In a just world, we’d call him Pete Hagueseth.

There’s no need to overthink it or give this administration credit for strategy on this issue. Contempt for the poor is a foundational plank in the Republican belief system. This administration is more ruthless than previous GOP admins, but this is just who Republicans are and have been for decades.

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad! share.google/RS4MWp65kxNy...

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

Just on a personal note, reporting this story broke my heart. Of all the unfathomable things Trump has done this year, putting SNAP recipients through this psychological hell tops the list. My endless gratitude to everyone who spoke to me. To all who who are suffering: I'm so sorry.

I'll mention it.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

This is the hype video the White House posted when they arrested Sandwich Guy, who was found not guilty today.

From @willsommer.bsky.social : “Kash Patel keeps taking a private jet to his girlfriend’s home city (NASHVILLE) — Even right-wingers were taking shots at him, with Candace Owens declaring him ‘the most embarrassing human in 🇺🇸’…” www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...

These tech billionaires need to be made to understand that government contract reviews and massive tax increases ARE A COMPROMISE POSITION. The future of humanity should NOT rest in private hands. I’m sick of this insane shit.

Makes more sense now

Is anyone keeping a list of all the companies Trump is extorting? Because…it’s a lot.

“There used to be a time where I didn’t have to see the president or think about him every day of my life against my will.” 🔥 Reb Masel goes in on the endless firehose of nonsense that is living through the Trump regime

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

NYC vote total will surpass two million votes for the first time since 1969

this is a great opportunity to say cincinatti rules and you should visit!

Joe Manchin is a republican. I don't really care about him. Jon needs to understand that his, and everybody in the party's "moderate liberalism" no longer means what it sounds like. Moderate liberalism is just a dog whistle for neoliberal Reagan-era economics, popularized by doofuses like Manchin.

Beyond parody.

Everyone involved in this case, including the Border Patrol agent, should be dying of embarrassment being involved in such a ridiculous prosecution.

Prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich, but can they convict? www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

If MAGA can’t win, they’ll try to cheat. In New Jersey, Democratic strongholds are being targeted with bomb threats at polling places across Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic counties, forcing brief closures. Do not let this stop you from voting.

Feeling overwhelmed by this morning’s doomscroll? Take a minute & read here. joycevance.substack.com/p/problems-f...

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

Senate Democrats about to roll over. Goddamnit.

New Yorkers if this doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

685,000 NYPD stops on the predicate of collecting guns. Only 2% produced weapons. 85% of stops involved Black & Latino men. 3 terms with Bloomberg. Now these same wealthy New Yorkers insist that young & working class voters defer to the alleged “superior” judgment of the millionaires & billionaires.

Good. Keep hammering the oligarchs and their Gatsby party. New polling out today shows 72% say the economy is in bad shape, and 61% blame Trump.

GIGO is a foundational computer science concept: Garbage In, Garbage Out These LLMs reflect the biases of their owners and programmers and the content on which they’re trained.

⚠️ Trump is now threatening to go to war with Nigeria. Whether or not Trump acts on this threat, it could be used as a pretext to target Nigerian immigrants. Nigeria is the source of the largest number of immigrants from Africa to the US. There are about half a million Nigerian immigrants in the US.

OBAMA: “It’s like every day is Halloween… I will admit it’s even worse than I expected — but I did warn y’all. Check the tape.”

Anderson Cooper, normalizing an authoritarian: "Shouldn't voters obey in advance? Isn't not obeying in advance a hassle? Aren't I, as an extremely wealthy scion, the wrong person for this job? But isn't my gotcha question sparkly?"

The racism is just spewing out.

Recall when we had a president who was a decent human being? Seems so remote and novel now.

"JD Vance can only force so many people to be subjugated by the white man at once, y’all. Gotta be “careful” how many new immigrants you add to the curdled mayonnaise stew he’s making (it is his old family recipe), if you add too many too fast, America will end up too spicy."

Kim Jong-un shit. Keep that phrase in your head—as it’s the proper response to most of what Trump has done since midsummer.

HUMILIATING: Xi didn’t say a WORD!

A brave young woman asks JD Vance: “When you talk about too many immigrants here, when did you guys decide that number? Why did you sell us a dream? You gave us the path and now tell us we don't belong here? Why do you have to be Christian to be American?” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DQapzQi...

JD Vance: “We have let in too many immigrants.” President Reagan: “Being a beacon of the world for immigrants is one of the most important sources of America’s greatness.” (TLDW: The GOP has lurched to the extreme right)

High school students in Latino neighborhood in Chicago start walk out in protest over ICE. If/when kids from other neighborhoods start joining, as they did during BLM, that feels catalytic on possibly a grand scale www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMXv3283/

Checking in on Bari weiss’ newsmaxification of CBS…

The Senate voted 50–46 tonight to block Trump’s tariffs on Canada, and yesterday it voted to block his tariffs on Brazil. Now we need the house to vote. Where’s the House? Is Johnson still guarding the Epstein files?

This is next level authoritarianism.👇 "Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

What a fucking embarrassment.

🔥🔥🔥 I just love this woman and so will you she speaks for all of us. More interviews coming.

The judge: "Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer."

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