Bread-and-Roses🌹

Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’ In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell’s treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”

"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

"Hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses and investors... contributing hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal deficit, on top of the trillions that the legislation signed by Trump in July is already adding to the deficit..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

A screengrab of a fraudulent message from What's App reading "Hello gald for your support on patreon Yes, this is Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin, founder of the ResistanceLive communithy. I appreciate you confirming before adding me." THIS IS FALSE.

(Also, PS, the rampant typos should give it away.)

Hey folks.

Apparently some members of our Patreon community for my podcast have received messages on WhatsApp tonight claiming to be from me.

They are not from me.

Please do not accept any messages from someone claiming to be me on WhatsApp. I do not use the platform at all because it's Meta.

YES to all this.

Agree entirely.

Everything is everyone else's fault but his, which is of course hallmark malignant narcissism.

(Cuomo is another example-- using taxpayer money to smear women he assaulted. But you know that already.)

Point is THEY CANNOT CHANGE, and they cannot be trusted. The only option is to remove them from power.

He knows what's in them and it will destroy his idea of himself to publicly have it revealed that he has aligned himself with a child rapist.

So he is hiding. Because it is in his self-interest to do it.

And this is but one example of why we have to vet every candidate with a fine-toothed comb.

There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.

*If all goes by the regular schedule

Keep fighting to remove health insurance from millions of Americans? Keep fighting to cave to fascism? Keep fighting for WHAT, CHUCK?

Doesn't look like you're fighting for ANYTHING OF VALUE. It looks like you're not "fighting" at all.

Some good news out of SCOTUS for once.

One key thing that we all should be remembering right now is that disordered personalities DO NOT CHANGE.

Trump will not change. Fetterman will not change. There is no way to convince or mollify Stephen Miller.

The only option is to organize to remove disordered people from power forever.

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party when an authoritarian is invading our cities, terrorizing our communities, and corruptly self-enriching at the expense of the rest of us. We want to celebrate a Democratic Party that fights back. But after this latest surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand one that fights.

Reupping this

I woke up thinking this morning what it must be like to have run for Congress in the hopes of serving your neighbors and improving their lives only to have the most copiously sycophantic incompetent Speaker in history put you on a never ending leave.

I’d be livid by now. Just livid.

And that means they intend to starve folks on SNAP through the holidays, shut down the airports, and leave all federal employees (including TSA and some military) unpaid.

What to know about the flight cancellations at US airports caused by the government shutdown Hundreds of flights at the busiest airports in the U.S. are being scratched this weekend. Airlines are moving forward with reducing air service due to the lingering government shutdown.

Hundreds of flights at the busiest airports in the U.S. are being scratched this weekend.

“Describing rapid response networks and neighborhood moms as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are, and how extreme their views are.”

— U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

Crucial thing to watch: The Dem blowout wins suggest it'll be way more risky for GOPers to gerrymander, because the GOP safer seats may become more vulnerable than expected. Rs in those seats will now be very nervous.

Exchange on this w/Dem operative Jessica Post:

newrepublic.com/article/2028...

(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡

@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Stefanik to Launch Campaign to Challenge Gov. Hochul in New York

She will lose.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/n...

Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.

Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is so sick, and also confirms what I’ve been saying for a while: the point of the boat bombings is to make snuff films Trump can post on social media.

Every single one of those bombings has killed someone’s child, someone’s father, someone’s spouse. And to them, it is a joke. It is content.