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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.

FAA reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 'high-volume' markets during government shutdown The Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday that it will reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 “high-volume” markets beginning Friday morning to maintain safety during the ongoing government...

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

This person took this when they called the race

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

It's "Watch All the Election Results Night" here in the states...

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:

“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

Good.

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i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.

The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.

They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

Head on over to their page @teenvogue.com and drop a comment on their pinned post about recognition for freedom of speech.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Did you decide to axe your entire politics team before or after you broke your arm, patting yourself on the back?

What’s the fascists’ plan? Probably…

Destroy the economy, then purchase businesses, govt. assets, and land for cheap.

Privatize everything, shift the economy from the dollar to company-owned cryptocurrency—then run the company-town model, effectively making people slaves.

Play-pretend as royalty.

One time. The GOP has won more than 50% of the popular vote <one time> since 1992. And yet, every day, you are bombarded with Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias about how deeply unpopular The Democrats and their policy platform are, without any reflection on how the same standard applies to the GOP.

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how the CBC forced me to resign over COVID

and why we’re all worse off for it—especially our kids

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(on the occasion of my son’s [5th] and the CBC’s [89th] shared birthday, nov. 2)

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They “didn’t know they had the legal authority” to use the SNAP emergency funds and it may take until Wednesday to figure out the process. They tore down the East Wing overnight and will send their goon squads into cities and put people in camps with no problem…. but feed people? Don't be fooled.

This quote continues to rattle me to my core:

"So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them."

That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

Zohran Mamdani, Black Voters and the Left Looked at closely, Mamdani’s campaign shows the crucial role—and potential—of Black voters in America’s insurgent left political coalition.

With an economic message speaking to Black working-class communities, and deep partnership with Black leaders (grassroots as well as institutional), a campaign like Zohran Mamdani’s can energize even skeptical Black voters.

@asha-rrs.bsky.social reporting

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"

A reminder that Musk is a mass murderer. It's not hyperbole.

Houston: Missing teen with autism in federal custody, ICE reports ICE confirmed with FOX 26 that a teen who went missing in Houston for a week had been in immigration custody since Monday.

Four weeks ago a 15 year old autistic boy went missing in Texas

His mom immediately filed a missing person’s report

6 days passed before she heard anything.

Turns out Houston PD found him the next day, but rather than return him to his Mom, they contacted ICE

He’s been in federal custody since

Her Majesty the Pumpkin Queen and her royal subject the Demon Pig bid you happy Halloween! 🎃🦇

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

I hate the whole data center thing. I also hate how much business my company is doing with data center builders. Anyway, I'm interviewing for a new position where I'll help develop a new switch rated higher than anything on the market, b/c data center demand. Am I the sell out?