NEW: Sen Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is questioning donors to Trump White House ballroom project … including Apple, Amazon, Caterpillar

“… who solicited your donation..”

www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

Monthly DoD payroll is ~$16 billion. This supposed "gift" would cover less than 1% of that amount.

If split evenly among active duty service members, each would get just under $100.

Reporters who don't challenge on this are committing egregious malpractice.

Where’d you source that handy tool?

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Where do these payments from law firms, higher ed, media & tech actually go? The plane and crypto seem evident. Are the others campaign contributions? Treasury deposits? What is the currency trail?

How many people have not done any of those things?

Well, well, well...

If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:

1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?

Hard to believe any reputable demo company would approach the destruction of a national monument in such a haphazard manner.

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

I did too

Thanks for the read.

Every bar in SoCal is going to go out of business if the Corps doesn’t get paid? Is that Hegseth fit?

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

Among the most hideous & ubiquitous historical fables taught in this country are about the “discovery” of America and the “settling” of North America by pioneers. But there’s even more.

This Indigenous People’s Day,decide to learn.Ned Blackhawk & @rebeccanagle.bsky.social’s works are extraordinary.

They always try to exploit a shame game - free speech, healthcare, SNAP benefits, marital status, repro justice …

Preorders always matter, for authors, booksellers, and publishers. Preorders for a book as urgently needed as this one matter even more. Pubbing 11/4, preorder here, now: bookshop.org/a/106297/978...

We must be doing something right. We made the “list”.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

We were gearing up for #NoKings on the I71 footbridge this week.

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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And buying icebreakers from not-America-first Finland