Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

Neguse: "It is outrageous that the Trump administration can come up with $40 billion to bail out Argentina and refuses to spend the money that Congress has appropriated to feed hungry families in America."

Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."

Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security.

None of this is normal.

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.

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Louisiana’s worst whooping cough outbreak in decades: 387 cases, 2 infant deaths.

After Surgeon General Ralph Abraham paused vaccine promotion, cases surged and the public was left in the dark.

Antivaxx politics cost lives.

Nice article from @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social

'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests"

Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

The Billionaire class gets massive tax breaks & subsidies.

Working class Americans on unlivable wages get SNAP assistance, so they can afford necessities like food.

Guess which program is getting cut?

An administration of billionaires will always look out for their own.

Learn & vote accordingly.

Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent

Most people in the US don’t give diphtheria a passing thought if they’ve heard of it at all. We have decades of vaccines to thank for that, for now.

But it’s surging in places like Somalia, where health systems have been weakened by war, and hit hard by USAID cuts.

The cruelty is the point.
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Millions of Americans are already learning that their health insurance costs for 2026 are going way up.

I want to hear from you so we can make this impossible for the GOP to ignore the consequences of their policies.

If your premiums are going up, reply below and please share your story.

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."

Man in Nazi uniform assaulted Georgia student after he was denied entry to bar, officials say The University of Georgia said it was "horrified by the actions of an individual who, while in downtown Athens wearing a Nazi uniform, assaulted a female" student.

Did he know It was a Nazi uniform?

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

We’re putting food on the table in Argentina ($40 billion), yet MAGA Republicans are threatening to withhold SNAP funds already allocated by Congress. MAGA = Make Argentina Great Again.

If Dems can’t come up with a “Pocahontas” equivalent on this one .. 🙄

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it.

They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

This is so sad.

Rand Paul should name names.

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Condescending $**t.

NEW: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just got an email telling furloughed workers to return to work Monday. They will be paid starting Monday, but won’t get backpay for precious furlough days until the shutdown ends.

Trump just said they’re going to demolish the *entire* East Wing to make room for his ballroom.

So much for the idiots in my mentions saying it was just a wall.

Q: Has Speaker Johnson reached out to you since the January 6er made a threat on your life?

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: No