Muddy in PB

Obama is better than caffeine…any day. I had almost forgotten what it sounds like when a fine orator is at the podium.

NEWS: A federal judge in Rhode Island has released her written order demanding the Trump admin use emergency funds to pay SNAP food benefits. The court gave the gov until Nov 4 to ensure payments are made and says if the contingency fund runs out, they must continue to fund SNAP via other means.

There’s a name for this.

C O R R U P T I O N

Jeffries: They got out of town in September and have refused to come back. So Mike Johnson has resorted to holding these daily press conferences, which are like a Republican family reunion—featuring crazy aunts and uncles talking gibberish to the American people.

It’s an embarrassment.

MAGA screams: “Get a job.” “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” “Welfare queen.”

But these folks have jobs. They’re federal workers and not getting paid — and now SNAP benefits run out in days. There’s no reason this should be happening.

Testify 📢

Thugs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Zohran Mamdani represents the future of the Democratic party | Robert Reich Democratic party leaders like Chuck Schumer refuse to endorse Mamdani, and the New York Times wrongly cautions against h

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic party.

It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic party.

Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/zohran-mamdani-democratic-party

Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.

Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.

Ahead of dry Santa Ana winds and possible fire weather across much of Southern California, I've directed @caloes.bsky.social and @calfire.bsky.social to take early action to increase staffing and pre-position fire equipment to keep communities safe.

Kamala is right. Zohran Mamdani is the Democratic nominee—he won fair and square. We all have a responsibility to support him, even if we have some disagreements.

I said what I said.

RFKjr cherry-picks data even more than he picks up road kill. And he picks up one helluva lot of roadkill.

No one could have done a better job running for president in just 2½ months than VP Kamala Harris. No one.

See what she was up against straight out of the gate? Friends and frenemies…

The Pentagon's Attack on Free Speech Doesn't Have To Work When it comes to things the government can’t do without violating the First Amendment, imposing prior restraints on what the media can report is near the top of the list, absent a compelling rationale...

The Pentagon Papers case gives us important insight into why having a free press matters so much. This week has taught us that we have a role to play in protecting the 1st Amendment, & (to quote a woman who would have made a great president), when we fight, we win. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

God, I sure hope the Rapture is tomorrow and that everyone who believes in it goes.

The rest of us will experience Heaven on Earth.

"I hate my opponent, and I don’t want the best for them. I’m sorry."

-DONALD TRUMP

When your "opponent" is anyone who doesn't agree with you...you have no business being in charge...of ANYTHING.

Teke 2 #tylenol and release #EpsteinFiles

Need to do some more research but I wouldn't be surprised if Sinclair has opened itself up to major lawsuits due to past and current behavior...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Kamala Harris was held to a higher standard than any vice president in history—an impossible one. She was locked into Biden’s playbook, yet the media still expected her to be everywhere, doing everything, for everyone.

“Where is Kamala?”

Busy being the VP to President Joe Biden, as was her job.

Should Democrats Shut Down the Government? It’s the only way they can fight back against the Trump catastrophe

I’m with Robert Reich and Ezra Klein: Don’t cooperate with the fascists by giving them the votes they need to keep their corrupt and tyrannical regime running and violating people’s rights as they entrench their power:

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Opinion | Enough With the Trump Era Compulsion

“The deference and latitude that Congress and the Supreme Court have granted the executive will not necessarily snap back as soon as a new president is in office; dismantled institutions and discarded habits will not magically reconstitute themselves.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk’s Horrific Killing and America’s Worsening Political Violence

“This is a moment . . .for restraint, rather than cycles of vengeance or the suspension of civil liberties, as some urged on Wednesday.” To blame the assassin, as we must, isn’t to absolve those whose violent rhetoric set a tone that encouraged violent action.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

Undaunted from the Bench Sotomayor pulls back the curtain on MAGA Supreme Court hackery

Thank heaven Jennifer Rubin left the Washington Post, where Jeff Bezos would’ve refused to run so forthright an endorsement of Justice Sotomayor’s irrefutable refutation of six of her colleagues and her scathing but totally warranted takedown of Justice Kavanaugh!

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

Lest we forget:

This is what justice in a constitutional republic looks like!

Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election included calls to hang Pence, parallel to Bolsonaro’s calls to kill his opponent.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

WTF? Does “the right way” to “practice politics” include lying re factual matters (eg saying Black Women have too little brainpower to be “taken seriously”)? Mourning Kirk’s murder & defending his right to make his wild claims doesn’t excuse praising his political MO

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

MAGA has radicalized its own base. No matter how much they spin and attack "the left," the reality remains their base is now a massive threat to both national security and other Republicans.

Parts of the base don't believe Kash Patel on Epstein or Charlie Kirk's murder.

Whoopsie.

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