Mary Kosak

190. SNAP WTF? A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling?

Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

Check this out! Even as Trump seeks to starve our most vulnerable citizens, including millions of children, he is giving billions more to the rich and powerful by gutting the corporate minimum tax. Once more, families lose, billionaires win.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Extending the health care tax credits for one year costs about the same as Trump’s bailout of Argentina.

Trump and Congressional Republicans must come to the table and negotiate—before tens of millions of Americans see their health care premiums double.

Judge's 'permanent injunction' bars National Guard troops in Portland - UPI.com A federal judge issued a permanent injunction that prevents the deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore., saying Donald Trump "exceeded the President's authority."

A federal judge issued a permanent injunction preventing the deployment of the National Guard in Portland, saying Trump "exceeded the President's authority."

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, in a 106-page decision, wrote in all caps: "THIS PERMANENT INJUNCTION ORDER IS IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT."

A deeply repulsive lack of humanity in the current POTUS, Speaker, House GOP, Senate GOP and felon’s cabinet. Their dishonor, cruelty, dishonesty, corruption, disrespect for the Constitution, perversion of justice and destruction of the White House are stains on the history and honor of our country🇺🇸

Republicans in Congress are breaking all the wrong records.

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Wow. Look at this.

Massive food lines are already forming.

Trump's America

@briantylercohen.bsky.social

The closed captioning is devastating

"These breaks come in addition to the roughly $4 trillion package of tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Trump’s shutdown is grounding planes, stranding travelers, and forcing air traffic controllers to work without pay.

Sec. Duffy, you are putting Americans in danger.

Stop playing political games with our travel system and urge House Republicans to return to Washington and open the government.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

Big time glitch! Thanks for calling him out👏👏.

And why isn’t this all over the media?

The softest Nazis you ever did see They're tough guys in the streets and delicate little babies in court.

"It’s comical that this big, brutal warrior would get on the stand to say that he literally felt assaulted by a sandwich exploding on his uniform. It’s more comical, though, that Dunn’s attorney then showed Larimore a photo of the sandwich on the ground. Wrapped. Not exploded."

Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else.

Republicans said no.

So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS.
Republicans OWN this shutdown.

Showing that she fits right in with the new direction of the GOP, Elise Stefanik defended her friends in the New York Young Republicans after they sent racist texts and praised Hitler

So I’m sure her gubernatorial campaign will go splendidly

As Democrats offer to reopen the govt in exchange for keeping health insurance subsidies the same for one year, Trump orders his puppets in Congress to reject the deal as he flies back to Palm Beach for another weekend of golf and parties at his country club.

The administration is now APPEALING the court decision requiring it to provide full food assistance to Americans.

There’s no other way to put it: They are doing everything they can to take food away from Americans in need. Shameful.

Republicans - grow some balls and stop this ICE crap! You all deserve to rot in hell for what you are putting our country through.

The softest Nazis you ever did see They're tough guys in the streets and delicate little babies in court.

"They want everyone to know these thugs they’ve deployed to terrorize cities are battle-hardened and impervious to pain. But in court, they're such delicate flowers that if they are, say, lightly grazed by a sandwich, they are entitled to justice because of the horrific assault they have suffered."

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.

They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.

apnews.com/article/trum...

Hilarious - except it’s not funny when one remembers he has the nuclear codes.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.

12 days of work in 107 days.

With full pay and benefits.

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

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

You make me want to throw up, Tomi.

Justin always knows how to explain something in a way that makes sense.

BREAKING: Federal Judge McConnell orders the Trump administration to provide full SNAP payments to states for November, finding that the administration did not comply with his order. Judge raises Trump's Truth social post as evidence that he intended to defy the order.