Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 85, announces she will not seek reelection.

Election Night wasn’t just a Blue Wave — it was a Blue Tsunami. And the color that made it all possible was Black.

Trump says he will not release SNAP benefits, despite a federal court order requiring him to do so.

If you’re tired of all the chaos, racism, division, and lies the past 10 months, today is your day to fight back. Today is Election Day! 🗳️

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, the conservative Republican who pushed the United States into a deadly, costly, and unprovoked war against Iraq based on fabricated claims of “weapons of mass destruction” that did not exist, has died at 84.

Nobel Peace Prize loser threatens war with Nigeria.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has orderd Trump to pay SNAP benefits out of a $6 billion contingency fund as the month-long Republican government shutdown threatens to cut off food aid for millions of Americans starting on Saturday.

WHITES ONLY! Trump will restrict the number of refugees allowed in the US next year to just 7,500 – and those will mostly go to white South Africans. So, you can’t use race to help Black people after centuries of discrimination, but you can use it to help white people who have never been oppressed.

The Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the second time this year. New Trump appointee Stephen Miran voted against the rate cut, preferring the Fed move more quickly with a half-point cut. St. Louis Fed President Jeffrey Schmid voted against the cut because he preferred no cut at all.

In what appears to be a model for Trump to use elsewhere, the state of Utah plans to force as many as 1,300 homeless people to live in a detention camp on the outskirts of Salt Lake City.

CBS News staffers will be laid off as part of massive cuts at Paramount. The layoffs come as the network's new right-wing editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tries to recruit conservative Republican Scott Jennings to join CBS News.

Trump has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old Nobel Prize-winning author from Nigeria, who has taught at Harvard, Yale, Duke, Emory, and NYU. “I have no visa. I am banned,” Soyinka said.

The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives has been out of session since September 19. The federal government has been shut down since October 1. Saturday will be November 1, when millions of Americans will see their ACA health care premiums rise and millions will lose SNAP benefits.

We’ve come to the point where federal judges have to tell Trump not to tear gas children on Halloween. 🎃

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced what he called "powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip immediately” as the fragile ceasefire with Hamas breaks down.

UPS says it has cut 48,000 jobs so far this year.

Republicans across the South are making plans to redraw their congressional maps to eliminate Black members of Congress if the Trump-dominated Supreme Court overtuns the landmark Voting Rights Act this term.

While Republican Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to call the House of Representatives in session during the government shutdown so he can protect Donald Trump from a vote on the release of the Epstein Files, House Republicans are busy trying to overturn Joe Biden’s pardons.

Amazon will lay off 14,000 workers as it invests in artificial intelligence. The news comes as Amazon donates money to Trump to demolish the East Wing of the White House and build him a $300 million ballroom in the midst of a government shutdown. Once again, Trump gets richer. Workers get screwed.

Paramount will cut 1,000 jobs in its first round of layoffs. The move comes months after Paramount paid Trump a $16 million bribe to setttle a bogus lawsuit he filed against CBS’s “60 Minutes” in exchange for approving the company’s merger with Skydance. Trump gets richer. Workers get laid off.

After gerrymandering maps in Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina, Republicans now plan to redraw Indiana to help Trump steal the 2026 midterm elections.

As US beef prices hit record highs, American ranchers are furious at Trump’s plan to import 80,000 metric tons of beef from Argentina. “It’s really just a kick in the nuts,” said Kyle Hemmert, a 61-year-old Trump supporter who has a herd of about 275 cattle in western Kansas.

Tesla’s board chair has asked shareholders to vote for a $1 TRILLION pay package for Elon Musk.

A US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crashed in separate incidents in the South China Sea on Sunday, the 13th and 14th US military aircraft to crash this year.

More than half of K-12 teachers in a survey last month said that political pressure has caused them to modify their curriculums or classroom discussions. Lessons about racism, sexism, voting rights, and even basic civics are being challenged and removed.

New York Attorney General Letitia James entered a “not guilty” plea in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia today as she vowed to continue the fight against Donald Trump’s weaponized Justice Department.

