Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈

You can tell Trump's goons are demoralized, tired and frustrated; just look at their body language in the video. Every day, they deal with angry crowds of people randomly materializing to call them fascists, pieces of shit, and worse.

Trumpism, and white supremacy generally, sees democracy itself as a corruption of the natural order

Nutrition assistance is NOT corrupt. Food stamps kept my family fed when my mom had to look for work after my dad got sick with MS.

The Trump administration wants kids, seniors, and veterans to go hungry. They are REFUSING to use emergency funds to keep SNAP benefits going.

Middle-aged white men mocking them like this confounds them the most. Just destroys their morale.

More of it.

OMG.

"Big tough guy... I wear helmet sunglasses because I'm so scared of people... you prick.. YOU PRICK! I'm going to kick your fucking ass, you piece of shit"

It boggles my mind that in 2025 people still have to stand in line to vote

probably the biggest factor suppressing turnout

voting by mail is the way

A reminder that Musk is a mass murderer. It's not hyperbole.

YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) Food Stamps are Good, Actually (Here's the Science)

saw this @skepchick.org video and it's stunning how effective snap is, 0.004% of tax to feed 40 million people and the return on investment is 14:1
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Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

is this three hops theory going to be used with the epstein files

I dunno, they've been saying undocumented = criminal for a while

they buy themselves treats because they know without drastic structural changes, those will be the only treats they get

the era of delayed gratification is over: the billionaires stole the gratification part, all they’re left with is delay

'Happy Halloween!': DHS spokeswoman responds to report of immigration agents wearing horror masks in L.A. The story by a local news site featured images posted to social media showing what the outlet says were agents in unmarked cars donning Chucky and Momo masks.

Surreal and disturbing:
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I don't want to repost *that* photo of the VP and the Widow, but she is wearing pants that look like couch upholstery so who knows?

Mike Johnson immediately tries to clean up for Brooke Rollins: "When she says 'we have failed you,' she means 'we, the Democrats,' okay?"

Also: Even in the context of 9/11 and with the imprimatur of the 2001 AUMF, lethal strikes were authorized only for “senior operational members” of al Qaeda and associated forces

Legally, this is no different from Iran sinking a Disney cruise in international waters and then saying "it's all good, they were terrorists carrying drugs."

Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.

you'd think, generally speaking, the Republican party working tirelessly, year after year, to actively murder large swaths of marginalized American populations (including white rural veterans) would be a bigger story

Make No Mistake: Trump Is Trying to Steal the Midterms For MAGA, 2026 will be payback for 2020.

Trump is putting election deniers in positions to thwart the midterms. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...

Targets “could be struck by air in a matter of days or even hours” without congressional approval, without a clear strategy or even explanation, without any assurance that the drones and Tomahawks aren’t aimed at some new version of “makeup artists with tattoos.”

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.

During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets

www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Assuming democracy survives this, nobody should ever believe any conservative ever again who rails for "freedom" and "liberty" and against "big government". It was all a lie. All of it. Everything they claimed for the last 50 years.

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300,000 Lawfully Present Immigrants Will Be Newly Ineligible for Health Care Help in This Open Enrollment Period The 2025 reconciliation law enacted this summer imposed new restrictions on access to health coverage for lawfully present immigrants. Among the first of these restrictions will take effect during the...

🚨Starting November 1, the 2025 reconciliation law will strip hundreds of thousands of lawfully present immigrants of #ACA health care tax credits, cutting off their only path to affordable medical care.

Read more about the upcoming changes: https://bit.ly/3WAcJw7

Zohran with his hand on his chest leaning into the passenger side window of a taxi, talking with the driver.

Zohran extending his hand to shake hands with a taxi driver through the window.

An airport worker showing Zohran something on his phone, both are smiling.

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.

So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

screeshot 1/2 Finally, in California, residents will consider Proposition 50, the redistricting measure designed to counteract GOP efforts to steal the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms. Control of the House is important to block further attacks on reproductive freedom. After President Donald Trump pressured Texas Republicans to redraw their congressional map to favor the GOP, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a referendum on letting the legislature temporarily redraw congressional maps. (The task is usually left to an independent commission.) More Republican-led states are following Texas’ lead, and if Democrats don’t fight fire with fire, the House could have the votes to pass a national abortion ban after 20 weeks, or even earlier. In addition, friendlier districts could shield members of Congress from accountability for passing a bill “defunding” abortion providers that Trump signed on July 4.

screenshot 2/2: A House with more comfortable margins for the GOP could pass another “defund,” possibly for more than just one year as in the current law. Planned Parenthood warned that kicking its affiliates out of Medicaid could lead to 200 clinics closing across the country, many in states where abortion is still legal. Planned Parenthood has called this federal funding exclusion a “backdoor abortion ban” because the procedure would still be legal on paper but much less accessible. That’s why Planned Parenthood Action Fund, local affiliate advocacy groups, and Reproductive Freedom For All are pulling out the stops for Prop. 50.

If California voters fail to pass Prop 50, the GOP could steal enough House seats to pass a nationwide abortion ban after 20 weeks, overriding state laws. Don't expect the Senate filibuster to save us—they might nuke it to end the shutdown
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The head of Heritage is correct about conservatism

My mother was too proud for food stamps

So she did what republicans are banking on

She married a pedophile

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