Powell: "Job gains have slowed significantly since earlier in the year. A good part of the slowing likely reflects a decline in the growth of the labor force due to lower immigration and labor force participation, though labor demand has clearly softened as well."

Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."

Powell: "In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside -- a challenging situation. There is no risk-free path for policy as we navigate this tension between our employment and inflation goals."

Powell says there were “strongly differing views about how to proceed in December" and that another cut is "not a foregone conclusion."

Excellent statement from one of Abugazelah's opponents in the IL-9 Dem primary.

Neguse: "It is outrageous that the Trump administration can come up with $40 billion to bail out Argentina and refuses to spend the money that Congress has appropriated to feed hungry families in America."

Markey on SNAP: "This moment isn't just an economic failure. This isn't just a civic failure. This is an utter moral failure for the Trump administration and MAGA Republicans."

Truly, American Gestapo

My rep, getting pissed

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."

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point for a second straight meeting, as widely expected. Statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p... Full coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Mike Johnson continues to protect pedophiles instead of delivering justice for Epstein’s victims.

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 on MSNBC: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

i do not believe for a second that the hundreds of thousands of layoffs we’re seeing right now are bc ai is replacing them, seems much more likely that the economy is imploding along with corporate mismanagement

"Portland is not war-ravaged. There is no rebellion, and the laws continue to be enforced every day." — The closing lines of Portland's lawyer Caroline Turco's opening statement at trial right now to keep the troop deployment block

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

🧑‍🌾 SOYBEAN FARMER: “Trump did this to us. We are hurting. He doesn’t have a plan.” Why won’t Republicans help them?

JD Vance’s family was on food assistance when he was growing up, but he doesn’t think your family deserves that safety net.

More bad news from Trump's government shutdown: "Air traffic controllers are working their jobs without any pay amid Day 29 of the government shutdown. The 14,000 controllers across the country received $0 deposits to their bank accounts just yesterday."

Coons: "I'm alarmed by reports Trump is considering allowing Nvidia to sell China their most advanced chip. The defining fight of the 21st century will be who controls AI... it would be a tragic mistake for Trump, in order to get some soybeans out of China, to sell them these critical AI chips"

Someone just sent me this asking if it was real. I was skeptical but checked my phone notifications. It's been deleted, but it was real.

Expect more of this and way way worse versions if trump gets his way www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

"Democrats go '[state actual fact]'"

Reup: Yesterday, the judge presiding over Jim Comey and Tish James' motions to DQ Lindsey Halligan asked for the grand jury transcripts in both cases. Ut oh, Lindsey! www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/28/t...

🔥 COACH SULLY: “Let’s see what $4.3 TRILLION looks like when each party gets their hands on it… the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank (with Republicans)…”

I’m in Pittsburgh this morning to help get out the vote ahead of three critical Pennsylvania Supreme Court elections. Text GOTV to 43367 to help us get voters to the polls.

“CRISIS” — Second Harvest food bank CEO says Middle TN losing 14 million meals this month due to SNAP lapse “Compounding challenges” this crisis follows earlier (Trump) cuts to USDA food supply & funding for local food purchasing programs.

That’s great but Schiff voted to confirm another Trump judge on Monday.

this is just the pettiest, stupidist administration

WATCH — @balint.house.gov (D): “There are $5-6 BILLION sitting in a contingency fund. Trump is choosing to let people go hungry. Instead he’s more than happy to send $40 BILLION to Argentina, letting his own people go hungry.” @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn

Mike Johnson: "If the president was a king, then the government would be open." (Trump yesterday said he no longer has a need for Congress.)

"A person might accurately describe [Trump's approval] numbers as “low.” The president of the U.S. seems to think it should be illegal to say this on the air. If you read this fact about another country’s leader, what conclusions about that country might you make?" www.thebulwark.com/p/regular-am...

The pettiness

With SNAP expiring this week, millions are about to lose food assistance — and Trump is refusing to use emergency funds to stop it. Rep. Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov explains. https://contrarian.substack.com/p/no-snap-no-food-rep-pingree-on-the

"Five Republicans out of 53 standing up to Trump! Almost ten percent of the GOP conference voting to uphold the rule of law! Amazing! An age of miracles!" — @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/regular-am...

Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities? TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want

This is great.

Conservative and Liberal depend on a system that holds politicians accountable for their actions with facts. Democracy requires it. Abandoning the duty to enforce that system will ultimately harm all Americans.

It’s not law enforcement. It’s a deputized partisan militia.

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown. The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files. They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

“Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer,” www.joemygod.com/2025/10/judg...