yeah, i would NOT want to be in charge when 40 million americans suddenly can’t get any food and medicine for their children, while trump orders you to defy court orders and let them starve

MAGAs are accusing the Harvard Law Review of discriminating against white men. They prefer the Harvard Journal of Public Policy, which is affiliated w/ the Federalist Society & just published an article calling for the reversal of the 1947 Everson case on separation of church & state. 1/

Crowdsourced map of ICE Activity now has a local alert system: iceout.org 24-hour live ICE activity map now gives local alerts. This can be particularly helpful for individuals at risk and also for allies attempting to intervene. You can select your own alert radius.

"Walmart accounts for roughly a quarter (24%) of SNAP shoppers’ total spending...this would imply a loss of about $2 billion for Walmart if the benefits are withheld for the entire month of November." www.newsweek.com/walmart-set-...

San Francisco-based Zignal Labs is aiding ICE’s crackdown on free speech. Its AI surveillance program monitors 8 billion social media posts a day. Clients include the Israeli military and the Pentagon. Surveillance as a service, authoritarianism as a business model. truthout.org/articles/ice...

Ugly. No wonder she married Stephen Miller. And the non-reaction from @jaketapper.bsky.social is almost more appalling than her racism. @cnn.com is clearly in a dark place.

👀 The right wing Harvard Salient published an article stating “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans” & calling 4 values based on “‘blood, soil, language, & love of one’s own.’” Their alumni board suspended them but they won’t obey 1/

LAWSUIT UPDATE RE: NATIONAL GUARD IN PORTLAND: The Ninth Circuit just announced they will take our case en banc. Both TROs remain in effect and the National Guard still cannot be deployed in Oregon.

The SNAP crisis could actually be resolved if the White House would stop illegally refusing to use a reserve fund to continue SNAP payments. If Americans lose their SNAP benefits, it’s because Trump wanted them to.

Rosa is right. The Trump administration is saying it lacks authority to use the SNAP contingency fund for November benefits. Not true. They’re illegally withholding the funds to put further pain on Americans during the shutdown. They have the money, but refuse to use it.

This is so blatantly fascistic I don’t know what to say.

So far we've had a monstrous Cat 5 hurricane that's still in Jamaica. Headed to Cuba. Still a Cat 5. Crazy ass storms and tornadoes in TX and LA right now. And to top it off a wrecked truck full of monkeys in Jasper County Mississippi. All of this. Today. #SheShed www.wapt.com/article/monk...

Ninth Circuit will rehear Oregon v Trump en banc (full court). It vacates the panel ruling which had blessed federalizing national guard troops in Portland. Judge Immergut's restraining orders, barring deployments there, stand for now. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A good article to help you pick a new streaming service: freeyourmusic.com/blog/qobuz-v...

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE. A platform built to connect creators and listeners is helping an authoritarian regime build up its secret police force. But we’re not going to idly accept that. We’re going to make Spotify listen: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

Scoop - Trump has fired all the sitting members on the Commission on Fine Arts, an independent agency expected to review his construction projects.

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

what in the nazi haircut is this shit

This is the state of American media right now. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump being guided through a room by the Japanese PM

Other outlets are now reporting. First to report tonight was Anna Giaritelli at the Washington Examiner, whose story if anything missed how big the purge was. It's not just five cities; ICE Field Office Directors are being fired in at least a dozen cities, and will be replaced by CBP people instead.

California is hitting back at President Donald Trump's plan to flood the blue state with election monitors — by having those monitors watched.

"Speaking on CNN, Mr. Holness offered a grim outlook, saying that he did not believe there was “any infrastructure within this region that could withstand” a storm that powerful."

NEW: A federal judge slammed DHS Secretary Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi for publicly attacking Kilmar Abrego Garcia in “exaggerated” and “inaccurate” ways — violating rules meant to protect the integrity of criminal proceedings. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

"The White House has approved a list of ICE leaders to be replaced by Border Patrol officials in coming days amid disappointment with arrest numbers."

Over 100 turner Justice Department officials from both Democrat and GOP presidents sign an amicus brief calling for the judge to dismiss the Comey case for vindictive prosecution. The brief also cites the numerous lawyers who refused to prosecute. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news

Prosecutors say the man knew the boy as a son of a family friend and had previously babysat him.

Army chief admits retreat from last stronghold in Darfur as fears grow for the civilians trapped in the city.

THIS is the reason why I have consistently tried to emphasize that Border Patrol and ICE are different agencies with different duties and different leadership and different styles. Border Patrol are the aggro cowboys compared to ICE. Now they're going to be the ones running the show.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Trump cuts likely hindered early warning system for Alaska storm that left hundreds of people homeless, experts say @ericholthaus.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Dropkick Murphy's Ken Casey knows you can never take sh*t from a bully. That's why he's standing up and pushing back against the Trump administration with @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social. Bullies like Trump only win when we're silent, so speak up today!

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

lol

MAGA Republicans are seeing their own cost of living skyrocket under Trump as his goons destroy what's left of the country. Many of them will seek sympathy, then turn right around and celebrate underpaid workers losing food stamps or healthcare, even as it hurts them in the process.

@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC. “This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…” So good!! 🔥

"No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good. And in doing so, we can make City Hall a place from which New Yorkers expect change, not failure."

CNN is done. CBS is done. WaPo is done. Credibility takes a long time to build. It can be lost in a moment. Fascists think they gain cred by infiltrating longstanding institutions and pantomiming professionalism there, but all they do is spread their stink and destroy trust that others built.

Scoop: During a trip to DC last week, CNN CEO Mark Thompson made a visit to the White House, where he promoted the network’s new streamer Staffers were taken aback the next morning when Thompson urged them to ease up on East Wing renovation coverage www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...

This is normal post stroke follow up, sometimes on a 30 - 60 - 90 day schedule. You get an MRI for post stroke because you’re measuring infarcted tissue, which is not evident on CT scan. He’s exhibiting something called recrudescence, or a reemergence of symptoms after the initial stroke.

“For the second time in six weeks, a pastor was struck in the head with a pepper round fired by a US immigration agent …” religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...

Jack Ciattarelli is now campaigning with Scott Presler who allegedly posted sexually explicit photos of himself in an RNC office to Craigslist

This piece by Fabio Bertoni about the law firms that surrendered to Trump is really excellent--and it makes me even more glad that we (that is, @knightcolumbia.org) sued last week for the settlement agreements. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I realize I'm saying this so much that I'm getting boring, but farmers are a tiny, tiny, tiny proportion of the population of Iowa. 1.5% of Iowa workers work in agriculture, and most of them aren't farmers in the sense of farm owners. There are *waaaay* more healthcare workers in Iowa than farmers.

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

👋: Again, for the rafters, the Republicans have a coalition too! And the hard core bureaucratic slashers/tech bros/crypto bros/ are at odds with our highly structured agricultural economy, which relies on significant government intervention into labor costs, subsidies, and innovation systems.

An additional thing here, which I was posting about Friday, is how revocation of TPS is going to absolutely devastate the human services workforce

Right wing american christianity is an interesting religion. It grants privileges to its adherents, but obligations to everyone else. bsky.app/profile/razz...