Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests

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JD Vance was raised on government assistance.

Perfect snapshot of who he really is…

Farmers' Almanac say it will cease publication after 208 years A 208-year-old publication that farmers, gardeners and others keen to predict the weather have relied on for guidance will be publishing for the final time

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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

How traffickers deep in the Sahara are extorting ransom payments from refugees’ families | CNN From her apartment in rural Germany, Abeba winces as she stares at her phone. The men holding her brother in the desert are sending videos of his torture as they seek to extract a hefty ransom.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/a... This report by Isobel Yeung on the human trafficking of migrants in the Sahara is horrific. #HumanRights #migrants

Exclusive: US sold sniper rifles to Brazil police unit tied to deadly raid - www.reuters.com/world/americ... “Trump rescinded 2023 guidance issued by Biden which put stricter human rights-related restrictions on gun exports.”

For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi has served the American people and worked to make our country better. No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed – and I will always be grateful for her support of the Affordable Care Act.

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it.

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent
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A recent essay, “The Great Feminization,” posits that the growing influence of women is harming U.S. institutions. Sophie Gilbert argues that the real problem facing American culture is quite different: https://theatln.tc/kUfY14fc

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Opinion | Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?

Opinion | Did Women Ruin the Workplace? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o... It couldn’t possibly be the powerful men hopped up on viagra and testosterone pills who couldn’t control their urges while the women doing the actual work received less pay and zero credit, could it?🤷🏼‍♀️👠

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.

It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The World According to John Irving The literary titan is still publishing books, and still pushing envelopes, at 83. But you will not see him in the United States anytime soon.

The literary titan John Irving is still publishing books, and still pushing envelopes, at 83. But you will not see him in the United States anytime soon.

America Is Great When America Is Good Those who believe in liberty and dignity must never give in to the forces arrayed against the things we hold dearest.

“The story of this country is the story of patience in tribulation, and hope in the face of fear,” Nancy Pelosi argues. “What we choose to do in this hour of our history will determine the shape of America and the world for decades.”

Opinion | Nancy Pelosi Retires as a Master of Congress She’ll rightly be lionized as the first woman speaker, but in one sense, that was the most incidental of her myriad accomplishments.

Nancy Pelosi’s “blend of power and diplomacy allowed her to run her caucus and the House with an iron fist inside a velvet glove,” writes John Lawrence, Pelosi’s former chief of staff.

Congressional Budget Office believed to be hacked by foreign actor The Congressional Budget Office formulates economic projections for lawmakers, and every bill taken up in either chamber of Congress gets a CBO “score” of how much it would add to the national debt.

The Congressional Budget Office, lawmakers’ nonpartisan bookkeeper, was hacked by a suspected foreign actor, potentially exposing the key financial research data Congress uses to craft legislation.

Judge orders Trump administration to release full SNAP benefits by Friday In his ruling, Judge Jack McConnell said USDA is causing “irreparable harm” by not releasing full funding: “The evidence shows that people will go hungry.”

Breaking news: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release full funding for SNAP benefits by Friday.

The ruling comes after the partial funding disbursed had yet to reach those who qualify for the benefits.

Why does a trillionaire need government contracts? There are numerous scientists, educators, students, artists, engineers and medical professionals who would be so much more deserving of our tax dollars. #inequality #corruption

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Trump’s Politicized Prosecutions May Hit a Roadblock When the president puts his political enemies on trial on pretextual grounds, jurors have the option of refusing to convict.

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It is clearly deeply annoying for a sociopath when a human collapses nearby and distracts attention from him.

RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible

The U.S. Is Skipping This Year’s Climate Summit. For Many, That’s OK.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c... “And that is just fine with those who see the Trump administration’s hostility toward anything related to climate change as a menace to international cooperation on global warming.” #COP30 #ClimateChange

Challenging Trump, Pelosi Made History

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u... Challenging Trump, Pelosi Made History
The first and only woman to be speaker of the House also was the most powerful and prominent woman in Washington to effectively confront Trump.👍🏼👠

‘Broken My Hope’: Trump’s Move to Slash Refugee Arrivals Ricochets Widely

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w... Trump’s policy has shut the door on all but a tiny fraction of people across the world seeking refuge in the United States from conflict, persecution or both. #HumanRights #refugees 💔

The Catholic Church and the Trump Administration Are Not Getting Along The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.

Conflict is expanding between Trump’s immigration policies and the Catholic faith, Elizabeth Bruenig writes. “The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.”

That's pretty bad ass

The Rise of Germany's New Right | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series Watch FRONTLINE's documentary examining how far-right leaders in Germany have risen to the brink of power.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... An investigation into how far-right leaders in Germany have risen to the brink of power. Filmmaker Evan Williams examines the reasons behind the surge in support for the German far right’s brand of hardline nationalist politics, and the roles of Russia and the U.S.🎥

Brazil Proposes a New Type of Fund to Protect Tropical Forests

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/c... #environment 🌴🌲🌳

Why continue to reward the worst people and not those that contribute highly to society and humanity instead? Why reward a person on the road to becoming a trillionaire with government contracts while taking away those same contracts from hard working scientists, doctors, artists and educators?