“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

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November 4, 2025 (Tuesday) So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.

November 4, 2025

This is an excellent idea!!!

Here’s @rawstory.com picking up on our post about Fox News falling for a racist AI video about SNAP recipients… then trying to turn it into a story about AI videos: www.rawstory.com/snap-2674256...

Not journalism.

Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...

Finding Beauty in the Liturgical Year Grab your copy of Diana's new book!

A conversation from the Convocation Unscripted:

Finding Beauty in the Liturgical Year

You'll be surprised by the relevance of this discussion to these hard days.

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Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children."

REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old."

FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

October 31, 2025 Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

October 31, 2025

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

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.

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?

A long-deranged and deeply depraved man with a pronouncedly and acceleratingly deteriorating mind announces that he intends to play with the large arsenal of nuclear weapons he controls.

But it's okay, because he's not seeking a third term.

Really great podcast www.nextavenue.org/anderson-coo...

Border Patrol agents under fire for allegedly disrupting children's Halloween parade in Chicago The U.S. Border Patrol is coming under criticism from Chicago residents who claim federal agents disrupted a children's Halloween parade over the weekend.

Heavily-armed federal agents came to a Chicago neighborhood and fired tear gas near children getting ready for a Halloween parade.

This once again shows that the Trump administration's deportation campaign is not about "safety," it's about sowing fear and exerting control.

Latino pastors look to refit preaching and pastoral care to trauma of mass deportations MONROVIA, Calif. (RNS) — Latino Christian leaders meeting in Southern California discussed how best to pastor congregations newly traumatized by the Trump mass deportation policy.

religionnews.com/2025/10/28/i...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Nothing to see here, folks 🤫🤔

www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S. n.pr/47wcmYo

ICE turned away the body of Christ. Catholics must keep showing up anyway. (RNS) — Catholics processed in prayer had hoped to send eight people into a Chicago-area ICE facility to distribute Holy Communion.

OPINION: When Catholics assemble for Mass, or when 1,000 Catholics march in prayer led by the Jesus present in the Eucharist, they bring the suffering of Jesus in bread and their bodies to the suffering of ICE detention.
religionnews.com/2025/10/15/i...

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way Our election system is reaching a breaking point.

Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway
From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.

Election Day is a week from tomorrow, and millions of Americans have a chance to elect important local leaders — judges, council members, school boards, and more — crucial to defending and rebuilding democracy. If you haven’t already, make a plan to cast your vote.

October 27, 2025 There is a lot going on tonight, but the world is going to have to turn without me: it’s been a long run without a break and I need to sleep.

October 27, 2025

While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)

Día de Muertos Reminds Christians To Grieve Western Protestant Christianity mourns fast. But God remembers those who are broken-hearted and crushed in spirit.

"Día de Muertos honors our loved ones and mourns the multiplicity of deaths surrounding us, from job losses, to war 'casualties,' to dead democracies."
sojo.net/articles/dia...

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