Anne Pepper

You ever call a senator's office and ask the staffer who picks up what it's like to work for someone without a spine?

10/10 recommend.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

No.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️

Target is now requiring its employees to smile more As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.

I thought this was from @theonion.com at first:

www.kolotv.com/2025/11/07/t...

Instead of Fashion Line, will he call it Fascist Line?

Attn folks in Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, Maine, & Michigan!

Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare.

Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first!

Names & phone numbers below.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Diane Ladd, Actress in ‘Wild at Heart’ and ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ and Laura Dern’s Mother, Dies at 89 Diane Ladd, an Oscar-nominated actress for 'Wild at Heart' and 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,' has died at 89, her daughter Laura Dern confirms.

variety.com/2025/film/ob...

Michigan lawyer says a Halloween terror plot that FBI Director Kash Patel described never existed A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI allegations that his 20-year-old client and four others planned a terror attack on Halloween weekend.

I was wondering about this earlier. I bet we're going to see more like this in the near future:

apnews.com/article/detr...

On DHS’s unauthorized use of Norman Rockwell’s paintings across social media, an op-ed from our family today in @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

If you live in LA and weren't watching the game, or keeping track of the score, you would know just by the amount of fireworks going off that the Dodgers won the World Series.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

'Atrociously unsafe': ICE contractor leaves gun unattended in Tacoma hospital bathroom KING 5 confirmed an ICE contractor from the Northwest ICE Processing Center left a gun in a hospital bathroom. Police were called when the gun was discovered.

"Guns don't kill people, ICE contractors leaving loaded guns behind in hospital bathrooms kills people"

www.king5.com/article/news...

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

It's an image from the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. In the background is the Inglewood Forum. There are shade canopies in the foreground. A blue car is in front of the canopies. The trunk is open and a person is loading boxes of food into the trunk. The wording says, "Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Drive-Thru Only Food Distribution Saturday November 1, 2025 10am to 1pm. The Kia Forum (enter off of Kareem Court) 3900 W Manchester Blvd, Inglewood, CA. You may also call 211 for food assistance.

California folks: if you have a Prop 50 mail-in ballot but haven't mailed it in yet, do it today. Please. I am begging you. It's literally the only question on the ballot and it'll take you like 30 seconds to fill out. Redistricting only happens if enough people vote for it by next Tuesday. #yeson50

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.

If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.

Here's one! toastedseattle.com

Officer suspended after ‘disturbing’ video appears to show him chasing man with patrol car The police commissioner called video of what appears to be an officer chasing a man with his patrol car "disturbing."

Ice will probably hire this cop:

www.kolotv.com/2025/10/30/o...

'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Expect this to keep happening from the Washington Post editorial board now that Bezos has his handpicked editor fully in place.

www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

Clearing up those "had a stroke" rumors with some impeccable StrokePosting™. Masterful gambit sir!

CNN head told reporters to ease up on East Wing demolition stories after Trump meeting: report - Salon.com The network's CEO reportedly told staff that viewers weren't interested in stories about the East Wing.

www.salon.com/2025/10/27/c...

A Cooper's Hawk on a utility pole out in my backyard.

This is without the zoom.

A photo of what I think is a Cooper's Hawk. I zoomed in a got a profile shot of its head. It has brown feathers on the had and white feathers with darker feathers mixed in below.

I live in a suburb in LA County. This one landed on the utility pole out in my backyard. I think it's a Cooper's Hawk.

If you donated to Platner via ActBlue, you can get a refund!

Contact them NOW and ask for your money back!

This Week's AWS Crash Made Smart Beds Overheat, Get Stuck In Wrong Position Smart mattress brand Eight Sleep is working on a new failsafe for future outages after customers were unable to make changes to their products.

I think I'd rather have a regular bed that isn't on the cloud:

www.pcmag.com/news/this-we...

Here's the Ronald Reagan ad from Canada that Trump calls "fake."

The old rulebook is gone. It's not coming back and we all need to accept that. The DOJ is weaponized. the GOP is rigging elections. Trump is literally bulldozing the White House.

Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.