44 million people get SNAP benefits 22 million people get enhanced ACA benefits So for Democrats mad about the Senate voting to end the shutdown because voters don't want it-- which voters are they referring to? The 22 million people who'll pay more for insurance, or 44 million who are destitute?

This interview of Edgar Wright (@edgarwright.bsky.social) by Sam Fragoso (@samfragoso.bsky.social ) is definitely one of the best of him I’ve ever heard. #filmsky #runningman

So just how many of the nation's richest 100 people are Trump supporters? I created a report here to answer that question: www.perplexity.ai/page/-xEv0rQ...

Trump lackey Sean Duffy is squirming. After our video, Fox News (of all places) asked Duffy to defend why billionaire private jets are still flying while Trump is canceling commercial airlines.

As millions of Americans now rely on charity thanks to Trump's refusal to fund SNAP, I thought it interesting to see what religious groups provide the most charity to the poor. These figures were calculated by AI, so I'm sure they're not totally accurate but they give a general overview.

Another thing we should be doing before Jan 1 is buying/reading Gerry Howard's tremendous biography of Malcolm Cowley, The Insider. It's one of the top five books of the year and I don't know what the other four are yet. www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-inside...

Again Scott Galloway is wrong about the monetary system on PIVOT with @karaswisher.bsky.social No, the Fed gvnmt doesn’t need to raise revenue through taxes to fund the budget! That’s factually wrong. Will @profgalloway.com ever read Stephanie Kelton’s book on this? @stephaniekelton.bsky.social

Amazon cuts up to 30,000 jobs while Bezos uses his own newspaper to editorialize against minimum wage. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

I want all of these rightwing podcasters to go at each other in armed combat like news crews in ANCHORMAN. Work out their differences on the backlot battlefield like MEN.

“One of the things writing can do is get to the pain, and much of that pain comes from places where there should be love.” Our interview with Salman Rushdie.

An entire article about MICE THAT LIFT WEIGHTS that doesn't even MENTION the time Mickey got swole? Pathetic. studyfinds.org/weightliftin...

I join with The Elders in calling for the release of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti from Israeli prison. This is as an important step towards reviving a lasting two-state solution: theelders.org/news/elders-...

Not all billionaires are bad. Michael Moritz @michaelmoritz.bsky.social & wife Harriet Heyman are providing $9 million to SNAP recipients in SF. There ARE wealthy anti-MAGA people doing good-- like @mcuban.bsky.social, @moskov.goodventures.org, Reed Hastings, Paul Graham, Laurie Michaels, etc.

My Phrase of the Day: Pikuach Nefesh The principle in Jewish law that the preservation of human life overrides virtually all other religious laws.

From @heidijon.bsky.social new piece: "The majority of white male voters haven’t chosen a Democratic president since the Civil Rights Act in 1964. The attempt to win them over by sentimentalizing the working class is embarrassing..."

Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov & other Democratic Governors need to make it clear that it's because of them that SNAP benefits are being reinstated. DEMOCRATS sued the USDA, not Republicans. DEMOCRATS fought for vulnerable people in Republican states!

DOWN CEMETERY ROAD (Apple TV) is dreadful from the opening dinner party scene on. I am losing faith in prestige serialized entertainment, holding out hope for PLUR1BUS...

Congratulations to the effulgently worthy Julia Vitale, the new editor of Air Mail. (And a bonny farewell, though in this merry-go-round world no farewells are final, to founds Graydon Carter and Alessandra Stanley.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

Oh we're just getting started. www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-26...

Join here - more actions coming soon: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Diminutive actress, playwright & screenwriter Ruth Gordon was BOTD in 1896 & died in 1985 88. She had a child out of wedlock in the 1920s with producer Jed Harris, which was considered highly controversial at the time. She was married to writer/director Garson Kanin for 43 years

Proud of my wife, @HumaAbedin, for inspiring so many as part of a powerful conversation on women’s leadership in politics — alongside First Lady of Albania Linda Rama and OSF’s own Pedro Abramovay.

