Live Updates: Trump Cuts Off Trade Talks With Canada

Last month, playing tape of Charlie Kirk's words was enough to get people fired for the new category of anti-Kirkist hate speech.

This month, playing tape of Ronald Reagan's words is enough to spark a presidential tantrum and diplomatic breakdown.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

This is about to get bad.

D.C. Republicans are on paid vacation while millions in their own districts are about to lose SNAP benefits.

They’ll find out soon enough—families with hungry kids don’t stay silent. #FeedTheShutdown

A reminder to donate to your local food banks if you are able.

Except it is succeeding. For Trump and those who support him.

They don't care if they live in a failed state as long as they are rich.

Politics is the art of making people care. Effective movements *shift the polls* by framing issues as moral questions.

If the fascists can make people care about conspiracy theories like QAnon, we can make people care about freedom and democracy.

(George Lakoff wrote several books on this.)

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Awesome that every search engine and major social media site is forcing AI news summaries onto everyone //

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Who is the snowflake now?

NEW: House Judiciary's Jamie Raskin is echoing Jack Smith's demand for public hearings:

"I am now calling on you to accept Mr. Smith's offer to testify at a public hearing so the American people can all hear directly from him on the matters we will be questioning him about." tinyurl.com/yrmrdr3t

Unlike President Truman, the buck instead stops at all the people who recommend the pardon.

I love that this is literally just

we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now

will there be any followup to this fascinating story by the president of the united states that a friend of his sent him a check for $130 million dollars and the president is going to give the money to the military because i for one am fascinated about the details tbh

Maybe they should debate. Although the last time he debated a Black woman, he got his clock cleaned.

Reassess the sequencing. Overseas far right groups aren’t being ‘drawn’ to these events at CityWest… they are drawing them up, designing these events.

The law and order president.

Democrats can just run this clip as an ad

It takes 30 days to grow a radish. Also 2/3 of the country is already in or entering winter.

I don't think we would have gotten here if Dems didn't hold out.

Breaking: EU member states agreed the 19th package of sanctions against Russia.

Will list 12 further entities from China or Hong Kong for sanctions circumvention, many in drone space. One entity in Hong Kong sanctioned - reports suggest some Chinese refineries & oil traders too

Take note, America.

Big news out of Indiana today as Republican legislators surprise everyone by saying no to Donald Trump.

Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident.

He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

If you drove through Compton with no plates, how long would it take LA Sheriffs to pull YOU over?

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Sen. Merkley concludes marathon 22-hour speech protesting Trump amid shutdown

If you can’t watch the whole 22+ hours,
at least watch the final 19 minutes

youtu.be/VKuysbYR1KQ

*identicide

In other news, here's a link to Wikipedia's explanation of identified: share.google/N1vkK0XytQXL...

Are we now at the "Destroying Cultural Heritage" stage of erasing cultural identity?

fuckin YIKES

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.