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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

If republicans are able-bodied and getting government assistance, they should be subject to a work requirement, no?

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3h

The US House of Representatives committee calendar for October 2025

It's .... quite something

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

There is more than enough funding for SNAP. The Trump administration is using food insecurity as a political weapon.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Running against @RepTimBurchett 👇🏽 🎯

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Alice ❌👑 @a-l-yang.bsky.social · 18h

House Dems are in the Capitol trying to restore our healthcare, and most are voluntarily going without pay during this shutdown. House Repubs are absent and ARE drawing their salary, giving themselves a paid vacation while their constituents suffer.
#TrumpShutdown
open.substack.com/pub/chopwood...

Chop Wood, Carry Water 10/30

DC recap and some important actions!

open.substack.com

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scopedoc.bsky.social @scopedoc.bsky.social · 10h

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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scopedoc.bsky.social @scopedoc.bsky.social · 1d

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

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MJ @mudgesd.bsky.social · 1d

Boycott CBS

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 3d

Nice to see Josh Hawley finally sees the value of SNAP, but he and every other GOP voted whole-heartedly for the Big Beautiful Bill which cut SNAP and Medicare benefits to give tax breaks to billionaires #SNAP
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Opinion | Josh Hawley: No American Should Go to Bed Hungry

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 3d

Let's TALK FACTS
@usda.gov
There ARE Contingency Funds
to provide you SNAP BENEFITS but Republicans choose to blame Democrats and make CHILDREN, SENIORS, and FAMILIES suffer
Callous and Cruelty
Sabotaging Americans

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 5d

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scopedoc.bsky.social @scopedoc.bsky.social · 5d

www.youtube.com/shorts/4Iu3g...

They did the Monster Slash

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 6d

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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scopedoc.bsky.social @scopedoc.bsky.social · 7d

He is such a baby. And they do not require permission to cite a public speech.

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 7d

"The central question in the abortion debate is not whether a fetus is a person, but whether a woman is."
Ellen Willis
@beingliberal

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d

This is amazing!!

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 9d

oops we don't have a Constitutional republic any more

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9d

I feel like people missed this. On the $230 million shakedown, when Trump said, "I'm the one that makes the decision," he accidentally confirmed that he is appropriating for himself the power to order Todd Blanche to approve it:

newrepublic.com/article/2021...

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 10d

The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House.

That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.

This photo, taken on April 1, 1941, shows First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sitting in front of a fireplace, accompanied by her staffers Malvina Thompson and Edith Helm at the White House in Washington, D.C.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 10d

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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scopedoc.bsky.social @scopedoc.bsky.social · 10d

In July, Trump said: “It won’t interfere with the current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it but not touching it—and pays total respect to the existing building". No building plans submitted to National Capital Planning Commission.