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Since then, federal officers have thrown #ChemicalAgents out of vehicles on city streets, creating a hazard for motorists. They have thrown #TearGas canisters near stores & #schools, exposing #children, #pregnant women & #older people to the noxious gas. And on numerous occasions federal officers have fired pepper balls directly at protesters—in one case, striking a pastor in the head.
#Trump #law #Chicago #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #PoliceBrutality #fascism
Federal #immigration officers are using chemical irritants to *disperse* #protesters in ways that violate #US policing norms & are testing the boundaries of #UseOfForce #laws, video footage from #Chicago shows, in some cases [intentionally] hitting #demonstrators directly with the munitions.
#CBP & #ICE officers have deployed #TearGas in cities around the country, but its use has been especially prevalent in Chicago, where the #Trump admin launched Operation Midway Blitz in Sept….
#ICE & #BorderPatrol’s use of #TearGas injures, sickens & *tests* [breaks] the #law
Federal #immigration agents say chemical agents are needed to disperse *violent* [people exercising their right to #FreeSpeech] protesters. But videos show officers directly firing at people in aggressive & “unorthodox” ways.
#Trump #Chicago #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #fascism #MafiaState #MilitaryState #WhiteSupremacy
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"“It’s their fault,” #Trump said of #Democrats [despite the fact that #Republicans control the #House, the #Senate and the #Presidency] ... “Everything is their fault. It’s so easily solved.”"
This has always been the #Republican starting point, and the only Republican solution:
"Give us everything we demand, in a full #Democratic capitulation, and your precious little country won't get hurt."
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“Highly polished, Statuary marble!” Mr. Trump declared on social media as he posted images of his new Lincoln bathroom, even as some households planned on handing out canned soup in lieu of candy.
The stark contrast crystallized how the president has appeared largely disconnected from the fiscal impasse that has gripped Washington and paralyzed much of the federal government."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children
/13
"American families are worried about losing food stamp benefits. Hundreds of thousands of federal government workers have no idea when they will next be paid. Several airports have been experiencing delays because of staffing shortages. …
Hours after returning from a trip across Asia, Mr. Trump left Washington on Friday for a Halloween party & a fund-raiser at his Florida residence."
~ Zolan Kanno-Youngs
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children
/12
"Incredibly, on the eve of SNAP benefits expiring for 42 millions Americans, and many tens of millions learning of huge health insurance premium increases, both due to his policies, Trump hosted a Great Gatsby/Roaring Twenties (!!!!!!!!) themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #privatization #profit #corporations
/11
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/winning-these-november-elections
"President Donald Trump hosted an opulent Great Gatsby–themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, attended by political allies and celebrities, just hours before 40 million Americans were set to lose their SNAP food assistance benefits."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #privatization #profit #corporations
/10
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-vice-president-jd-vance-faces
"“It’s their fault,” #Trump said of #Democrats [despite the fact that #Republicans control the #House, the #Senate and the #Presidency] ... “Everything is their fault. It’s so easily solved.”"
This has always been the #Republican starting point, and the only Republican solution:
"Give us everything we demand, in a full #Democratic capitulation, and your precious little country won't get hurt."
"Note how the messaging has shifting from 'we're targeting criminals' to 'we're deporting everyone.'"
~ Aaron Rupar quoted by Greg Dworkin
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #MaskedThugs #military
Hubbell writes,
"Did you catch that? The Times’ editorial board is finally acknowledging (in a backhanded way) that the grassroots resistance movement is one of the three remaining firewalls against autocracy."
Well, perhaps better late than never, I suppose. Meanwhile, a lot of us gave up on this sorry, shoddy excuse for ethical journalism quite some time ago and we won't turn back.
Robert Hubbell notes that in a recent editorial, New York Times is catching up to where a lot of us have long been vis-a-vis Trump: that he's assaulting our democracy.
At the end of the editorial, in a throwaway line, the editorial admits what NYT was loath to admit when the No Kings protests happened: "Millions of Americans recently attended the 'No Kings protests."
#Trump #NewYorkTimes #NoKings #democracy #fascism
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-blinks-on-snap-and-shutdown
"Donald Trump’s handling of federal aid during the government shutdown is not just a policy failure; it’s a calculated assault on the foundational principles of American governance, morality, and legality."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #privatization #profit #corporations
/9
"Attuned to his donors’ quid pro quo expectations, Trump is working out which government agencies to hand over to his billionaire donors, and which agencies should be shuttered altogether because they are unable to turn a profit."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #privatization #profit #corporations
/8
"Thanks to Citizens United, the disastrous 2010 case that gave wealthy corporations outsize influence over elections, Trump is indebted to hundreds of industry leaders from tech, auto, education, banking, arms, prison, healthcare, and fossil fuel sectors."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #privatization #profit #corporations
/7
"Characteristically opposed to the wants and needs of ordinary Americans, Trump is seeking to increase rather than decrease privatization of all government services, seeking to extract profits from heretofore not-for-profit entities."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #privatization #profit #corporations
/6
"His go-to move, when he wants obedience or satisfaction, is to inflict suffering. That’s why he’s done nothing to end the shutdown and everything to exploit it.
