"In other words, the same inflation‑driven anti‑incumbent dynamic that hurt Democrats in 2024 turned around and hurt Republicans in 2025. The reason Trump won the 2024 election was because of his lead on the economy."

#Trump #Republicans #election #economy #prices #groceries #food #affordability #gas #Black #Latino #Hispanic #Asian #YoungVoters
/8

"Among voters who said the economy was their top issue, partisan trust on the economy moved 93 points toward Democrats between 2024 and this year’s New Jersey and Virginia elections. Meanwhile, the share naming immigration as their top issue was broadly unchanged (and fell in New Jersey), and that group remained as pro‑GOP as it was in 2024."

#Trump #Republicans #election #economy #prices #groceries #food #affordability #gas #Black #Latino #Hispanic #Asian #YoungVoters
/7

"In 2025, the same groups snapped back to the left — this time by 25 points on average. …

Non‑white, lower-income, and young voters all shifted toward Democrats at above-average rates. GOP vote margin fell by over 40 points among Asian American voters, 25 points among Hispanic/Latino voters, and 26 points among 18–29‑year‑olds."

#Trump #Republicans #election #economy #prices #groceries #food #affordability #gas #Black #Latino #Hispanic #Asian #YoungVoters
/6

"Let’s start with the voters who were supposed to cement the GOP’s new coalition: non‑white, working‑class/lower-income, and young Americans. From 2020 to 2024, these three groups moved an average of 12 points toward Trump at the presidential level (on vote margin), according to Pew."

#Trump #Republicans #election #economy #prices #groceries #food #affordability #gas #Black #Latino #Hispanic #Asian #YoungVoters
/5

~ G. Elliott Morris

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-winning-2024-coalition-has

Is this too much to ask of privileged people who parse religion for the rest of us while defending the idea that some of us are less than human, less than deserving of love, born disordered?

What would Jesus say and do?

#Trump #JDVance #Catholic #PopeLeo #cruelty #food #hunger #children #SNAP #immigrants #ICE #heterosexism
/5

Some cruelties are acceptable to Catholics who speak constantly about love, it seems — like the cruelty that excludes, demeans, and dehumanizes LGBTQ human beings.

But too much cruelty: that's a bridge too far.

What many of us have looked for and not found in a lot of religious circles is a commitment to NO CRUELTY AT ALL. Zip. Nada. None and done with the cruelty.

#Trump #JDVance #Catholic #PopeLeo #cruelty #food #hunger #children #SNAP #immigrants #ICE #heterosexism
/4

So it doesn't surprise me at all to read that she's now explaining the conflict between the Trump administration and the Catholic church as due to the fact that the church cannot countenance "this much cruelty."

I read that phrase and think immediately, "Oh, then you're saying, aren't you, that the Catholic church can countenance SOME cruelty — just not this much cruelty?"

#Trump #JDVance #Catholic #PopeLeo #cruelty #food #hunger #children #SNAP #immigrants #ICE #heterosexism
/3

She has published essays in The American Conservative and First Things, after all. She promotes a heteronormative ethic in the name of her Catholicism which excludes, demeans, and dehumanizes LGBTQ human beings.

All while writing about love, love, love….

#Trump #JDVance #Catholic #PopeLeo #cruelty #food #hunger #children #SNAP #immigrants #ICE #heterosexism
/2

I've never read the commentary of Texas native Elizabeth Bruenig with much interest. It's not difficult for me to "place" her and to understand why centrist both-sidesist outfits like The Atlantic have given her a bully pulpit to explain Catholicism to the world.

#Trump #JDVance #Catholic #PopeLeo #cruelty #food #hunger #children #SNAP #immigrants #ICE
/1

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/catholic-crusade-against-ice/684832/

"Today, white Christian nationalists are on a tear, openly bragging about how they've warped Christianity and even the teachings of Jesus to be not about caring for the poor and the immigrant, but rather about persecuting them.

Join ICE today and make Jesus smile as you, with a gun, pack foreigners into the back of a van to be kicked out of the country. That is a godly, glorious endeavor."

