Greg

Trump and Republicans just passed a tax cut that will gift $100B annually to the richest 1%.

$100B could fund SNAP for a year.

It's not a matter of what this country can or can't afford. It's about priorities.

People are starting to understand this.

That’s how you do it!

Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.

Your daily reminder that Trump absolutely can fund SNAP through contingency funds.

He absolutely can prevent 42 million Americans — including 20 million children — from going hungry next month.

He is choosing not to. Don’t let him lie his way out of this.

call me crazy but i think inviting someone under federal indictment to an interview, peppering them with questions about the indictment that you know they can’t answer until you cause them to leave, then calling it a “Katie Porter moment” is not good journalism

INTRODUCTION Count One of the indictment seeks to punish Mr. Comey for seconds of testimony he gave in response to compound and ambiguous questioning. But longstanding principles of criminal law make clear that the government cannot prove a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2) unless it establishes that the defendant gave false answers to precise questions. Here, the indictment conspicuously omits the lengthy, confusing questions that prompted Mr. Comey's testimony. Specifically, after speaking for more than a minute, Senator Ted Cruz asked Mr. Comey to recall statements he had made three years earlier and to simultaneously address statements that Senator Cruz incorrectly claimed were made by Andrew McCabe, the former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI. In doing so, Senator Cruz never indicated that he wanted Mr. Comey to address the statements or activities of any person except for Mr. McCabe. Viewed in context, Senator Cruz's questions cannot form the basis for a violation of Section 1001(a)(2) because they were fundamentally ambiguous. And, regardless, Mr. Comey's answers to them were literally true. Count One thus must be dismissed under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3)(A). Count Two should be dismissed for the same reason to the extent it rests on those same alleged false statements, and for the independent reason that it deprives Mr. Comey of his right to notice of the charge against him.

NEW: James Comey asks the court to dismiss the indictment against him because he responded to Ted Cruz’s "fundamentally ambiguous questions with literally true answers." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

my god, what a paragraph

(from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

This is a phenomenal book by the brilliant Carlo Masala. It “war games” out what would happen if Russia wins in Ukraine with worrying outcomes. Based off of data & analysis the scenario incl plausible elements and really captures some of the political figures well.

Zohran with his hand on his chest leaning into the passenger side window of a taxi, talking with the driver.

Zohran extending his hand to shake hands with a taxi driver through the window.

An airport worker showing Zohran something on his phone, both are smiling.

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.

So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

imagine thinking this made you look good

I've seen so many people online using the government shutdown as an opportunity to demonize people who receive SNAP benefits, WIC and any kind of government assistance.

Here's the thing:

I agree with those people.

We need to end the WHITE welfare state

BECAUSE welfare works.

A thread:

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

The opening scene of The Crow, which starts on October 30th.

It's Crow Day

Remember, the White House and GOP Congress are intentionally starving Americans for the sole purpose of raising the cost of our health insurance by ending ACA subsidies. They’re starving Americans to RAISE our taxes.

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

I used to live a few blocks away from Elizabeth Warren in Cambridge, and I can personally confirm that they give out full-size candy bars on Halloween.

I've never seen anyone shoplifting food and neither have you.

i am begging the media to cover trumps mysterious health ailments not so much to damage republicans politically but to set a baseline to discredit conspiracy theorists if anything does actually happen

A small town police force bragged that citizens "can't get a breath of fresh air in or out without us knowing" thanks to Flock surveillance cameras.

They used the cameras to wrongly accused a woman of a crime, forcing her to find other surveillance video to prove her innocence.

My gut thought was off, significantly. I thought a 7 figure salary with 3-5x that in net worth would be the rough cutoff. It seems to be quite a bit lower after a bit of googling. Bottom line, it’s right around where the where the “tax the rich” laws kick in.

I’m curious: those of you who haven’t looked up the top 1% thresholds, what is your guess as to what income and net worth puts you in the top 1% of the US?

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

As Sen. Warren has pointed out, this information has been removed from the government website. Make sure friends and family affected by this cruelty understand that the Regime is responsible for it.
#USDemocracy

The Microsoft Azure Outage Shows the Harsh Reality of Cloud Failures The second major cloud outage in less than two weeks, Azure's downtime highlights the “brittleness” of a digital ecosystem that depends on a few companies never making mistakes.

NEW: For the second time in less than two weeks, a major cloud outage has impacted the internet, revealing once again the dangers of relying on a few companies to provide the internet's infrastructure. @lhn.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/the-mi...

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Bless This Church For Defying Greg Abbott Dear Humans,

This is good trouble.

GOD BLESS THIS CHURCH!

Not even the app's wildly overconfident developers would claim this is a good idea.

Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.

The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.