A great resource from our @steveliesman.bsky.social -- in this period where we're flying in the dark on economic data. @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/altdata/

It’s disgraceful that the administration chose to go to court instead of fulfilling its responsibility to the American people. I will not stop fighting until every family has the resources they need to put food on the table. apnews.com/article/snap...

I’m just saying, but if I had just gotten completely shellacked on Tuesday, I wouldn’t be asking SCOTUS to let me starve millions of people 3 days later.

This just into the newsroom WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.

They're cowards. Bovino is of the right age to have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, but his entire career has been bullying people who can't legally fight back. We'll soon get video of his deposition. In whatever form it might take, I expect his downfall will be deliciously well deserved.

I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In 2008, a blogger named Curtis Yarvin called for a future president to kill foreign aid programs as part of a plan to replace democracy with dictatorship. Now 600,000 people are dead—and 14 million will die by 2030, according to the Lancet. This is the running death toll of tech fascism.

Republicans rejecting the Dem shutdown offer (1 year extension of ACA subsidies while long-term solution is worked on) universally, digging in as their position has clearly been rejected at the ballot.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Love this Pelosi anecdote via @semafor.com www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...

The only crime they have time for prosecuting now is political Dissent

Posting fake AI-generated content that's made to look like an actual event is bad — even when it's supposed to be a joke about Trump. Yes, it's a hill I'm willing to die on.

Remember that sting-y Twitter reply Dan Crenshaw smoked Matt Gaetz with? The community had something to say about it: 💅 😁 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

After voting to give billionaires tax breaks and making health care more expensive, Derrick Van Orden has refused to hold a town hall to talk to the voters he works for in a face-to-face conversation. So, I'm heading to Wisconsin to help give the people he's supposed to represent a voice.

NEW: CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping used his speech at the APEC summit to portray the PRC as a responsible and just global leader. The CCP is hosting the 2026 APEC summit and using the opportunity to coerce and isolate Taiwan. (🧵1/3) Read more: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...

Trump also just released the guy who lied to the FBI about the Bidens taking bribes. He has ties to Russian intelligence — and Trump’s businesses. Again: The law does not apply to them. newrepublic.com/post/202897/...

Paul Krugman he ain’t

a super funny thing about this is that the only reason this looks like some too-clever-by-half gambit is that thune, johnson, and trump have played this so badly, in any normal universe, this would look like a normal, uncontroversial, unobjectionable offer from the minority party in both chambers

Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control. But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept. 🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu

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...

Well, well, well. L - October 27 R - Today

The most corrupt America Last President in history. Every day a new pardon worse than one the day before.

NEW: DOJ alleges that James Comey authorized someone “at the FBI” to anonymously engage w/ the media. But documents suggest that that “someone”—Daniel Richman—may not have been officially employed by the FBI during any of the communications cited by prosecutors www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...

against the wishes of “dem base” online types, don’t the dems basically have one demand for reopening govt? Do the subsidies. The idea that any reporter (I know) is entertaining the idea of the gop trying to make a “deal” with Dems is ridiculous. It’s one condition that is popular among gop voters!

It’s a helluva “flex” to lie about Thanksgiving dinner being cheaper when you’re literally letting 42 million people starve.

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

Showing that she fits right in with the new direction of the GOP, Elise Stefanik defended her friends in the New York Young Republicans after they sent racist texts and praised Hitler So I’m sure her gubernatorial campaign will go splendidly

The Dems conned you into believing groceries should be affordable —tRump, evidently

Tulsi Gabbard is trying to take control over counterintelligence from the FBI. It's not going great. A scoop with @shaneharris.bsky.social

June 5, 2025 Under the proposal, contractors would run the facilities, cover renovation costs up front, and be allowed to sell premium items such as higher-quality meal options, snacks and booze. They would also share the profits with the Army.

Democrats: Let’s reopen the government today, extend the health insurance subsidies for one year, then let the voters decide in the midterms if they want to extend them further or cancel them. Republicans: HELL NO!!!

Wow: Trump is pardoning a convicted agent of the Chinese Communist Party

"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats

In his decades-long pantheon of bone-chilling statements, this one’s hard to top.

The Trump admin is making the planes run on time in the same way that Mussolini made the trains run on time—by not actually doing it, but by pressuring everyone to just say that’s what’s happening.

Community note for the win

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

Good grief. This administration is so soft on crime.

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

Bessent shamelessly lies: "Inflation came down in April for the first time in four years under President Trump...Walmart came out yesterday and said the Thanksgiving meal is 25% less." (Inflation fell steadily in the last two years of the Biden administration and Walmart is making the meals smaller)

Actually, if you're an American, you have a right to believe as you choose.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

US President yesterday: "I don't want to hear about affordability." I learned long ago - document, document, document. 💁‍♀️ 11.09.2024 v 11.07.2025 (Federal family though, so no Thanksgiving dinner for us this year because Trump is in the Epstein Files & 2025 is all fun.😠) @hcrichardson.bsky.social

New: "Trump Media Lost $54.8 Million Last Quarter—And Is On Track To Lose Far More" Revenue was $972,900—about what Taylor Swift brought in over 15 minutes on her Eras Tour. with @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

“.. I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” - 11/06/25

This is important. He has a big audience.