Elizabeth Lower-Basch

Asa former miner and a constituent of Rep. Stauber, I would like to present a correction of his Oct. 27 commentary, "Minnesota's next manufacturing revolution is here." While promoting a magnet facility in Sartell, he claims that "The iron comes from mines that employ tens of thousands of Americans." According to the Minnesota Department of Revenue 2025 Mining Tax Guide (available online), Minnesota's mining industry has just under 4,000 direct employees. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, mining is less than 1% of Minnesota's economy. As we work together to create a healthy economic future for Minnesota, we should acknowledge that hard rock mining is little more than a welfare program for northern Minnesota. BOB TAMMEN, Soudan, Minn. The writer is a retired miner.

You’d think the editor of the Strib’s commentary page could fact-check Stauber’s claims in the first place, rather than relying on corrections from a former miner.

And of course Virginia is not on the list of states suing, thanks to Jason Miyares and Glen Youngkin @virginiagrassroots.bsky.social

Today is the #SNAPDayOfAction with @mazonusa.bsky.social, & the time to act is now. 42 million Americans are at risk of losing SNAP benefits on Nov 1st. USDA has a contingency fund but hasn't released it. Contact your Members of Congress today: mazon.org/policy_actio...

Eviction By ICE? Federal immigration agents appear to have targeted Chicago tenants in “deliberate and systematic ways.” They’re still searching for answers about their landlord’s role in the raid.

This horror fable has 3 very modern villians:
1. a millionaire slumlord hiding behind an LLC
2. a management company doing said slumlord's dirty work
3. A federal police agency (ICE) morphing into the oligarchy's private army.

#Virginia Lt. Governor Earle-Sears ignores real issues voters care about while running on #Transphobia

#LGBTQ #transrights #ProtectTransKids #FightFascism #VOTE

virginiamercury.com/2025/10/27/e...

When Tish James walks into a courthouse tomorrow — the target of a political prosecution demanded by a President obsessed with revenge — she does not walk in alone.

New York has her back.

Grateful to Governor Hochul for bringing us together tonight.

FEMA has a responsibility to weigh the merits of each emergency request objectively. Instead, President Trump’s administration has politicized disaster relief — and our communities are the ones who are suffering because of it.

Preventing health care costs from exploding?
Reopening the government?
Lowering the cost of groceries?
 
Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.

Trump Administration Is Legally Required to Provide SNAP in Shutdown, Contrary to Its Claims Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency r...

The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need #SNAP to afford groceries, despite USDA Sec. Rollins’ claim that the Administration is unable to do so. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a 23rd day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

He’s taking healthcare away from 15 million Americans and making it unaffordable for 22 million more

And using the shutdown as an excuse to deprive up to 42 million citizens-including children-of SNAP benefits

Yet is on the verge of directing the DOJ to pay him $230 million

It’s just so lawless

1. outrageous and offensive

2. speaking as someone who's spent eight years running an organization with a very clear rule that "when the primary's over we get behind the winner, no matter what", I do not think centrist Democrats understand the pandora's box they are unleashing with this bullshit

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Monday's photo from the Washington Post

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

🎯🎯

Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC

"no kings protest are violent" and it's actually someone wearing a rubber chicken costume leading a dance party outside the US capitol building

Raven over the Chiricahuas. Reduction Linocut print. #printsky #linocut #printmaking

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

When you cast your vote think about the job of the Attorney General
- when confronting a potential surge in ICE raids in Virginia after November who do you think will protect the rights of immigrants, follow the law and the Constitution.
Jay Jones will.

Released from jail late at night Over the last five years, the number of people released from the Cook County jail late at night has steadily increased.

For the last five years, people being released from Cook County Jail have gotten out later and later at night.

In 2021, ~14% of people got out between 11 pm and 3 am. In 2024, ~40% of all releases took place in those wee hours.

My latest, for @chicagoreader.com

chicagoreader.com/news/cook-co...

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

CNBC There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

Great explanation by @laurenhlb.bsky.social and Diane Schanzenbach about how SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill will impair the nation's largest anti-hunger program's responsiveness to recessions.

Q: Data from the nonpartisan Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that when you took office there was a 2.7% unemployment rate, and it's now 3.6%. Do you quibble with the data?

Winsome Earle Sears: We're creating jobs. I don't know where they are getting their stats from

This press release from a North Carolina GOP figure portrays the current redistricting wars as something *Democrats* started in Calif., ignoring the fact that this all began with the Trump White House and first unfolded in red Texas.

According to them, Republicans are once again The Real Victims™

I've been looking for this clip for a while, and it seem particularly appropriate right now.
youtu.be/OJk99nYbavk?...
Kermit: I tell you, Robin, this is just too big a job for two little frogs.
Robin: You're right.
Kermit: I'm glad you agree.
Robin: We need more frogs!
Kermit: ??!

Same day that the US announced a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will benefit Trump's political allies and donors.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”