JFC. #KavanaughStop App that overrules actual US documents

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website. Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Trump’s America: Thousands of furloughed federal workers in Hyattsville, Maryland waiting in line for food.

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

Every imagined threat about socialism is modeled after real things that happened under capitalism

"By offering a position, but not imbuing the position with real beliefs, a (Democratic) candidate can enjoy the benefits of running in the race without risking criticism for supporting an idea hated by their opponents, who themselves manifest beliefs of no coherence whatsoever."

Trump Lied and Will Now Demolish Entire East Wing www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Holy shit, this cartoon.

In the days ahead, Bluesky will have to decide how much it wants to be the focus of the Trump administration's tantrums, how much it can afford to defend itself against political prosecution, and how far it can push users already uneasy after months of moderation controversies, writes Erin Kissane.

EPA scientists linked PFNA with developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but it has yet to be released by the Trump administration. By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Jesse Watters Boasts ‘Trump Is So Unconstrained’ That ‘Nothing They Can Do Can Check His Power’

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

American democracy today....

Former career DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni witnessed Trump’s officials lying to a Judge and refused to do the same. So Emil Bove fired him — now he‘s blowing the whistle on the rampant abuse of power at Trump’s DOJ. www.cbsnews.com/news/erez-re...

ooh well done

good morning

Majority Opinion: “Will this kill more poor people? Then yes.”

WOW... JUST WOW... In order to justify invoking the insurrection act in Portland, Oregon, trump faked a riot with professional videographers, the military and hired extras. Sen. Jeffrey Merkley tells us what happened :

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

Sliwa to Cuomo: You’re gonna stand up to Trump? You Andrew Cuomo? You lost your own primary and you’re still here because you don’t know the meaning of the word “no” Mamdani: I agree with Curtis.

Eric Trump admits that Indonesian President Subianto was caught on a hot mic talking with his dad about Trump family business deals in Indonesia (so much for the supposed firewall between Trump's business and the federal government ... )

Under the plan, MAGA allies would be installed at the IRS criminal investigative division, where they would “exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations.” The administration is already putting together a list of targets. trib.al/8gJBJDd

It’s clear: the Constitution forbids presidents from taking cash or perks from foreign governments In Chasing Trump’s Billions, I explain how Trump’s foreign entanglements violate our founding law Watch via @abcaustralia.bsky.social 👇 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

More Trump politicization of civil service hiring: "while there’s a hiring freeze for regular competitive service positions, political appointees at each agency can hire people who are ideologically in line with Donald Trump’s political agenda.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR. When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Republicans try and memory hole Jan 6th. "The truth is whatever we stand behind a podium and say aloud"

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts. We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital. "We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU" www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

The non-fascist states need to immediately band together and build a new CDC, hiring all those RFK Jr has fired and try to quickly reassemble the infrastructure he’s destroyed. I assure you we don’t want to live in a world without proper infectious disease tracking and prevention.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified. kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

I’m the fucking source, Juli.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

This is terrifying! ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents) This is Trump’s America.

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."