Jon Thatcher

My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.

Amazing.

The Trump Administration will go to any length — including appeal to the highest court in the land — if it means they can cut off food for hungry people.

What is wrong with them?

While Cattle Prices have dropped substantially, the price of Boxed Beef has gone up — Therefore, you know that something is “fishy.” We will get to the bottom of it very quickly. If there is criminality, those people responsible will pay a steep price!

Brazilian beef is tariffed at 76.4%

The Q on the minds of a lot of Tennesseans: will disgraced ex Rep. Robin Smith, who testified against Casada & Cothren, also get a Trump pardon? Or is she the only 1 who serves time?

If not, the message would seem like a clear warning about testifying against fellow Republicans.

After analyzing these statutory provisions, as applied to the facts in this case, this Court arrives at the necessary conclusion that there was neither "a rebellion or danger of a rebellion" nor was the President "unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States" in Oregon when he ordered the federalization and deployment of the National Guard. 10 U.S.C. § 12406(2) (3).

The "precise standard" to demarcate the line past which conditions would satisfy the statutory standard to deploy the military in the streets of American cities is ultimately a question for a higher court to decide. Newsom, 141 F.4th at 1051. But based on this Court's application of Newsom to the factual findings at trial and the meaning of 10 U.S.C. § 12406 in light of history and tradition, this Court finds that wherever this line precisely is, Defendants have failed to clear it. Therefore, for all the reasons stated below, this Court permanently enjoins Defendants' orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon.

BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."

A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬

DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.

I admire his honesty in this case but I do not love it when the president's closest economic adviser fails to predict the massive negative impact of the administration's policy choices

Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

Choose your PhD dissertation from today’s news:

-man collapses during White House press conference, Trump T-poses as RFK flees
-Elon Musk’s USAID body count rises over 600k
-lawsuit against OpenAI for multiple AI-assisted suicides
-Mike Johnson’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Just note that in 2024, voter turnout was 64.1% ... so fully ONE THIRD of registered US voters can't be bothered to vote .... even with early voting, mail-in voting, and same day voting.... compare that to say Germany who has 82% turnout on a single/ same-day vote. So stop complaining & just vote!!

United just emailed me that "FAA & DOT have directed every airline to reduce their schedules across 40 airports during the government shutdown."

We're already in history's longest government shutdown, breaking the previous record set by Trump.

Are we great yet? So much winning. Just ridiculous.

Trump’s VA Made It Harder for Male Veterans to Get Treatment for Breast Cancer. Lawmakers Want to Fix That. After ProPublica revealed changes to how the Department of Veterans Affairs covers men with breast cancer, House members demanded the agency reverse its decision. Separately, new Senate legislation wo...

Last week, I reported the Trump admin has made it harder for male vets w/ breast to get their care covered

The admin invoked a presidential order on "Restoring Biological Truth"

Now, two dozen House members have written VA demanding the admin reverse course

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

If MTG is now the voice of reason in the GOP then we live in truly bizarre times.

Massive health care cuts. Catastrophic tariffs raising the prices of everything.

A weaker economy and tougher job market for American workers.

This is unleashing the Golden Age?

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Chuck Schumer should follow in Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps

Jeffries: "Thune is divorced from reality. It's a clown show over in the Senate. 15 times you bring the same partisan Republican spending bill to the Senate floor expecting a different result? That's the classic definition of legislative insanity. Has no ability to actually negotiate in good faith."

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

Fortunately, there's no big holidays in November. Or anything... 🤔

The Communist Manifesto was published in 1848.

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.”

Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

We know the Liar hates being seen with anyone not up to his standards-- no injured, no wounded, no unattractive women, usually no minorities, etc.

He has now gone to a new low. He does not like the image of sign language interpreters on stage with him and has chosen to break a law requiring it.

The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25

The left didn’t “turn New York over to terrorists.”
They voted. Smearing democratic participation as extremism is a warning indicator in our authoritarian assessment.

INTERESTING TIMES WITH ROSS DOUTHAT Mamdani's Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

REPUBLICAN Mayor of Oklahoma City on Trump saying too many people are on SNAP: “This is no way to make policy. This is chaos. People have been told by the federal government they’ll get these benefits, this is no time to pull the rug out from under them.”

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.