Sleepy today.

TRUMP DUG UP $40 BILLION TO BAIL OUT HIS BUDDY IN ARGENTINA. WHAT COULD $40 BILLION DO FOR US AT HOME NEXT YEAR INSTEAD? ARGENTINA BAILOUT: $40 BILLION MAKE CHILD CARE AFFORDABLE FOR 1 MILLION+ FAMILIES: ~$20 BILLION PREVENT ACA PREMIUMS FROM DOUBLING: $23 BILLION LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES: $8.8 BILLION RESTORE CUTS TO SNAP: $8 BILLION MEANWHILE AMERICANS ARE STRUGGLING TO GET BY.

Billions for Argentina’s Wall Street investors.

Higher costs for American families.

“America First”? Give me a break.

The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with w...

A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students.

Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.

(Published Dec. 2024)

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

How Trump Has Exploited Pardons and Clemency to Reward Allies and Supporters The president’s second term has brought a flood of clemency for allies and donors — as well as felons, like him, who were convicted of financial wrongdoing.

“If you’re just an average citizen, you can’t even get in the line,” said a lawyer rep'ing a man seeking a pardon for decades-old tax crimes.

“I told my guy he’d probably be better off if he broke into the Capitol or made a major donation to Trump’s inauguration.”

Trump sent men to torture in El Salvador, report confirms Human Rights Watch found that Venezuelans shipped to El Salvador by the United States were beaten almost every day.

Beatings. Sexual assault. Psychological abuse.

These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the United States sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership by the United States.

She looks startled.

UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits.

Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families.

It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.

As Americans go hungry, Trump’s out golfing on your dime using your tax dollars. Don’t worry, it’s only about $3–4 million per trip.

Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.

The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with physical traits. trib.al/tRBiY0C

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.

A lack of media prevalence has led the public to think that they are in the minority for wanting climate action. The reality is that most ("roughly 80 to 89%") want their governments to do more. See @amywestervelt.bsky.social's piece in @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Great to have a good day! And nice shirt.

In weighing whether to expand its military campaign to dry land, the administration has identified the Venezuelan armed forces as a potential target—considered a major escalation into all-out war. trib.al/9PK77C3

Last week, Trump stated this intention and bragged that Congress wouldn’t stop him.

Make No Mistake: Trump Is Trying to Steal the Midterms For MAGA, 2026 will be payback for 2020.

Make no mistake, writes jeetheer.bsky.social: Trump is trying to steal the midterm elections.

Would that stupidity and royal self entitlement would sink Trump!

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration has now granted protection to members of far-right European parties.

This plan, which recently became official, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for white nationalism.

The dog looks a little chunky in this photo. Must be the angle.

This is the country we’ve become under the Trump administration.

With China Truce, U.S. National Security Controls Now Appear Up for Negotiation

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

Here’s another way Trump’s “deal” with China was a disaster.

He negotiated away export controls that his own experts had said were critical to protecting our national security.

China got exactly what it wanted. So much for America First.

Very scary.

A new congressional map places two of the five Democratic Reps—Greg Landsman and Marcy Kaptur—into redder districts in their already purple state.

The move comes as Republicans nationwide engage in an effort to gerrymander maps in their favor as midterm elections approach. trib.al/51TcFx8

Very scary.

The dog is lax in her duties as a technician.

Alejandro Juarez arrived for his immigration appointment and was detained, placed on the wrong plane, sent to Texas, and told to walk across the border to Mexico.

Juarez, who lived with his wife and four children in New York, had worked for Donald Trump for more than a decade. trib.al/DNmHDBW

Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained." - .

FACTS: "Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear."

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

NBC and CBS cuts hit race and culture verticals On Wednesday, CBS News parent company Paramount — newly merged with Skydance — began laying off more than 2,000 employees, including at CBS News, which recently installed Free Press founder Bari…

In a post on TikTok, former CBS News producer Trey Sherman said CBS laid off all the people of color on his production team while white staff were reassigned. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nbc-...

US Senate votes to end Trump’s global tariffs on more than 100 countries Vote passes 51-47 in latest bipartisan effort to challenge tariffs, but House is unlikely to take any similar action The US Senate took a stand against Donald Trump’s global tariffs affecting more than 100 countries on Thursday, voting to nullify the so-called “reciprocal” tariffs. Four Republicans joined with all Democrats to vote 51-47 on a resolution to end the base-level tariffs that the president put into place via executive order. Continue reading...

US Senate votes to end Trump’s global tariffs on more than 100 countries

Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their…

From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favor.