Robin VanderRoest ❌👑

On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has:

-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey

Shameful.

"Thank you for your attention to this matter"

Democratic leaders ask Trump for meeting to end shutdown

New letter ===>

Thanks!

The feds attacked a car wash, abducted people who have legal status, and their boss can’t find them to HELP them because he has no idea where they are.

This is insane.

These are our neighbors. 4/

This is a classic form of voter intimidation—making people feel like it’s not safe to go to the polls. It moments like this where we need to summon our courage & vote anyhow. Vote in the tradition of the people who marched in Selma to secure the right to vote.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.

The sociopath-in-chief is defying court orders to feed starving kids.

A tricolor beagle licks his chops while posing among fall leaves.

For #TongueOutTuesday, another photo of Bernie and the leaves
#OurBeagleBernie

“Speaker Johnson, many Americans are wondering why you’re unable to see or hear any developments in the news. Some are speculating that you were kicked in the head by a horse; others theorize that you’ve been huffing spray paint. Which is it?”

This is an excellent idea!!!

Bernie the Beagle is lying among the fall leaves, taking a break on our walk. He is a tricolor beagle, with a chocolate nose and an old white face. His harness is red, his tags are red and green. The leaves are shades of yellow and brown, on green grass.

My sweet boy, chilling among fallen leaves.
#OurBeagleBernie #WalkingWithBernie #MichiganFall

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Sacrament Meeting Hymns Kalamazoo 1st Ward / Nov 2 1039 Because 1043 Help Us Remember 28 Saints, Behold How Great Jehovah

From MeidasTouch Legal AF: The Convicted FElon DOJ is now deleting court documents on J6 terrorists who have been in trouble with law repeatedly. The DOJ was caught when a judge noticed a document missing on a J6'er, who wanted to bomb Obama's home & was convicted for it. I bet these are ICE now.

I wonder if the South American fishermen he's routinely killing would count as "innocent Christians" too, or nah?

The government is shutdown, and millions of Americans are about to go without food and/or medicine because of him.

So what does Donald Trump do? Keeps bragging about his $300,000,000 golden ballroom and throws a Great Gatsby party at his private resort.

He is so stupidly tone-deaf.

A maple tree displays its orange leaves, highlighted by the setting sun. A grey sky accentuates the brilliance of the leaves.

The setting sun lit up our neighbor’s maple last night, as kids were out trick-or-treating.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #MichiganFall

A tricolor beagle, with an old white face, sits among fallen leaves, with trees and brush in the background.

A path through the woods, with trees on either side. The leaves are turning colors, mostly shades of yellow.

A beautiful day, with lots of fall color on the Kal-Haven Trail. Bernie was a happy boy!
#WalkingWithBernie #MichiganFall #OurBeagleBernie #KalHavenTrail #Kalamazoo #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn

Marie Wicks took the time to research Ranked Choice Voting. Read her letter of support to learn why she believes it belongs in Michigan! Sign the petition! Find out where at www.RankMIVote.org/where-do-i-sign #VoteYourHopesNotYourFears #RankedChoiceVoting #Michigan #Nonpartisan #VotersRights

Kalamazoo 1st Ward October 26 1027 Welcome Home 1048 Our Prayer to Thee 2 The Spirit of God 270 I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go

“The Spirit of God” was amazing today - terrific organ accompaniment (we are so lucky) and enthusiastic singing, especially among the Primary kids.

If we had a functioning Congress, it would be requiring Trump to (1) Provide a complete list of all people/countries/corporations/mafia providing bribes, ur, “donations” for his tacky ballroom; and (2) An audited accounting of where all the money goes.

All Democrats want is to lower health care costs for Americans. Republicans in Congress won’t even come to the table.

How out of touch are they that they can't see we are in a health care crisis?

Kalamazoo 1st Ward, October 19 1022 Faith in Every Footstep 112 Savior, Redeemer of My Soul 1019 To Love Like Thee 107 Lord, Accept Our True Devotion

I for one do think it's possible for America to find a president better than one who, faced with claims he is dumping shit on Americans, posts a video showing himself dumping shit on Americans.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

Woman in blue t-shirt and beige slacks, wearing a baseball cap, holding a sign. The sign reads “Promote Peace Not Violence,” and has an American flag attached.

Great turnout for No Kings rally in Kalamazoo today!
#NoKings #NoKingsKalamazoo

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”

If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.

Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts.

Six people are being deported because of what they said online.

Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended.

It won’t stop with these six people.

Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.

Bernie the Beagle snoozes on the couch. He is a tricolor beagle, with a chocolate nose, but mostly we see his face: white with age, some dark and light brown areas. His ear is folded up. He is on a brown couch, snuggling with a pieced quilt. We can see red with flowers, green with branches, a darker green with holly leaves. One square has a winter scene, and we can see horses’ feet.

On this rainy morning, Bernie was in no hurry to get up.
#OurBeagleBernie