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Hopefully this isn’t a case of the SC just picking their battles to avoid an uprising and they actually stand behind the precedent.

What a farce, I highly doubt he’s that flexible

Come on, let’s not drag pigeons into this

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Mainstream businesses fighting the good fight? Penzey’s… others? When I turned vegan I found it easier to focus on the foods I could eat rather than all the ones I couldn’t.

Wild Boys - Duran Duran!

Complete insanity. Right in front of her daughter. This thug has no ID or anything.

What are we doing?

During circle time today, my daughter's class processed seeing a man get detained by ICE outside of their school.
Last week ICE pulled guns outside of my 7 y.o school. Today, it was outside of my 10 y.o's school.
Repubs want us to fear adults in drag around kids, I'm afraid of ICE agents in masks.

If I had to guess which 5 republicans those would be the ones. When can we get some new republicans to reach across the aisle? Like 1 or 2? Anyone? They’re all still sticking to their guns? FFS.

Because of course he did

Why is he revisiting this? Doesn’t he have a hundred new rants to go on?

I’m very confused, today I’m reading that Braun plans to call a special session to try and redraw the maps. Did something between today and 3 days ago when you posted this?

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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.

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Nope, no kings here!

Measles is making a comeback. As of September 2025, the US reported 1,431 confirmed cases of #measles — the most in a single year since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.

Put another way, that’s:
📈16.8x more cases than all of 2000
📈5x more than all of 2024

#DataViz #Health

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

“They” have shut the govt down and we have to get it reopened… lol

Indiana is still gerrymandered. We consistently vote 40% blue (presidents, governor etc), not as deep red as Pete states, but only have 2 out of 9 congress seats as blue. Doesn’t feel very representative. Still, 2 are better than 0.

I live in a state with repub supermajorities, but 40% of the state votes blue. I bet most residents aren’t aware of that. Repubs uphold a false narrative that we’re all red, it’s just who we are, don’t even bother trying to be anything else. They’ve manipulated all rules to keep themselves in power

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!

I’m sensing a tide shifting in reporting at Reuters which I hold in the highest regard as politically neutral and reliable. Reuters is getting kind of politicky (check out the stories on their home page) so if neutral Reuters is diving deep into political corruption then you know it’s bad out there

This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.

Mike Johnson could end the government shutdown and release the Epstein files today if he wanted to.

Why does he even care.

Yes but he doesn’t care if people know he’s lying. Making a spectacle is his strategy to keep people talking, expend energy, and get distracted, and ultimately confused about what’s real. I believe he’s laid this all out. Let’s not give him any more of our attention

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.