Alex Taliadoros

There really is no excuse for the establishment to be backing Haley Stevens in Michigan.

McMorrow has the clearest path to victory in the general, and she and El-Sayed have real energy behind their campaigns, and are both charismatic and relatable.

I genuinely don’t see an argument for Stevens.

Judges order Trump administration to use emergency reserves for SNAP payments during the shutdown Two federal judge have ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund the SNAP food aid program using emergency reserve funds during the government shutdown

Today, a court ruled that USDA acted unlawfully by completely suspending SNAP food assistance for November.

A separate court also ordered USDA to continue funding SNAP using its contingency funds.

No family should go hungry when the agency has billions in contingency funds for this very purpose.

this is insane.

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Park Police seek hundreds more officers amid Trump’s crime crackdown A hiring spree would add hundreds more federal officers in the nation’s capital, according to documents reviewed by The Post.

Exclusive: The U.S. Park Police is seeking to double its number of officers in D.C. over the next six months, according to documents obtained by The Post, which would bolster the agency's role in the Trump administration’s crime crackdown.

D.C. residents speak out against MPD’s work with ICE at D.C. Council Local cooperation with immigration enforcement has become a flash point since the federal surge in D.C.

Dozens of people sounded off against MPD's cooperation with ICE during a D.C. Council on Thursday, but it's unclear what lawmakers will be able to do about it. My rundown on the hearing: 51st.news/dc-council-h...

Completely agree. Special shoutout to the Inspection Station in Southwest!

Axios article claiming “Most people hate visiting the DMV.”

District government has *plenty* to improve on, but I always thought the DMV was run relatively well?

Thank you, Commissioner.

Getting underway now: @brianneknadeau.bsky.social hosts a roundtable on D.C. government coordination with federal entities or joint enforcement activity that may violate D.C. human rights laws.

Charges Dropped: Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme Newly released video raises new questions about the arrest of a progressive Tennessee man for posting a Trump meme in a Facebook group

A retired police officer in Tennessee was arrested and jailed for more than a month (!) with a $2 million bond (!) over a Facebook meme.

The charges were only dropped today after national outcry and reporters obtaining evidence proving that the conservative sheriff who ordered the arrest had lied.

Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza kill at least 60 people, including children, local officials say Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children. That's according to local hospital officials on Wednesday.

BREAKING: Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials say.

Case: 25-6268, 10/28/2025, DktEntry: 89.1, Page 1 of 2 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT STATE OF OREGON; CITY OF PORTLAND, Plaintiffs - Appellees, No. 25-6268 D.C. No. 3:25-cv-01756-IM District of Oregon, Portland ORDER FILED OCT 28 2025 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK J.S. COURT OF APPEALS V. DONALD J. TRUMP, In his official capacity as President of the United States; PETER HEGSETH, In his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; KRISTI NOEM, In her official capacity as Secretary of Homeland Security; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, Defendants - Appellants, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Intervenor - Pending. MURGUIA, Chief Judge: Upon the vote of a majority of nonrecused active judges, it is ordered that this case be reheard en banc pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 40(c) Case: 25-6268, 10/28/2025, DktEntry: 89.1, Page 2 of 2 and Circuit Rule 40-3. The order published at ---F.4th---, 2025 WL 2951371 (9th Cir. Oct. 20, 2025), is vacated.

BREAKING: The full Ninth Circuit vacates last week’s 2-1 order granting DOJ a stay of the district court’s TRO in the case over Trump’s National Guard effort in Oregon. The court will rehear DOJ’s stay request w an 11-judge panel.

Today’s order means Judge Immergut’s TRO remains in effect for now.

NEW: We just filed a lawsuit alongside 25 states to restore SNAP food assistance during the federal shutdown.

141,000 DC residents rely on SNAP to afford their meals — including 47,000 children and 24,000 seniors.

We will do everything in our power to prevent DC families from going hungry.

A D.C. task force shot at a driver. It’s not in the police report. Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

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Very fair point, Keith. Sounds like the Post is not the only outlet that laid off too many copy editors.

Three days after the nuclear power editorial, the Post weighed in on the need for local authorities in Washington, D.C., to speed the approval of the use of self-driving cars in the nation's capital. The editorial was headlined: "Why D.C. is stalling on self-driving cars: Safety is a phony excuse for slamming the brakes on autonomous vehicles." Fewer than three weeks before, the Amazon-owned autonomous car company Zoox had announced D.C. was to be its next market. "It strikes me that the failure to do this [disclosure] is concerning – whether out of negligence or worse," says Marcus, the former deputy editorial page editor. "I think telling your readers that there might be a conflict in whatever they're reading is always important. It's a lot more important when it involves whoever the owner is."

The Washington Post Editorial Board sinking to new lows:

Interesting tidbit: Despite the D.C. Council rejecting @mayorbowser.dc.gov's attempt to repeal the city's sanctuary city law (which limits local cooperation on federal immigration enforcement) over the summer, she pitched the idea to lawmakers again last month.

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

Yet more evidence that DC needs to cease any and all cooperation with federal agents who tried to kill a guy for having tinted windows by shooting into a car where *they couldn’t have known if there were other people present*.

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The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

There’s $5 billion sitting in SNAP reserves right now. The money’s there.

The Administration just decided feeding families matters less than bailing out Argentina.

Review | In her new book, Biden’s former press secretary lets Democrats have it Karine Jean-Pierre’s memoir offers a critique of Biden and the Democrats that is outdated, impractical and driven more by personal grievance than policy.

One of the best book reviews I have read in a long time. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Since we filed our lawsuit, our warning that the same strategy would be replicated in other cities proved true.

If this is allowed to continue, we risk setting a dangerous precedent that the same Armed Forces sworn to defend our freedoms can be deployed to suppress our freedoms anywhere in America.

Trump Administration To Monitor Voting in California and New Jersey Read more here.

NEW: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that it will send election monitors to polling sites in California and New Jersey — a move that Democrats and democracy advocates warned may be a potential step toward the Trump administration seizing control of voting.

E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House building

Today, we returned to court to continue our fight to end the unlawful and indefinite deployment of the National Guard to DC.

Armed soldiers should not be policing American citizens on American soil.

And no city in America should be subject to involuntary military occupation.

A group of people in front of a courthouse sing and clap together

DC wants the National Guard out of our communities.

We’re outside the U.S. District court today as @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social’s lawsuit against the Trump administration has its first hearing.

After justices warned of prolonged suffocation, Alabama subjected Anthony Boyd to the longest nitrogen execution in U.S. history. Boyd was the chairman of Project Hope, a death row-led nonprofit. Its members are left reeling in the wake of their leader's suffocation execution.

Just over an hour after 3 Supreme Court justices warned that Alabamian Anthony Boyd would suffer psychological torture, he was subjected to the longest nitrogen gas execution in US history, gasping for air more than 225 times. Read my eyewitness account: www.treadbylee.com/p/after-just...

Justice Sotomayor with a graphic dissent as the Supreme Court allows Alabama to move forward with the execution of Anthony Boyd by lethal gas: