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The Trump administration's appeal of a requirement that it make full November SNAP payments has to be seen to be believed.
The opening sentence asserts that "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."
The opening sentence asserts that "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."
In SNAP appeal, Trump administration says it faces more harm than people who can't buy food: ANALYSIS
The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge's requirement that it make full November SNAP payments.
abcnews.go.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The Trump administration's appeal of a requirement that it make full November SNAP payments has to be seen to be believed.
The opening sentence asserts that "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."
The opening sentence asserts that "the district court's order threatens significant and irreparable harm to the government which outweighs any claimed injury to plaintiffs."
Just what a president concerned with affordability would do of course. (Now off to Mar a Lago...)
Trump administration asks appeals court to immediately halt ruling on SNAP funding
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to issue an emergency stay of a judge's ruling Thursday ordering the administration to fully fund SNAP.
abcnews.go.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Just what a president concerned with affordability would do of course. (Now off to Mar a Lago...)
Just read the first graf. Spot on.
October 30, 2025
House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to pin the upcoming catastrophic lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funding on the Democrats.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Just read the first graf. Spot on.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and$187 billion from SNAP over ten years (after the midterms). Refusal to extend the premium tax credits and end the government shutdown gives Americans an early taste of what those changes will mean.
October 29, 2025
Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and$187 billion from SNAP over ten years (after the midterms). Refusal to extend the premium tax credits and end the government shutdown gives Americans an early taste of what those changes will mean.
October 25, 2025 "at the same time the Department of Agriculture says it cannot spend its $6 billion in reserves to address the $8 billion needed for SNAP in November, the administration easily found $20 billion to prop up right-wing Trump ally Javier Milei in Argentina.
What are we doing here?"
What are we doing here?"
October 25, 2025
Yesterday the Trump administration said it would not use any of the approximately $6 billion the U.S.
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 AM
October 25, 2025 "at the same time the Department of Agriculture says it cannot spend its $6 billion in reserves to address the $8 billion needed for SNAP in November, the administration easily found $20 billion to prop up right-wing Trump ally Javier Milei in Argentina.
What are we doing here?"
What are we doing here?"
Defining deviancy down is the signature of the trump administration
“One atrocity after another just this past week…If you’re fine with all that, you should ask yourself what’s broken inside of you…The true danger of corruption is that evil ceases to be regarded as such by otherwise good people. It just becomes the new normal.”
open.substack.com/pub/mattlaba...
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Help!
We're drowning in corruption
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Defining deviancy down is the signature of the trump administration
How children are treated in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Overall, OBBBA will likely end up reducing benefits for roughly as many families as it helps, with the greatest losses concentrated among the least well-off.
Overall, OBBBA will likely end up reducing benefits for roughly as many families as it helps, with the greatest losses concentrated among the least well-off.
How children are treated in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act | Brookings
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will likely end up hurting roughly as many families with children as it helps.
www.brookings.edu
October 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
How children are treated in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Overall, OBBBA will likely end up reducing benefits for roughly as many families as it helps, with the greatest losses concentrated among the least well-off.
Overall, OBBBA will likely end up reducing benefits for roughly as many families as it helps, with the greatest losses concentrated among the least well-off.
Research killed by rjkjr...Wouldn't it be ironic if (fill in the blank)
How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer
How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer
How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer
Turning "cold" tumors "hot"
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Research killed by rjkjr...Wouldn't it be ironic if (fill in the blank)
How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer
How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer
These images are the too perfect metaphor for the trump presidency.
PHOTOS: White House starts East Wing demolition to build Trump's ballroom
The Republican president has said he's adding a 90,000-square-foot ballroom because the East Room, the largest room in the White House with an approximately 200-person capacity, is too small.
www.pbs.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
These images are the too perfect metaphor for the trump presidency.
Please read
How to win an information war with the White House
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, unusual among the president’s antagonists, has begun to beat the White House at its own game — the visual, visceral, and at times post-literate politics of 2025.
www.semafor.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Please read
"For Vance, ethical judgment has become pure partisanship. When a DOGE member posted “Normalize Indian hate,” Vance—married to an Indian American—scoffed at the outrage and demanded. When private citizens said something ugly about Charlie Kirk, he went after their livelihoods." George Packer
October 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"For Vance, ethical judgment has become pure partisanship. When a DOGE member posted “Normalize Indian hate,” Vance—married to an Indian American—scoffed at the outrage and demanded. When private citizens said something ugly about Charlie Kirk, he went after their livelihoods." George Packer
Those preemptive pardons Biden granted seem pretty prescient right now.
