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ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez.
He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.
Popok: The blue states and cities effectively brought the cases. The red states are suffering, and their AGs are sitting on the sidelines. There’s no red state that brought a case. Think about that: not one red state attorney general brought a case to help prevent starvation and suffering. None.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Trump was able to find $40 billion to bail out Argentina and $300 million for his new ballroom.
Yet he can't find funds to prevent millions of Americans from losing access to healthcare or stop kids from going hungry.
Cruelty is the point.
The president had a MRI but won't say why.
He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why.
He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical.
He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it.
How is any of this ok?
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
I don't want Congress getting paid during shutdowns, no lifetime retirement and healthcare benefits, no more international travel, only 2 trips to DC per year. We decide pay raises, allowances and expense funds. No stock market no redecorating offices. We decide the rules they must follow
28.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 408 🔁 85 💬 16 📌 6
It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]
27.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 15135 🔁 6656 💬 371 📌 236To all those “Let them go without food for a month, maybe they’ll get a job” people: Most SNAP recipients have jobs. Exploitative jobs that keep them living just below the poverty line. — Should they starve to death? And then what?
27.10.2025 20:29 — 👍 6917 🔁 1952 💬 352 📌 114🔥 @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “No one can confirm we’ve actually been taking out drug traffickers… the admiral in charge resigned… all these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime… the government’s story is not adding up.”
27.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 15868 🔁 5277 💬 585 📌 242The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone?
Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate.
They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
Billions for Argentina, ICE, refurbishing Trump's Qatar jet, and tax cuts for the rich...
"That's just how it is."
“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.”
“SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.”
~Center for Budget and Policy
Governor JB Pritzker today signed Executive Order 2025-06 to establish the Illinois Accountability Commission (IAC), an independent board tasked with capturing and creating a public record of the conduct of federal law enforcement agents and recommending actions to hold the federal government accountable as they continue conducting military-style operations in Chicago, collar counties, and other areas throughout the state.
Donald Trump's masked agents believe that their actions are immune from investigation or accountability — they're not.
I've signed an Executive Order today establishing the Illinois Accountability Commission to create a public record and capture the impact on our communities.
The same people who lost their minds over Obama putting his feet on the Oval Office desk are totally fine with Trump bulldozing the White House.
23.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 1085 🔁 330 💬 38 📌 6Illinois has now achieved its 10th credit rating upgrade since I took office.
It reflects our continued growth in financial standing and speaks volumes to our state's commitment to fiscal discipline.
With each upgrade, it means saving Illinoisans millions of dollars.
Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors.
Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC.
Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio.
The government has been shut down for 22 days.
🚨Tortured; the streets of America, 2025. Keep buying your shit from Apple, Amazon, Home Depot, United, Delta, AT&T - and you are contributing to this barbarity. 1/2
22.10.2025 15:04 — 👍 3423 🔁 2487 💬 502 📌 43I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
22.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 17513 🔁 5784 💬 367 📌 242Good job Michigan, you're getting what you voted for with Gretchen Whitmer
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Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2
21.10.2025 00:47 — 👍 1723 🔁 843 💬 233 📌 214This is insane. If Obama did this the GOP would impeach
20.10.2025 22:36 — 👍 8595 🔁 2187 💬 996 📌 163"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements
19.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 6990 🔁 2574 💬 176 📌 91Literally the Republicans are keeping government closed because they are that against making healthcare affordable. That’s jacked up
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Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.
19.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 1232 🔁 344 💬 45 📌 17Coast Guard bought Kristi Noem two private jets (I guess if one breaks down). Cost: $172 million. Is that what you call draining the swamp?
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