Layoffs since April: Amazon: 30k Intel: 25k Microsoft: 15k Meta: 3600 Target: 1800 Charter: 1200 Paramount: 1000 Rivian: 600 xAI: 500 Reminder: Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for reporting accurate job numbers to cover up his handling of the economy.

Breaking: Trump just banned states from being able to wipe medical debt from Americans’ credit reports. The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.

I hope all of you understand that subversive (especially white) low-key subversive Berners (but also others) have embedded themselves into the pundit and chattering class of people who discuss elections, and are abusing their position to push bigoted Gentiles as candidates.

Aaron Rupar x.com/marklevinenyc/…

Republicans are in charge of the White House, the Senate, and the House. But they’re refusing to do their job.

Rich dude wants to get richer

Mike Nellis Platner's already lashing out, lying under pressure. None of that is healthy for him or good for the party. The consultants who scouted him never vetted him; they just thought he looked manly and virile, the appearance was all that mattered. It is so destructive for so many. 3/

The Trump administration has a rainy day fund that will keep SNAP from expiring in November. Trump is refusing to use it. Funding SNAP isn't a choice he can make. It's a legal obligation. Dept. of Agriculture must release the funds and stop punishing the American people.

Good deep dive on the staggeringly corrupt crypto fortune the Trump family has amassed in office reuters.com/investigations…

Shameful is right:

Sen. DURBIN: The Trump Administration cut staffing to prevent domestic terrorism. Political violence expert: There isn’t even an office anymore. Durbin: Are you concerned? Expert: I’m worried about rising political violence. They dismantled the apparatus that can prevent it.

Neguse: "It is outrageous that the Trump administration can come up with $40 billion to bail out Argentina and refuses to spend the money that Congress has appropriated to feed hungry families in America."

Update: the DOJ has now pulled this sentencing memo from the docket. Please judge for yourself whether this fits the definition of Orwellian.

The Missing President Trump has been busy with everything but the government shutdown (w/⁦Toluse Olorunnipa⁩ & ⁦Russell Berman⁩) theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Genuinely crazy that Johnson has suspended congress to keep the Epstein files under wraps.

I understand there’s a backlash against identity politics right now, but during these discussions among Democrats can we keep in mind that women only hold 25% of the 500,000 elected positions in America and we make up less than 10% of Fortune 1,000 CEOs?

We live in a post-truth world now - and the fact that the seriousness of this reality is not being spoken of every single day by every news outlet with the gravity it deserves is frankly appalling. There is no both-sidesing this.

Xi wiped the floor with Trump nytimes.com/2025/10/30/wor… via @NYTimes

News: Transparency is coming to the docket of the since-settled lawsuit filed by Epstein survivors against JPMorgan Chase. After NYT and WSJ won a bid for public access, a trove of info will hit the docket by noon tomorrow (Friday).

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration has now granted protection to members of far-right European parties. This plan, which becomes official today, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for