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It is truly biblical how Mike Johnson sermonizes about faith while engineering the starvation of poor children, a monstrous hypocrisy that reveals the moral vacuum at his party's core.
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
www.publicnotice.co
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Censorship is now coming for your dnd and your warhammer and your farming sim, they don't care if it's not adult content. They wanted everything
MasterCard is marketing its new MasterCard Threat Intelligence platform to issuers & acquirers. A source familiar w/ MasterCard’s internal operations told me MTI is flagging anime, VTubing, adult content, tabletop, video games as potentially “high fraud risk”

fintechmagazine.com/news/how-is-...
How is Mastercard Preventing Payment Fraud at Scale?
Announcing Threat Intelligence at Money 20/20 US, Mastercard showcases its latest technology in preventing fraud, combining insights from Recorded Future
fintechmagazine.com
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I start with kids. And these days? There are far too many people saying "i work hard to feed my kids, their parents should get off their lazy ass"

and it's just like, 'oh, so your kids picked you as their parent? they weren't irresponsible picking a lazy parent?"
If you don’t believe in feeding hungry people I’m not sure we are ever going to find common ground.
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Heads up: The author of this piece has close ties to White nationalism and has an extensive history of bigoted statements!

D'Abrosca has been relentlessly targeting university professors through his work at Fox, attempting to create controversy to get specific people fired.
From Sep 27 to Oct 7, Peter D'Abrosca at Fox News wrote six articles attacking the same UNC professor. He leads campaigns to manufacture outrage against university professors who have supported community organizing against fascists.

D'Abrosca is paid as a Fox News journalist.

Who is D'Abrosca?
Thread on how the rightwing has weaponized outrage to baselessly attack a professor at UNC:

www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...
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Roughly twice a year a 47 year old straight white guy (take your pick: podcaster, pundit, popsci) author decides that we should repeal Section 230 and end all online anonymity.

They are always convinced they are the first genius to come up with this.

And they are always wrong 😑
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Shut down American airspace rather than extend Americans’ healthcare benefits...
The US Department of Transportation might be forced to close the airspace in certain parts of the country if the government shutdown continues into next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
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Senate Republicans blocked a resolution demanding full funding for SNAP benefits.

This, as Trump still refuses to fully restore SNAP to 42 million Americans.

As we head into the midterms, don't forget: GOP lawmakers are fully complicit with Trump's weaponization of hunger.
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Open enrollment for ACA healthcare plans has started, and enrollees are seeing what their premium costs will be next year.

Without subsidies, one couple will see their monthly costs increase from $495 to $2,168 — a 300% increase.

This is what Democrats are fighting to prevent.
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To put the state of the US in gaming terms:

Most of us are playing a buggy, overtuned survival horror game, while a select few can afford the DLC that turns it into a cozy farming sim with the sole objective of getting the highest score you can.
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Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?
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(Not paying out any SNAP benefits is violating the court order. She can insist they're complying all she wants, but that doesn't make it true.)
Q: Trump wrote that SNAP benefits will only be given when Democrats reopen the government. As written, how would that not violate the court order?

LEAVITT: I've now answered this question several times. We are complying with the court's order
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So Rs right now are assaulting our health care system, raising prices on everything, exploding the deficit, throwing people in gulags, cutting off food assistance to 42m despite a court order and now threatening not to pay federal workers money they are clearly owed. Villains they are.
Q: Does the administration guarantee that all furloughed federal workers will get back pay?

LEAVITT: This is something we are very much open to discussing with Democrats as part of the discussions about the continuing resolution

(That's not a yes!)
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I'm not really into the "constitutional crisis" discourse but if this is the thing you were waiting for, it's here.

Next: which media outlets will report that the President is violating two court orders that the government must immediately distribute SNAP benefits—and which will go with euphemisms.
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This is the President openly announcing that he will violate court orders - two courts had concluded that the Trump regime withholding SNAP funding was illegal - and that the government had to pay out (at least reduced) SNAP benefits starting this week
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It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.*

The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.
From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.
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Another shameless lie.

Trump’s own lawyers at USDA posted (then deleted) the guidance below that SNAP continues during a shutdown.

Can someone ask him to explain why he disagrees with Trump’s own lawyers?
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Oh cool! Kill the job market and then go after folks' Unemployment Insurance. Just great!
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "When we're talking about the SNAP program, one of the other programs we're definitely concerned about is Unemployment Insurance. That will be the next thing that we have to be concerned about."
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Get that? This is a government with a ZERO TOLERANCE approach to illegal actions, no matter the cost. No price is too high. We will spend whatever it takes.

And you can get a taste of the sweet flow of federal contracts for the low, low price of $50K cash in a Cava bag.
Homan: "Others are in the country illegally but may not have a criminal history, but guess what? They're coming too. ICE is no longer turning a blind eye to illegal aliens in this country."
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People are way too comfortable criticizing how people with less money spend it.

We should be criticizing billionaires who are so rich money means nothing to them.

They can't even pay living wages to workers because they are so focused on accumulation over need.

Truly disgusting.
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We need Democratic candidates of all kinds in order to be able to win everywhere. The answer to “which is the future of the Democratic Party” has to be “all of it, and then some.”
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
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Johnson won't talk about the Republican health care plan—not because it's secret, but because it doesn't exist.
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."
and it tastes fine i guess but mostly i'm just pissed off and aggravated at how much of a godawful mess things ended up and it stressed me out trying to clean and stir it constantly. and i just sort of wish i hadn't bothered.
so i came up with this chowder idea, dump some stuff together, immersion blender it, then add in mix ins and heat it to warm them. but it turned out mega thick and then became a bubbling magma mess that splorted crap all over the counters, stovetop, and just about every other surface it could reach
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"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue."

Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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TLDR: Teen Vogue's coverage is about to be watered down in a way that serves no one. The politics section, which featured cutting edge stories on repro rights, the economy, and more is now gone. Black women are no longer at what remains.

Everybody loses. This is #TheDoubleTax.