Tom Emmer: "You're gonna have to create high risk pools again. Just go back where Minnesota was before the ACA."

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.

For the second time in a little over a week, ICE officers reportedly shot someone in Los Angeles.

This time, it was a US citizen who ICE officers shot from behind after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Kash Patel, the Director of the FBI, has no idea who Dylann Roof is.

In June of 2015, Roof, a white supremacist and Neo-Nazi, entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and gunned down nine African-Americans after they invited him to take part in their Bible study group.

one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.

-Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk on Paul Pelosi -

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

New, wrong account of how World War II ended, from the U.S. vice president:

Russians are advancing in Zaporizhzhia oblast under the American flag.

(Cont.)
• SCOTUS overturns Roe (2022)
• SCOTUS gives President immunity (2024)
• Trump wins EC and popular vote, Republican trifecta (2024)
• SCOTUS aids and abets Trump admin (2025)
• Republicans kick 16 million off Medicaid and Food Stamps (2025)
3/3

I'm so fucking tired, y'all.

(Cont.)
• SCOTUS legalizes unlimited dark money (2010)
• Tea Party (2010)
• SCOTUS guts VRA (2013)
• Lowest midterm turnout since WWII (2014)
• McConnell refuses hold vote for SCOTUS (2016)
• Trump wins electoral college (2016)
• COVID (2019)
• January 6th insurrection (2021)
2/

A brief history of Millennial politics:
• Gingrich kills bipartisanship (1994)
• SCOTUS makes Bush President (2000)
• September 11th and Forever Wars (2001)
• Global Financal Crash (2008)
• Sarah Palin (2008)
• McConnell weaponizes filibuster (2009)
1/

Republicans have become much more likely to affiliate with Trump over the actual Republican Party www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

trump is a primitive accumulation monster dad doing a family annihilation on the whole country

The United States canceled an order for lifesaving peanut paste that was meant to keep 500,000 Yemeni children alive.

Just read this sentence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House Reconciliation Bill (Preliminary)

House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...

Think about the implications of the Trump administration‘s latest brief to the Supreme Court, that the judiciary can’t interfere with the president’s power over foreign policy, as a reason not to bring back innocents from El Salvador.

Nearly every Republican in the Senate voted to overturn a Biden Admin rule that limited bank overdraft fees to $5.

This rule, initially established by the now gutted CFPB, was expected to save consumers $5 billion annually.

The GOP is the party of junk fees.

CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server