Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

I'm in Washington, D.C. ready to end this shutdown and prevent Americans' healthcare premiums from soaring. House Republicans aren't. They're welcome to join me anytime.

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The Rise of Renewable Energy Anatomy of a technological miracle

It's so nice to see that Paul Krugman has come to agree with Bill McKibben, that renewables have grown so explosively in the past decade, spurred by what Krugman calls a virtuous circle of falling costs and increasing production, fossil fuels have met their match.
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The day clownish Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files a ridiculous, performative lawsuit against Tylenol seems a good day to re-post this:

Why does no one take God seriously? I said “thou shalt not kill” and I meant it.

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

Republicans are willing to starve poor children to protect rich men who raped children.

It's just another form of child abuse.

As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime | Fortune Public finance expert Linda Bilmes says the “arbitrariness” of who gets paid and who doesn’t during shutdowns exposes the “dysfunction” of the budget approval process.

They found money to pay the ICE thugs, but not to feed the kids…

fortune.com/2025/10/22/g...

A screengrab from the NY Times, under the category "N.Y.C. Mayor's Race": What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin The Democratic candidate has said his education was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.

I honestly don't think the NY Times has been this bad in my lifetime, it's deeply shameful.

Welcome to #EpsteinsBallroom

Really cannot emphasize enough how little I care about your holiday gift guide when millions of people are going to be unable to afford food next week

I stopped listening to Bill Gates talk about climate change a long time ago.

You should stop too.

I like Vladdy, too!

Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.

No, they don’t have to.

What century is this?

I can’t qWHITE figure out what’s wrong here.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay & benefits.

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

It is about avoiding a vote to release the #EpsteinFiles
@resist4harris.bsky.social

Petrichor - Jon Batiste Official Website

“There’s a blanket of pollution around the earth, but it’s the result of a blanket of pollution around our souls and our value system,” says Jon Batiste. Learn more about his new song “Petrichor” and why the climate crisis is something he feels called to write and sing about in this video.

If you think Trump can’t misuse the nuclear codes because "people would stop him" well those same people just watched him bulldoze a wing of the White House.

Pope Leo to Jubilee of Education: “Today, we have become experts in the smallest details of reality, yet we have lost the capability of an overarching vision that integrates things through a deeper and greater meaning.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Adelita Grijalva did everything right - organized, campaigned, canvassed.

@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social worked hard and it paid off, becoming the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress.
*Over a month ago.*

What Mike Johnson is doing to her is abhorrent.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Bynum: If you can find money to send $40 billion to Argentina but you can’t find money for food for kids and seniors, I have a problem with that. If you can find money for two airplanes for Kristi Noem, then you can find money to feed American children and seniors.

Gilroy workers have started to package pots of marigolds to sell for #DiaDeLosMuertos altars. The pots weigh about 15 lbs. This is the busy season for these flowers and workers are laboring long hours. While flower prices have gone up, farm worker wages did not.