"[N]ew work rules that suddenly went into effect this month for New Yorkers who rely on food assistance." "[C]ould result in hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers losing their access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program." "[A]s soon as March 2026." #NewYork #USA #Food #Labour #Courts

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee my law firm has filed to intervene to defend the new California congressional map from attack. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...

A former state employee lost his job after he tried to alert lawmakers to problems with how the state calculates the extra funding it gives school districts for the costs of educating students from lower-income families.

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Weird places my mind goes #2437 Earlier today, it occurred to me if someone from behind saw me at that moment, they might've thought "That's one weird-ass, human-sized bat." Not a superhero w/a cape. Not someone in a gown beginning a curtsey. A bat. Not sure what it means, if anything. LOL!

Latest admin deportation deal and misuse of funds. Mind boggling apnews.com/article/equa...

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump ally Grant Cardone is running ads saying, “We’re going into a recession. Seriously.”

Wonder if RFK Jr or Makary have any financial investments or good friends in the HRT pharma world.

🗣️Where are the #Epstein files?

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NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I can confirm that Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director of the FBI and my co-host on the UnJustified podcast, has received a subpoena in this case. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/u...

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

The university of Michigan released its consumer confidence index. US consumer confidence is at the lowest level since 1951. Trump tanked the economy in his first term! Is he’s doing it to us again?

There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.

For crying out loud, people can't afford food or health care and they try to slip in a provision for them to pay the congressional types who may have helped Trump try to steal the 2020 election money???

NEW: We just filed an amicus brief with other free speech groups urging the Supreme Court to maintain the block on President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago. Our First Amendment right to protest must be protected.

As many as 267,000 U.S. veterans will lose their healthcare because Congress has failed to extend the health care tax credit, which expires soon. americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...

Yikes.

“If we can overturn Roe, we can repeal the 19th.” Misogynists aren’t making political points—they’re making promises.

I voted HELL NO on a CR deal that betrays millions of people who rallied, organized, and voted to save health care for 20 million Americans. Giving into a bully does nothing to stop him. I’ll keep fighting against Trump’s authoritarianism and attempts to gut community resources.

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

A powerful tribute by former FBI Special Agent Kayla Staph to Brian Driscoll. After Driscoll became Acting FBI Director by accident, he protected Bureau employees from illegal firings & harassment due to their work investigating Jan 6 cases. When he was later fired, he left as a hero.

Ben Meiselas is on fire this morning 🔥 Breaking down every brutal Trump headline and wow, Trump is losing it. Monday meltdown in full swing. #Trump #News #MeidasTouch #USDemocracy #Pinks

“Longtime Democratic Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman announced Monday that she is not running for reelection next year and will retire at the end of her term, saying that it is “time to pass the torch.”’ #NJ #MomSky #NoFascistsUSA @indivisible.org www.politico.com/live-updates...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

However, it shows once again that Donald Trump has as little regard for our democracy as he does the rule of law. The only thing that matters to him is personal loyalty.

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

Op-ed: #Florida’s education commissioner just fired free thought www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/09/c... via @orlandosentinel.com

"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%... "The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

Say it louder for the folks in the back: Medicaid work requirements don’t work! Check out some of our previous thread for more on why: bsky.app/profile/altc...; bsky.app/profile/altc...

"What he cannot see—what the framework literally prevents him from seeing—is that the fight itself mattered more than any deal. That people weren’t asking for better negotiating tactics. They were asking for proof that Democrats would hold the line on something."

Now that Greg Bovino is wearing his court-ordered body cam, he's wide open to FOIA requests, so have fun with that.

I wrote this. If you want a fuller look at backstory on ATC and federal politics, please give it a read.

Good article and covers most of the major issues. 😀 Only additions I would've made is the ongoing battle to privatize ATC affected some Administrators' positions on staffing and deployment of resources. 1/

This is another Trump crime against humanity.

I keep alternating between shock, tears, and joy. We fucking did it. We won.

Another retired air traffic controller just asked into the ether, "What's more patriotic than showing up to work without pay?"

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

SCOTUS, you're up. Let's see how cruel you are to children, the elderly and the disabled when they can't all be labeled trans or something else.

Such a surprise that someone in this regime didn't keep his/her/their word.

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

More extrajudicial murders.

@gettheflick.bsky.social @rustysunshine.bsky.social @chasingray.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social Ten years ago, I would've been able to predict NATCA's reaction. Now, I'm not so sure. But I do know this - Trump made a big mistake dissing a workforce who is keeping 5% of the GDP afloat.

It can be hard to do math in your head, while standing up, on national television. Nerve-wracking, too. But even so, in twenty seconds on the air, I did a better job than the President in costing his latest idea and figuring out whether his new idea of a $2,000 rebate check will work. (It won't.)