Wow. Reality check needed.

DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.

One example of the price increases on the horizon. People are literally about to be priced out in the same way landlords price people out of apartments. It won’t stop here either

How many of us have already put off going to the doctor/dentist, simply because we can’t afford it? This is unacceptable

Matthew 25:40: “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

It is all ONE BIG SCAM!!!

(Politico) - All employees of the House of Representatives were issued templates for letters Wednesday they can present to creditors before Friday, when they’re expected to miss their first paychecks ..

@politico.com #Shutdown 🇺🇸
www.politico.com/live-updates...

North Carolina Is the Canary in the Election Coal Mine Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in one state.

Modern authoritarians seldom cancel elections, because they prefer the veneer of democratic choice that voting provides, and because they can tilt the playing field toward themselves. “No one likes an election better than Vladimir Putin,” the Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias told me.

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

Attorney General Rob Bonta says California will have its own observers on Trump's election monitors As the Trump administration's Department of Justice prepares to send election monitors to California for next week's election, California's attorney general on Monday said the state will have its own ...

Thank you! California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced today that the state will send its own observers to keep an eye on federal election monitors sent out by the Trump administration before the upcoming election.

(next to images of Adelita Grijalva and House Democrats demanding that Grijalva is sworn in) SWEAR IN GRIJALVA NOW!

It’s been over a month since Adelita Grijalva was elected to the House, but Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in — because Grijalva would be the decisive 218th signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein Files. Take action with our social toolkit: app.sosha.ai/toolkit/adel...

The US is seeing the largest number of layoffs since 2020, with nearly 1 million people losing their jobs so far this year.

The “Prices Up/Volume Flat” economy rolls on. 🇺🇸

@mikezaccardi.bsky.social @gregdaco.bsky.social

They aren’t hiding the totalitarianism, folks.

Office Hours: What's the REAL reason Trump is going to war in the Caribbean? Friends,

What’s the REAL reason Trump is going to war in the Caribbean? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-whats-the-real-reason-1a2

Reminder: November 4th is extremely important, don’t forget to vote!

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Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says The Trump administration says it won't use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown.

The Trump regime could tap into a $5 billion contingency fund to ensure people continue to be fed through SNAP.

They are refusing.

Republicans know the pain they’re causing to Americans—they do not care. The cruelty is the point.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Friends are important and I am glad that you have a support team. Good luck with your recovery!

Trump Nixing of Dem State Disaster Aid Backfires, Screwing MAGA Voters After Trump’s handling of disasters boomerangs on MAGA country, the author of a piece on his retribution against blue America explains how this saga reveals MAGA ideology’s deepest depravities.

Trump screws his voters again: He just denied disaster aid to Maryland (while giving it to red states). But I took a look and it turns out the suffering Maryland counties are in Appalachia and backed him by 40 and 54 points.

On the pod, @stevebenen.com and I discuss:
newrepublic.com/article/2022...

#Psyops 🤡

Trump bought the Argentina election by threatening to withhold U.S. funds unless his preferred candidate won. We can’t let the same playbook unfold here next week. Trump and his administration have already been making threats about the upcoming U.S. elections, and the warning signs are clear.

This morning Third Circuit Judge Emil Bove will be on a panel hearing oral argument in two appeals, an early chance to see the controversial new judge in action. With him on the panel will be Chief Judge Chagares and Judge Scirica.

www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/OralArgSumma...

We lose it all if we don’t unite in time.

Indiana Governor Calls Special Session to Pass GOP Gerrymander Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Indiana Gov. Mike Braun (R) announced Monday he will call a special legislative session to consider redrawing the state’s congressional map, making it the fourth GOP-controlled state to take up redistricting at President Donald Trump’s demand. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

They're *laughing* at you, Mark Thompson.

They're laughing at *you*.

@cnn.com

Interesting, but one would assume that “majority rules” in the decision process.

ICE’s Hiring Surge is Already a Disaster It's cutting standards and racing to hire exactly the wrong people, precisely as predicted.

ICE's hiring surge is turning out to be an entirely predictable disaster. It turns out if you’re hiring for a pariah agency using nakedly fascist and racist messaging, America’s best, brightest, and most fit don’t apply. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-hiri...