As of today, the following U.S. Navy warships are in the Caribbean: USS Iwo Jima USS San Antonio USS Stockdale USS Jason Dunham USS Gravely USS Lake Erie USS Wichita USS Gettysburg There's also the MV Ocean Trader, a special operations vessel, and the USS Newport News, a

BREAKING: Judge doesn't quite grant TRO requiring Trump admin to make partial SNAP payment for next month. Judge Indira Talwani (Obama) says USDA has that power. Wants answer by Monday on whether it will do so. Seems like she'll order if they don't. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Here’s another light to shine on SNAP. About 16 million children, 8 million older adults, 4 million people with disabilities, and 1.2 million veterans rely on SNAP benefits to afford groceries.

President Trump on SNAP benefits: "When you talk about SNAP, you're talking about largely Democrats. I'm president. I want to help everybody...Democrats and Republicans. But when you're talking about SNAP, if you look, it's largely Democrats. They're hurting their own people."

Meanwhile

Today’s rulings confirm what’s been clear all along: the Administration has been sitting on billions of available dollars that it is legally required to use to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need SNAP to afford their groceries.

The Administration could have, and should have, taken steps weeks ago to be ready to use these funds. Instead, it chose to unlawfully hold them up in an effort to gain political advantage. cbpp.org/press/statemen…

Any appeal of the decision or further delay would just underscore that the Administration is choosing to rip away vital food assistance from millions of low-income families right before the holidays. x.com/sarahnferris/s…

Reminder: This is happening at the same time some of the biggest cuts from the harmful Republican megabill are also taking effect, meaning millions of people will soon lose SNAP benefits on a permanent basis. cbpp.org/research/food-…

The extent to which the administration is going to deny that operations in Venezuela are imminent is fascinating.

JUST IN: Anonymous 3-judge 7th Circuit panel permanently blocks Judge Sara Ellis' order, in anti-ICE protest litigation, that required Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino to provide daily, in-person report to court. Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/2620… Earlier: politico.com/news/2025/10/2…

Fascinating video. At the end, the agents appear to look at a phone, apologize and remove the handcuffs. “I apologize. It was a misunderstanding. We have so many people running stuff at the same time.”

NEW: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks propublica.org/article/dhs-ci… by Jen Fifield Zach Despart w/ Texas Tribune

Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nevada) Spearheads Effort to Prevent the Resumption of Nuclear Explosive Testing: titus.house.gov/news/documents…

Trump's impulsive move to resume nuclear testing puts U.S. into nuclear rogue state status. U.S. is only "no" vote on UN resolution in support of the 1996 treaty banning all nuclear test blasts, the CTBT, which the U.S. and 186 other states have signed reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documen…

Trump administration tells Congress it can continue its lethal strikes against boaters in Latin America and is not bound by a decades-old legislation requiring Congress to give approval for ongoing hostilities wapo.st/3WzQial

Rep. Kucinich’s Address to Congress on the War in Libya, March 31, 2011: thenation.com/article/archiv… Video: c-span.org/program/us-hou… #warpowers

A reminder of a prior U.S. operation in Nigeria. "The United States played an unacknowledged role in the 2017 bombing of an internally displaced persons’ camp in Nigeria that killed more than 160 civilians, many of them children." theintercept.com/2022/07/28/nig…

President Trump said he ordered the Defense Department to prepare for potential strikes in Nigeria, an escalation to pressure the West African country’s government over its alleged failure to stop the persecution of Christians. wapo.st/47CrVhc

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