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Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

NYT: "The Trump administration told states that they must 'immediately undo' any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families ..."

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Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until t...

PBS Newshour: The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown …

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Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound

Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
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🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

Wired: Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assault accdg to an FBI bulletin. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when asked to verify an officer’s identity

www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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FBI fires top official amid Kash Patel’s outrage over reports of agency jet use Patel reportedly became furious after revelation he flew to visit girlfriend and agency fired official who oversees fleet

A top FBI official with 27 years standing has reportedly been fired by the bureau after its director, Kash Patel, became enraged by press stories revealing he had used a government jet to travel to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match.

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From CNN: Hegseth bars military officials from discussing drug boat strikes with Congress without prior approval

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Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report.

NEW: Rep. Nancy Mace berated law enforcement during a meltdown at an airport in South Carolina on Thursday.

The congresswoman was “repeatedly stated we were ‘Fucking incompetent,’ and ‘this is no way to treat a fucking US Representative,’” the report states.

read @jakelahut.writes.news:

color photo of halloween decorations in a front yard — 4 tombstones saying “in loving nemory — SCIENCE,” “gone but not forgotten — DUE PROCESS,” “R.I.P. 1776-2025 — FREEDOM OF SPEECH,” “always in our hearts — EDUCATION”

Seen in Chicago

What the ...

Oh really?

Happy Halloween. Just had tonight's first trick-or-treater... a unicorn fairy princess.

Boston White Sox fan The Pope holding a Dodgers jersey.

Seeing so many hard-working people across the country donating what they can to food banks and volunteering to help with food delivery as SNAP benefits run out of funding.

Meanwhile ... elsewhere ... Marble!

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

"On at least three occasions in the past two weeks, an official Post editorial has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's official editorial line landed in sync with its owner's financial interests."

Cuba calls out Mike Waltz for "not only lying, substantially deviating from the subject ... " but doing so in an "uncivilized and gross way." Tells Waltz This is the UN General Assembly, not a Signal chat or House of Reps.

my god, what a paragraph

(from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

B of A: “.. tariff-related price pressures to persist over the coming months

.. companies will continue to shift more of the tariff burden ..

.. the effective tariff rate is likely to rise further, as the full effect of the measures announced by the administration in recent months sets in.”

Tracking U.S. Military Boat Strikes, Killings, and Survivors In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.

The Trump administration is engaged in an unprecedented legally disputed campaign of bombing suspected drug smuggling vessels from the air. We are tracking the offensive here.
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Charges Dropped: Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme Newly released video raises new questions about the arrest of a progressive Tennessee man for posting a Trump meme in a Facebook group

Charges were suddenly dropped this week against a Tennessee man who had been jailed for more than a month for posting a Trump meme

MAGA salivates at the chance to cut off food stamps SNAP benefits are set to lapse — and the right is spreading tired, racist tropes about recipients

From Salon: Florida GOP Rep. Fine .... posting on X, “I am going to introduce a bill to ban all non-citizens from any form of welfare.” Undocumented immigrants ... have never been eligible for benefits, and Republican reforms made refugees & asylum seekers ineligible.

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Mike Johnson faces bipartisan heat over delayed vote on Epstein files "Aren't we all against convicted pedophiles and anyone who enables them?"

Virginia Roberts' book detailing her survival from Epstein is released; King Charles begins process to un-prince his brother Andrew, and evict him from Royal Lodge. Meanwhile, in Washington, www.axios.com/2025/10/07/m...

MAGA salivates at the chance to cut off food stamps SNAP benefits are set to lapse — and the right is spreading tired, racist tropes about recipients

Stock market ended on a record high on Tuesday, the same week the administration said it won't use emergency funds for SNAP benefits.

"We're kind of done with you."

Anyone who has ever tried to do major home renovation knows you need a permit.

"I can’t find a permit,” said Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the top Dem of the House Committee on Homeland Security. “And then I see a bulldozer tearing down the east side of the White House.”

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Earthquake?

I could do without people advertising something (not giving it more publicity) at the World Series from the stands.