Caitlin McLean

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

(Published October)

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels.

The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Imagine if Trump fought as hard to actually improve our country as he does to starve children

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

Every new report on the consequences of Trump’s dismantling of USAID is more horrifying than the last. One model estimates it's caused 600K deaths — two-thirds of them children.

We can’t give Trump a blank check to keep destroying life-saving programs.

Sitting in the airport watching my flight get delayed.

Thanks, Trump, Thanks, Mike Johnson, Thanks every single Republican member of Congress who is too cowardly to stand up to this madness and actually fight for your country, aka your JOB as elected officials.

NEW: I’m calling on Trump to cancel private jet flights instead of commercial airlines.

Private jet flights often take a single billionaire passenger, but still put real strain on our air traffic control system.

The Onion: DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @mluckovichajc)

Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

TEXT: DONALD TRUMP’S WAR ON SNAP July 4: Republicans make largest cuts to SNAP in history October 24: Trump Administration deletes guidance that SNAP funds must continue during government shutdown. October 31: Judge rules that Trump must follow the law and deliver SNAP. November 1: SNAP payments don’t go out. November 3: Trump Administration says it will only provide HALF of SNAP benefits in November. November 4: Donald Trump posts on Truth Social that SNAP benefits still won’t go out, ignoring the court order and leaving millions without support to afford groceries. November 6: A federal judge ordered the Trump Administration to pay full SNAP benefits. Trump Administration immediately appeals.

Donald Trump’s war on SNAP.

Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length

ICE is denying people their due process rights and endangering their lives in the process.

“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official who worked on oversight and detention issues. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”

MINOR TOPICS. Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY has had the honour of leading to the polls the advanced guard of the coming squadrons of female voters. The little band of nine ladies whose ballots were received by the election inspectors at Rochester deserve a permanent place in history, We have heard before of solitary instances of the recognition of the female franchise; but this picket guard of nine is a tangible enough force to make people reflect on the future possibilities which it involves. The fact is not stated, but we may assume with tolerable certainty that the nine ladies at Rochester showed their capacity for an intelligent exercise of the franchise by voting for GRANT and DIX.

#OnThisDay, 5 Nov 1872, suffragists Susan B Anthony and 13 other women illegally vote in the US Presidential election.

Nine of the voters were initially reported as a "minor topic".

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WotesForWomen 🗃️

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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

What he said Part 3: 💯 🎯

Can Italy’s History Offer Lessons for Surviving Our Current Moment? - Dame Magazine Before visiting the school in Amandola, a small town in Italy, my husband Pat and I meet English teacher Daniela for coffee on Piazza Risorgimento. We’re there to talk to Daniela’s 12- and 13-year-old...

"It only took one person to save those eight people."

Striking analysis of the parallels between the US today and Mussolini's Italy and a testament to the power of individual and collective action

#Resist
#NoKings

www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/30/c...

THREE WAYS TO TAKE ACTION NOW

1. Donate to your local food bank.

2. Collect and distribute to your local community shelter. Check with your local organizations first to see what they need most.

3. Host a give-back drive in your community. Visit NoKings.org/alliance to learn more.

#SNAP

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.

California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.

Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

How Governors and Mayors Can Protect Nonprofits from Trump's NSPM-7 | ACLU President Trump’s new directive, NSPM-7, targets charities and advocacy groups under the guise of national security. State governors and local mayors can protect them by refusing to cooperate with politically motivated federal investigations.

President Trump's new national security memo aims to target activists and advocacy organizations that he perceives as political opponents.

States and cities must protect sensitive data that could be used by the Trump administration to identify and go after these nonprofits and advocates.

Seven Million People Unite at Peaceful No Kings Protests to Defend Our First Amendment Rights | ACLU ACLU Justice Division leader Ellen Flenniken saw people across the country come together to stand up for free speech, protest peacefully, and show that our power grows when we act as one.

On October 18, millions of people across the country took to the streets to send a message: Our democracy belongs to We the people.

The best way to protect our First Amendment rights is to keep using them.

(between images of the Spotify logo that have been crossed out) DON’T STREAM FASCISM Spotify is treating ICE recruitment like just another ad. But when you turn family separation into a marketing pitch, you're not a platform — you're spreading propaganda. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.

Do you use Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

ICE is using faulty and biased face surveillance technology to go after people they suspect of being undocumented.

This is a direct threat to the fundamental rights of every individual and has no place in our cities.

Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka says U.S. revoked his visa after Trump criticism Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected because he likened President Trump to a former Ugandan dictator.

Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in literature, believes his non-resident visa could have been rejected because he likened President Trump to a former Ugandan dictator. n.pr/3J8XXJN

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment ads. We asked them to stop. They ignored us. Let's show them what we showed Disney. No Kings, No Collaborators, No Capitulators. indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"

The Trump Administration has been desperately shopping for faraway countries where they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia — all to deny him his constitutional rights here in America.

We cannot stand for it. He must be allowed to defend himself in court. My full statement:

Trump's illegal executions You or I could be next

"It is illegal, under domestic and international law, to deliberately target civilians who are not directly participating in hostilities — even if they are suspected criminals."

It's disturbing that this needs to be said. These are crimes and the president is not above the law

SNAP benefits expire in one week.