DHS head reportedly authorized purchase of 10 engineless Spirit Airlines planes that airline didn’t own Wall Street Journal reports Kristi Noem arranged purchase to expand deportation flights and for personal travel

Noem attempted to procure two new luxury jets to support travel - including personal travel - for herself and the deputy secretary "at a cost to the taxpayer of $200m."

They're living like royalty with the help of Congress, while the people of the United States are struggling for food and shelter.

Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won?

People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.

Thank you to Senator Ron Wyden for letting us know the MAGA Senate Republicans are trying to slide a nationwide abortion ban into the shutdown negotiations.

Hell no! They want to control every part of women’s lives and we aren’t having it.

F the patriarchy.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Nory Doesn’t Go to School Here Anymore

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Santos:
—Pleaded guilty to wire fraud & identity theft
—Stole from political donors to fund a life of luxury
—Misused donations
—Stole from a homeless veteran’s dying dog
—Lied about losing his mother in 9/11
— Falsified his education,& work
—Misrepresented his finances
—Lied repeatedly to voters

Trump administration gives initial approval to bank backed by GOP megadonors Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the approval of Erebor Bank, which is linked to Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey, is a classic example of crony capitalism.

Holy “parallel establishment”. “Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s approval of a new bank backed by two GOP megadonors, tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey” … 1/ www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless "You're just a number to them."

When Genesis found out she was pregnant, she asked her managers at Amazon for a chair to sit on and extra breaks. She wound up with cut hours and no paid maternity leave—and homeless. Now, she and other pregnant Amazon warehouse workers are speaking up. My latest:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A white box with text. "Y'all. They're tear gassing my neighborhood. Right by the place we get hummus from. Right by where we get the extra large pizzas for sleep overs. Tell your people."

This is happening right now, to a friend of mine in Chicago. This is a peaceful area, with no previous unrest or crime problem. Just people trying to live their lives. My heart hurts. They're having conversations no family should have to have.

Hello, world: An open letter from ‘war-ravaged’ Portland

Please read and repost this editorial from the Oregonian which says it beautifully Portland is not "war ravaged," and under siege but remains a beautiful city. reader.theoregonian.com/hello-world-...

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.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Trump in 2013 on how to avoid a shutdown: “You have to get everyone in a room. You have to be a leader.”

Trump today: Cancels meeting with Democratic Leaders.

Don’t let this make you quieter.

Get louder.

Reporter (about protesters): “They still have First Amendment rights though?”

Trump: “Well, I’m not so sure.”

Not so sure. About free speech.

Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing.

Maybe farmers will wake up

The “law and order party” just let the 2nd most notorious living child trafficker be approved for work-release at nearby colleges.

YES, I think about this insight from Marilyn Frye all the time. When I first read this essay in college, it was like a lightning storm in my brain in the best way. So many questions were answered.

BREAKING: "FIFA opens office in Trump Tower"

The Left’s Litigation Trap Poorly chosen liberal lawsuits are a gift to a conservative majority eager to recast constitutional law.

Progressive lawyers must stop bringing new cases to the Supreme Court, writes Duncan Hosie. They are fighting “for ideas the justices were explicitly appointed to oppose”:

Meanwhile in Texas
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Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Peter Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

(Published 2021)

A reminder that of Trump's many despicable characteristics, his fierce antisemitism gets whitewashed the most readily

Cowards.

Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. 

But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately.

Remember this.

Trump’s Team Is Lying About Iran’s WMD He savaged Bush for distorting intelligence and overselling the military’s initial success in Iraq. Now Trump and his team are doing the same in Iran.

For anyone out there who thought we'd suddenly love Trump because he bombed Iran, read this from @saletan.bsky.social: