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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 10/30/2025 and available online at https://federalregister.gov/d/2025-19702, and on https://govinfo.gov DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY: Removal of the Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization Documents AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). ACTION: Interim final rule (“IFR”) with request for comments. ______________________________________________________________________ SUMMARY: This IFR amends DHS regulations to end the practice of automatically extending the validity of employment authorization documents (Forms I-766 or EADs) for aliens who have timely filed an application to renew their EAD in certain employment authorization categories. The purpose of this change is to prioritize the proper vetting and screening of aliens before granting a new period of employment authorization and/or a new EAD. This IFR does not impact the validity of EADs that were automatically extended prior to [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER] or which are otherwise automatically extended by law or Federal Register notice.

NEW: The Trump admin just ended the practice of automatically extending work permits when people file to renew them — meaning that if USCIS takes too long to process a renewal the applicant loses their authorization to work legally.

The interim final rule applies to renewals filed after tomorrow.

What Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Thinks About Hitler, Putin, and Apartheid The next step in Musk’s propaganda machine

Elon Musk’s new competitor to Wikipedia says apartheid wasn’t that bad, cites the Kremlin, and gives legitimacy to “white-genocide theory.”

Musk is constructing a parallel universe in his own image.

Jennifer from Carnation called my office to let me know that her premiums will increase next year from $239 to $1,170 a month for the same plan.

This is unacceptable and underscores why I am fighting to save vital healthcare tax credits that will lower costs.

Starting tomorrow, Monday, October 27, our WCK food trucks will be stationed in D.C.’s Navy Yard southeast neighborhood from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with meals for federal employees and their families with a valid ID.
Read more: wck.org/news/first-alert-shutdown-25
#ChefsForFeds (2/2)

WCK’s Relief Team is supporting furloughed federal workers in Washington, D.C., as the U.S. government shutdown nears its fourth week. #ChefsForFeds (1/2)

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read M...

Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social , I learned that there are 52,000 elected offices up for election on 11/4. That’s 52000 chances to vote in candidates who share our values and who will protect the constitution.

I voted and returned my ballot.

boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

No one makes it entirely on their own. If you benefit from a functioning society, you owe something back.

#TaxBillionaires

Hey, California! Listen to Jonathan!

Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight

Rep. Don Davis: Voting is about 'empowering people, not short term power plays' North Carolina has adopted a new Trump-backed map designed to give Republicans an additional House seat during the 2026 midterm elections. This could effectively unseat Democratic Congressman Don Davis, who represents the state’s majority-Black district, in what’s known as The Black Belt. “They met to take up a new map to attempt to predetermine…the outcome of an election 377 days away,” Davis said. “So we are sitting here in North Carolina without a budget. A lot of the schools are trying to figure out the future, what pathway they're going to head on, and decisions that need to be made. We're dealing with health care issues, but we're redrawing maps. Everybody's left scratching their head.” 

“The most important thing that we could ever do right now, is to implement a national ban on mid-decade redistricting that's not court mandated,” Democratic Rep. Don Davis said in response to NC’s new congressional map, designed to ensure he’ll lose his seat to a Republican next year. #Velshi

Clark Construction, the idiots doing Trumps “ballroom,” just finished the WA State Convention Center expansion in Seattle. 1.5 million sf including exhibition space, a ballroom, support spaces, park upgrades, $40M for public housing, etc. The cost? $1.7 billion or $1,133 per sf.

Of course it's a drop in the bucket. But I don't want the idea of a privately-funded U.S. military to gain the least bit of traction - or precedent.

Anti-public lands, anti-Wilderness crusader, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), has introduced a bill that guts the Wilderness Act, potentially allowing the DHS to build roads, land aircraft, and install surveillance technology across America’s entire 112 million-acre National Wilderness Preservation System.

Friends in BROOKLYN and QUEENS, sweet Penny is still missing. She was last seen on Bushwick Ave / Beaver Ave.

Please share this updated poster and keep and eye out if you can

"Congress approved funding for the renovations in 2008—before Obama took office—'after a Bush administration report revealed some systems in the White House were periodically failing.'"

Actually a good idea.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

This isn't a state issue - USDA has directed states to hold off on issuing November SNAP benefits until further notice. But the Trump Administration has clear steps they can & must take so families get the benefits they need to afford groceries next month. www.cbpp.org/blog/the-tru...

This is very good

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

If you can’t get the orange man, go for his collaborators - start with Clark Construction.

A giant FU to the companies involved in this atrocity:
- Clark Construction (fresh off their massive screw up on the SeaTac International Terminal)
- McCrery Architects
- Carrier HVAC
- YouTube - the only confirmed $$$ donated; $22M.

A tweet from Rapid Response 47 reads: “Newscum is lying. He closed the highway — not only did nobody at the White House or the Marines ask him to do so, the Marines repeatedly said there are no public safety concerns with today’s exercises. Newscum lies and tries to make it about himself? Day ending in ‘y’.” The tweet uses a derogatory nickname for California Governor Gavin Newsom and accuses him of dishonesty regarding a highway closure.

A news article headline reads: “Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say.” The subheadline explains that the mishap occurred during a Marine Corps anniversary celebration attended by the vice president and defense secretary, underscoring safety concerns raised by Gov. Gavin Newsom before the event at Camp Pendleton. Below the text is a photo of an electronic freeway sign reading “LIVE WEAPONS OVER FREEWAY” in bright red and yellow letters.

Started / Going

What if Democracy gave a party and EVERYBODY came??

SW Michigan.

St. Joseph, MI, pop. 7980, Nearly 4000 people from town and around showed up, stood up and spoke up.

SWMI Indivisible
SMALL TOWNS -
BIG IMPACT

@indivisible.org
@msnbc.com @wsbt22.bsky.social @abc57.bsky.social

Every single No Kings protest, all 2,500+ of them across the country, made Mike Johnson and House Republican leadership look like lying sacks of shit for all the bullshit that spewed out of their mouths about it this week.

Again.

Not very Christian.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

No Kings protest aerial view in Boston.
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YouTube video by The Eddrick Show! Chef Michael Twitty on The Untold History of Southern Food | Recipes from The American South

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