Erin Maye Quade

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Thank goodness for Democratic attorneys general for suing Trump to get SNAP benefits out to people.

Actually 🦇 💩 that it took a lawsuit and judge’s ruling to get Republicans to HELP STARVING PEOPLE

Now the Trump administration must follow the law and feed Americans. No more games. No more cruelty.

Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.

AOC is right. As usual.

Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund The ruling came one day before funding for SNAP, more commonly known as food stamps, was set to lapse.

The courts had to step in and tell Donald Trump to feed the people. Let that sink in.

He was perfectly fine letting millions of Americans go hungry—in the middle of a shutdown that Republicans created.

Do what the judge said, Donald. Release the funds and stop playing with folks’ livelihoods.

the tone deafness is beyond parody

Republicans: no one gets food or a paycheck until Democrats let us take away people’s healthcare

Democrats: let people have healthcare and we can pay federal workers, fund SNAP, WIC, LIHEAP, Headstart, extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, and reopen the government

THE CHOICE SHOULD BE EASY

Republican platform: “you can’t eat until Democrats let us take away your healthcare” 🤨

FLASHBACK @chrismurphyct.bsky.social : “Do you support only allowing white refugees? Not allowing Black people to vote?”

(Trump’s ambassador to South Africa Bozell wouldn’t answer 😕)

NOW: Trump sets a record low 7500 refugees in 2026, mostly White South Africans —> www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

my god, what a paragraph

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

Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens

It’s such an obscure event and I never talk about it, but I remember it vividly!

Just another day in Chicago.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Private equity strikes again. People who made down payments should *absolutely* be reimbursed — and I’m glad we have a state fund to help — but taxpayer funds shouldn’t be used to help BLACKROCK keep people’s money. This isn’t some small contractor, come on www.startribune.com/minnesota-ru...

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So now in Utah, if you have too little money to afford housing, you get locked up in an internment camp? In Utah, a certain level of poverty and you are literally stripped of your freedom?

This looks like a concentration camp.

Yep, it’s a concentration camp.

new 2026 midterms campaign ad just dropped

ICE assaulted and abducted Jaykie Funez Andrade. A legal US Resident taking her daughter to school all because she couldn’t remember her social security number. Harrisonburg VA. This is despicable.

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

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."

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.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.