I don’t know about you, but I’m really tired of billionaires reaping all the benefits, while working people continue to struggle.

Join me Wed at 11amET on Substack for my video chat with best-selling author Jonathan Freedland, whose new book The Traitor’s Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany and the Spy Who Betrayed Them, examines what kind of person risks everything to stand up to tyranny.

ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties. Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan. Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

I have been begging @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov and others to do this for a week. Finally there's action! Dozens of State Attorneys General are filing suit against the USDA.

"Wielding an axe and grinning under his con man’s fedora, Fred Trump instructed the invited crowd to throw bricks at the smiling face on the glass facade of the park’s Pavilion of Fun, then the symbol of Coney Island. His earthmovers rolled in over the glass shards and finished the job."

New CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is reportedly planning to shake up 60 Minutes, with some “star anchors” at risk as she believes the show has drifted “too far left” nypost.com/2025/10/27/m...

My Word of the Day: Vatic Describing or predicting what will happen in the future; prophetic. *What Peter Thiel thinks he is but is not.

Kamala Harris would not be cutting SNAP benefits right now.

Fantastic news!

It's on! Reality TV just got real. Tickets go on sale TOMORROW for #RunningManMovie. Cannot wait for you to see. On the big screen, large and loud, November 14. (NB - Opens Nov 12 in UK and other territories!)

I'm so happy to see that California's @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov + 22 other State Attorneys General are finally demanding action from the USDA regarding the $6 Billion Contingency Fund that Brooks Rollins refuses to release for SNAP: democrats-agriculture.house.gov/uploadedfile...

California should sue the USDA to release its $6 Billion contingency fund, @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov

sounds like xitter really took a tumblr lately

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE is great! Watching it reminded me of THE DAY AFTER in 1983. It's a terrifying experience because you can't help but think of how the awful people running Washington today would handle an incoming nuclear strike (the premise of the film.) We're in danger every day because of them.

Democrats need to demand or SUE the USDA to release its $6 Billion emergency fund for SNAP. Brooke Rollins could release the money NOW. Don’t they understand that when millions of angry people call SNAP in a week because their card declined, they’ll hear a message blaming Democrats for it??

Glad to see @rephuffman.bsky.social finally mentioning 5.5 million Californians— elderly, disabled & kids— will have no SNAP food payments in a week. Be prepared, Jared— when millions of very angry folk call SNAP because their card declined, the message they hear will say DEMOCRATS are to blame.

My Word of the Day: hypomnemata A personal notebook or collection of notes used as a memory aid and a tool for self-improvement.

Progressive wealth tax to grind down outliers.

Quentin Tarantino lent to Vogue this incredible costume Arianne Phillips reproduced for ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD — for Vogue World. I love the fact that he saved it for his archive.

My Word of the Day: Polyergic Having or producing a variety of effects from a single cause; having multiple functions.

Martin Luther King: "I have a dream." Andrew Cuomo: "I have a thumb."

Astonishing to me that no prominent Democrat officials in my state are addressing the fact that if the govt. isn't open TOMORROW, 5.5 million Californians will receive NO food/SNAP benefits in 10 days. The National Guard will be distributing food to the elderly and disabled like a war-torn country.

First he calls fishermen “terrorists” and blows up their boats. Next, he calls Americans “terrorists” for criticizing capitalism. You see where this goes?

What can you do today? So many people will be impacted by these cuts. Help a neighbor, donate to a local food bank, host a food drive, and give to protect the hungry. #helpothers #give

We asked directors from all over the world to share with us their 50 favorite movies up to 2005. @lacinetek.bsky.social Here is my list: www.lacinetek.com/fr-en/direct...

“Gentle and humble in heart.” I just don’t see how MAGA people can call themselves Christian. They embody none of Christianity, not for a moment.

Tina Brown's overview of Virginia Giuffre's memoir is remarkable -- just when you think you've heard all there is to know about the case, there's more...