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The restored East Wing.

I wish that there had been room in this cartoon to show all the unqualified people like Doug Burgum at Interior and Zeldin at EPA. I'll never forgive John Curtis for approving the nominations of all these unqualified and even dangerous people

Maybe a big story, Trump literally was slumped over and sleeping during yesterday's White House conference?

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

He spent Biden’s entire presidency calling him ‘Sleepy Joe’. Still does. But this guy nods off in the middle of the day in meetings almost every day. Fell asleep in court all the time too.

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A clarification

You know what tonight proves more than anything else? Local elections matter. Local. Elections. Matter.

Looks like “Lameduckmas” came early this year!

when we fight back and never cave, good things can still happen

This is what I see and hear in my small rural town in Utah

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

MAMDANI: “While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”

Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does. Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.

Everyone is hope scrolling now

California voters fired the first return shot from Democrats in a mid-decade congressional redistricting push by Trump, passing a ballot measure Tuesday that will enable the state legislature to redraw congressional districts before the 2026 elections. www.huffpost.com/entry/califo...

Good night, everyone. Great work today. Sleep well, for tomorrow the 2026 election begins. Every Democratic candidate tonight, and every one running in 2026 has a secret weapon on their side:

THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is not one face of the Democratic Party. Tonight proved there are many faces, but each with a commitment to fight back against the reckless failure of the Trump regime and actually serve people. Thank goodness.

Take the victory lap freedom lovers. You have earned it. The fight continues, but enjoy the win.

Honestly, I don't think Trump's incomprehension of political asylum has anything to do with his serious personality-disorder-related psychiatric afflictions and his seeming dementia, which both raise 25th Amendment questions. I do, however, think it reflects his utter stupidity ….

Dementia or lying or both. Oh the person he pardoned was his BUSINESS PARTNER CZ, who plead guilty to money laundering.

The letter of the law is as plain as day. Trump should have paid SNAP benefits all along. Just now paying the bare minimum to partially fund SNAP is not enough, and it is not acceptable. Trump should immediately work to fully fund benefits under the law.

Visitors to Utah's National Parks may not notice much of an impact from the government shutdown, but concern for furloughed and unpaid workers is rising, and some say it's holding the parks back from meeting their mission.

On the eve of an election too. Sue CBS

As always, the cruelty seems to be the point.

On Friday night, Donald Trump held a Great Gatsby-inspired Halloween party themed "A little party never killed nobody.” On Monday morning, the Trump administration told a judge it will only PARTIALLY fund SNAP and 40 million Americans should expect delays for food benefits.

This is a national trend and Trump policies are to blame www.sltrib.com/artsliving/f...

The “No Kings” protests are an example of how people can mobilize to mock ridiculous behavior (and do so festively, even) without the mayhem that Trump and his lieutenants seemed to hope would arise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Yes, a big part of the new political movement is the ground-level work that is bringing the people together all across the nation. We the People

Utah's Blake Moore is part of the House leadership and follows and supports this this little lying sanctimonious shit. All of the Utah delegation do exactly what he tells them to do. All of them are just as bad as Johnson. Not an ounce of integrity among them all

This is not what's happening in Chicago as we call to verify people for direct action group chats. Instead, people are warm, excited, grateful to each other for showing up, neighborly, and activated. People who have never done anything similar are showing up for this. (2)

This traitor was not only a Confederate general who fought for the destruction of the U.S., he may have been involved in the development of the murderous KKK after the Civil War which terrorized Blacks seeking elective office & voting. What a disgrace to put his statue up again.

Just sayin.

separation of church and state

Howwwwww is this happening?

Joe Biden would have been impeached and removed from office for this answer. It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Where's Donald Trump? He's not out here campaigning 'NO ON 50.' He's not campaigning for Republican candidates in NJ and VA. No one wants to be seen with him. That's how historically weak he is."

Couldn’t love this more.

Since January, more than 25% of NPS's permanent staff have been lost - and another mass layoff is on the horizon. Parks were already understaffed before this, and terminating more staff positions will decimate our National Park System. Speak up now: https://act.npca.org/page/89642/action/1

Bringing back all the hits—measles, Jim Crow, nuclear fallout…

There’s a special place in hell for anyone who can watch this and feel joy. And for the ones just standing there doing nothing, you’re not much better…

Folks, please note this. The top military official overseeing Trump's boat bombings recently resigned with no explanation, and now Republicans in Congress are refusing to press for his testimony even in a classified setting. Lots of new behind-the-scenes reporting in this piece:

When it comes to murdering fishermen on the high seas, Donald is lawless and careless, but when it comes to finding excuses not to feed Americans, he's a precise bureaucrat, obsessed with following the law.

Keep fighting. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

A partial list of what Bovino does not have to tell a federal judge happened today: *An agent pushed a City Council member in Albany Park *Agents deployed pepper spray in Albany Park & Evanston *Agents were involved in a car crash in Evanston *An agent pointed a gun at a woman in Evanston

On halloween there’s nothing spookier than a future without CDC

"One former law enforcement official familiar with the matter, who spoke to Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivities surrounding the case, said the probe lasted 18 months and turned up at least tens of millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions."