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Washingtonian @washingtonian.com · 52m

Some are even offering free meals entirely, including free entrees at select José Andrés eateries, a free lunch sandwich at Moby Dick House of Kebab, free tacos at Taqueria Xochi in Navy Yard, or a free buffet lunch at Aldie in Warrenton.

Where Those Impacted by the Shutdown Can Find Help—and How You Can Help

"We are preparing for something truly catastrophic—and I don't use the word catastrophic easily."

www.washingtonian.com

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 7h

I spoke with Richard Hooker Jr., who leads Teamsters Local 623 in Philly, about his run against Sean O'Brien for President of the Teamsters

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

Labor activist takes on Teamsters leader allying with Trump: ‘He doesn’t represent the workers’

Richard Hooker Jr is running to replace Trump ally Sean O’Brien as president of the Teamsters International union

www.theguardian.com

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ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social · 1h

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 7d

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1h

A packed crowd erupts into chants for Abigail Spanberger days ahead of Election Day

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

Arendt's eulogy poem for Walter Benjamin:

Mournfulness is like a flame lit in the heart,
Darkness is like a glow that leads us through the night.
We only need to ignite this small light of grief,
To find home, like shadows, across the long vast night.
The forest is illuminated, the city, the street, and the tree.
Blessed is he who has no home; he sees it still in his dreams.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 8h

"Criminals increasingly use generative AI to mimic real people’s voices and con their loved ones out of money. There’s a simple solution to this high-tech problem: a code word." www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

Why Every Family Needs a Code Word

Authenticating the voice on the other end of the line is critical in an age of deepfakes.

www.wsj.com

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Mecklenburg County Democratic Committee of Virginia @mcdcva.bsky.social · 21h

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ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social · 18h

Just people trying to make their way BUT the official church motto is "The Episcopal Church welcomes you"!

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ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, we will. 🇺🇸 also fought & beat Mussolini who seems to be Bovino’s personal hero. Do hope he remembers Mussolini’s fate…

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18h

If you want to know why we can’t give Trump a blank check, look what he did to USAID — illegally dismantling an agency that saved millions of lives and literally burning food meant for starving people.

As I told former USAID staff this week: their work was the best of America.

If you want to know why we can’t give Trump a blank check, look what he did to USAID

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

youtube.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22h

going to be hard for trump to claim the Ds are responsible for stopping SNAP when he's literally got a court order saying he's responsible and needs to give people food.

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 1d

Episcopals are a small but mighty force for good in this country

ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. Here’s latest in what Episcopalians are doing.

Episcopal churches, food pantries prepare to aid 42 million Americans on food assistance episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/10/30/c...

Episcopal churches, food pantries prepare to aid 42 million Americans on food assistance

[Episcopal News Service] Food ministries across The Episcopal Church have been offering aid to federal workers furloughed or working without pay since the Oct. 1 start of the government shutdown, a…

episcopalnewsservice.org

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ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly this.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 1d

New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this

Halloween voter 2025 sticker with a pigeon wearing a witches hat and holding a pumpkin lantern with bats and a witch in the background

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ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social · 1d

LISTEN to this man

KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 1d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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?”

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804ThePeople @804thepeople.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ Cville

Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 2d

What's next, you say? Just, you know, art in service to building the democratic future we deserve.

Charlottesville 'Jazz Parade for Democracy' this weekend to blend art, activism

Indivisible Charlottesville will be hosting a "Jazz Parade for Democracy" this Saturday at the Ting Pavilion on the Downtown Mall ahead of Tuesday's elections.

dailyprogress.com

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Rodrigo Aguilera 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @rodaimonia.bsky.social · 1d

Your friendly reminder that they never have this same requirement for the progressive left.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

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ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. Here’s latest in what Episcopalians are doing.

Episcopal churches, food pantries prepare to aid 42 million Americans on food assistance episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/10/30/c...

Episcopal churches, food pantries prepare to aid 42 million Americans on food assistance

[Episcopal News Service] Food ministries across The Episcopal Church have been offering aid to federal workers furloughed or working without pay since the Oct. 1 start of the government shutdown, a…

episcopalnewsservice.org

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ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, we will. 🇺🇸 also fought & beat Mussolini who seems to be Bovino’s personal hero. Do hope he remembers Mussolini’s fate…

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to blame the Dems cutting off SNAP (while sitting on billons of available contingency funds) as his boss bulldozes the WH to build a ball room like Saddam's palace, sends $40 billion to bail out Argentines, and eats "gold adorned" brownies in Korea is not gonna work.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "On Saturday, things are gonna become very dire."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

The contractors who just destroyed the East Wing are trying to lay low.

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www.cbsnews.com/news/some-wh...

Some White House ballroom contractors go underground

Some firms involved in the White House ballroom project appear to be trying to lower their online profiles.

www.cbsnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“Very happy to be going home — I didn’t seek to be a media sensation, but here we are.”

LARRY BUSHART (a liberal ex-cop) finally walks free after 30+ days in jail, getting his 1A rights violated in PERRY COUNTY for posting a Trump meme in a Charlie Kirk vigil Facebook group👇🏽

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 10d

This is your periodic update that it has now been MORE THAN A YEAR since a federal magistrate took under advisement the question of whether the FBI can look at evidence seized from Congressman Andy Ogles. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Eight months later, FBI investigation of GOP Congressman Andy Ogles still awaits federal judge's ruling

It’s been said that the wheels of justice grind slowly, and there may be no better example than the FBI’s investigation of Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles.

www.newschannel5.com

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ArendtFan @arendtfan.bsky.social · 3d

I ❤️DC

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

A friend was in town tonight and I was able to take him to the one and only 17th Street High Heel Race.

Yet another reminder that DC is better than Donald Trump could ever fathom.

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