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.

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Pentagon Orders States to Train Hundreds of National Guard Troops for “Quick Reaction Forces” Critics call the order an escalation of Trump’s militarization of cities across the country.

A newly released Department of Defense memo calls for all states to form “quick reaction forces” within the National Guard that will be trained in “riot control” procedures — the latest indication that President Donald Trump is set to escalate his militarization of cities across the country.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Save the date for the next one! Sunday Nov 2nd at 1:30pm at Powderhorn!

First Weekend of Early Voting Shatters Record, as Mamdani Rallies Thousands in Queens Turnout was massive across all five boroughs, with voters telling THE CITY that they were motivated to vote for — and against — the Democratic nominee.

Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.

Hurricane Melissa strengthens to category 5 and heads for Jamaica amid warning ‘many communites will not survive flooding’ – live Jamaicans urged to seek shelter immediately, and Cuba, Haiti and Dominican Republic also threatened My colleagues Natricia Duncan and Anthony Lugg have some details about the advice officials are giving to residents in Jamaica in anticipation of Melissa and explain why this hurricane is expected to be so powerful. Here is an extract from their story, which was written with the help of news agency reporting: During a press conference in Kingston on Sunday, Jamaican authorities said both international airports were closed and 881 shelters had been activated. “Many of these communities will not survive the flooding,” said Desmond McKenzie, the minister of local government. “Kingston is extremely low. No community in Kingston is immune.” Continue reading...

Hurricane Melissa strengthens to category 5 and heads for Jamaica amid warning ‘many communites will not survive flooding’ – live

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

Ursula K. Le Guin

Gentle reminder that should a general strike happen, it’s crucial to plan and establish robust networks of community care.

There will be people, especially within the disability community, who can’t participate.

Who have needs that must be met.

Let’s make sure we figure out how to include them!

The Six Day Peace Yet another Trump failure.

"Trump did not achieve lasting peace in Gaza. He didn’t achieve a week of peace in Gaza. Because Trump only cares about Trump, and whatever narrative can be wrangled in support of Trump is what he’s going with, regardless of the consequences."

Happy Ace Week! 🖤🩶🤍💜

This must stop now

It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral
Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

Outdoor fridges are being stocked in underserved East Bay communities, as part of growing grassroots effort A growing army of volunteers has been taking part in an organic, grassroots effort to help feed the hungry by stocking refrigerators placed at various locations in the East Bay.

Good evening. There are good things happening in our communities. How might you add to the good?

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Vast majority of Americans, including Trump supporters, want health care tax credits extended | Arizona Mirror Poll shows 78% of Americans, including Republicans and MAGA supporters, want enhanced ACA tax credits extended

Nearly 3-in-5 MAGA voters want to see the Affordable Care Act subsidies extended. Republicans in Congress so far haven't been interested in doing that.

Enough is enough. Tell the GOP to protect your healthcare and stop playing games. #shutdown #protectourhealthcare #constitutionalcrisis #dictatorTrump

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Hey everyone, it’s Friday Funding Day, which is where I ask you to help support my campaign because our election finance laws suck!

Fun fact - did you know that if we had publicly financed campaigns, I wouldn’t have to do this? You’d also stop getting “please send $5” emails and texts!

Artificial Scarcity Disability systems rely on artificial economies of scarcity. Programs are underfunded, so caregivers, teachers, social workers, and disabled people themselves are all pushed to project their needs as…

Reducing staff and increasing administrative burden creates denials of service and artificial scarcity.

Disabled people know administrative burden and artificial scarcity all too well.

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We won’t let the conversation around gun violence go away.

I’m committed to passing legislation that meets the expectations of Minnesotans.

Our offer to Republicans addresses mental health, school safety, support for law enforcement, and most importantly, common sense gun laws.

why do they make the expiration dates on food so tiny!?!?

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Peters Report Finds that DOGE Continues to Operate Unchecked, Likely Violating Federal Privacy and Security Laws, and Putting the Safety of Americans’ Personal Information in Danger - Committee on Hom... WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report revealing that the Trump Administration’s Department o...

Senate Dems released a report today about DODGE & its attempt destroy Social Security and this is precisely what they should do. However though I have seen some coverage of this, I doubt the public will really take this in given everything else happening.

www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/p...

I Filmed the ICE Officer Who Shoved a Woman. It Felt Like the New Normal. I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines.

What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior.

By @tilleckert.com

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Perhaps fewer men would feel threatened by feminism if their sense of manhood rested on something other than the oppression of women

Yep