Dogma Bakery Customers Rally to Feed Pets of Federal Workers During Shutdown ARLINGTON, VA - In true Northern Virginia fashion, compassion is going viral. Dogma Bakery & Boutique — located in Shirlington, adjacent to Alexandria

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” “Your pets will get what they need — even if I have to go to your vet myself!” says Dogma owner as donations pour in…”

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Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling

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“The people who get sucked into pyramid schemes all think that they are the only ones failing to sell any of the "merchandise" they shell out every month to buy, and that no one else has a garage full of unsold leggings or essential oils.”

Instead of Spotify, we're trying out apps including Tidal, Apple Music, Libby, Bandcamp, & the NPR app. What are your favorite sources for music, audio books, & podcasts?

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

BREAKING: Federal Judge Immergut in Portland rules Trump admin CANNOT deploy National Guard to Oregon. Grants state & city a PERMANENT injunction, barring troops indefinitely.

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

'Blunt Corruption': Trump DOJ Hands Google an Antitrust Win After Tech Giant's Ballroom Donation | Common Dreams Alphabet, Google's parent company, is contributing $22 million to the president's ballroom project.

We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time.

Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

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Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.

Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.

American capitalism is off the rails.

Policing gender hurts trans folks most of all, but it also hurts cis women who just get baselessly hit with gender based attacks any time some misogynists don’t like them for not looking “fem enough.”

A mustard read!

After ICE agents raided a Chicago day care Wednesday morning and arrested a teacher that has citizenship documents, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) says President Donald Trump is using the city to condition Americans to normalize him using the military against his own people.

What year is it again?

Rewatching Zohran's victory speech bit by bit and it's hard not to be emotional about it - it's an appeal to hope and courage but also to the fundamental idea of living in society, together. Feels like we've been starved, often deliberately, of that kind of thinking

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Apparently it's "communist" to retain a rent stabilization system which has been in place since 1941, but it's "capitalist" for Trump to insist that the federal government take a controlling stake in dozens of companies with which he engages.

"This new age will be defined by a competence and a compassion that have too long been placed at odds with one another. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about."

- Zohran Mamdani, leader of the Democratic Party

Day 3 of the “no more than 2” day trial of Sandwich Guy. The prosecution intends to rest; the defense hasn’t decided yet. Dispute over jury instructions continues, a few morsels (sorry) to follow.

“No contact is sought with reality. Innuendo clings to paranoia, generating a sense that the strong side, the people giving the orders, planning the killing, are the true victims.”

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

It turns out if you run an honest, joyful campaign built on lifting people up and giving them actionable plans to improve their material conditions, they’ll vote for you in droves.

Imagine that!

AOC: “We have a future to plan for, we have a future to fight for, and we’re either gonna do that together or you’re going to be left behind… This is about: do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now, and the assignment is to come together across difference no matter what.”

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

This shocking video shows what Chicago is enduring, for no real reason other than Stephen Miller's ICE showing what they can do. The woman in the car was recovering from kidney surgery in August. The full story is in the link below. #ProudBlue www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Back for Day 2 of Sandwich Guy’s trial. In government opening statement: “This case is about the fact that you can’t go around throwing stuff at people when you’re mad.”

We don’t have to rely on the federal government to advance a progressive agenda. Several states are taking up the baton. Here's just one example you should know about. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-wealth-tax-that-works