Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage

Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Rollins & Johnson called 42 million Americans losing SNAP benefits a “silver lining” because it sparked “a national conversation.”

Imagine being so detached from hunger that you see families skipping meals as a PR opportunity.

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

You don’t fuck with people’s food... 🖕🏻

"The Democrats are getting killed on the shutdown because we're closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we were opposed to. “ 😡🖕🏻

"Republican programs" would not be terminated.
—Trump Oct. 14, 2025
#SheShed

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

“We don’t have illegal aliens… the legal term for my people were slaves….”
🚨This is what leadership looks and sounds like in 2025.✊🏼

Starving can cause chronic illness and disabilities.

Malnutrition is not to be trifled with.

Cutting off SNAP funding will cause people to suffer. Some will get ill. Some may die.

There’s no excuse for this. 40 million people rely on that program.

It’s a cull.

"The central question in the abortion debate is not whether a fetus is a person, but whether a woman is." Ellen Willis @beingliberal

Screenshot of tweet made by Donald J. Trump blue ☑️ ... 6/23/20 “I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran's Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent.....” 27K

There always a fucking tweet.

This doozy back from June 2020.

Would really love it if someone in our fed govt would go rogue and arrest him based on his own EO.

***still dreaming of seeing him in a jail cell…

🧵…

They're ALL responsible 🤬

Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.

Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?

Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

NEED MORE PROOF THIS IS THE TRUMP'S EPSTEIN SHUT DOWN?

MAGA Mike Johnson won't recall Congress & swear-in Adelita Grijalva -- because she's the 218th vote to demand release of the Epstein files

#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no evidence they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had proof, they’d face a court, not a drone.

The law still applies, even to suspected drug traffickers, and right now, the Administration’s story isn’t adding up.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Yeah. So The White House
is designated a National Historic Landmark.

That means:

It’s formally recognized as having exceptional national historical significance.

Any substantial changes, demolitions, or new construction affecting it are tightly restricted.

It’s not his house! WTF.

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The Acropolis: A Poem in Five Parts — Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage THE ACROPOLIS: A Poem in Five Parts This poem was started while sitting at the rooftop bar and finished in my room at a hotel in the Plaka. I’ve never shared it before, but today I gathered my courag...

Yesterday I made signs and went to a protest for democracy. Today, I gathered my courage and went to an open mic and read a poem about the birthplace of democracy. Well, it's really about gazing out at the beautiful acropolis all lit up at night.

www.kristinamakansi.com/blog/the-acr...

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry

Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast) Some Things That Are Freaking Me Out Right Now.

substack.com/@mollyjongfa...

I dont think enough Americans realize Republicans are gearing up for permanent rule. I dont know if we will get to midterm elections. Even if we do, with gerrymandering, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and violent intimidation, they'll rig the elections for minority rule.

All hands on deck.

feral wolverines as banshees scream in the background, witches cackle from on high as their broomsticks circle overhead, and the Furies cheer from the edge of the woods.

Just sayin.🤷🏻‍♀️📖

In writing fiction, a character who says something like “Bless her heart, she doesn’t know how things work” to a duly elected official would probably eventually get eaten by…

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.