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Alan W. Silberberg
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California, today is Election Day. Go vote and make your voice heard!

Find your polling place: sos.ca.gov/elections/po...
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If the democratic (small 'd') opposition ever returns to power in the U.S., a huge task awaits: rebuilding the institutions and laws. It cannot be that a House Speaker shuts down the people’s house indefinitely or refuses to swear in the duly elected representatives. #RuleOfLaw
This is seriously one of those things that probably blows the minds of most people outside of the United States.

A “swearing in” should obviously be completely ceremonial, and should have no legal weight at all.

THE ELECTION GIVES THE WINNER THE ROLE, not the Speaker.

It really makes no sense.
Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!
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Not enough people are talking about how Trump and the Republicans are trying to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority, and how Right-wing megadonor Lee Beaman is a Trump nominee for one of the vacant board seats. www.bizjournals.com/nashville/ne...
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Governor Josh Shapiro signed a bill overnight adding an additional $5 million in funds to food banks in the area to help feed those without the necessary assistance they should be getting from the federal government.

www.wpxi.com/news/local/g...
Gov. Shapiro signs disaster declaration, announces $5M in funding for Pennsylvania food banks
Pennsylvanians who rely on SNAP benefits are getting some help from the state.
www.wpxi.com
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Over 3 million Texans rely on SNAP to meet their food budgets each month.

Lines and lines of cars were out yesterday in Houston starting before dawn, all there to get groceries.

Modern bread lines.
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Hard to not see bin Laden’s greatest victory as America being run by religious fanatics more poised to destroy all of our freedom and advantages than he ever could have been.
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Jeffries: "Why have House Republicans remained on a taxpayer funded vacation for the last 6 weeks? Of course they are unserious as it relates to reopening the government. Why has Trump spent more time on the golf course, including this weekend, than he has talking to Democrats on Capitol Hill?"
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It doesn’t get crueler or uglier than this. Blocking private sector from helping people get food. Monsters.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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NEW: More than 100 federal judges have now rejected the Trump administration’s new policy to lock up nearly everyone facing deportation — including 12 judges appointed by Trump, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Only 2 judges have sided with ICE.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy
A POLITICO review of the rulings shows judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have rebuked the administration’s new interpretation of immigration law.
www.politico.com
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Russia makes a point to never let a day go by without being murderous a**holes. All of this should be returned in kind from the whole of the civilized world.
Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️the city is under russian glide bomb attack right now ‼️
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I'm sure these regulations were originally put in place to prevent discrimination against SNAP recipients. Now invoked to prevent helping people. Authoritarians like to create conditions of deprivation to control a population. If you think no one will help you, then you're more likely to comply.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.
Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash
Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.
futurism.com
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The future happens here, in California, first.
The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly customers more than twice as fast as commercial airliners. www.wired.com/story/nasas-...
NASA's Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight
The X-59 successfully completed its inaugural flight—a step toward developing quieter supersonic jets that could one day fly customers more than twice as fast as commercial airliners.
www.wired.com
Making people suffer and die is the point apparently.
Wth
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
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It is now illegal to be anti-Trump. - per Dicktator Donnie.
Weakest speaker ever: Mike Johnson.
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"We are planning to take away your healthcare behind closed doors." — Mike Johnson, essentially
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
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At a time when our politics feels broken, we need leaders like @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for Governor.

Mikie will work to create jobs, lower costs, and do what’s right for the people of New Jersey.
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The Trump Admin has become a pay-to-play casino. Some of the payoffs are in plain sight. Others are under the table. Shame on all those collaborating with the most corrupt president in history.
Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito
www.nytimes.com