~ Joy Ann Reid

#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #cruelty
/8

https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-tjrs-special-unpacking-christian

…[In addition to hiring the #SexOffender Zarkin,] #BillPulte hired Aaron Kofsky, a former advisor to Senator #JDVance before Vance became VP, & later put him in charge of the #FHFA’s Division of Housing Mission & Goals. Last year, Vance fired Kofsky for posting online about using drugs including #cocaine & #opiates, according to a story in Wired magazine, which first reported his posts.

[Only the best people]

#law #LegalEthics #Republicans #Trump

"If this preliminary number holds, this month's consumer sentiment is the second-lowest reading of all time and has collapsed below Liberation Day readings."

~ Alex Jacquez quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump #Republicans #election #economy #prices #groceries #food #affordability #gas
/4

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/8/2352646/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-It-s-the-economy-stupid-It-leads-to-blowouts-Then-again-so-does-ICE

"Even Fox today admitted that prices are up on so many things because of Trump’s tariffs, running an entire segment on it. It’s tough to fool people about how much things cost because they know damn well how much they are paying. But Trump seems convinced that if he lies enough they will believe him over their empty bank accounts."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #Republicans #election #economy #prices #groceries #food #affordability #gas
/3

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-245-11725

Alt...

A screenshot from a Fox News segment on November 8 showing rising costs for coffee, utilities, electricity, vehicle repair

Krugman responds,

"Oh my God."

Morris adds,

"Just look at that. We don’t need to really do any more narrative about this election, right? Just look at that number. That’s the whole story here."

#Trump #Republicans #election #economy #prices #groceries #food #affordability #gas
/2

G. Elliott Morris tells Paul Krugman,

"I just keep coming back to this massive change in the voting behavior of people who say the economy is important to them. Trump won that group by 63 percentage points in 2024 and Democrats just won them by 30 points. There’s about a 90 percentage point swing here."

#Trump #Republicans #election #economy #prices #groceries #food #affordability #gas
/1

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/after-the-dem-sweep-talking-with

…Zarkin is involved in another MI controversy.
In an ongoing lawsuit, filed earlier this year in a Wayne County court, a fmr city manager & a fmr #police officer allege that Zarkin held conversations w/ Jamiel Altaheri, until recently the #PoliceChief in Hamtramck, a #Detroit suburb. In those conversations, plaintiffs allege, the 2 men discussed a plan to pay #Trump as much as $5 million to secure a #pardon for an unidentified NY acquaintance of Altaheri accused of unspecified financial #crimes.

"We MUST stand together because ANYTHING is better than a Republican cultist in office. Dear God, we all have to be capable of understanding at least this much, right?

Right now the President of the United States is doing everything he can to help starve Americans instead of doing everything he can to help feed them.

Read that again …"

~ D. Earl Stephens

#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty
/7

https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/the-empire-strikes-back

"If 'cruelty is the point' for Trump, the Supreme Court’s response has been, 'He’s the president; he can be cruel if he wants for political purposes; that’s not our problem.' …

The reason we are again experiencing a last-minute weekly fire drill on Friday evening is that Trump believes the Court will endorse his cruelty."

#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty #SupremeCourt
/6

"For the most part, the Supreme Court has matched the cruelty of the Trump administration in lockstep, upholding nearly every effort to punish perceived enemies—social, cultural, and political—by wielding the power of the executive to inflict pain, deny benefits, and curtail liberties."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty #SupremeCourt
/5

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/supreme-cruelty

"The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to stay the order of U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell to distribute Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by the end of today. This puts the administration in the position of going to the Supreme Court for permission to stop the distribution of food benefits for 42 million Americans."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty #SupremeCourt
/4

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-7-2025

"'They are taking away funds they already provided. I don't even know exactly who "they" are. What happens in December? What about January? Do I have to make this food last all winter?'”

