What Stuart Stevens says is perfectly obvious, and something you will not see reflected in any of the major media coverage.

I assume it was the pending lawsuits and not a crisis of conscience that prompted the pivot.

Johnson basically says it here

Please note what happened here. By challenging Trump to pause his terror raids for Halloween, Pritzker forced Kristi Noem to come out *for* continuing to traumatize kids. Polarizing these debates draws attention/forces MAGA depravity into the light.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

I don't feel bad for Usha Vance or Melania Trump.

Neither should you.

They know EXACTLY what they're doing.

Complicit every single step of the way. They chose this. They participate in it to this day. They're all in.

China bought 30 million metric tons of soybeans from the US last year. This year under Trump it will be 12 million.

When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality.

Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.

USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP The 55-page “lapse of funding” document for USDA is no longer available online.

The USDA has a contingency plan to keep SNAP running during a government shutdown — but the document laying out that plan has been deleted from the agency’s website.

www.notus.org/trump-white-...

a trans girl in college committed suicide days ago amid discrimination against her easily tied to this administration’s policies. npr and other media should cover that too

@cheetah.bsky.social has some breaking news in Press Pass: Rear Admiral Kurt Rothenhaus was recently removed from his post as chief of naval research, the top post at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and replaced with a 33-year-old former DOGE employee with no apparent naval experience.

Portland mother freed, reunited with children after four months in immigration detention Her release surprised family and advocates, frustrated that Merlos remained behind bars despite an immigration judge terminating the government’s deportation case on Oct. 14.

Friends a small bit of good news.

JD Vance is lying. He knows he’s lying. But he doesn’t care. Trump has taught Vance & all the others in my former political party that the truth doesn’t matter.

Trump's approval ratings are already tanking, and the American people haven't even gotten to the part where they pay enormous costs for his stupidity.

Welp

Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.

Cool we can fund SNAP, pay air traffic controllers, ACA subsidies, all kinds of stuff. Right when we really need it. When do we get the cash?

Just want to reiterate that there’s no reason for this. There is no increase in crime. There are no riots. There’s no insurrection. They’re doing this without provocation. At least until they create one.

Trump orders Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons 'immediately' The U.S. voluntarily halted nuclear explosive testing in 1992, though it has the ability to resume tests at a site in Nevada.

BREAKING: Trump orders the Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons for the first time since 1992.

You're welcome

Reporters must stop accepting this. Options:

-Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others)
-"It's your job to be informed"
-"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?"
-"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often"
-"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"

Lots of reporting on SNAP getting the details wrong.

SNAP is not set to run out of money on November 1. There’s money in the contingency fund to pay benefits.

The Trump admin is illegally refusing to deliver benefits on November 1, despite having funding to pay benefits.

At what point will someone in power explicitly state that Trump is trying to foment war in South America in order to give his domestic authoritarian initiatives a fig leaf of a national defense rationale? bsky.app/profile/newn...

“For the first time ever, SNAP benefits will not be available to the millions of low-income individuals who depend on them to put food on the table,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Trump “doesn’t care about the people of this country, only himself,” said Governor Gavin Newsom.

The DEA said they arrested 171 ‘high ranking’ Sinaloa Cartel members. A Spotlight investigation found that’s not true. - The Boston Globe A Globe investigation found that the federal agency misrepresented the stature of its targets, claiming cartel ties at a time when the Trump administration is taking lethal military action against such groups.

A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the DEA made “high-level arrests” of 171 Sinaloa Cartel members across New England in August.

A Globe investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets were addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and homeless people.

Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities?

TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want

SNAP’s Contingency Reserve Is Available for Regular SNAP Benefits, as USDA and OMB Have Ruled in Past The Administration must use all available options to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 people in the U.S. who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.

Trump is choosing not to release $6 billion in emergency USDA funding that could fund SNAP into November, which is a violation of law, and is profoundly depraved: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

With Some G.O.P. Backing, Senate Votes to End Trump’s Brazil Tariffs

When Trump finds out his MAGA minions in Congress are doing their job he’ll be pissed. He wants to do their job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-brazil-tariffs.html

“.. states with mid-to-high single digit percentage increases in grocery prices over past year ..”

(via Liz Ann Sonders) #CPI 🇺🇸

The president had a MRI but won't say why.

He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.

He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.

He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.

How is any of this ok?