Christmas isn't a possibility for many this year. Trump's response? "I don't want to hear about the affordability."

Approaching the 3rd hour of my flight delay. I sure miss Pete Buttigieg, and a Congress that worked together (yes, I'm old enough to remember that). Thank you TSA and Air Traffic Controllers who are working w/out pay.

Trump yesterday: They have this new word called "affordability" and [Republicans] don't talk about it enough. Democrats did. Trump today: I don't want to hear about the affordability.

Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.

Did you know that 90% of textbook references to Native people stop before 1900? If a country convinces itself that we've already disappeared, then it can keep taking our land, poisoning our water, & pretend no one real is being hurt. Pls read & share my latest: open.substack.com/pub/juliefra...

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC. My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

Fox and Friends Freudian slip, calling Erika Kirk "Erika Trump"

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

USAID pulled out of Sudan in July. A loss of over a billion in humanitarian assistance. Now this.

At a time when our politics feels broken, we need leaders like @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for Governor. Mikie will work to create jobs, lower costs, and do what’s right for the people of New Jersey.

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me. He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits… …while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

NEWS: Pentagon directs states to form rapid response units to target protests, DHS uses fake videos as basis for sending in military, Democrats warn of Trump declaring national emergency over elections, and more. A major news update. Spread the word. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Breaking news: The DOJ placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they filed a document in court that referred to the Jan. 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol as a “riot” carried out by a “mob,” two people familiar with the matter said.

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Former Chris Christie aide Kevin Tomafsky has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping a 6 year old. The New Jersey Globe called it “engaging in sex with a minor” 6 year olds can’t “engage in sex” Using the word “engage” implies some degree of consent There was no consent. This was rape

The only explanation for this is that these people would disprove the administration’s narrative about the identity of the people we are murdering. I’m a little surprised they didn’t just straight-up murder these two in custody. That’s who the government is now.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Love America more than you love Trump. Protesters you hate are doing this for you, too. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 #NoKings

For those of you attending the #NoKingsMarch; please stay safe and keep it peaceful. Please be mindful that there may be bad actors among us. Their purpose is to cause chaos to get a reaction from the police. Report them when you see them. #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Blockety block block BLOCK!!!

The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)

Several of the “kids” involved in this group chat were between the ages of 24-35 Fun fact: JD Vance is 41 These are his PEERS Has anybody checked HIS direct messages from 6 years ago? Because we know-as recently as last year-he was making up racist lies about Haitian immigrants

Devastation in western Alaska has been essentially ignored by our supposed "news" organizations. And by people like Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. Where is FEMA? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

I am sounding the alarm that the GOP is engaged in an all out attack voting rights and free and fair elections. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and troops in blue cities are just some of the ways they are using to try to rig the rules to keep power in 2026 and beyond. Pay attention and act!

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days. Epstein Shutdown.

ICE Impersonation Incidents Reach Record High in 2025, Outnumbering Four Administrations' Combined Total share.google/dl90s2j53VfL...

🚨🚨🚨 Governor Hochul holds nothing back in a sharp, yet poetic response to a question about exposed texts. 1/2

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

7/ Democrats need to stand for something right now. And what need, to vote for this budget, is pretty simple and reasonable: Don't cut people's health care just to pay for a billionaire tax cut. Don't fund Trump's growing authoritarianism without checks on his corruption.

6/ Sure the House isn't here so Rs don't have to explain why they want premiums to go up and why they want to fund Trump's corruption. But also because they don't want to swear in member-elect Adelita Grijalva. Since she would be the deciding vote to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

4/ Ok, so then the obvious next step is to negotiate a compromise. That's how we've always avoided shutdowns. And Republicans need to convene those talks, bc they're in charge. But here's the kicker - Trump is telling them to BOYCOTT NEGOTIATING. And they are following orders.

Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Yes, color me shocked.

Absolutely brutal.

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

Speaker Johnson won't swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva — who won her election two weeks ago — because she'd be the 218th vote to force the release of the Epstein files. Arizona’s 7th District deserves representation, particularly in the midst of a government shutdown. Swear her in. Release the files.