The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal.

Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.

Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.

I have been VERY concerned about this ever since that crackpot was appointed to head the HHS. Millions of Americans depend on SSRIs for their mental health, and these assholes may just decide they're bad because, well, they're crackpot assholes. RFK is a severe threat to public health.

From cutting $186 billion from SNAP earlier this year to refusing to fund SNAP during the shutdown, this Administration has continually jeopardized this program that helps feed tens of thousands in our community.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

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DHS takes credit for crime being down in Chicago. Data shows that was happening before they arrived. Immigration officials on Tuesday said a drop in crime numbers was thanks to their work. Police data show the decrease was taking place before federal agents arrived in the city.

Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer.

He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Ominous

How does the fucking WHIP betray the caucus and minority leader? I mean, isn't that grounds for immediate loss of your post. You are supposed to whip FOR the leader, not against.

Equatorial Guinea is routinely ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It has been ruled by the same person since 1982 - for 45 years. Despite the title of President, he rules with near-absolute power.

The Trump admin just deposited $7.5 million in his government's bank account.

They Had One Fucking Job Democrats Seal Deal on Verbal ‘No Take-Backsies’ and a Mutual Go-Fuck-Yourself

They had one fucking job.
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First, Trump pardoned the violent insurrectionists who beat cops.

Now, he pardons the key instigators of January 6th.

We need to see this for what it is:

An attempt to erase history, so it can be repeated.

I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.

To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.

He was recorded last week saying “There’s this new word, called “affordable ““… holding parties of decadence at MaraLago, building golden ballrooms, private islands, outrageous pardons, and he is starving kids and elderly. America’s loathing is now a burning rage.

Chicago, November 2025: "I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help."

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

I don’t care if Schumer voted no. If he’s unable to wrangle the caucus, he’s not an effective leader. I’ll continue to push for the caucus to elect a new one.

Absolute cowards!!!

Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.

As painful as it would be, all the things need to fail. We need, to borrow a concept from @smettler.bsky.social, "unsubmerge" the state, & make folks finally, a century later, realize that it is the federal government that backstops, underwrites, & guarantees all the other institutions in society.

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👇🎯 Unfortunately, this is true & probably the only way. Voters need to realize that hating government, & illegally defunding & dismantling it, & pretending that we can run a modern society/economy on Ronald Reagan's shabby talking point & worn copies of Atlas Shrugged & Mein Kampf is untenable.

This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.

We need new leaders in the Senate.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Earth to Democrats: Do NOT compromise on your shutdown demand.

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Call these Senators! www.senate.gov/senators/sen... HOLD THE LINE!!!
1 @schumer.senate.gov
2 @welch.senate.gov
3 @SenatorRosen
4 @ossoff.bsky.social
5 @SenatorBaldwin
6 @SenatorKelly
7 @SenatorPeters
8 @shaheen.senate.gov
9 @durbin.senate.gov
10 @hassan.senate.gov
11 @slotkin.senate.gov

Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

One point worth emphasizing here: The punditry has been saying Sherrill (and Spanberger) represent the sane centrist wing of the party versus the left. Well, okay, but here Sherrill is urging more fight. Again, the results show that anti-Trump + affordability can *unite* the party. This shows how.

As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state.