E.J. Graff
@ejgraff.bsky.social
Editorial coaching & communications consulting. Journalist, author, loudmouth. Substack at https://howtobeamerican.substack.com. Website at ejgraff.com.
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Donald Trump just said he'll ask the Supreme Court to freeze SNAP payments AGAIN.
His message to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP? Eat dirt.
His message to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP? Eat dirt.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Donald Trump just said he'll ask the Supreme Court to freeze SNAP payments AGAIN.
His message to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP? Eat dirt.
His message to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP? Eat dirt.
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See this? This is a case to potentially be concerned about!
BREAKING: #SCOTUS will decide an issue near and dear to President Trump: whether federal law allows states to tally ballots in federal elections after Election Day. 5th Circuit ruled it does.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
See this? This is a case to potentially be concerned about!
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68% of SNAP users are children or older/disabled people. Another 20% are families with kids.
The remaining 11% is the only category the GOP leadership wants to talk about.
Media: when they do that, do your job and cite this chart!!!
The remaining 11% is the only category the GOP leadership wants to talk about.
Media: when they do that, do your job and cite this chart!!!
PSC experts @pamherd.bsky.social and Luke Shaefer @umfordschool.bsky.social help us understand the consequences of blocking SNAP benefits, which mostly go to children or disabled elderly adults.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
68% of SNAP users are children or older/disabled people. Another 20% are families with kids.
The remaining 11% is the only category the GOP leadership wants to talk about.
Media: when they do that, do your job and cite this chart!!!
The remaining 11% is the only category the GOP leadership wants to talk about.
Media: when they do that, do your job and cite this chart!!!
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AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
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A cleaning woman showed up at the wrong house with her husband. Someone inside shot through the door, striking 32-year-old María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez in the head, killing her.
The Indianapolis suburb is called Whitestown.
The Indianapolis suburb is called Whitestown.
Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A cleaning woman showed up at the wrong house with her husband. Someone inside shot through the door, striking 32-year-old María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez in the head, killing her.
The Indianapolis suburb is called Whitestown.
The Indianapolis suburb is called Whitestown.
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Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
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We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...
prospect.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
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Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.
This is almost too painful for satire
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is almost too painful for satire
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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NEW: Judge Ellis will be issuing a preliminary injunction against federal agents in Chicago - a more permanent version of her earlier temporary restraining order.
Ellis now getting into the meat of the injnuction order she says she *will* be issuing, starting with her ruling that plaintiffs have standing to pursue relief.
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
NEW: Judge Ellis will be issuing a preliminary injunction against federal agents in Chicago - a more permanent version of her earlier temporary restraining order.
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I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
November 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
She's a hero.
Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”
Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
She's a hero.
"Smiling like Mamdani" needs to become a meme. That man can beam like nobody's business.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Smiling like Mamdani" needs to become a meme. That man can beam like nobody's business.
To our NYC friends, I want to say: Welcome to the feeling of having a great mayor!!!
Thank you, Boston 💜
Thank you to every voter and volunteer, every candidate and campaign for strengthening our democracy.
We are the city of champions, beacon for freedom & home for everyone. At a time of challenge and consequence, Boston is going to keep moving forward.
Thank you to every voter and volunteer, every candidate and campaign for strengthening our democracy.
We are the city of champions, beacon for freedom & home for everyone. At a time of challenge and consequence, Boston is going to keep moving forward.
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
To our NYC friends, I want to say: Welcome to the feeling of having a great mayor!!!
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Maybe they should also run some editorials about how X is out of touch and an echo chamber.
Perhaps the NYT should run some articles about how the Republicans need to listen to the concerns of ordinary Democratic voters.
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Maybe they should also run some editorials about how X is out of touch and an echo chamber.
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this strange feeling you're experiencing this morning is optimism. hang on to it, we've got a long road ahead to the midterms next year, this is what will get you there.
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
this strange feeling you're experiencing this morning is optimism. hang on to it, we've got a long road ahead to the midterms next year, this is what will get you there.
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Very much this.
Trump is incapable of learning. Other GOP incumbents seeing tonight's results will draw the correct conclusion that everything Trump does is turning to shit at the ballot box. The question becomes how do they react: reject Trump or double down on rejecting democracy?
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Very much this.
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Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
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The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.
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This is why you can't succumb to nihilism. I know it's SO fucking hard, but that's what the fash want: for us to give up. Fuck them, it's not over
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This is why you can't succumb to nihilism. I know it's SO fucking hard, but that's what the fash want: for us to give up. Fuck them, it's not over