Democratic congressional leadership has been dead longer than three weeks. Despite all the political leverage, they can't standup and fight. Geez!

BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*

Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).

Not another #SchumerSurrender

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

As reported the Senate CR to fund the government is not a deal, it's a capitulation/betrayal by a handful of Senate Dems and Schumer. And after Tuesday's election sweep. Shameful.

Ipsos finds Trump’s approval rating is decreasing almost entirely because of anti-incumbent economic anxiety. Approval rating among people who say the economy is the # 1 issue is -24pts since Jan. It’s stable for people who index on all other issues www.ipsos.com/en-us/lesson...

I've added this update to my story about the ongoing torture of SNAP recipients:

ayee I was quoted in this 🥹

& felt everything these other families are going through. Psychological terror is the perfect way to describe it... I'm lucky to be in New Mexico where our state is coming through for us, but it doesn't make the last few weeks any less anxiety-ridden

The whole GOP shutdown strategy is hoping that sheer force of propaganda can convince the public that things getting worse does not reflect badly on the people in charge of the government, and that hurting America more will get Democrats to acquiesce to the Trump admin hurting America in other ways.

11/8 SNAP guidance that states can only send partial benefits and suggests clawback otherwise penalty for failing to do so

11/7 USDA memo that told states to issue full benefits

SNAP update. Insane one. So USDA is now saying on a huge lag:
- issue partial payments using a bad-math formula;
- CLAW BACK full issuances that any state sent *properly* under last week's guidance;
- if you don't CLAW BACK benefits, we won't pay the federal share of SNAP administrative costs (??)

How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Mississippi deputies got away with years of brutality A “Goon Squad” of Rankin County sheriff’s deputies spent years brutalizing people until their reign of terror was exposed.

Beatings. Choking suspects until they confess. Shooting unarmed people.

On this week’s @revealnews.org, reporters from @mississippitoday.org and @nytimes.com reveal the years-long reign of terror of a group of sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi.

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Can’t wait to see the naked paintings of Martha Washington.

Telling states to claw back SNAP funding is truly insane politically.

Depends Adult Undergarment Stadium

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

STFU.

Get your head out of your ass.

All due respect Rose, you are full of 💩.

STFU Will. You are so out of touch.

More broadly, officials across ICE say Noem and Lewandowski have directed them to use a $170 billion infusion of cash from Congress to launch splashy ideas that have proven ineffective or impractical. Among the examples some ICE officials have cited: A few weeks ago, the pair ordered ICE officials to buy 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights— and for their own travel, according to people familiar with the matter. Some officials warned the pair that the effort would be prohibitively expensive compared with hiring more flight contractors, the people said.

Once the officials looked into the proposal, they learned that Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn't own the planes. The planes also don't have engines, which would need to be purchased separately. The project has since been put on pause, though DHS recently purchased two Gulfstream jets for $200 million, according to Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, who were notified by the department. A spokesperson for Spirit didn't respond to a request for comment.

The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are.

I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Stigmergy: How to Create a Mass Movement After two decades of spearheading mass movements across the globe, Heather Marsh breaks down the steps to creating lasting and effective change. An essential guide for future activists, this book c…

A step by step guide on how to create a mass movement by philosopher Heather Marsh. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EndFascism #GeneralStrike

mustread.press/stigmergy-ho...

Trump’s plan is for people to pay his banker friends hundreds of thousands more in interest on mortgages while they own a piece of your home until you die.

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.

He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

A cartoon by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons

For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago

For Americans: Bread lines

I like when you know they saw the post on twitter

Schumer has to go.

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider

today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted

should have known better

Waukegan alderman says federal agents pulled guns on him: ‘There were four barrels pointed at me’ As soon as he felt he felt he was safe, Martinez said his first call was to Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham.

A Waukegan councilman was briefly detained by U.S. immigration agents on Friday, and he says the agents drew their guns on him while he was sitting in his car with his hands raised.

“My life flashed before my eyes,” said Ald. Juan Martinez.

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

Sen. Lindsey Graham — quoted here by Jake Sherman — objecting to ACA subsidy extension bc “it would enrich health insurance companies even more”

Republicans waged a relentless, decades-long campaign to privatize Medicare and Medicaid

They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance

Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers

We are supposed to take this seriously?