Brian Altman

Yes, Mr. President: You’re right. We do have “the worst health care” of any major country.

Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right.

The solution: Medicare for All.

SNAP benefits are under attack during this government shutdown and food banks are picking up the slack.

But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Author and scholar Naomi Klein joins the Drop Site X Breaking Points livestream.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City after running on a platform centered on making the city affordable for working people.

"When opponents accuse their political opponents of being Nazis or being like Hitler, that means you lost the argument....But what happens when your opponents compare *themselves* to Hitler?"

@samsteindc.bsky.social and @johnavlon.bsky.social discuss neo-Nazism and the GOP:

Another lovely evening in beautiful Portland, Oregon.

Carbon Dioxide Levels Jumped by a Record Amount, U.N. Says

Carbon Dioxide Levels Jumped by a Record Amount, U.N. Says www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/c...

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & Geoffrey Hinton discuss ⬇️:

>> AI 101
>> AI Threats & Regulation
>> Ping, Ping, Ping
>> Always Angry Trump & Pardons

NEW YouTube video out now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK3...

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland Top deputy to Stephen Miller behind latest intelligence leak by Trump administration

Well, thank goodness for incompetence I guess. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

"I think in a free country we should be able to post onto the internet, 'hey, there are masked agents on Broadway and Vine and not have the government or the tech oligarchs prevent us from doing that.' Shame on you, Tim Cook."

@radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

100-year-old Portlander gets federal pension benefits back after proving she’s alive Federal officials cut off the benefits last month.

Federal officials cut off the benefits last month.

YouTube video by Portland Police Police Chief Bob Day Addresses Misconceptions about Portland

Chief Day addressed misconceptions surrounding recent news, stressing that the situation involves one city block out of Portland’s 145 square miles. He noted that short video clips, sometimes from months or even years ago, don’t reflect what is actually happening today.
youtube.com/shorts/1HYfX...

Currently at www.fs.usda.gov/r06/deschutes, this message:
(I'm pretty sure the GOP, and not "Radical Left Democrats" currently control all three branches of government.)

Pritzker: “Over the weekend, we received numerous confirmed reports of federal agents…abusing their power, intimidating innocent civilians, and waging war on our people…What I’ve been warning of is now being realized.”

YouTube video by Belle of the Ranch Let's talk about the Trump shutdown....

this.
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Larry Ellison can suck my

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Yup. There will def be agent provocateurs. Don't pick up the bricks, folks.

Also, PPB has said ICE thugs in uniforms have been the ones instigating this whole time. They want to stoke any activity they can false label as an "insurrection". We can't play into their hand.

Thoughts and prayers to my friends in "war ravaged" Portland from famine ravaged Redmond. (Sheesh. I guess we'll have to get used to our monthly false flags again.)

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

‘I’m absolutely terrified’: Federal workers brace for potential government shutdown, mass layoffs | CNN Politics Federal employees from agencies across the US government say they’re “terrified,” “disoriented” and filled with anxiety as they brace for a possible shutdown that the Trump White House has threatened ...

“I’ll get up and come to work and do my best for America, until they tell me I can’t.”

Federal workers make America run—they’re not pawns for political games.

The Trump admin must avoid a government shutdown. Workers’ livelihoods are on the line.

YouTube video by Breaking Points The CORRUPT DEAL Spiking Electricity Prices

Looked at your power bill lately? www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3kz...