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Opinion | How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for Revenge Prosecutions

Must read piece by @weissmann.substack.com & Mary McCord: In the year since, rather than preventing the weaponization of prosecutions, the court has unleashed it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

Stop Playing Politics With Food Assistance Programs USDA must use the SNAP contingency fund to keep food assistance programs funded during the government shutdown as is required by law and has been done in every other government shutdown in modern hist...

USDA must use the SNAP contingency fund to keep food assistance programs funded during the government shutdown as is required by law and has been done in every other government shutdown in modern history. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

The cruelty is the point

Bird nest in a shoe with babies

Wren. They will nest anywhere.
My husband left his shoes on the porch and a wren made her nest in one of his shoes. Every time I stepped out the door, I would see 5 or 6 little Chick faces hiding in his shoe.

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

There's no end to his lies.

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

“And there’s just a real, existential question of how do you write down a law that binds an actor who’s already demonstrated willingness to disregard the law?”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

My corgi Clyde has selected his outfit for #NoKings Day.

nokings.org

Saturday, October 18. Everywhere. Find your local event at nokings.org.

#NoKings

crooksandliars.com 'You Did Not Answer The Question': JD Vance's Interview Ends Abruptly | Crooks and Liars

'You Did Not Answer The Question': JD Vance's Interview Ends Abruptly

YouTube video by The Daily Show The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. #dailyshow

Portland, the lies vs. the reality.

youtube.com/shorts/BSkDJ...

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None.

This shouldn’t even have to be said.

He's totally going to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell by the way.

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

Absolutely brilliant from Neville ! Please listen and pass on !

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

Last night in LA…

Nightmare fuel on a freeway wall.

Pritzker: "This is a person who thinks that his personal will should be imposed on the United States. That's not how it works."

Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

The Pentagon's Attack on Free Speech Doesn't Have To Work When it comes to things the government can’t do without violating the First Amendment, imposing prior restraints on what the media can report is near the top of the list, absent a compelling rationale...

The Pentagon Papers case gives us important insight into why having a free press matters so much. This week has taught us that we have a role to play in protecting the 1st Amendment, & (to quote a woman who would have made a great president), when we fight, we win. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...