, if there were any justice, would be in jail. 🤡 #BeThere

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

A box of 5 Insulin pens can cost patients anywhere from a few hundred to over a thousand dollars out of pocket, depending on their insurance coverage (or lack thereof). Not anymore in California. Real substance movement on drug pricing by @gavinnewsom.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Do you want more Linux users? Because that’s how you get more Linux users.

American fascists are, obviously, very scared about how big a protest "No Kings" will be this weekend, as seen by their hysterical, dishonest rhetoric about it. Let's make their fears come true by showing up on October 18

Speaker Johnson, do your job and swear in Congresswoman Grijalva. Or I'll do mine, and Arizona will see you in court. youtu.be/dRZ6MRvt4Jw?...