M. Barnes

BREAKING:

Trump has just issued pardons to dozens of conservatives who tried to overturn the 2020 election results, including: Mark Meadows, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and more — per pardon attorney Ed Martin.

These are the people who forged Electoral College vote certificates and tried to pass them off as real, right in front of the whole country.

Maybe the most insane crime of them all.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

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.

Call them:

Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542

Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224

King (ME)
202 224-5344

Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324

Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451

Masto (NV)
202 224-3542

Warner (VA)
202 224-2023

Fetterman (PA)
No Point

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

Photo of my left hand holding a snack size Ziploc bag containing three different styles of stickers from Plan C: two in English and one in Spanish. They all have the website and the square sticker has a QR code

Photo of a Plan C sticker on a clear plastic paper towel holder in a bathroom. It says “need to be un-pregnant?” Then a QR code plus the URL plancpills.org

Photo of a Plan C sticker in Spanish on a metal dispenser inside a bathroom stall. It says “¿Necesitas no estar embarazada?” Then a QR code plus the website es.plancpills.org

Photo of a Plan C sticker on a metal paper towel dispenser in a bathroom. Text in the blue ring around the edge reads “your guide to abortion pills by mail” and “Plancpills.org.” in the center is an illustration of a map of the United States and the right hand of a black woman holding five pills representing one mifepristone and four misoprostol.

PS @plancpills.bsky.social has stickers you can plaster in bathrooms, on lampposts, or wherever to spread the word about abortion pills. Free with suggested donation to cover costs, and available in English and Spanish
www.plancpills.org/stickers

Confronting Condé Sudden union-related firings, coupled with another wave of layoffs, have left staffers questioning whether leadership understands the creative engines behind its storied publications.

Sudden union-related firings at Condé Nast, coupled with another wave of layoffs, have left staffers questioning whether leadership understands the creative engines behind its storied publications.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/conde-nast...

I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?

2256.42%????

TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩

i obviously support the “primary them all” school of thought but, for the record, it’s going to require a more than that to *get* to the next primary for these people—who i assume took a hit for 2026 cycle dems anyways.

primary them, yes, but these people really shouldn’t be able to eat in public.

ALL PHONE NUMBERS for Senator Schiff

It's impossible to build any more housing in America, but luckily we have the politically easy and physically effortless alternative of just removing a third of the population.

This clown is the GOP chair in Tarrant County, Texas, the third largest county in the state.

Haven’t heard back from Beshear administration about how they’re responding to this in Kentucky. People were getting very reduced amounts late last week.

The largest mass media- NYT, CNN, CBS, etc- are owned by billionaires. They own media not to make money, but to control the information space to be friendly to class interests.

Those outlets will never report positive political outcomes for regular people in any kind of objective framing.

Populist views like free education and health care?
No.
Populist views like good wages and a robust safety net?
No.
Which populist views?
Oh, you know the ones.

I wish I was allowed to get married. if I do, I lose my disability benefits. the govt assumes that disabled people who get married are then the property and responsibility of their spouse, and that we no longer need support if we get married. we do not have marriage equality in canada or the us

CBS News’ Bari Weiss beefs up security detail — seeks ex-Navy SEAL guards who ‘look great in a suit’ Sources told Page Six last week that Weiss and her wife Nellie Bowles require a protective detail of up to eight bodyguards.

It's costing CBS 10,000 dollars a day for her security detail. Hiring people designed to protect Bruce Wayne for yourself when no one has heard of you on day one of a job is the red flag of incompetence. Scott Pruitt did it in Trump 1st term, Mike Johnson did it
nypost.com/2025/11/06/m...

Remind me, how many air traffic controllers did they fire back in February?

"This will live on" -- Duffy explains that flying will remain a mess even after the shutdown because so many air traffic controllers are retiring

Baby formula recalled after hospitalizing 13 infants including Oregon child ByHeart Inc is recalling lots of Whole Nutrition Infant Formula after more than a dozen cases of infant botulism.

ByHeart Inc is recalling lots of Whole Nutrition Infant Formula after more than a dozen cases of infant botulism.

A Data Center Could Be Coming to an Upstate New York Town, and Residents Are Speaking Out - Inside Climate News The town board in Lansing is considering a temporary ban on large-scale development that could delay construction.

The town board in Lansing, New York, is considering a temporary ban on large-scale development that could delay construction of a data center.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Screenshot of the NOAA website saying the site is closed and not being updated

We’re getting extreme winter weather in the next 24hrs and I was going to go check on NOAA since they’re usually most accurate but I forgot that it’s federal. Sucks how they can just turn off the weather reporting because republicans want to starve poor people 🤡

Trump's war on the hungry continues with Supreme Court stay The pause allows, for now, the president to keep using hungry Americans as a political weapon.

The appeals court now has less than 48 hours to weigh in. Meanwhile, deep uncertainty for SNAP beneficiaries—39 percent of whom are children—continues.

Trump says a tariff dividend of 'at least' $2,000 will be paid to most Americans In a post on Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said the payments would be for all but "high income people."

There are 258 million American adults. $2000 for each of them is $516 BILLION. Tariffs have only generated $195 billion in revenue to the government.

The math ain't mathing. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt The church says it is currently unclear whether the collapse has damaged any surrounding graves.

Somerset church tomb collapse exposes 1700s stone crypt