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton indicted by DoJ on.ft.com/496KE6U
Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton indicted by DoJ
Move is latest by justice department against US president’s critics
on.ft.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Those preemptive pardons Biden granted seem pretty prescient right now.
Reposted
Breaking news: The US Department of Justice has indicted John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, with charges related to Bolton’s handling of classified documents. on.ft.com/47siBxz
October 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Breaking news: The US Department of Justice has indicted John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, with charges related to Bolton’s handling of classified documents. on.ft.com/47siBxz
Remember when we were all upset about Biden's preemptive pardons? Turns out Sleepy Joe was pretty prescient.
Second article of impeachment of Richard Nixon:
“He has endeavoured…to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”
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“He has endeavoured…to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups
The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.
www.wsj.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Remember when we were all upset about Biden's preemptive pardons? Turns out Sleepy Joe was pretty prescient.
Here's a good Indigenous People's Day read
Native Heroes Erased
Native war heroes were swept up in President Donald Trump’s recent DEI directive at the Pentagon, erasing their legacies from its annals of military history. While some scrubbed photos and stories hav...
www.kjzz.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here's a good Indigenous People's Day read
If the administration succeeds in its plans to cut the 2026 federal science budget to $154 billion from $198 billion it would represent the smallest amount that the federal government has spent on science in this century.
October 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If the administration succeeds in its plans to cut the 2026 federal science budget to $154 billion from $198 billion it would represent the smallest amount that the federal government has spent on science in this century.
The only thing more egregious than the stupidity is the lawlessness.
Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show
A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.
www.startribune.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The only thing more egregious than the stupidity is the lawlessness.
Good explanation of the issue at heart of the shutdown
Shutting Down Government Won’t Fix What Ails the Health System
America is paying a high price for not coming to grips with the need for health system reforms.
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Good explanation of the issue at heart of the shutdown
Today's day brightener ... (Kudos to Snyder for calling this out)
Hegseth puts us all at risk
Hegseth puts us all at risk
Hegseth puts us all at risk
Why put all the American commanders in one room?
open.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Today's day brightener ... (Kudos to Snyder for calling this out)
Hegseth puts us all at risk
Hegseth puts us all at risk
Regarding "Your countries are going to hell"...
These countries are generally regarded to have population health and quality of life better than the United States:
Denmark
Finland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Netherlands
Germany
Luxembourg
Austria
Belgium
Ireland
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
These countries are generally regarded to have population health and quality of life better than the United States:
Denmark
Finland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Netherlands
Germany
Luxembourg
Austria
Belgium
Ireland
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
September 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Regarding "Your countries are going to hell"...
These countries are generally regarded to have population health and quality of life better than the United States:
Denmark
Finland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Netherlands
Germany
Luxembourg
Austria
Belgium
Ireland
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
These countries are generally regarded to have population health and quality of life better than the United States:
Denmark
Finland
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Netherlands
Germany
Luxembourg
Austria
Belgium
Ireland
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
Here's the study, removed from DOJ sites this week, that contradicts Vance's "statistical facts" about violence perpetrated by right wing extremists.
archive.ph
September 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Here's the study, removed from DOJ sites this week, that contradicts Vance's "statistical facts" about violence perpetrated by right wing extremists.
This gets things right, seems to me:
" ...nothing Kirk ever did or said justifies the despicable act of political terrorism that took him from his wife and children. At the same time, there is also nothing wrong with accurately describing his toxic ideas and his corrosive political legacy."
" ...nothing Kirk ever did or said justifies the despicable act of political terrorism that took him from his wife and children. At the same time, there is also nothing wrong with accurately describing his toxic ideas and his corrosive political legacy."
On Charlie Kirk
The folks at FIRE noted today that “we’re in the cancel culture phase” of the Kirk tragedy news cycle, where any seemingly insensitive comment will attract an online mob seeking vengeance.
open.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This gets things right, seems to me:
" ...nothing Kirk ever did or said justifies the despicable act of political terrorism that took him from his wife and children. At the same time, there is also nothing wrong with accurately describing his toxic ideas and his corrosive political legacy."
" ...nothing Kirk ever did or said justifies the despicable act of political terrorism that took him from his wife and children. At the same time, there is also nothing wrong with accurately describing his toxic ideas and his corrosive political legacy."
Correct
The ICE raid at Hyundai was a massive own goal
Georgia spent years wooing the foreign carmaker
www.economist.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Correct
Would be interesting to know what percentage of the people who have read Careless People are still on Facebook. I was out before but reading the book validated that decision.
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Would be interesting to know what percentage of the people who have read Careless People are still on Facebook. I was out before but reading the book validated that decision.
Mourning in America
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Mourning in America
We are losing the ability to grieve as a nation and it has consequences
open.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Mourning in America
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