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My take: The Venezuela strikes are being orchestrated by Miller, Vance, Hegseth and Rubio. Trump had no idea until he learned about it a short time ago on Fox News. Now he's offering his own opinion.

The shutdown is not why SNAP is being withheld.

It has never been withheld in a shutdown.

The well is not dry.

You are being lied to.

Even George Washington never engaged in a military operation without congressional approval.

Remember, too, that military intervention in Venezuela would almost certainly be illegal under international law.

Trump is about to have his photo distributed as a war criminal.

Yesterday Greg Bovino wandered into court with the arrogant swagger all Border Patrol and ICE assholes have, was scolded for lobbing tear gas at people in Chicago, and now today Kat Abughazaleh and 5 others are indicted for protesting the Broadview ICE facility. Pure and simple retaliation.

Instead of working to reopen the government, Sen. Sullivan is selling out our nation’s public lands to enrich polluting corporations – no matter the impact on Indigenous livelihoods, local communities, and wildlife.

I don't have to imagine it happening because it is. These clinics are not health care. They are not going to provide prenatal care when the teen gets pregnant, won't provide anything for the baby, and won't help if she has abusive or unsupportive parents or boyfriend. They are myopic fanatics.

Imagine you’re a teenager who wants birth control pills. The problem is, your Planned Parenthood has shut down—financially devastated by Donald Trump’s budget bill. You don’t know anything about that; you just know the next closest clinic is a two-hour drive away. You look around for an OBGYN, but the few who haven’t fled your anti-choice state are booked solid for months. Besides, you’re on your parents’ health insurance, and you’d rather keep this visit private. So you go to a ‘pregnancy clinic’ you found on Google; the staff are wearing white coats and seem legit enough, so you don’t think much about the framed picture of a Bible quote on the wall. But when you ask about getting on the Pill, the woman there says hormones could give you cancer—and that it’s illegal for minors to get birth control without parental permission. You’re pretty sure that’s not true, but you’re 15 years old and aren’t going to argue with an adult. So you leave defeated, without contraception, hoping that your boyfriend might agree to wear a condom. Now imagine that’s happening in every community, every day, across the country.

Right now, Republicans are working to ‘replace’ reproductive healthcare clinics with crisis pregnancy centers—claiming that the fake clinics are perfectly acceptable alternatives to the credible healthcare centers their policies are shuttering.

Here's the reality:

Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security.

None of this is normal.

JD Vance’s family was on food assistance when he was growing up, but he doesn’t think your family deserves that safety net.

I am having serious trouble getting my head around this. It feels *deeply* scary. This is proper “disappeared” stuff.

Vance is such a vile, racist piece of shit.

But actually BEING fascists implies no violence at all, apparently. Bullshit. Fuck you, you fascists.

This is a blatant, un-American political prosecution

📌Every bill to help feed people in my long lifetime has been passed by Democrats.
Every bill to starve them has been passed by Republicans.

Republicans....#FuckTrump #FuckICE #Resist

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

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Walz directs $4 million to food shelves as SNAP cutoff approaches • Minnesota Reformer Gov. Tim Walz is giving food banks a $4 million boost as the emergency food system braces for the temporary pause of SNAP benefits due to the federal government shutdown.  SNAP — Supplemental Nutritio...

The Walz administration is sending $4 million to food shelves across the state as the emergency food system prepares for the temporary end of SNAP benefits. minnesotareformer.com/briefs/walz-...

The Trump administration is moving to take Arctic lands that have never seen industrialization and open the doors wide for fossil fuel drilling. This aggressive drilling poses grave risks to the planet and to a vast, rare Arctic ecosystem.

A warming Arctic threatens wildlife and people. Alaska Native communities face new threats to their food security and traditional ways of life. Infrastructure is also at risk from thawing permafrost, rapid coastal erosion, and changes in water sources.

Teens heading to school. Racial profiling isn’t just something they do, it’s all they do.

ICE agents are such fucking snowflakes.

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Single-member districts make all kinds of mischief possible.
The Supreme Court would be irrelevant here if we had proportional representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Democrats should carpet bomb the Midwest with ads of this clip during the closing stretch of the 2026 campaign.

ICE Still Won't Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.

From @stevanzetti.bsky.social: In February, the Texas Observer confirmed that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an ICE assistant chief counsel in Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account. Now, ICE refuses to tell us, or members of Congress, if he's still employed.

ChatGPT Was Asked To List Everyone Trump Has Called 'A Low-IQ Individual' — And It's Pretty Racist There's a common denominator in who gets called 'low IQ' by President Donald Trump.

Just a reminder that Trump typically uses the "low IQ" insult when he's insulting Black opponents or critics. It's Trump's "n-word."

"Trump thinks that our money is his alone, our buildings are his alone, our govt is his alone. That’s not how democratically elected leaders think. That’s how kings think. But he’s not our ruler, & we’re not his subjects, & we don’t have to put up w/this."
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The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.