One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Incredibly dark for this to get approval. Any regime intent on denying their own citizens from leaving is a direct threat of violence.

SNAP surveys SNAP users. Already half of them are saying they are skipping meals.

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

if the sandwich hit you must acquit

“One of the things writing can do is get to the pain, and much of that pain comes from places where there should be love.” Our interview with Salman Rushdie.

Bless you, Ilya! Here's the link to do what Ilya says 😍 continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

This doesn't seem to have quite broken through into the shutdown discourse yet (unlike say SNAP). But as temperatures drop it's going to become a serious issue apnews.com/article/gove...

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

Functionally, there is no way to enter the US “the right way.” Undocumented people aren’t undocumented because they don’t want to fill out paperwork. It’s because we let in 50,000 people a year in a lottery that privileges countries with fewer migrants.

Trump take flights

I am really trying to get people to understand how much what is happening to our children in Chicago with regard to ICE abductions is like school shootings/gun violence: the random and massive exposure to this particular violence will imprint on a generation and no privilege can fully shield you.

JFC

Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach

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MEANWHILE: Bari Weiss' "anti-woke" University of Austin just announced a $100 million donation from Jeff Yass, the Pennsylvania billionaire who recently funded the Gov. Greg Abbott's school voucher push in Texas. UAustin says they will no longer charge tuition or accept government money.

That's the YA-ed Apple, you Cyrillic abusers.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

* It’s great that Trumpism took a beating last night. It’s less great, for long-run local political health, that all our local races get nationalized into refrenda on whoever is President. I don’t know how you relocalize local races, but it’s something worth doing.

I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.” The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.

Dems in ARRAY

Exclusive: Hundreds of travel businesses, including casinos, hotels and convention bureaus, are asking Congress to end the shutdown, citing worries about the holiday travel season.

In April, @ejusa.bsky.social, a pioneering anti-violence nonprofit, received an email from DOJ that its federal grants were suddenly being terminated. “What nobody saw coming was that they would go back and seize money that Congress had already allocated.” The moves proved fatal for EJUSA.

All right i'll bite. What is New York City

SNAP *is* the safety net. it’s not just another benefit or program, as some wonks have framed it. if republicans don’t follow the law, this will — not could, will — turn into a humanitarian disaster like nothing we’ve seen in my lifetime. this can get lost in the policyspeak.

Among the things that the shutdown is laying bare is this: so many federal employees live paycheck to paycheck while doing crucial, stressful work. The same may be said, of course, of so many other working Americans. While our oligarch class rakes in money hand over fist. This is not sustainable.

I’m getting more information now from on the ground in hardest hit parts of Jamaica. In the aftermath of the hurricane people are doing their best but the need is overwhelming. Some areas are flattened. Deaths are rising. People need food and shelter. Some places need to be evacuated altogether.

Raid in Georgetown: “Inside the building, the witnesses described selective, aggressive searches. “They turned over everything … every single bed in the Latino apartments. Nothing was touched in the non-Latino apartments besides the doors being destroyed,” one said.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Robe Rage

Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.

Sorry but a "gotcha" about editing for time constraints in broadcasting is meaningless. All day long we are swimming in media that has been edited for time. The issue is that we do not comprehend program clocks anymore, because we are also now also swimming in variable-length programming online.

gangster rules

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, hundreds waited in line at food pantries after SNAP benefits were halted. "I work a full-time job," said 26-year-old Jazmine Blair. "But I still can't afford basic stuff and it's kind of sad. I'm surviving. I'm not living."

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around. Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

Watching CBS interview with Trump and pleading once again: stop interviewing this guy. He will filibuster (lol) and lie and avoid answering; he’ll broadcast further misinformation. No one is a good enough interviewer to crack him bc it is not really an interview.

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds. Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

ICE has tear-gassed at least five neighborhoods in the past month, crashed a car into another, arrested protesters trailing immigration agents, used Tasers on people during violent arrests, pointed guns at people and shot two people, including one fatally.- www.reuters.com/world/us/wer...

This is just one of many reasons why tankies infuriate me. Yeah on paper the USSR was a dream, in reality it was a multidimensional original criminal system.

The left’s task now and always is to build a broad, multi-racial/ethnic working class coalition, and the Mamdani campaign is operating at a higher level than anyone else in electoral politics. It’s not even close

Hey all-Roman & I have a new ep of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution out-this one's about Congress, their (ahem) powers, and our special guest is Senator @warren.senate.gov ! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

one might wonder about the motivations of the powerful who are highly incentivized to replace humans with cheaper and more tractable labor, and why THEY might feel motivated to argue that LLMs are Intellectually and Morally Equal to Humans, But Conveniently Only In Ways That Make Us Even More Money

We're seeing in real time that many people are already in hell in that they carry hell with them wherever they go. Those making fun of people on SNAP are already in hell.

bro biologists won't even agree on the definition of "alive" you think you can get them to back you on "two genders" lmao

do folks have any idea how much cops cost?! it would be less expensive to just feed people.