Hakeem Jeffries may endorse New York City’s Democratic candidate for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, today.

Trump promised to reduce inflation, but it’s up to 3%, the highest level since January.

But Obama spent $376 million. 1. Bush requested the spending, not Obama. 2. Congress approved it. 3. The money was spent to upgrade the aging infrastructure in the 200-year-old building. 4. They didn’t tear down 1/3 of the White House. 5. They didn’t lie about it to the American people.

The entire East Wing of the White House has now been demolished. No transparency. No public comment period. No congressional review. Just gone in a matter of days…like our democracy.

New York Mayor Eric Adams has record-low approval ratings, and it didn’t help that he struck a deal with Trump to dismiss the federal corruption case against him. So I’m not sure how an Adams endorsement is supposed to help Cuomo at this point.

Republicans gerrymandered Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina this year to steal the midterms for Trump in 2026. Democrats are working to respond in California (Prop 50 on Nov. 4), and now Virginia Democrats are joining the battle.

Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange who pleaded guilty to money laundering two years ago, after Zhao (also known as CZ) lent his support to the Trump family’s own crypto venture. 47 is out here selling pardons to the highest bidder.

Ten years ago in 2015, the US Supreme Court upheld the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges. Now only two members of the Obergefell majority remain on the Court (Kagan and Sotomayor). Now the Court may take away that right from gay and lesbian couples.

The University of Virginia, considered among the top five public universities for more than two decades, just cut a deal with a guy who paid a $25 million fraud settlement for running a fake university.

Trump is bragging about bombing “drug boats” in the Caribbean. But there’s no proof, no legal basis, and no accountability — just civilians dying for The Great Stunt Queen acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

Tesla’s third quarter profit fell 37 percent with lower car prices and higher tariff costs.

BREAKING: Trump is demolishing the entire East Wing of the White House to build his new ballroom. This is illegal. He’s the tenant, not the owner. And Congress has not authorized him to destroy this national historic monument.

Trump has illegally bombed a civilian boat in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Colombia. This is a crime. Congress has not authorized military action in the region, and federal law prohibits killling suspects — even alleged drug smugglers — without due process.

“But he doesn’t take a salary.” 🤦🏾‍♂️

“But he doesn’t take s salary.” 🤦🏾‍♂️

North Carolina state senate Republicans have approved a new congressional map to eliminate a seat held by a Black Democratic member of Congress, Rep. Don Davis. The move is part of Trump’s push to steal the 2026 midterms by gerrymandering Democrats out of office in states like Texas and Missouri.

Trump’s beauty queen prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, sent Signal text messages to Lawfare reporter, Anna Bower, to bully her about her coverage of the Letitia James story. But the inexperienced and unprofessional beauty queen forgot to say the conversation was off the record. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Donald Trump is reportedly considering commuting Diddy’s prison sentence this week. Just as we all predicted when George Santos was freed. It’s all about the Benjamins.

While government workers are not being paid and Republicans can’t find the time or money to deal with health care, Trump is destroying the White House to build himself a $250 million ballroom.

While Trump claims that crime is out of control in Democratic cities and blames what he calls radical leftists, NYPD reports there were zero arrests at today’s No Kings protest in New York City.

The Trump administration has decided to return the two survivors of the recent US airstrike to their home countries, Colombia and Ecuador, instead of prosecuting them or holding them in detention. But if they were so dangerous that Trump had to blow up their boat, why are they being released?

At the same time he’s prosecuting his Democratic enemy Letitia James, Trump has ordered former Republican Rep. George Santos to be released from prison and commuted his sentence for fraud. Because Trump doesn’t care about the law. He rewards his criminal allies and punishes his critics.

The US military has seized survivors of a US airstrike after trying to kill them. AP’s reporting seems to confirm what Reuters reported earlier this morning. What are we doing here?

The US military rescued the survivors from Thursday’s airstrike in the Caribbean and is holding them on a Navy ship, Reuters reports. This is ridiculous. First they tried to murder them. Then they had to “rescue” them.