#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty
/3

(continued from /1)

"about what the last two weeks have been like with their ability to eat being used as part of a political game. …

'I didn't exactly panic, but here's what was going through my head,' Liz in Wisconsin, 43, who receives SNAP benefits for her and her adult daughter explained. 'We have to eat. This money will not last.'"

#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty
/2

The 2009 court order vacating the #conviction gave no reason for the decision. Legal experts expressed surprise at the ruling afterward & said it was unusual…for a court to vacate it. [$$?]

“Judges don’t usually vacate a sentence like this,” Jonathan Jones, a #criminal defense atty who has practiced in the area for >30 yrs, told Reuters. “If someone is informed that they’ll have to register as a #SexOffender, they generally can’t come back years later & say ‘I didn't realize it.’”

#law #Trump

"Beneath the jargon and negotiating and court proceedings is the human right to eat—and the people who are having that right threatened. I spoke to 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 different states and DC—many of them disabled, unemployed or unable to work, some with children or grandchildren to feed, all doing the very best they can under enormous mental strain—" (continued in /2)

~ Marisa Kabas

#Trump #Republicans #SNAP #hunger #food #children #cruelty
/1

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/snap-recipients-funding-lapse-shutdown

After he served his sentence & spent 9 yrs on the #SexOffender registry, Zarkin’s atty successfully petitioned the state court to vacate the conviction, arguing that his continued listing on the sex registry was excessive, acc/to the records. The atty argued that Zarkin, when he agreed to his plea deal, hadn’t realized he would remain on the registry for so long. Court records from the plea deal show that registering as an offender was an explicit part of Zarkin’s plea agreement.

#law #Trump

Court records reviewed by Reuters show that Zarkin pleaded no contest to an attempted third-degree sexual conduct charge in Macomb County, MI, in 1999. The plea followed a case in which investigators found Zarkin’s DNA during a “pelvic examination” of a woman, not yet of drinking age, who had been “mentally incapacitated” by alcohol & Valium, acc/to the records. In 2000, Zarkin was sentenced to 8 months in #jail & 3 years’ #probation, & ordered to register as a #SexOffender.

#law #Trump

Zarkin once pleaded no contest to a #felony #SexCrime involving a sexual encounter with a “mentally incapacitated” woman, acc/to MI court records reviewed by Reuters, & has no significant experience in the housing sector. His felony conviction was later vacated, for reasons that weren’t explained by the judge. Separately, an ongoing MI lawsuit also accuses Zarkin of involvement in a plan to #bribe #Trump in exchange for the #pardon of an unidentified person in NY.

#law #LegalEthics #Republicans

Reuters couldn’t determine exactly when Zarkin was recruited, under what terms, or the specific tasks assigned to him in the role.

In recent weeks, acc/to internal documentation reviewed by Reuters, Zarkin still had a Freddie Mac email & was described internally as a “consultant.” The role, …has alarmed some employees at the #FHFA as well as at Fannie & Freddie, the 2 government-sponsored mortgage enterprises overseen by the federal agency.

#law #LegalEthics #Republicans #Trump #SexOffender

Because of course

The political appointee leveling fraud accusations against enemies of #Trump tapped a former registered #SexOffender for the #federal role as a consultant to mortgage giants Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, acc/to 6 people….

#BillPulte, director of the #FHFA, appointed Mark Zarkin, a Michigan restaurateur & prominent Detroit-area Trump supporter, as a consultant to the 2 mortgage companies….

#law #LegalEthics #Republicans
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-official-accusing-presidents-rivals-crimes-tapped-former-registered-sex-2025-11-07/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Ofcourse Trump supports his fellow autocrat Orban... He couldn't care less about Ukraine, NATO or the EU.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp85dvnkpv4o
#trump #orban #russia #sanctions #ukraine #nato #eu #geopolitics @geopolitics

🚨🚨

but wait there’s more!

#SCOTUS Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson has temporarily paused a lower court order that had required the #Trump admin to fully fund #FoodStamps during the govt #shutdown. In the order, Justice Jackson said she had issued the pause, called an administrative stay, to give the appeals court that will rule on the case more time to consider it. She wrote that she expected the appeals court to move swiftly & to issue a decision “with dispatch.”

