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To be fair, some news IS fanfic...

@davewhamond.bsky.social

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

JD vance: Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

how aren’t they just run out of town

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

The Left Must Build Its Infrastructure We need to look not at what it will take to win the next election, but what it’ll take to win the next 10 elections.

From me in the @thenation.com: The left needs to think beyond just winning the next election and build the kind of connective tissue that will allow us to win the next ten. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Jeffries: We are not going to be lectured by anyone on the other side of the aisle about fiscal responsibility when the bill that you just passed is the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation ever…

Happy discharge petition day to all who celebrate...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Cat in the Hat with piles of books around him. The caption reads: "I survived reading banned books. All I got was smarter and more empathetic."

@zaminina.bsky.social

Who let the dogs out

health insurance cards, a stethoscope and a bill.

Action Needed Immediately to #SaveACA!
Our #UUfaith teaches compassion, mutual care, and the recognition of the dignity of all as the cornerstones of both individual self-reliance and community accountability. These are the issues at play in this negotiation.

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A couple months back, I was curious as to how Bill Pulte was able to obtain Lisa Cook and Letitia James' mortgage documents. Today, the WSJ reports that he was actually under investigation for how he obtained them. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Clarksville veterans say care, not cuts to the Veterans Administration, are needed • Tennessee Lookout Tennessee veterans face worsening chronic illnesses as a result of long waits for care and denial of claims from the Veterans Administration.

“When we enlisted in the military, we were proud to serve our country. We never imagined that, after our service, we would have to fight for our own healthcare.” @tennesseelookout.com

Average healthcare costs in the US:

Giving birth? $18,000

Cancer treatment? $150,000

One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.

That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.

Cost in Canada? $0.

Cost in the UK? $0.

Cost in Australia? $0.

Since 2020, I have been fighting for mail-in voting and the GOP has been fighting against it. A critical court case is now going before the U.S. Supreme Court. I can assure you that I will be there fighting hard to ensure every lawful ballot counts.

The corruption never ends

The statue of liberty with Liberty and Justice for ALL written beside it. We ask you to Side With Refugees as Trump Deploys Historically Low Refugee Admissions Goal On October 31, the Administration released the Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2026 in the Federal Register. The determination sets a refugee admissions goal, a ceiling, for the upcoming year at 7,500. This is the lowest number in the history of the refugee program. In effect, this goal closes the door to the tens of thousands of refugees who have already been approved. People who have been waiting for years in the pipeline. Please write your lawmakers and ask them to hold the administration to the Refugee Act of 1980. bit.ly/RefugeeAdmissions

On October 31, the Administration released the Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions for Fiscal Year 2026 in the Federal Register.

We must Side With Refugees as Trump Deploys Historically Low Refugee Admissions Goal

bit.ly/RefugeeAdmissions

So here's where we are, Sunday morning:

Trump is trying to starve hungry kids in order to bully Democrats into abandoning our fight against health care premium increases.

So Trump is starving kids in order to deny families health care.

Dystopian.

If we don't test for COVID, then there's no COVID! If there's no flights, then there's no late flights! Brilliant!

RIP James Watson, co-discoverer of Rosalind Franklin's notes

It’s the Oval Office, reimagined as a Spirit Halloween pop-up for aspiring autocrats. Every inch screams “What if Louis XIV discovered QVC?”

It's the first Friday of the month, which means we've gone 2 months now without a jobs report. For Trump, this is a feature of the shutdown, not a bug, since private surveys show the job market slowing dramatically. But without official data he's able to keep lying about it.

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It

A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.

Did Donald Trump raid the 6 billion dollar contingency fund for SNAP? Because suing for the right to starve people is beyond the pale

BREAKING: SANDWICH GUY ACQUITTED. NOT GUILTY!

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.

This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”

Gov. Andy Beshear