SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

I'd missed this: Democratic-endorsed candidates *swept* the 6 school board races in Mecklenburg County, one of North Carolina's largest counties (home to Charlotte).

This means there won't be a Republican on the board anymore; the sole GOP incumbent was ousted.

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S. “Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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Oh

Dr. Mohammed Abu Afesh, head of field hospitals in northern Gaza, says over 70% of medical supplies are depleted, many heart patients need urgent surgery, labs can’t identify viruses, and the health system has collapsed.

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

Agree 100%! And expand it to include dental, vision and mental health. Take money from the bloated military budget, tax the rich, and make corporations pay into it for each employee in their employ. But, it covers everyone and is not tied to employment at all.

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

Because of the Trump shutdown, the United States has closed the dining facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and told US troops stationed in Germany to seek supplies from German food pantries.

All while Trump maintains threats of military action against multiple US cities and foreign countries.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Raskin: "South Korea gave him some kind of golden crown or something, and then he lowered their tariffs. That is a monarchist mercantilism, that is not the American system."

Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.’s State House Supermajority

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

Send these fascist thugs to El Salvador!

Jimmy Kimmel opens ‘Big, Beautiful Food Bank’ as Snap cuts hit families amid shutdown The late-night host invites food and essential donations at his Hollywood center to support Los Angeles charities

Good human.

Love the name of the food bank too!

@jimmykimmel.com

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Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

During the night, Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian in the town of al-Yamun, northwest of Jenin, and prevented ambulances from reaching the area.

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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War on Christians!

Never take seriously those who ridicule low income people for having a smartphone or laptop.

“If they’re so poor how did they buy an iPhone???”

Because they’re trying to escape poverty, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.