[Mike] Johnson is wrong. Trump isn’t trying to ease the pain; he’s trying to focus it on Democrats and their voters. To Trump, their pain isn’t a problem. It’s a weapon."
~ Will Saletan
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-isnt-easing-shutdown-pain-he-is-inflicting-it
"Families may soon starve, but Trump gets a new marble bathroom. ...
The absolute lack of self-awareness it takes to post about fancy renovations to the White House that virtually no Americans will ever see or utilize, while millions of federal workers are not being paid and throngs of Americans are worried about losing the funding they rely upon to feed their families is hard to fathom."
~ Emily Singer
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children
/4
"At a time when federal employees are working without pay, furloughed workers are taking out bank loans to pay their bills, healthcare premiums are skyrocketing, and SNAP is at risk, Trump’s celebration of his marble bathroom was so tone deaf it seems likely to make the history books as a symbol of this administration."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #golf #MaraLago #cruelty
/3
"From Air Force One, Trump posted: “I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. ...
Accompanying the post were a series of twenty-four photographs of the newly renovated bathroom in white marble veined with black, accented with gleaming gold fixtures."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #golf #MaraLago #cruelty
/2
"After returning from a trip to Asia yesterday, Trump left this morning for his thirteenth visit to the Trump Organization’s Florida property Mar-a-Lago. S.V. Date of HuffPost notes this $3.4 million trip brings to $60.7 million the amount taxpayers have spent on the president’s 76 golf outings in his second term."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #SNAP #food #hunger #children #golf #MaraLago #cruelty
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As the stalemate nears the record for the longest #shutdown in US history — one set during Trump’s first term — he has continued to seem unbothered by the fallout, casting the log jam as one easily resolved.
“It’s their fault,” #Trump said of #Democrats [despite the fact that #Republicans control the #House, the #Senate, the presidency & #SCOTUS] as he traveled to Mar-a-Lago, his Florida club & estate, on Friday. “Everything is their fault. It’s so easily solved.”
The stark contrast crystallized how #Trump has appeared largely disconnected [out-of-touch] from the fiscal impasse that has gripped Washington & paralyzed much of the federal government.
In the weeks before the #shutdown, Trump expressed confidence about the looming fight with #Democrats. He said that he was certain #Republicans could fund the government solely with their own votes & that they should not “even bother” #negotiating with the other party.
Just hours after returning from a trip across Asia, #Trump left Washington Friday for a Halloween party & a fund-raiser at his Florida residence. When he weighed in briefly on the #shutdown, it was to cast the potential loss of #benefits that millions of Americans rely on for #groceries as mostly a problem for Democratic voters.
#POS #plutocracy #oligarchy #FoodStamps #SNAP #FederalWorkers
Rather than offer steps he might take to bring the crisis to a close, #Trump called attention to the new details of his renovation of a White House #bathroom.
“Highly polished, Statuary marble!” Trump declared on social media as he posted images of his new Lincoln bathroom, even as some households planned on handing out canned soup in lieu of candy.
#POS #plutocracy #oligarchy #shutdown #FoodStamps #SNAP #FederalWorkers
American families are worried about losing #FoodStamp benefits. Hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers have no idea when they will next be paid. Several #airports have been experiencing delays because of staffing shortages.
The pain of the government #shutdown is growing more acute as it grinds toward the 5-week mark, with #Congress showing little movement toward a resolution. But #Trump has been attending to other matters.
#plutocracy #oligarchy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/trump-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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@thenewoil this is a really shitty framing. I hate headline writers sometimes. Python didn't change its beliefs or abandon its principles for money. the fucking #trump anti-respect, anti-decency ideology is what was "thwarted"
It is the #Pentagon’s latest step to drive #transgender troops out of the #ArmedFrces following an executive order from #Trump. He & #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth have targeted #diversity, #equity & #inclusion efforts in what they say is an effort to make the #military more lethal.
The admin’s policies have faced pushback in courts as #trans troops & supporters say they have proven their worth to the military, but #SCOTUS in May allowed the ban to be enforced while legal challenges proceed.
If #military separation boards decide to allow #transgender service members to remain in uniform, commanders can override that decision, acc/to an Oct 8 memo to all the services from the #Pentagon’s undersecretary for personnel & readiness, Anthony Tata. That breaks with longstanding policy that boards act independently.
New #Pentagon policy undercuts #trans troops' ability to ask to stay in the #military, AP learns
The Pentagon has rolled out a new policy that will severely undercut the ability for #transgender troops who have been banned from the #ArmedForces by the #Trump admin to turn to boards of their peers to argue for their right to stay in the military, according to a memo obtained by The AP.
#law #discrimination #bigotry #LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-troops-ban-military-trump-9c3018034a2608a28f6146fe17f0fe4b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News
"Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled from a bench that the program must be funded using at least the contingency funds – and asked for an update on progress by Monday."
