1. Just a few days after 25 states and DC sued the Trump regime for pausing SNAP benefits during the shutdown, two different federal judges ordered the US Department of Agriculture to fund the program.
2. Secretary of Agriculture Brook Rollins admitted that Trump’s ongoing shutdown has failed the American people, saying: “My message to America is ... your government is failing you right now … It doesn’t matter who you voted for or even if you voted. If you are in a position where you can’t feed your family ... we have failed you.”
3. Democratic gubernatorial nominee in New Jersey, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, had a campaign rally with Pete Buttigieg last week. Buttigieg slammed Trump for using “straight-up mob boss politics” to block development of a major rail tunnel project.
4. A fresh round of national polling shows Americans continue to blame Trump and congressional Republicans … and the numbers are getting worse. Washington Post/ABC/Ipsos finds voters pointing the finger at the Trump-GOP side by a solid margin, with independents breaking against them almost 2-1.
1. Seven Million Americans participated in No Kings protests, which were peaceful and joyful. There was not one arrest in the country at the protests.
2. Former President Joe Biden successfully completed a round of radiation treatment, following his cancer diagnosis. When
leaving Penn Medicine, Biden rang the bell.
3. A California-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing quality education and career opportunities for students from low-income backgrounds just received a “transformational gift” from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. She donated $42 million this week to the group ‘10,000 Degrees’ to assist in its mission of “supporting students to, through, and beyond college”.
4. Governor Newsom signed a bill to end spousal rape impunity in our state.
5. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois signed into law a requirement that police departments investigate applicants’ history of disciplinary records and misconduct before hiring them.
6. More than one third of ICE recruits have failed the fitness test at the ICE training academy in GA. “It’s pathetic” one ICE official said. 1. NO KINGS was a great success. 7 million people participated in 2700 events, 2 million more than No Kings in June. 200,000 rallied in DC against the regime. New York and Boston had more than 100,000 people “peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.” San Francisco had over 50,000 protesters and another human banner on Ocean Beach.
2. The race for governor is heating up in Virginia, with Election Day right around the corner. In their debate last week, Dem Rep. Abigail Spanberger absolutely dominated her Republican opponent Winsome Earle-Sears. Spanberger was calm and collected, while Earle-Sears performed terribly. Constantly interrupting Spanberger, Earle-Sears tried desperately to cause a scene—it didn’t work.
3. Dem Sen. Ruben Gallego roasted Mike Johnson for refusing to swear in Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva. “He’s such a f**king liar, and what a creep,” Gallego said. “He is absolutely holding Adelita Grijalva hostage so that way she can’t be the 218th” signature on the Epstein discharge petition.
4. Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the Trump regime this week, stating: “They are scraping and grasping at straws because they have nothing else.” Calling Stephen Miller a “clown,” AOC said “Laugh at them,” because it’s “one of the best ways you can dismantle a movement of insecure men.”
5. Serious cracks are beginning to show in the Republican Party. Take GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, who has pushed hard to release the Epstein files.
6. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene has been speaking out, recently saying she couldn’t find two things at the Capitol this week: “The Epstein files and … the Republican plan to fix the health insurance industry.”
7. Taking a stand for academic freedom, MIT became the first university to reject Trump’s loyalty “compact”—which demands allegiance to his abhorrent policies.
1. NO KINGS was a great success. 7 million people participated in 2700 events, 2 million more than No Kings in June. 200,000 rallied in DC against the regime. New York and Boston had more than 100,000 people “peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.” San Francisco had over 50,000 protesters and another human banner on Ocean Beach.
2. The race for governor is heating up in Virginia, with Election Day right around the corner. In their debate last week, Dem Rep. Abigail Spanberger absolutely dominated her Republican opponent Winsome Earle-Sears. Spanberger was calm and collected, while Earle-Sears performed terribly. Constantly interrupting Spanberger, Earle-Sears tried desperately to cause a scene—it didn’t work.
3. Dem Sen. Ruben Gallego roasted Mike Johnson for refusing to swear in Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva. “He’s such a f**king liar, and what a creep,” Gallego said. “He is absolutely holding Adelita Grijalva hostage so that way she can’t be the 218th” signature on the Epstein discharge petition.
4. Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed the Trump regime this week, stating: “They are scraping and grasping at straws because they have nothing else.” Calling Stephen Miller a “clown,” AOC said “Laugh at them,” because it’s “one of the best ways you can dismantle a movement of insecure men.”
5. Serious cracks are beginning to show in the Republican Party. Take GOP Rep. Thomas Massie, who has pushed hard to release the Epstein files.
6. Even Marjorie Taylor Greene has been speaking out, recently saying she couldn’t find two things at the Capitol this week: “The Epstein files and … the Republican plan to fix the health insurance industry.”
7. Taking a stand for academic freedom, MIT became the first university to reject Trump’s loyalty “compact”—which demands allegiance to his abhorrent policies.
1. Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan Pro-Democracy politician, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
2. A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked National Guard operations in the Chicago area, saying that the Trump administration’s version of events was “simply unreliable” and that deploying troops anywhere in the state would “only add fuel to the fire.” The judge, April M. Perry, said that she had “seen no credible evidence that there is a danger of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.”
3. Following an agreed upon ceasefire, and in a scene straight out of Exodus, thousands of Palestinians trekked over the moonscape of Gaza to return to the ruins of their abandoned homes.
4. Hamas is expected to release all 48 Israeli and foreign hostages, 20 of whom are presumed to be alive, early this week. Set to be released by Israel are 250 Palestinian prisoners, mostly serving life sentences, and 1,722 Gazans detained during the war who were not involved in the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, including 22 people who were under the age of 18.
5. M.I.T. became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment. The proposal, called the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” was sent to nine universities and would require colleges to cap international student enrollment, freeze tuition for five years, adhere to definitions of gender and prohibit anything that would “belittle” conservative ideas. “Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” MIT’s president, Dr. Sally Kornbluth wrote. The other eight colleges are the University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas, Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.
6. The Real Food, Healthy Kids Act, signed by Governor Newsom last week, will begin the first ever statutory definition of ultra processed foods in the U.S. and will ban some that are “of concern” in California schools by the year 2035. The law was spearheaded by Democratic Encino Assemblyman, Jesse Gabriel.
1. We should always take polls with a grain of salt, but a new Washington Post poll definitely worth taking a look at. It says 47% of respondents already blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, while only 30% blame Democrats.
2. A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found that 90% of Americans want the Epstein files released in some fashion.
3.California has fully activated its first solar-covered canal system, Project Nexus. The panels generate clean electricity while helping to conserve water in the Central Valley.
4. 25,000 volunteer drivers used a DoorDash-like app called Food Rescue Hero to find donations of food that was perhaps not saleable for aesthetic
reasons, or was nearing its sell-by date, or had arrived as part of a shipping
or ordering mistake.
They have saved 250 million pounds of food since founding.
“We were founded on the principle that people are wired for good,”
says Food Rescue Hero CEO Alyssa Cholodofsky, “and our Food Rescue Hero community has validated that belief many times over.”