Cute light beige dog dressed as a Halloween ghost.

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

Alexa, list all of KKKrumpf's lies...She hasn't shut up for 3 whole days!!

One way to view reactionary politics is as a large-scale attempt to disable society's frontal cortex so that its id can run wild.

“It really exposes the inequality underlying our entire society.”

Kanew & @jrclemmons.bsky.social discuss 700,000 Tennesseans needing food assistance, because many jobs don’t pay them enough to live. (Aka corporate welfare)

Clemmons says even some state employees are on SNAP😕

This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

He also LOVES not having a functioning Congress, ceding control to only him.

US citizens, ensnared in ICE's racist dragnet, now clutch passport cards incessantly, even during slumber, fearing arbitrary detention for their hue. Supreme Court blessed this bigotry. #RacialProfiling

Excellent statement from one of Abugazelah's opponents in the IL-9 Dem primary.

Trump’s war on the different Which is a war on freedom. My interview with Will Bunch.

It's a war on freedom. My interview with @willbunch.bsky.social.

www.editorialboard.com/trumps-war-o...

Breaking: The era of police states is here. The Pentagon has ordered all 50 states, DC, and territories to train 23,500 National Guard members to be "quick reaction forces." It's another ploy to use the military against citizens.

Seems unconstitutional to do so, not that they have any regard.

It’s pretty convenient how they aren’t releasing employment data with the government shut down.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.

That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.

Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

It's truly like our Democracy and our economy is TOTALLY FALLING IN SLOW MOTION!!

WTF?????

Here is the long and short of it.

Consumer Confidence Hits Seven-Month Low—Government Shutdown A ‘Key Concern,’ Survey Says Recent surveys suggest Americans have grown increasingly concerned about inflation, rising prices and a cooled labor market.

Recent surveys suggest Americans have grown increasingly concerned about inflation, rising prices and a cooled labor market.

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

Trump's FCC hacks just inflated inmate call fees, shoveling cash to slimy prison moguls and phone cartels while crushing broke families underfoot. #PrivatePrisons

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

The message couldn’t be clearer: if accountability won’t protect Trump, use force. That’s an explicit call to substitute power for process. A former National Security Advisor advocating extralegal authority to shield a political leader is not defending the Constitution; it's an attempt to replace it

I'm no economist but the fact that more than 42 million Americans (1 in 8!) are on SNAP (i.e., food stamps) says that the federal minimum wage is way too low.

The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

JD Vance’s family was on food assistance when he was growing up, but he doesn’t think your family deserves that safety net.

When a president facing multiple court challenges over troop deployments claims “I’m allowed to do that” and “nobody would get involved,” it’s him signaling a plan to govern without checks and balances, not a display of confidence.

#ruleoflaw #authoritarianism #SteadyStateAssessment

Just a reminder …

I don’t think anyone hates insurance companies more than pharmacists.

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218.

Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

Do you really think they check the backgrounds of these ICE goons? Ever think you could be walking down the street, get grabbed by a group of masked, armed maniacs, and end up in jail in a country you’ve never heard of?