"It is no stretch to imagine ICE agents snatching people from voting queues and thereby deterring U.S. citizens who speak with an accent or have dark skin from exercising their right to vote." No benefit of the doubt for these guys anymore. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-t...

Whoa—zoom in to see the comparisons with 2020 and the 2007-2009 recession:

A president who pulled every lever, jiggled every handle, and applied every kind of pressure he could think of, up to and including inciting a riot, to prevent his successor from taking office deserves no benefit of the doubt. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-t...

25% of the 8 are from Tennessee. @MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty we see you. #MarshaMoneyGrab

Our top story, from @candicebernd.bsky.social: State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.

Reading this story and remembering that one of the goals of Project 2025 was to end Head Start

A bunch of folks have asked me what this looks like in local currency terms. Here's the chart. It's a similar story: The performance of the U.S. stock market during the Trump presidency is... ~~meh~~

IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO DO SOME CRIMES AND WANT TO GET AWAY WITH IT: *Become a Republican member of Congress *Donate money to President Trump or cronies *Marry a Republican member of Congress

"The biggest takeaway from all this is that Donald Trump learns another lesson in the virtues of brazening it out. He is willing to shoot the hostage, and the Democrats are not. This ultimately strengthens his negotiating hand."

New York! Go make some noise at Chuck Schumer’s house TONIGHT.

“It’s shocking to me that the rest of the country is not paying attention to what’s happening all across the neighborhoods of Chicago and the suburbs and, frankly, the rest of the state of Illinois,” Governor J. B. Pritzker says. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JxImaA

VOTE THEM OUT!!!!

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations. Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators. By @emcahan.bsky.social

Every Democrat who votes to reopen the Gov without ACA credits, should be primaried. I mean everyone, like you Ossoff This article has the list of Senators. #DemocratsCave

Sarah Longwell: "Donald Trump took office, we have experienced a net decline of over a million jobs... Everybody in immediate proximity to trump is getting richer while the vast majority of Americans are getting poorer and people are losing their jobs."

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court documents filed in federal court on Wednesday.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

🚨BREAKING: Speaking at a White House breakfast with Senate Republicans, Trump responded by calling on lawmakers to smooth a path for voter suppression measures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

ARE REPUBLICANS PLANNING FOR WAR AGAINST AMERICANS? It looks like Republicans are making moves to protect themselves from any physical danger or threat, which could occur should Trump declare Martial Law and threaten the People with his personal army. #ProudBlue #Pinks #ResistanceUnited 👇🏼

Babies born to black mothers 81% more likely to die in neonatal care, NHS study shows

As we noted a few days ago, Trump appears to be defying court orders. He threatened to withhold food stamp benefits for roughly 42 million Americans until the government shutdown ends, even though a federal court has ordered his administration to continue the aid payments through the month.

ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges

We must take action. It’s the antidote to despair. It’s the key to victory. It’s hope in motion.

While Americans go hungry, President Donald Trump was partying it up. The president spent Friday night hosting a Great Gatsby–themed Halloween celebration at Mar-a-Lago, just hours before tens of millions of low-income Americans were set to lose access to food stamps.

Study of 6,400 US politicians finds men serving in "feeder" roles only a few years were more likely than women to run for higher office (governor or US Senate). This gender gap only disappeared when the women had served 8 - 9 years in office. @kimelsesser.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

🗓️ On Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. ET, join our reporting team in a review of our yearlong investigation into Russell Vought, the Project 2025 architect and Trump budget guru. ➡️ RSVP here: events.propublica.org/the-shadow-p...

Citing a Trump order about “restoring biological truth,” the VA is making it more difficult for male veterans with breast cancer to get their care covered by the government. The disease is deadlier than for women and “notably higher among veterans,” research shows. By @ericumansky.bsky.social

July, Dr. Tidmarsh warned that the initiative risks injecting politics into what should be a strictly science-based review process. When experts raising red flags are silenced instead of heard, the public loses trust and patients lose protection. Science should lead, not politics.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

But now she has 175 million dollars worth of private jets so problem solved.

You know me… I’m always looking for the seemingly unconnected correlations in data… And this is just another one. US life expectancies started diverging from the rest of the world exactly when wealth inequality began to diverge… around 2004… as a direct result of Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

Links: federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-news... www.wired.com/story/ice-ro... www.404media.co/ice-is-using... www.biometricupdate.com/202506/new-i...

He’s been described as akin to a shadow president. On Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 4 p.m. ET, join us for a virtual event digging into Russell Vought’s influence on Trump’s second term. RSVP below ⤵️

Trump has denied he intends to go to war with Venezuela, but his administration is positioning extensive military assets poised to do so. Believe the actions.

Complete insanity. Right in front of her daughter. This thug has no ID or anything. What are we doing?

In a huge coincidence, this Acosta fellow—the US Attorney who raced to protect Jeffrey Epstein from his own office investigating Epstein's finances—was later appointed to Trump's Cabinet. Gosh, what a strange thing for Trump to do. Can't explain it. Hmmm. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration has now granted protection to members of far-right European parties. This plan, which becomes official today, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for white nationalism.

This is a tangible example of how regulatory agencies matter to people in practical ways. The CFPB had been investigating and blocking these abuses of the law, until Russ Vought and Trump stopped them from doing so. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Gov. Pritzker on Federal agents swarming a Halloween parade in Chicago: “Don't believe it when they tell you that they're busting the worst of the worst, gangs, or gang members. They're attacking peaceful neighborhoods and terrorizing kids in Halloween parades.”

Hundreds of people came out last night in Fort Worth to support Taylor Rehmet’s (Nov. 4) special election campaign for TX Senate District 9. More than 80 of them signed up for block walk shifts and more than a dozen told us they’re open to running for places on the ballot in Tarrant County in 2026.

Trump's choice to withhold SNAP food assistance payments resembles a forced starvation - in an armed conflict, that's a war crime, and in peacetime to force political outcomes, that's close to terrorism. Podcast: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/texas-house-democrats-form-committee

Of course they did.

A federal trial in Portland about the president’s authority to deploy the National Guard to the city got off with a stunning revelation: troops briefly deployed to a federal immigration building in South Portland this month, appearing to defy a court order. (via @opb.org)