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Trump administration asks for emergency pause on judge's order to fully fund SNAP The administration has said it cannot draw from money set aside for child nutrition programs, known as Section 32 funding, to pay for SNAP during the government shutdown.

BREAKING: The Trump administration asks a federal appeals court for an emergency pause on a federal judge's order to fully fund SNAP benefits this month.

Actually, we want people to starve, we want it so much that we will go to court to preserve and uphold the starvation of the public.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Me cheering with one hand up. Holding jacket eyes closed smiling screaming

Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari

So much of what happened yesterday is a direct consequence of Lindsey’s courage, both in speaking up initially and then campaigning to ensure the world didn’t forget about what had happened, even as it seemed like it would all be ignored

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty.

“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.

In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.

By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

Investigative “interview” with my government employer—about me not being sad about Charlie Kirk—has been postponed.

They are trying to force me to choose between my Union Rep (labor) and my Lawyer (constitutional).

We are more than willing to fight that fight! For this case and to set a precedent.

American Starmerism is a cursed phrase.

Save us, @ayannapressley.bsky.social

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.

It was a little different last week.

It's so refreshing to see someone actually confronting the realities of nonvoting, who non-voters are and what actually motivates them, and attempting to address those concerns directly, and not turning into a self-serving, dishonest morality play.

how do you have the mental capacity to feed and clothe yourself if you read "homeless industrial complex" and your brain interprets that as words you shouldn't even second guess before repeating them in the paper of record?

how do you put your fuckin pants on with a brain that scrambled?

NYT: Austin Asked Voters to Raise Taxes for the Homeless. It's Not Going Well. A proposed tax hike before the city on Tuesday has become a referendum on governance in the fast- changing Texas capital.

A referendum in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday to raise taxes for city services partly to address homelessness has set off a surprising backlash in the deep blue city. Opponents fear sharply increasing property taxes will add to a crisis of affordability and have suggested the City Council is beholden to developers. Some, particularly among Austin's vocal conservatives, have accused local homeless service nonprofits - which support the measure - of grifting from taxpayers as part of a "homeless-industrial complex."

what the ever loving fuck are we even doing here?

how the fuck do you uncritically parrot the words "homeless industrial complex" in your writing and not immediately die of shame and incompetence?

American news overlooking "A muslim woman felt terrified to wear her hijab after 9/11" to focus on "Mamdani called his dad's cousin his aunt" really encapsulates everything wrong with American media.

Zohran, Tish James and Brad Lander lead a procession of hundreds walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn.

Tish James, Brad Lander, Tony Simone and Rita Joseph wait for the march on the bridge.

Zohran at a packed press conference outside city hall, Tish James and others raising their hands in the air.

Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge.

As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city.

Tomorrow, we win it together.

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.

➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

This.

To quote a Republican Spanish Civil War poster, “If you allow this to our children, yours’ will be next.”

It was true then as the world rapidly found out, and it is true now.

What has been done to Palestinians is a turning point in the world, not for the better. The doors are blown off.

NYC-DSA is casually running a citywide field operation with 100,000+ volunteers and is going to knock 200,000 doors tomorrow to elect the next socialist mayor of the largest city in the country

Anything and everything is possible 🌹

Liberals say communism is a fantasy because of the immutably greedy and vicious human nature, then say "Our institutions will be fine actually because they rely entirely on the grand character, integrity, and judgment of a handful of very rich men directly beholden to the status quo"

Paying for It | David I. Backer Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.

The municipal bond market helps fund public infrastructure. But it also funnels public money into the coffers of the city’s ruling class industry. This is something Mamdani’s administration will have to reckon with should they win next week.

When bad things get worse Border Patrol, ICE, and the repetition of grim history.

“….don’t let despair over how we got here paralyze you. Don’t let that first failure of imagination lead you into another one: one where you fail to imagine ways that we can get out of this.”

- @andreapitzer.bsky.social

in general you have to be completely disassociating to characterize anything about the Harris campaign as "radical left"; they clung so tightly to the center that for every day for a month Axios and Politico was running stories about how she was disavowing her previous positions on bolder policies

One of the dumbest lies they have going is that "educated liberal big city folks" have someone never in their lives come across a conservative. I promise you we have cruel tacky assholes in Massachusetts and California and everywhere. Millions of them!

The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral - High Country News Photos and reflections from the memorial in the Phoenix suburbs.

Joseph Rushmore attended events in memory of Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix. As one who has been documenting right wing extremism and christian nationalism for more than a decade, he felt that Kirk’s death marks an important moment for this nation and he wanted to better understand it.

In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”

why would he come for online trads like this

Waltham’s approach to Halloween safety: 🙃

Heritage president backs Tucker Carlson after interview with Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes Kevin Roberts denounced the “venomous coalition” that has criticized the former Fox News host.

Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis.

Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.

trump getting to the right position in like a month that on the other hand dems took 15 years to get to is pretty indicative of so much wrong in american politics