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown/e1a69962-4311-5d11-8e32-c09d4f6c561c?smid=url-share

…there ain’t no rest for the wicked…

#SCOTUS granted #Trump *emergency* appeal to temporarily block a #CourtOrder to FULLY fund #SNAP #food #aid payments amid the government #shutdown.

#law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #Aristocracy #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #Aporophobia #FoodStamps #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #HealthInequity #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-07-SNAP+update

[This motherfucker] #Trump overstepped his #authority when he sought to deploy #NationalGuard troops to #Portland, #Oregon, to protect [his #Gestapo] the #ICE office there, a federal judge ruled on Friday, issuing a permanent block on troop deployments to the city in response to anti-ICE #demonstrations.

Judge Karin J. Immergut of US District Court, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, previously issued a preliminary injunction blocking his order federalizing Guard soldiers in OR….

#law

Judge Permanently Blocks #NationalGuard Deployments to #Portland for #ICE #Protests

With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the fascist #Trump admin had failed to prove that protesters were *hampering* Trump’s policies.

#law #immigration #Constitution #FirstAmendment #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #CivilRights #DueProcess #military #PosseComitatusAct #HumanRights #ResistYAll #resist
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/portland-oregon-national-guard.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Since no one seems interested in a #TLcleanse . . .

more horrific #CrimesAgainstHumanity courtesy the #UnitedStates #Trump admin:

#Immigration Agents Arrest Man in #LA Raid & Drive Off With [abduct] His Toddler

The #child was later “reunited” [granted sanctuary] with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed #ImmigrantRights groups. The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a #gun possession [cuz suddenly #Republicans don’t give a damn about the #SecondAmendment] charge.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/immigration-raid-los-angeles-toddler.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@wdlindsy

"That face: the profound indifference of a man who truly does not care about other human beings. And it’s an encapsulation of empirical findings that explain so much about the current dystopian mess we’re in as a country."

Trump: "When y'all are done with that interruption over there, let's get back to me."

#Trump #Republicans #Cruelty #Narcissism

Kate Manne comments on "the Getty Image that told a thousand words about the current administration," a picture capturing Trump's response when a man collapsed in the oval office yesterday:

"That face: the profound indifference of a man who truly does not care about other human beings. And it’s an encapsulation of empirical findings that explain so much about the current dystopian mess we’re in as a country."

#Trump #Republicans #cruelty #narcissism

https://katemanne.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-nothing

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A Getty photo of Trump in the Oval Office on November 6 as a man who has just collapsed is being seen to by others in the office

"In Virginia, for example, while 80% of white evangelicals continued to vote Republican, 7% of 2024 Trump voters flipped and supported the democratic candidate for governor, Abigail Spanberger. The exit poll breaks by race and gender showed that majorities of every subgroup voted for Spanberger except white men."

#BlueWave #Trump #Republicans #Democrats #race #ethnicity #gender #WhiteEvangelicals
/6

"Just one year into the Trump presidency, there are signs that everyday Americans are stepping up to say that Trump’s lawlessness, chaos, cruelty, and corruption are not in fact what they want in a president."

~ Robert P. Jones

#BlueWave #Trump #Republicans #Democrats #race #ethnicity #gender #WhiteEvangelicals
/5

https://convocation.substack.com/p/the-most-important-2025-election

"Under Trump’s leadership, the U.S. economy has entered a recessionary freefall, with 153,000 jobs lost in October alone and nearly a million more since the start of the year. …

Trump’s regime will spare no expense for billionaires, defense contractors, or foreign investments, but when it comes to feeding hungry children, liquidity suddenly becomes sacred."

#Trump #Republicans #BlueWave #economy #recession #unemployment #jobs #affordability
/14

"Consumer confidence has cratered to its lowest level since the 1970s, according to the University of Michigan’s index. The numbers tell a grim story: record-low sentiment, record-high pessimism, and a staggering 62 percent of households now expecting unemployment to rise in the coming year—the highest since 1980. The reason is clear."

