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🔴 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ordered the army to immediately carry out "powerful strikes" on Gaza.

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Wait, I thought ...

CNN: "Do you wake up worried that you and your family could go hungry?"

SNAP recipient Shari Jablonowski: "Yes. I can't afford all the bills in this house... I'm just totally screwed. I don't know else to put it."

So much state’s rights…

Supreme Court Ruling Could Let Red States Erase Decades of Voting-Rights Protections GOP-led states across the South are preparing redistricting plans that could dismantle minority-representation safeguards if the Court limits Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

The Supreme Court is poised to decide whether race can still shape voting maps, a ruling that could erase decades of protections and shift political power across the South for a generation.
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Holy balls!

Trump promised to lower costs “on Day One.” Well, more than 270 days in, inflation is rising.

Prices are up for groceries, electricity, rent and more—with health care premiums set to double for millions of Americans if the President and Congressional Republicans refuse to act.

Baek Se-hee: South Korean author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki dies at 35 South Korean writer Baek Se-hee was known for her 2018 bestselling memoir about her struggle with depression.

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😱😨

well, that's awkward

If you look at key moments in the history of social change, often there's a photograph that shakes people.

Bull Connor attacking Civil Rights protestors.

MLK's speech in Washington.

A child running from the My Lai massacre.

Photography can arouse the conscience in ways words cannot.

Anxiety is rising among congressional Republicans that their party has no plan to address a critical health care deadline this fall that will result in spiking costs for millions of Americans – the issue at the heart of the deepening government shutdown crisis.
https://cnn.it/3L5TJmK

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.

NYT - Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the US government to help pay troops during the shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us...

With SNAP being lost at the end of the week I keep thinking about how we almost ended food insecurity in children when we had the COVID checks. The US government could ensure every child was safe by investing in Americans, but the president is investing in other countries and ballrooms instead.

Don’t Fall for the Supreme Court’s “Pro-Weed” Gun Case The case, which proposes expanding gun access to drug users, is not an opportunity—it‘s a trap.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

And people can lie and say it was ugly…and spread more lies & hate by stating art (and by extension, architecture) has become uglier because of one political party.

The White House Is Being Destroyed Because Corruption Doesn’t Matter Anymore The demolition of the East Wing is a symbol of a system that long ago stopped caring about the kind of blatant graft that Trump loves.

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“Isn’t it time, in the era of Trump and RFK Jr., to focus on a social structure in which corporations and institutions make decisions that profoundly affect people’s health?”

We Have No One to Blame for Public Health Disasters but Ourselves Isn’t it time, in the era of Trump and RFK Jr., to focus on a social structure in which corporations and institutions make decisions that profoundly affect people’s health?

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

No, Donald Trump isn’t the first US president to solve a war During a White House visit by Ukraine’s president, President Donald Trump expanded on his boast about solving eight wars, saying no president before him had solved even one. Pants on Fire!

During a White House visit by Ukraine’s president, President Donald Trump expanded on his boast about solving eight wars, saying no president before him had solved even one. Pants on Fire!

“Like, dead.”
Like, seriously?

Last Holocaust Warsaw Ghetto Uprising suvivor dies | The Jerusalem Post Michael Smuss was born on April 15, 1926, in Danzig, where his family lived until the rise of the Nazi Party.

www.jpost.com/israel-news/... #RIP

Senators demand Linda McMahon ask DHS to stop immigration enforcement near schools The letter says that “if society can agree that alcohol, tobacco and drugs should be kept at least 1,000 feet away from our schools,” then “violent DHS tools and tactics also belong on that list.”

If alcohol, tobacco and drugs aren’t allowed within 1,000 feet of schools—tear gas shouldn’t be either.

We send our kids to school to learn, not receive front row seats to Trump’s extreme enforcement tactics.

I’m demanding Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon do something to stop this.

After Waiting Months, Jeffries Gives Last-Minute 'Passive-Aggressive' Endorsement of Mamdani Journalist Prem Thakker said Jeffries' endorsement, given less than a day before early voting in New York's mayoral election is set to open, had "the enthusiasm of a pout and crossed arms."

After waiting four months, Hakeem Jeffries, the top Democrat in the House, finally gave a "passive-aggressive" endorsement to Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, less than a day before early voting is set to open.

I’m sure the WH will rework those numbers in no time!

Putin’s Got Missiles For Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Peace deal still in pieces.

Putin’s Got Missiles For Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan
www.wonkette.com/p/putins-got...

By Marcie Jones @marciej.bsky.social

*shudders*

Maybe they’re mixing Maduro up with Noriega…*she says with partial sarcasm*

That’s…an unsettling photograph.