The violence and cruelty that Trump’s ICE is inflicting on our communities is unacceptable. The American people are seeing it with their own eyes, and they are horrified. It must end.

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...

Just about everyone, regardless of political party, can agree: food poisoning is the worst. But Trump’s FDA staffing cuts mean fewer safety inspections of food facilities, putting us all at greater risk of getting very sick, or in the most severe cases, dying.
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Portland schools go on lockdown due to immigration enforcement activity The district wrote to parents and staff that school leaders are developing dismissal plans to ensure students can return home safely this afternoon.

The district wrote to parents and staff that school leaders are developing dismissal plans to ensure students can return home safely this afternoon.

Walmart is now selling butter in two-stick packages…

IYKYK

Their workers need SNAP though.

Trump thinks he owns the government. He's wrong. The people own the government.

Vote for Democrats today to show this wannabe dictator who's boss. There's still plenty of time to make it to the polls.

NEWS: Trump says he will refuse to follow a court order demanding that he provide SNAP benefits to millions of Americans, choosing instead to force people to starve

Federal Judge Issues Immediate Halt of Trump Administration’s Illegal Firing of Federal Workers During Shutdown - Democracy Forward

This is a victory worth savoring. Let's keep raising our voices for a government that serves all of us.

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Something to take into account. Abigail Spanberger got her start in politics via Moms Demand. We talk a lot about the Trump effect and Dobbs radicalizing suburban women with degrees. But I think we miss just how school shootings served as a sparkplug for the suburban shift for educated women.

We've got you 👍

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s…

Why is this happening? Oklahoma has tens of thousands of abandoned, unplugged oil wells.

When oil companies dispose of wastewater by injecting into the ground, those wells provide pathways for the waste to shoot thousands of feet to the surface, contaminating drinking water sources along the way.

Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500.

Insane

THIS MOTHERFUCKER HELD A GREAT GATSBY PARTY WHILE 43 MILLION PEOPLE GO HUNGRY AND HEALTHCARE COSTS KEEP RISING.

We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions

Donald Trump is refusing to release the jobs data and now his government shutdown has delayed this week’s GDP & inflation numbers.

Trump needs release the data and end the shutdown.

Or the Fed could risk a misstep that hurts American families.

Opinion | How the Supreme Court Paved the Way for Revenge Prosecutions

Must read piece by @weissmann.substack.com & Mary McCord: In the year since, rather than preventing the weaponization of prosecutions, the court has unleashed it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

“.. the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion .. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.”

@nytopinion.nytimes.com
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Trump Gutted Agency Investigating Zombie Mortgage Debt Collectors Many homeowners were blindsided by huge bills from zombie mortgages. A federal investigation of unlawful debt collections has stalled after the Trump administration gutted the Consumer Financial Prote...

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White House announces new limits on press access at 5 pm on Halloween

Democrats and the majority must come up with a plan NOW on what to do when, not if, Trump and Stephen Miller go for martial law.

People still aren't paying attention. Take them literally and seriously, folks.

While #Melissa hits Jamaica, on the other side of the globe Huế experiences serious flooding.

We are in a climate emergency, and should not take seriously those who think we should not talk about it.

This man must have been on the Omni ICE flight I tracked over the weekend. Meaning he spent more than 40 hours onboard shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a waist chain before being dropped off in a country he doesn’t appear to have ever been to.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

#ICYMI: We found that the FDA allowed 20+ foreign factories to continue to send certain medications to the U.S. even after those facilities were banned because of concerns about contamination and other breaches.

The agency kept the practice largely hidden from the public and Congress.

Wow. Based on the comments, a lot of people saw me on Maddow tonight!

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Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

$40,000,000,000 for Argentina.
$200,000,000 for Kristi Noem’s private jets.
$230,000,000 for a DOJ payout to TRUMP.

But nothing to stop your healthcare costs from increasing.

Talk about priorities.

ICE is out of control and beyond repair This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.

"The next presidency is going to have to embark on a sweeping de-Trump-ification of the entire federal government to purge it of the culture of abuse and lawlessness that has taken hold, and there are few more vivid examples than ICE." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

$130M Pentagon Donor Has Ties to Jeffrey Epstein That's right. All roads lead to Epstein. Timothy Mellon is the heir to the Bank of New York Mellon, which was just sued by an Epstein survivor for funding Epstein's sex trafficking ring for years.

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This.