#Trump #Republicans #BlueWave #economy #recession #unemployment #jobs #affordability
/13

"This week may go down as one of the worst in Donald Trump’s political and economic legacy. The so-called 'blue tsunami' that swept the nation on Tuesday left the Republican Party humiliated, and by Friday, the full scale of Trump’s economic wreckage became impossible to ignore. New data shows the economy teetering on collapse, and Trump’s response has only deepened the crisis, both materially and morally."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Republicans #BlueWave #economy
/12

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/major-friday-news-updates-11725

"Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated."

~ G. Elliott Morris

#BlueWave #Trump #Republicans #Democrats #race #ethnicity #gender
/4

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sbdnltkjqzeb5qshxmi7wu2i/post/3m5257ppifi2e

Could USA take Greenland with a military strike?

If pitted against the rest of NATO’s specialised winter-capable gear & winter-trained soldiers, very likely not!

Numbers from Tuomas:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8hdthsG8tks

#nato #greenland #military #usa #trump

Alt...

Comparing rest of NATO’s deep winter -capable military manpower and equipment to USA’s

"Farmers in Iowa, manufacturers in Michigan, and truckers in Texas aren’t getting richer off these trade wars; they’re getting crushed. …

the migration has begun. Slowly, quietly, and maybe even too late. But it’s happening. And when it’s over, the GOP will look up, dazed and confused, wondering how the man they built their empire around ended up standing alone in the dust."

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #WIC #economy #tariffs #farmers #manufacturers
/11

"Republican lawmakers are finally reading the room, and for once, the writing on the wall isn’t spelled M-A-G-A. The economy is shrinking, the tariffs are hitting red states the hardest, and millions of Americans—the same ones Trump promised to uplift—are watching their grocery bills rise while their SNAP benefits are slashed."

Michael Cohen

#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #food #hunger #children #SNAP #WIC #economy #tariffs
/10

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-reckoning-has-only-just-begun

AYFKM? cuz you know … #law #Constitution #emoluments etc!!!

Serbian Lawmakers Approve Luxury #Trump #Hotel on #Historic Bombing Site
Despite a #fraud investigation into officials who endorsed the project, Parliament used an extraordinary provision in the Constitution to push the plans through

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/world/europe/serbia-hotel-trump-kushner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

For all you #GOP #isolationists, #Trump is putting #BootsOnTheGround

#US steps up presence in #Gaza to support fragile #ceasefire

The #USmilitary *led* “coordination center” charged with implementing Trump’s *peace* plan in Gaza is replacing #Israel as the overseer of *humanitarian aid* to the enclave, even as multiple people familiar with the cell’s first weeks of operations have described it as chaotic, indecisive & ineffective.

#geopolitics #HumanitarianCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/07/us-centcom-gaza-israel-trump-peace/

As they should, #Democrats hold out for #healthcare talks as Thune says 'time is now' to reopen government

Senate Majority Leader John Thune asked Democrats on Friday to “end these weeks of misery” without offering anything in return, which is the way of democratic government: compromise.

Dems pledged to vote against reopening the government until #Trump & #Republicans negotiate with them on an extension of #health #care benefits.

#RepublicansDontGiveAShitAboutYoy
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-democrats-trump-senate-7cc1938d861b396fab07b5d2b7b28e62

At Margraten, a military cemetery in the Netherlands, two panels about Black American liberators of the Netherlands are suddenly gone. ‘Fits with the policy of the Trump administration'
Terrible...😔
Dutch newspaper article added.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/07/op-margraten-zijn-twee-panelen-over-zwarte-amerikaanse-bevrijders-van-nederland-opeens-weg-past-bij-beleid-van-de-regering-trump-a4911994?gift_token=4911994~1763150917~Y_3FDp0IEeKfgABQVoV_mg~gsGsWgSYRO_lKUvOkPuq_bg4xs7E9QsmL06dtBQSLi0
#margraten #netherlands #usa #military #ww2 #trump