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My favorite holiday movie is #TheFamilyStone. Hits a little harder missing Diane Keaton this year.

Some of my backyard fungi 🍄🍄‍🟫

An excellent article in the NYTimes that belies the Trump administration rationale behind military build-up and bombing of ‘drug smugglers’ in waters off of Venezuela, citing expertise from The Steady State’s own Annie Pforzheimer and Jonathan Winer. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

This week on The Qasim Rashid Show: SNAP is not welfare for hungry people. It's corporate welfare for companies exploiting low-income people. Healthcare is a human right and corporations should offer living wages. Subscribe to my human rights newsletter with no paywall: qasimrashid.com/subscri…

Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."

Use goodrx or other low cost alternatives. The way he is grifting is absolutely disgusting 🤮. Forbes advertising for it— also disgusting.

Trump announced popular weight loss treatments would be offered directly on a new “TrumpRx.gov” website at lower prices.

Happy Exploding Whale Day to all those who celebrate! #ExplodingWhale www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...

It’s #OpenEnrollment time so the scammers are out in full force!!!! Check out this link to learn how to protect yourself and share with people you know ❤️❤️❤️

GOP: We support everyone who planned, participated in the insurrection, including attacking police. We will cover up pedo/sex-trafficking rings & ignore attempts to murder our Dem colleagues. Dems: OK, but if we reopen the Gov do you pinkie swear to have a vote on healthcare? GOP: Sure.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

I just wish the CEO of Novo Nordisk would have turned to President Trump and said “that would be very communist of you to force a company to ‘give a piece’ to the government when it demands it” -or something like that.

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

Newsom: You can see it; you can read between the lines over the last few weeks. He’s nowhere to be found. The guy’s out on an island. Honestly, I felt like he was away last week and he didn’t even matter. You saw him today trying to get back in the game: “Hey, what about me?”

I love this!! So happy for and proud of New Yorkers. 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It has to be election interference to say you will deny funds to a city (as potus) if they vote for a certain candidate. It's illegal, it's unethical, it’s domestic terroism. He should be arrested as should the elected & appointed scaffolding that is fundamentally anti-constitution.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

We knew he wasn’t gonna go peacefully last time. If people aren’t planning and preparing now for the transition— however it occurs— it’s going to be so much worse than last time Reminder: he’s only the visible part of the iceberg. If it’s not happening— we’re already behind.

This is what I want my America to look like. It can’t undo what has been done— but acknowledging it meaningfully matters. Ignoring historical injustice will always hold all of society back from actual greatness. Here’s a dose of humanity. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/29/m...

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody. He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back She’s not allowed to visit him. They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

“The scale of the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa is emerging, with dozens of people known to have died in Haiti and four deaths reported in Jamaica - and the storm is now approaching the Bahamas.” news.sky.com/story/hurric...

Quick read but a solid moment of joy.

Remind me— how much for that ballroom? Have to ask yourself— why would he, this administration, or any American would want other Americans to struggle or suffer? I don’t think it matters where you align politically haven’t we struggled or suffered enough- collectively at 1-point or another.

Black farmers have always gotten shafted in this country. I feel his rage 🔥🔥🔥

This is exactly it!

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them. And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.

100% speculating but Trump had a stroke or has palsy.

Something feels— off in the messaging about the shooting related death of Charlie Kirk. 🤔

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

It’s starting to feel intentional. How long until people are afraid to fly to DC? Who wouldn’t want people to visit and travel to DC?

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA): “He fired thousands of veterans across the govt. His team carelessly shares info that puts our pilots at risk. He doesn’t care to know about missing American soldiers? What more proof do we need that this man doesn’t give a damn about the heroes who protect us?”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

The National Weather Service is facing significant staffing cuts and has temporarily reduced weather balloon launches at several sites. These balloons are a key tool used by meteorologists to gather data for weather forecast models.