"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Amazon announces they are laying off the largest amount of workers ever in the company’s history.

30,000+ workers will lose their jobs.

President Trump pictured in a bulldozer demolishing a house with the word "America" on it. He says "When you're a star, they let you do it! You can do anything!"

JUST IN: The White House has begun DEMOLISHING portions of the East Wing of the White House to build Trump’s $250 million ballroom — despite earlier claiming it wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure. (Washington Post)

But we “can’t afford” pediatric brain cancer research…

Oh right, this was never about the cost of research.

Supreme Court Will Consider Overturning Federal Ban On Drug Users Owning Guns The case is one of at least two major gun disputes the Supreme Court is set to decide this term.

The case is one of at least two major gun disputes the Supreme Court is set to decide this term.

US Senate candidate from Maine, Graham Platner, on fighting in stupid foreign wars. . .

#Maine #MEpolitics #VA #HealthCare

ACAs theory of the case for cost reduction was that by expanding basic coverage and getting more people to have insurance you’d have fewer people using emergency rooms for basic care and have a healthier population.

My quote of the day

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Maya Angelou

Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand

Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this

No other U.S. president has used the military as their own personal police force against the American people.

We implore the courts to reject Donald Trump's ongoing, illegal actions and definitively affirm states' sovereign right to handle public safety matters.

Portland City Council issued the following statement in response to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the potential deployment of National Guard troops in Portland:

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

It's the guns 💯%

The Trump Administration has spent months wrecking the resources California needs to forecast and respond to floods and winter storms.

Via the Water Resources Department, we're coordinating with local agencies on response protocol and carrying out $2B+ in flood prevention projects across our state.

Everyone realize that the reason the government is "shut down" is that the Republicans failed to pass a budget by Sept 30th, as they are required to do by law, and the government just ran out of money?

The shots from Missoula are unreal

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

It looks even worse by video 😢

Reporter: "There are reports that China is pressuring you to not support independence for Taiwan in exchange for a trade deal?"

Trump: "Well, I'm not going to talk about that."

The big crowds everywhere is the story. This is not just the usual places and the usual protesters. (Also chuffed to have Portland represented in a 📸 I took.)

Israel says it will return to ceasefire hours after carrying out strikes on Gaza - live updates Hamas and Israel accuse each other of violations, as hospital sources in Gaza say death toll reaches 44 and IDF says two soldiers killed.

Not an expert but pretty sure this isn’t how ceasefires are supposed to work.

Rebuild Illinois is one of the most comprehensive infrastructure programs in the nation — and we're making sure no community has been left out.

That includes River Drive in Moline, where we're breathing new life into the community and bringing more foot traffic to businesses.

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

#1090, Att. #41 in Giuffre v. Maxwell (S.D.N.Y., 1:15-cv-07433) – CourtListener.com ***STRICKEN DOCUMENT. Deleted document number [1090-38 and 1090-41] from the case record. The document was stricken from this case pursuant to 1091 Order Striking Document from Record, . (yv) NOTICE o...

In Giuffre's 2015 civil case against Maxwell, she named:

"All staff and employees at Mar-a-Lago during 1999-2002" as individuals who may have knowledge of Maxwell's crimes.

Shown here, paragraph 91

7 other Epstein survivors also can be placed at Mar-a-Lago

Giuffree not the only one

#Epstein

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

Luxury living, while your costs go up and up. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

TODAY! Trump has once again tweeted a video of a magazine cover mocked-up to show him being elected president again & again into the distant future.

THIS was his response to NO KINGS? Is he TRYING to make our point for us? Not only does he think he's KING, he's a mad king.
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FYI congress just got another week of vacation!

Maybe this will encourage more people to run… get paid to never go to work