Over the past 50 years, the Republican trifecta has been cutting taxes for the ultra wealthy, economic collapse and ultimately unpopular and undemocratic wars abroad.
I guess this president is working on the third part of the Republican brand right now.
“A series of video projections on large screens of the artist drawing the faces of disappeared persons with water on hot stones in the tropical heat. The faces emerged from his hand, then they slowly disappeared as the water evaporated.”
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In Charlotte, hundreds of outraged and concerned community members crowded the pews of Dilworth United Methodist Church to learn how to use whistles to alert their immigrant neighbors of the unwelcome presence of mass deportation agents👇🏽 open.substack.com/pub/americas...
The economy is severely undermined, causing long-term damage
Honestly we're never more than an hour away from a story built on "escalation" as the news hook.
The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country because it doesn’t like their speech. This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you, congratulations on your reading comprehension.
"I’m frustrated around the macro level, but on the micro level I really do believe this is what true organizing looks like: neighbor to neighbor, family to family, person to person.”
@maustermuhle.bsky.social's story on how D.C. fought back against ICE was one of our team's favorites this year:
Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”
In a surprising twist, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for the 2026 midterm elections may end up strengthening California’s defense of its voter-approved map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Masked thugs knocked out a peaceful protester outside the ICE facility in Portland then dragged his unconscious body away on a utility cart. Witnesses screamed, “He is not moving!” Another woman was tackled. This is state violence.
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If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven)
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My response to @edsecmcmahon.govpeeps.us on twitter
At a recent presentation at Cambridge, (prince) Andrew biographer Andrew Lownie claims Epstein and Melania Trump were in a relationship before he introduced her to Trump. When his biography on Andrew was released, Trump forced the publisher to redact those portions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=62j0...
Pete Hesgeth is getting our warfighters ready for the impending invasion of giant radial tires.
WATCH THE HIGHWAYS, CITIZEN!!!
Sometimes I wonder if they’re stupid or complicit. They have to know that deportation, wealth hoarding, isolationism, and tariffs are bad for the economy. How many times to republican policies have to cause a recession before they get it?
In the 60-year history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, it’s never run out of money. Here are the states suing the federal government over it.
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.
Immigration agents remove license plates on cars during arrests
"Flipping license plates or altering them in any way to avoid detection is strictly prohibited in Illinois," said Giannoulias in the video, “No one, including a federal agent, is above the law."
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Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Breaking WaPo:
The White House just fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of Trump's construction projects, including his planned arch in Washington. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is ALSO a war on comedy and on comedians…
It sure how I feel about this: “Colombia is a critical listening post in the Andes region for U.S. intelligence… between January 2024 and June 2025, 85 percent of all information acted on by a Pentagon task force in Key West, Fla., originated in Colombia.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
Is SNAP (Food Stamps) and/or WIC important for your family or community? How are these programs helping you make ends meet and care for your family right now? action.momsrising.org/survey/snap-...
Tell Congress to use every available mechanism to keep SNAP funded in November, right as Thanksgiving approaches. action.momsrising.org/sign/fund-sn...
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
The President just announced he is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to bail out Argentina. That’s outrageous. If he was willing to spend that money in America - to keep American health premiums from skyrocketing, the shutdown would be over tomorrow.
NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months.
That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
