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YouTube video by Law & Society SCOTUS On SNAP

Did you know that Donald Trump could release the emergency SNAP money at any time? He doesn't need SCOTUS's permission because the law is already on the books for POTUS to execute the emergency law. He simply won't. Because the cruelty is the point. youtu.be/uq8hW9o9HIw

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

The NYT interviewed 40 men who were in CECOT.

They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards, driven to the brink of suicide. One said officers thrust his head into a tank of water to simulate drowning. Another was forced to perform oral sex on guards in hoods.

Trump did this.

Presidents own a shutdown. No U.S. Govt. shutdown in modern history has been resolved without Presidential participation. There is no way to spin that fact, if we keep saying that loud and clear. His job is to bridge the gap. His incompetence is preventing that.

There is no other story line

The R's will spin it and tell you this is the D's fault, but the simple truth is, it wouldn't be happening if you'd elected Kamala Harris.

This is the food-distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base. Active-duty U.S.
service members waiting for basic assistance because Trump gutted
SNAP support for military families.
Trump's predatory regime refuse to offer these military families the financial relief they deserve.
(🎥hatteri621)

Video of large line outside food bank goes viral amid SNAP benefit freeze Viral footage showed people lining up in the rain at a food bank in Cleveland.

Video of Large Line Outside Food Bank Goes Viral Amid SNAP Benefit Freeze.

www.newsweek.com/video-line-f...

Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arres...

Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List

A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest.

www.wired.com/story/hack-e...

Why the Mamdani campaign must be the future of politics This is something we do, or it is done to us.

The Mamdani campaign believed “well-produced media is a weapon in any fight.”

But the story of what it built and what it can continue is and must be deeper than that.

When I Loved New York Will Mamdani bring back the city I remember? Can anyone?

I wrote about it here, but 2000-2003. It was my first job out of college: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...

Trump claims the national guard makes cities safer. Birmingham halved its homicide rate all on its own Local observers cite a reversal of social dynamics, a revitalized police department and violence intervention

He also claims he's the chosen one.. But he's just another child molester convicted felon adjudicated rapist.....
Trump claims the national guard makes cities safer. Birmingham halved its homicide rate all on its own.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When I Loved New York Will Mamdani bring back the city I remember? Can anyone?

"The New York I loved was vanishing. It was destroyed not in a day by the 9/11 attacks, but over years by post-9/11 greed: the soaring costs of rent, public services, entertainment, and more."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...

Since it’s @scaramucci.bsky.social talking about how Tim Mellon is the “Epstein connection you don’t know about,” I kinda wish I’d made the connection 11 days ago. But alas, it was two weeks ago.

YouTube video by Law & Society Requiem, Hope, Lies, Pain & The Lincoln Bathroom

Remember when Donald renovated the Lincoln Bathroom? Doesn't it feel like such a long time ago? Donald keeps shocking us with new antics every day, distracting away from desecrations like destroying the East Wing & changing the White House inside & out. youtu.be/PE1rScLqqRM

DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...

#ICYMI: A sweeping data-sharing agreement authorizing DHS to merge Social Security data into the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system could threaten Americans’ privacy and lead to errors that disenfranchise legitimate voters, experts say.

By @jenafifield.bsky.social

"These were not accidental but well-planned strikes. Russia is deliberately endangering nuclear safety in Europe," Sybiha remarked on social media on Nov. 8.

Russian forces targeted energy substations that power the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear power plants overnight on Nov. 7-8, amid its large-scale attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.

Russia targeted substations that power nuclear plants during large-scale overnight energy attacks, Sybiha says Russian forces targeted energy substations that power the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear power plants overnight on Nov. 7-8, amid its large-scale attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Foreign Min...

⚡️Russia targeted substations that power nuclear plants during large-scale overnight energy attacks, Sybiha says.

I am fascinated by the growing number of conservatives who claim I should be ‘denaturalized & deported’ because I am apparently anti-American (based on what?); these same folks who hate many of the core freedoms & rights in the American Constitution, including the 1st & 14th Amendments. The irony.

Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.

And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Trump Regime today

I just did an internet search for “Trump falls asleep in Oval Office” and found a couple stories from small left-leaning outlets and some foreign press.

Major American corporate media outlets or local news? Not so much.

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

I saw this article this morning. It’s a good little explainer

open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

This is how it's done

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October

Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE