Cleveland, Ohio today.

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."

—FDR, 1936

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Caught lying again.

This is a real photo today.

This is the Current Occupant of the White House showing everyone how awful he is.

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

Dr. Oz says Americans will lose an average of 397 pounds per person by the midterm elections. So you better get busy!

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

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?

I have said this on multiple occasions, but it won’t be the Epstein list that removes him from power.

It will be the economic pain.

BREAKING:

Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public.

In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.

BREAKING: The top federal prosecutor in Maryland has reportedly notified Pam Bondi that she sees no basis for Indicting Adam Schiff on mortgage fraud.

Who wants to bet that the prosecutor will be fired within days, and a new prosecutor will seek to indict Schiff regardless?

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Now in week 3 of the Republican engineered shutdown and @SpeakerJohnson is leading this by keeping his members home on a paid vacation while government workers are not paid. They started this and they can end this by putting the interests of Americans first and ahead of Trump.

This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

This Is Fascism

BREAKING: House of Representatives to force vote on release of Epstein Files, in defiance of Speaker Johnson's attempts to silence them.

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Agree with Mayor Pete.......

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @mluckovichajc)

Robert Reich How Corporations Crush the Working Class | Robert Reich

Corporate America’s playbook:

1) Exploit workers to maximize profits
2) Use profits to buy Congress
3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws
4) Use these laws to further exploit workers
5) Repeat

Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

2,000-plus Pima County kids get free books through Dolly Parton's program Even her biggest fans have trouble choosing Dolly Parton’s greatest hit.

It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...

Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and that’s not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.

The Republican Party is just one big child sex trafficking and sexual abuse ring at this point

TARIFFS BACKFIRE: Bloomberg reports Trump’s tariffs are crushing U.S. textile exporters—raising costs, scaring off buyers, and stalling investments. Cocona Labs’ CEO says sales are down and the company may move some of its operations overseas.

Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.