~ AP
#Trump #shutdown #EconomicElites #SNAP #food #children #hunger
/15
"Under the order, the Trump administration must use the $6 billion contingency fund to continue SNAP payments in November."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #EconomicElites #SNAP #food #children #hunger #healthcare
/14
"Two federal judges ruled on Friday that the Trump administration’s effort to suspend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments due to the ongoing government shutdown is likely illegal, with the second judge issuing a temporary restraining order from the bench blocking the effort."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #EconomicElites #SNAP #food #children #hunger
/13
She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an #unconstitutional violation of the #SeparationOfPowers, dealing a blow to the #Trump admin & its allies who have claimed such a mandate is necessary to restore public confidence that only Americans are voting in #US #elections.
Federal judge rules #Trump can’t require #citizenship proof on the federal voting form
Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, DC, sided with #Democratic & #CivilRights groups that sued the Trump admin over his executive order to overhaul US #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-democrats-citizenship-034a4d552a978a8f647d95bd3cf38ac0?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News
#NYAG #LetitiaJames, is seeking to block a #DOJ investigation into her office’s civil #fraud case against #Trump by challenging the legitimacy of the #USattorney in Albany, according to 2 people with knowledge of the matter.
James’s effort marks the fifth time the appointment of a top federal prosecutor installed by Trump has been challenged. The US attorney, John A. Sarcone III, declined to comment through a spox.
#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/nyregion/letitia-james-investigation-subpoenas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk8.Ntcp.-eURhCdEz64J&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
More than a dozen speakers excoriated both #Republicans & #Democrats for backroom dealing that produced a map they considered #rigged.
“You are like foxes guarding the hen houses & #Ohio voters continue to be the hens,” said Michael Ahern, who spoke to the commission on Thursday wearing a baseball cap bearing the first three words of the #Constitution, “We The People.”
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #midterms #Trump
The new map for #Ohio publicly emerged only late this week, when it was presented at a hastily called meeting of the state’s redistricting commission meeting on Thursday in Columbus. For weeks, the seven-member commission had taken no public action and it appeared that the task of redrawing the maps would end up back with the State Legislature, where #Republicans hold a super majority.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #midterms #Trump
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Pattern of Extreme Brutality': Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Protesters in Illinois
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10/31/illinois-immigration-protests/
#usa #illinois #trump #politics #bellingcat
The map was approved at a morning meeting of the state’s #redistricting commission, & will give #Republicans, who currently hold 10 of #Ohio’s 15 seats in #Congress, a total of 12 districts that lean red.
With Republicans in control of Congress by just a few seats, #Trump has been urging allies in state capitals to redraw congressional maps mid-cycle to try to stop #Democrats’ from flipping the #House regardless of how the people vote.
#Ohio #Republicans Push Through New Districts in Bid for More Seats in #Congress
Republicans hold 10 of the state’s 15 seats in the #House. The new map improves the party’s odds of picking up two more in next year’s midterm #elections.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #midterms #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/ohio-redistricting-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that the #Trump admin must continue to fund #SNAP, the nation’s biggest #food #aid program, using contingency funds during the government #shutdown.
The rulings came a day before the #USDA planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.
#law #FoodStamps #poverty
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-10-31-2025?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-31-Breaking+News
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"Mike Johnson’s Christian values: Children starve, pedophiles skate.
So these are Mike Johnson’s Christian values, as Paul Krugman put it on his Substack Tuesday: 'It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.'"
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #EconomicElites #SNAP #food #children #hunger #healthcare #Epstein #pedophiles #coverup
/12
The machinations shows how much #Russia stands to lose should #Venezuela’s embattled leader fall. High-profile projects between the two countries continue to roll out, including a Kalashnikov munitions factory that opened in July in the Venezuelan state of Aragua, about 20 years after it was pledged. Moscow also has exploration rights for potentially billions of dollars in untapped natural gas & oil reserves.
…But #Russia remains the primary lifeline for #Maduro. On Sunday, an Ilyushin Il-76—one of the Russian aircraft sanctioned in 2023 by the #US for participating in the arms trade & transporting mercenaries—arrived in #Caracas, #Venezuela’s capital, after a circuitous route over Africa to avoid Western airspace, according to Flightradar24. The Kremlin declined to comment on the letter.
Just a day earlier, Moscow ratified a new strategic treaty with Caracas.
The Venezuelan government, according to the documents, is also reaching out to #China & #Iran, soliciting #military assistance & equipment to strengthen the country’s defenses. #Maduro composed a letter to Chinese President #Xi Jinping seeking “expanded military cooperation” between their two countries to counter “the escalation between the #US & #Venezuela.”
In a letter meant for the eyes of #Russia’s leader, Venezuelan President Nicolás #Maduro made multiple requests this month.#Trump’s admin was targeting ships off the South American coast & rattling sabers in Washington. #Venezuela needed President Vladimir #Putin’s help.
The asks included overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs & potentially missiles, according to internal US government documents obtained by The Washington Post.
This is why you need to go to #Congress to attack other nations!
As #US ramps up the pressure, #Venezuela pleads with Moscow for help
Documents show #Maduro drafted letter asking #Russia for missiles, radars & upgraded aircraft as US forces amass in the #Caribbean.