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This is some real disgusting shit

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways:

First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices.

Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

#GVerse Um. WTF???

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."

This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.

The Heritage Foundation is so easily threatened. Busybodies.

So, Medicare for all would eliminate the insurance companies. Take the win.

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?

Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

What was life like on Minnesota’s ‘poor farms’? A century ago, most counties ran farms to house their poorest residents.

When Minnesota had poor farms. www.startribune.com/poor-farms-m...

Catholics voice dismay over Army decision to ax religious support contracts Army chaplains in Kaiserslautern say their pastoral burden has become overwhelming since the service canceled contracts for a number of support roles.

Army chaplains ministering to Catholics in military communities say their pastoral burden has become overwhelming since the service canceled contracts for a number of vital support roles earlier this year.

USDA tells grocery stores: No special discounts for SNAP recipients The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) informed grocery stores they cannot offer discounts to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients amid the government shutdown.  The notic…

USDA tells grocery stores: No special discounts for SNAP recipients thehill.com/business/558...

Chicago residents say kids tear-gassed due to nearby immigration enforcement A Chicago mother tells NBC News she and her 2-year-old were hit with a chemical agent. Many residents say the city wasn’t a “war zone”— until immigration agents swept through.

Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of
'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.

Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown The only dining facility for junior troops at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas has been closed due to funding issues.

Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq

For children and teens, heart and blood vessel complications of Covid overshadow the very rare and short-term risk of vaccinations, a new report from nearly 14 million kids
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Appeals court finds ‘undue delay’ in Cannon’s handling of litigation over Jack Smith report A judicial panel gave the Florida judge, who presided over Trump’s classified documents case, 60 more days to rule on long-pending release motions.

www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

Johnson won't talk about the Republican health care plan—not because it's secret, but because it doesn't exist.

I especially liked this bit: The President of the United States of America doesn’t know the difference between “asylum”, as in (sometimes) “a place where mentally ill people are treated”, and “asylum”, as in (sometimes) “a refuge from persecution and/or violence”.

And thus he believes that […]

Have you noticed that far-right propagandists who claim Europe is “so dangerous” almost never show statistics comparing it to the countries they praise?

That’s because those countries are actually much more dangerous

FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

Republican failures in voting rights cases continues to be a dominant theme of election law in 2025, just as it has been for the last five years. Perhaps more in the legacy media could cover this important trend.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Tolkkinen: Don’t fly above Red Lake. Tribe impounds plane that made emergency landing. It might seem like a win for Red Lake, but could it hurt the tribe in the long run?

Red Lake Tribe confiscates plane that made an emergency landing on a State of Minnesota road. www.startribune.com/tolkkinen-do...

1/ The fatal capsizing of a Russian floating crane in Sevastopol has highlighted the inability of the Black Sea Fleet's principal shipyard to build the cranes needed for the construction of new naval vessels, as a critical Russian commentary notes. ⬇️

What a joke.

Democrats are furious that the Trump Administration held a briefing on Capitol Hill today about U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats. Only Republicans were invited. This is from Sen. Mark Warner D-VA.

US will share tech to let South Korea build nuclear-powered submarine, Trump says

The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine, President Donald Trump said on social media Thursday after meeting with the country's president.

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

Russian Malign Influence Campaigns Expand Onto Bluesky The Russian influence operation known as Doppelganger has expanded onto the social media platform Bluesky to spread anti-Ukraine and antisemitic messages, according to a report released by Alliance4Eu...

Do not engage. Block and report

When the leaders of the 26-year-old Upward Bound program at SUNY Adirondack received word earlier this fall that the Trump administration had canceled their grant, they were shocked to see the Education Department’s reason for the termination. In the grant application for the college-access program for high school students, they had said they wanted to ensure the program included an equal number of male and female participants, in an effort to address declining male participation in the program. But in the grant termination letter—delivered mid-September, after the program’s annual Sept. 1 start date—Department of Education officials said that that line reflected the Biden administration’s priorities and conflicted with the interests of the current administration.

Trump's Dept of Ed cut funding for TRIO programs because the TRIO program wanted to target male students and ensure they had an equal number of male students as female.

www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

What a joke!

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.