The death toll for Typhoon Kalmaegi has risen to more than 200 across the Philippines and Vietnam. 2000 homes damaged, 2.3 million people affected, 398,000 sheltering in evacuation centres. 260,000 soldiers on standby for rescue and recovery. It’s moving west towards Thailand and Laos.

At least nobody shot this guy. 🫩

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."

Trump and Republicans are such virulent racists. The chair of the Hardin County Republican Party posted this vile A-1 video, depicting Obama and Michelle as apes and Trump king of the jungle. She issued an apology and said she didn't consider the racism.

Making a good pitch for the Dems there.

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

Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."

“The entire argument of Donald Trump, and Bukele, and the El Salvadorian government right now is built on a lie.” Senator Chris Van Hollen tells @johnjharwood.bsky.social about his fight to bring home Kilmar Ábrego García after he was illegally deported to El Salvador. zeteo.com/p/tell-me-wh...

Funny how elections turn out when Musk doesn't rig them. For those who don't know, Pennbridge and Bucks County ousted every Republican from their school boards on Tuesday. Bucks County was ground-zero for right-wing groups’ takeover of school boards in 2021.

So Mon-Weds-Fri: bribes from Qatar: Legal Tue-Thu-Weekends: NOT legal

🤭 Just keep fact checking this lying MF. Make America Honest Again.

The Supreme Court justices have squirmed to avoid directly ruling on Trump’s epic power grabs. In considering the president's tariffs, they'll have no choice but to act in public. bit.ly/4qGlrqf

George Washington is a funny reference point to use in an argument that a president should hold power indefinitely

Unbelievable. First the administration chooses to limit SNAP benefits, even though it’s clear they have the money to keep paying them out. Now they’re announcing they plan to intentionally delay and cancel flights.

Maria Popova, McGill University: Russian manipulation of the facts endures because when #JeffreySachs and others tirelessly promote it, opponents politely disagree and the conversation is presented as a debate of equally valid viewpoints. www.policymagazine.ca/when-confron...

In Chicago. At a fucking daycare! Trump voters are responsible for this Watch, and watch again. You can see a second thug inside, through the glass on the left. Forcing his way into a classroom and struggling with a second adult. All of the children must be screaming and crying.

Inside a tense, three-hour meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday, a fiery Senator Bernie Sanders urged Democrats not to yield to Republicans without a real victory on health care. He was armed with fresh polling that showed voters would punish the party for giving up with nothing in return.

If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!

Russia's Vladimir Putin ordered top officials on Wed. to submit plans for the possible resumption of nuclear testing, a direct response to President Donald Trump's surprise instruction for the United States to begin testing for the first time in more than 30 years. www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

🗞️ A look at our students on the ground covering NYC’s 2025 mayoral election across the five boroughs. See highlights of their reporting from polling stations, campaign events and local conversations across the city: https://bit.ly/4nE5xKr 📷: Julia Levine, '26 M.S.

Republicans are holding hungry Americans hostage. F*ck. Them. WE can take care of our neighbors. Join our Feeding America campaign to help families on SNAP! 1 dollar = 10 meals. Pass it on!!!

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Ingenious campaign. Tomorrow is a big day in the USA.

We have run out of ways to describe their gaslighting and projection

What he said Part 2: 💯 🎯

Oh: Reached out to Bishop Robert Barron (among others), who sits on Trump's religious liberty commission, earlier today about Broadview, and it looks like he's "brought forward … concerns" on *one* part of the religious freedom issue (i.e., communion access, not ICE shooting clergy w/pepper balls).

ICYMI: the federal weather enterprise again rose to the occasion for #Melissa, but on backs of NOAA retirees volunteering for aircraft reconnaissance duty and employees not currently getting paid. Why the "shutdown" isn't really a shutdown due to feds dedicated to public safety: tinyurl.com/2wk36686

Bipartisan former officials, billionaires defend restrictions on money in politics in Maine lawsuit mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/30/b...

While thousands of federal workers, contractors, and servicemembers are working without pay, House Republicans are enjoying a 45-day taxpayer-funded vacation.

"I don't begrudge New Yorkers who are skeptical." NYC mayoral candidate @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

We've got you 👍

NEW EPISODE: Donald Trump is dismantling democracy through corruption, pay-to-play schemes, and the politicization of the courts and DOJ. Sen. Richard Blumenthal joins me to discuss Republicans enabling an authoritarian takeover, turning justice into revenge, and destroying institutional integrity.

"Maybe fielding more centrist candidates wins Democrats a few more elections. Maybe it doesn’t. But either way, the argument is about one or two percentage points. And it does nothing to address the core two-party doom loop wrecking our politics." leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...

> In the final days ahead of Tremane’s scheduled execution... additional details have emerged exposing how Oklahoma’s prosecutors and judges have coordinated in ways that have undermined Tremane’s final chances at a meaningful review of his case. www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

Trump still has not followed a court order to release SNAP funds for millions of people. Meanwhile, he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed party at Mar-a-Lago this weekend. And he posted seven times about renovating a White House bathroom with marble and gold. Priorities.

'the other parts" "New Weapons Testing Won’t Include Nuclear Explosions, Energy Secretary Says; Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the testing ordered up in a surprise announcement by President Trump last week would focus on 'the other parts' of nuclear weaponry..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

O'DONNELL: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far? TRUMP: No. I think they haven't gone far enough.

Building Healthier Social Media. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

His loyalty is to a made up Christ different than the one in the Bible. It’s more like the Jesus in Talladega Nights, in a Tuxedo T-shirt, with giant eagles' wings and singing lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

NEWS: Trump administration’s Chicago immigration raids are coming to a city near you as Homeland Security sidelines old ICE leadership. “What we’re seeing now is what the rest of the nation can expect. This is the new model.” Our story on what that means www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...

The Trump Administration is basically claiming the right to kill anyone anywhere for any reason or for no reason, with no evidence provided or accountability to Congress or the American people.

No Money For SNAP Benefits, but For Chump,Always Time To Grift....

“A Christian America will have no place for Muslims.” Professor of Law Khaled Abou El Fadl tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that some Muslims have mistaken MAGA’s anti-LGBTQ stance for Islamic values — and warns that Trump’s vision of America excludes them entirely. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/muslims-ha...

"I can say this plainly: Such a move betrays a profound misunderstanding of how secrecy, accountability, and trust work inside the U.S. military." ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social on Hegseth's NDA demand: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-milita...

Let's just lay it out. Epstein was a glorified pimp who used and sold the services of children to the wealthy, the elite, and the powerful. His clients will destroy anything and everything to stay hidden. They will even starve poor people. They have no bottom and no conscience.