🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

New: Trump admin admits "error," says it won't reduce November shutdown SNAP benefits as much www.huffpost.com/entry/novemb...

BREAKING: In a 3-2 vote Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole board recommended clemency for Tremane Wood, a man sentenced to death for a killing his brother admitted to committing www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

Jared Golden is retiring! Bigtime moderate, hurts Dem chances of retaking the House. www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-...

Cope from Speaker Johnson just now: “What happened last night was blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming, and no one should read too much into last night's election results. Off year elections are not indicative of what's to come.”

NEW: I interviewed @katmabu.bsky.social for HuffPost. We talked about free speech, ICE, political prosecution, the Trump administration’s attack on immigrants, fascists, Democrats, and yes, a bit about the indictment, too. I hope you will read: www.huffpost.com/entry/kat-ab...

Lairmore testifies that other agents gave him a plush sandwich toy, which he placed on the shelf in his office, and a patch that said "Felony Footlong," which he put on his lunch box. Lairmore has chuckled with the rest of us at times. Defense really trying to underscore the unseriousness of it all

Absolutely wild. Trump says no SNAP, Karoline says oh no we are following the court order These are people's lives? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Hours later, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt contradicted the president, saying food benefits would go out after all. As of Tuesday afternoon, it was basically unclear what was going on, except that Donald Trump had placed himself at the center of governing chaos.

BREAKING: Trump says no SNAP benefits during shutdown in shocking reversal from yesterday www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Tremane Wood is facing execution on November 13. I revisited his case to investigate how a group of judges and prosecutors have secretly coordinated in ways that have undermined Tremane’s final chance to live. www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

The Trump admin wasn’t going to pay SNAP benefits this month because of the government shutdown. Courts said they weren’t following the law so today the admin said it will be pay out HALF of November’s allotment www.huffpost.com/entry/snap-g...

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

Happy Halloween!

Donald Trump went out of his way to make sure SNAP funding didn't lapse, back during his last big shutdown. Why is he going out of his way to make sure it *does* this time around? @delaneyrules.bsky.social joins @samsteindc.bsky.social:

How much of Zohran Mamdani's ambitious agenda can he get done if he's elected mayor on Tuesday? A lot – and here's what it might look like: www.huffpost.com/entry/zohran...

Trump admin has found creative ways to cover troop paychecks, but argues in court it would be "exceedingly difficult" to tap an existing contingency fund to pay SNAP benefits www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

RFK Sr traveled the country as a senator to expose malnutrition, drum up support for food stamps. RFK Jr travels the country as HHS secretary, sees overweight children at airports, says food stamps "poisoning" today's children New story w/ Senate library material www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

Great profile of HuffPost's own @svdate.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

Another quote that had it come from any other president would have been a weeks-long scandal. Instead, it's just Wednesday.

New: the Trump admin bent over backwards to send out a second month of SNAP benefits during the border wall shutdown in 2019 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I’m told by a source this is dirt from the White House at the East Potomac Park golf course

Mike Johnson says Trump's just "trolling" about a third term. Won't try it. Understands Constitution. But Johnson has misjudged Trump before, like when said earlier this year he didn't expect him to pardon violent rioters. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

AFGE coming out in favor of a "clean CR" -- essentially adopting Republicans' position -- is a huge development in the ongoing shutdown standoff www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

The White House wants people to be glad Donald Trump is demolishing the building

Trump says he’s making military decisions based on what random “friends of mine” tell him about crime.

Speaker Johnson has rejected calls for piecemeal bills to lessen shutdown impacts but sounded open to a SNAP bill when I asked just now. “If the Senate passes the bill, then the House will address that."

This is well-sourced reporting with an assist from President Trump freely admitting the insane conflict of interest! “When I became president, I said, I’m sort of suing myself. I don’t know, how do you settle the lawsuit, I’ll say give me X dollars...It sort of looks bad, I’m suing myself, right?"

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

I asked Hakeem Jeffries if it's plausible Mike Johnson hadn't heard of his J6er death threat case till now since the guy was arrested 2 days ago. “Well, that’s not clear, and that, you know, is for people to judge the credibility of that response,” Jeffries said. www.huffpost.com/entry/christ...

The government shutdown feels so static. It's been going on a long while and nothing is happening.

Here's what was happening on the 20th day of the 2018-2019 shutdown: Trump rejected the idea of reopening gov while committees worked on wall request "I have never been more depressed about moving forward than I am right now." It lasted 15 more days www.politico.com/story/2019/0...

Mike Johnson praised Trump for posting a video of himself dumping poop on "No Kings" rallies, and claimed protesters were trying to "incite violence"

Mike Johnson Praises Trump Poop Video, Takes Additional Crap On 'No Kings' Protesters www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

Nat'l security / military veterans Dems are urging people to turn out for No Kings. "Let's wave the flag, do it peacefully and nonviolently," Rep. Jason Crow (D-Col.) says in a video message. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

I asked Hakeem Jeffries if health care is more important than Trump ignoring laws. He said the Dem proposal has "guardrails" to ensure "the policies contained in that spending bill are actually implemented by the administration." Dem CR has language limiting rescissions.

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

Right wingers widely mocked the No Kings rallygoers in June as a bunch of affluent white Boomers. Now they "hate America" and they're part of the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic party. What gives? story w/ @jbendery.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/no-kin...

Oh look, a real-life version of the Obama-era IRS targeting scandal www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The Supreme Court is going to gut the Voting Rights Act because they want to not because of any facts presented to them. They seemed inclined to use the Trump admins proposal to do so www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

Some federal agencies give their workers shutdown IOUs to show creditors. “‘I have this letter that shows that I am a federal employee, and this is what’s going on,’” one fed employee said he told his mortgage lender. “Well, they had no interest in that.” www.huffpost.com/entry/social...

Rep Kevin Kiley (R-Calif) on showing up for work in DC today: “God, I wanted to at least remember what the floor looked like. It’s been almost a month that we’ve been out of session. We’ve been out of session 71 out of 83 days.” www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-...

Mike Johnson has not brought up the “hate America” rally in his planned remarks the past two days

The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow over whether or not to totally gut the Voting Rights Act. If it does so it would decimate political power for racial minorities, particularly Black people, and help Donald Trump lock in one-party rule www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...

The president’s chief propagandist accuses opponents of “insurrection” and attempting a “coup” — while declaring Trump has “plenary authority.”

Those earnest Boomers doing No Kings protests actually "hate America" and are terrorists, according to Republicans' new shutdown talking points today www.huffpost.com/entry/no-kin...