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SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

SCOOP: The decorated rear admiral who was heading the critically important Office of Naval Research, and who brought lengthy experience in Navy tech-leadership to the job, "is being replaced by a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience."

www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

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Leaked document. Yikes, things are about to get much worse. It looks like we’re on the verge of becoming a military state across the country. Step out of line, and the man come and take you away.

In Virginia, the governor and attorney general races are especially important. In Pennsylvania, remember to vote YES on the retention of the Supreme Court justices on the ballot. In California, vote YES on Proposition 50.

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I’m the first congressional candidate to be indicted under the second Trump administration.

But if things keep going the way they are, I won’t be the last.

That’s why I need to fight these charges with everything we’ve got. Help us do that here: katforillinois.com/legal

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate Amid Threats to Arrest Dems Over ICE Accountability Efforts Read more here.

Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NYC Food Resoures/Distributions Food Help NYC - map of all registered food pantries in the 5 boroughs Brooklyn Halal Food Pantry COPO operates the only registered Halal Meals on Wheels (HMOW) program in New York City. This program...

1.8 million people in NYC will not receive SNAP benefits in November and will be without reliable access to food.

Navigating resources can be overwhelming.

Find an updating list of mutual aid distributions, community fridges, food pop-ups, and food pantries at tinyurl.com/NYCFreeFood.

lol thanks United, Delta, American, and Southwest airlines for showing Americans you’re complicit in a Nazi regime.

Oh, and these statements came “on the same day as a White House meeting between leaders in the aviation industry and Vice President JD Vance and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.”

MAGA is refusing to protect healthcare and nutrition programs, taking food from 42 million Americans and forcing working families to choose between food, medicine, and rent.

This weekend, join Americans who are coming together to provide mutual aid and care for our communities: nokings.org/alliance

Rep. Clay Higgins: There are 22 million American households receiving SNAP benefits for groceries, at $4200 per year on average. Try to get your head wrapped around how many pantries you can stock with $4200 dollars in properly shopped groceries. Any American who has been receiving $4200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack.

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.

He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Full Ninth Circuit keeps Trump's Oregon National Guard efforts blocked for now, tossing order that sided with Trump The full federal appeals court on Tuesday voted to vacate last week's 2-1 order, which had sought to allow Trump to send troops to Portland during litigation.

NEW: Full Ninth Circuit keeps Trump's Oregon National Guard efforts blocked for now, tossing order that sided with Trump.

The full federal appeals court on Tuesday voted to vacate last week's 2-1 order, which had sought to allow Trump to send troops to Portland during litigation.

Law Dork:

Pregnant women report medical neglect in ICE detention, rights groups say Women report miscarriages, delayed care, being shackled and being held in solitary confinement, letter says

"One detained woman, identified as Marie, said officials did not believe her when she informed them of her pregnancy, and held her in solitary confinement for at least three days."

No one should be treated like this. ICE must release all pregnant people in their custody, immediately.

Donate to Stand with Luis Villegas: Bring Him Home, organized by Yuleini Villegas HELP BRING MY BROTHER BACK HOME! Good evening, everyone! My name is Yule… Yuleini Villegas needs your support for Stand with Luis Villegas: Bring Him Home

The family of the man who was abducted by Border Patrol in Old Irving Park yesterday while he worked his construction job has setup a GFM to help support his family and to cover legal costs.

The Xitter Exodus and What it Means for the Disability Community Disabled and chronically ill people have long used Twitter/X for community, fundraising, companionship and support. With folks leaving in droves - where will we go and how can we stick together?

Twitter/X will delete all heuristics and allow its AI bot Grok to determine what you see on the platform.

This should be a death knell

The chronic illness community have expressed concerns about leaving. The spoons required for migration. Losing networks of care.

My guide to help:

Drew some cute gourds 🎃

Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy | CNN Politics The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement ai...

they’ve made it easier to build concentration camps.

Unexploded bombs threaten lives in Gaza; search for dead captives continue Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.

Palestinians returning to their homes in Gaza face danger from unexploded ordnance, with at least 53 people killed.

McIver: The things we’re seeing this president do — it’s unbelievable. I just saw the new number: $300 million for a ballroom. The audacity of this man while we’re in the middle of a shutdown and people aren’t getting paid. I saw a line wrapped around the corner in the DMV area for the food bank

Disabled Americans experience the highest rates of poverty of every marginalized group in America. 27% live below the poverty line (12% for ableds).

Their median earnings are $18,865 compared to $28,983 for the abled.

These numbers WILL get worse.

If you can help you will save lives.

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

😲 SEATTLE: Shackled at his wrists and ankles, an elderly man struggles in the cold rain to mount the slippery stairs to this Avelo jet, which will fly him to another detention facility in Texas 👀

Melissa leaps from tropical storm to Category 4 hurricane in 18 hours » Yale Climate Connections Catastrophic impacts are becoming increasingly likely for Jamaica, with Melissa expected to crash onshore by early Tuesday.

If current forecasts hold, Melissa will be the most powerful hurricane ever to strike Jamaica. Sustained winds at landfall may top 140 mph, along with localized rains of 40"+ and major storm surge. Here's my latest update with @drjeffmasters.bsky.social:

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/meli...

I wish they said explicitly that there's $5 billion in emergency reserves they're refusing to use instead they're happy to let people - mostly children, the disabled, and elderly, starve.

Measles was eliminated in the US in 2000. Gone, with the exception of international travelers bringing it back in and causing small outbreaks. But now it's roaring back — it's incredibly contagious — thanks to guess who. Guess who!

Yup. Anti-vaxxers.

Feds find almost two-dozen ‘skimmers’ designed to steal credit cards at local retailers The U.S. Secret Service, in collaboration with local law enforcement, spent time in and around Baltimore, checking over 3,000 card readers, gas station pumps and ATMs looking for illegal skimming devi...

So much hand-wringing about SNAP fraud. Meanwhile the people scamming SNAP recipients have an operation that can scam nearly $23million in 2 days. JUST IN MARYLAND. Stealing info from EBT cards esp at gas stations is a real threat.

www.thebanner.com/economy/secr...

Here’s why 40 inches of rain is possible:

Higher temps allow the air to hold more water vapor. (Think about how it’s more humid in the summer). The more water a hurricane holds, the more rain it releases

Hurricanes are also moving more slowly now so they just sit over land and dump all that water

And former chief counsel for nominations to Grassley on Judiciary.

This was someone who came to where he is at now right through the middle of the “traditional” GOP elites’ path.

Israeli strikes kill three in Lebanon before army targets UN patrol Israel claims attacks were on Hezbollah members, as it also struck a UNIFIL patrol with a drone and tank fire.

Three people were killed in an Israeli attack in southern and eastern Lebanon, which Israel said targeted Hezbollah members. The strike also hit a UNIFIL patrol with drone and tank fire aje.io/n6qoq0