Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

While Trump personifies Lakoff’s strict father model by rigorously reminding you of who the “daddy” is, the governor of Illinois often embodies the empathy of a Nurturant Parent who takes care of his people.

How JB Pritzer works as an imperfect embodiment of progressive values.

New from me in @gilduran and @georgelakoff's @framelabnews

https://www.theframelab.org/trump-wants-him-arrested-jb-pritzker-is-breaking-through/

“Lethal kinetic strike”? You spelled “murder” wrong. Hegseth should be charged in abstentia with war crimes.

Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support

And for those who want to get the hell outta dodge help them move...

Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors. https://theintercept.com/2025/10/31/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-unprivileged-belligerants

People keep telling me
that we
are post-pandeimc,
but the hoarse voices
with which they say this
keeps telling me
that we
are still in the pandemic.

*

A compendium of the 294th week of plague poems…

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/plague-poems-the-two-hundred-and-ninety-fourth-week/

BREAKING NEWS

Federal judge orders Trump regime to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund

The ruling came one day before funding for SNAP, more commonly known as food stamps, was set to lapse
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/federal-judge-orders-trump-administration-pay-snap-benefits-contingenc-rcna241187

Here's my interpretation of the Republican healthcare plan we've been hearing about for the last 12 years but haven't seen. You know the one, but there is concepts of a plan though...

#politics #healthcare #satire

Cartoon by Kevin Seirs.

Johnson initially claimed he was not aware of the instances, despite having been directly asked about one of the incidents in a press conference earlier this month.
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/29/speaker-johnson-dismisses-religious-freedom-concerns-by-clergy-shot-by-dhs-agents-with-pepper-balls/

From John Adams to Kent State to the Insurrection Act, history warns us what happens when power fears the people more than the enemy…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/will-the-2028-election-even-happen-cb3

I mean, parents in TX suddenly started vaxxing their kids when kids started dying of measles. Parents don’t like it when their children die! It’s bad politics (and, you know, bad values and basic decency). With a grim body count, think this has to backfire.

More Texas children are gettin...

@KimPerales

the way you reduce crime is to make sure:

people have food, housing and medical care

that's it, mystery solved

"We know that Trump🚨has mostly ended #ConsumerProtection. But they've also quietly walked away from bank supervision, the obscure work of checking for risk that prevents FIN collapse."

Now, just 15 yrs from its inception,🚨the #CFPB: a hollow shell of itself. Since Trump’s inaug, the regime has been seeking to terminate every position not explicitly created by statute -would leave the agency as just “5 men & a phone.”

If the #TrumpRegime isn't dismantled soon...

#USPol
https://prospect.org/2025/10/31/making-banking-supervision-suck-again/

This is why I'm not dealing with any folks who think that it's wrong to make jokes about Charlie Kirk dying as he lived. For every person who thinks that it's in poor taste, there's a person who is experiencing material harm for a lack of obeisance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/31/larry-bushart-charlie-kirk-jail/

It seems worth noting that a 31% increase in my health insurance premiums (which again, is a lot less of a hike than many people are facing) will make health insurance my second largest monthly expense. Only my mortgage payment will be larger. I will be spending more on health insurance every month than I do on food.

Not even spending that much on health CARE, mind you. Actual health care costs extra. Just on health INSURANCE.

#bookstore #food #community #politics