Republicans are trying to feed the country during the Schumer Shutdown. Heartless Democrats are expected to vote against it and let the American public starve to death or force them into food riots
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5572105-snap-funding-government-shutdown/
Bill to fund SNAP in shutdown introduced in House

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) on Friday introduced a bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government shutdown threatens payments of the food aid in some states.

The Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025 would keep the food aid program funded during the government lapse until the Department of Agriculture is funded through regular appropriations or stopgap measures.

The bill is the companion to a SNAP-funding bill in the Senate being led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), which Senate Republicans are reportedly considering for a floor vote. Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) is a co-sponsor of the House bill.

SNAP benefits are funded by the federal government while states operate and share the cost of administering the program and distributing the benefits. Since funding is sent to states monthly, October benefits were not impacted — but November payments could be at risk. The Department of Agriculture has warned there will be insufficient funds to pay full SNAP benefits in November if the shutdown continues.

“More than 262,000 Iowans, including over 100,000 children rely on SNAP to put food on the table. They cannot afford to be ‘leverage’ in the Democrats’ political games. That’s why I’m introducing legislation to ensure SNAP remains funded throughout the shutdown. Access to food is not negotiable,” Miller-Meeks said in a statement.

Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked a House-passed, GOP-crafted “clean” stopgap to fund the government through Nov. 21 as they demand that Republicans negotiate on health care issues like enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits.

Fresh off of a humiliating collapse of his much touted ceasefire in Gaza and in the third week of a government shutdown caused by his inability to negotiate with Senate Democrats, Donald Trump, self described master negotiator, can now add the implosion of talks with Russia to end the Ukraine war he had hyped last week to his list of recent diplomatic failures.
Were these not matters of national and international stability with millions of lives on the line, one could be excused for feeling a knee jerk desire to laugh at the embarrassing display of chronic incompetence presented by Donald Trump on a daily basis

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/21/trump-putin-summit-uncertain-00616500

President Donald Trump’s second summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is off.

The White House said Tuesday that the planned meeting in Budapest, announced by Trump just last week after his two-hour phone call with Putin, was no longer in the works after Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke Monday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

“Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call,” said a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the plans. “Therefore, an additional in-person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future.”

The rapid dissolution of plans for another summit between Trump and Putin just two months after they met in Alaska stemmed again from Russia’s refusal to budge from its maximalist positions on what it would take for it to halt its war in Ukraine.

In a press conference in Moscow Tuesday, Lavrov said he informed Rubio that Russia’s position — that a peace agreement must come before a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine — has not changed. And he said he was surprised by a CNN report about disagreement during the call over Russia’s “maximalist” demands.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m46lriuee42d

What a pack of retards

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/25/trump-2028-steve-bannon-comments/86897789007/

WASHINGTON – MAGA podcaster and former West Wing aide Steve Bannon suggested in a recent interview that a plan exists for President Donald Trump to attempt to defy the Constitution and seek a third term in office in 2028.

"Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people just ought to get accommodated with that," he told The Economist on Oct. 23.

Though Bannon, who served a four-month stint in prison last year and has pleaded guilty to separate fraud charges, isn't empowered in the White House like he was during Trump's first term, he indicated there are "many different alternatives" for keeping his former boss in the presidency.

"At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is," Bannon said. "But there is a plan."

Trump has toyed publicly with the idea on many occasions since he won reelection in 2024, despite the fact that the 22nd Amendment forbids a president from seeking office for more than two four-year terms, regardless of whether they were consecutive.

https://www.wect.com/2025/10/25/13-people-shot-2-dead-according-deputies-after-shooting-robeson-county/

ROBESON CO., N.C. (WECT) - Officials with the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office confirm 13 people have been shot and at least two people are dead following a shooting.

Officials posted the information in a Facebook post saying it happened during a large party just outside of Maxton.

Deputies say there is no current threat to the community and it appears to have been an isolated incident.

The post says more than 150 of people ran from the location before law enforcement arrived. They’re asking anyone with information or anyone who was at the scene when it happened, to make contact with Sheriff’s Investigators by calling 910-671-3100 or email [email protected].

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-argentina-bailout-sparks-fury-among-farmers-republicans-10809559

President Donald Trump’s offer to prop up Argentina’s economy—and the political future of embattled President Javier Milei—has drawn the ire of farmers and lawmakers, who consider this an ill-judged use of American resources.

Milei, who has led the country since December 2023, is now facing off against several threats to his free market movement, including the recent electoral successes of his Peronist rivals and a depletion of his country’s foreign reserves.

Amid this and Milei’s declining prospects in the upcoming midterm elections, President Trump said he would help his counterpart secure “all of the things that you need to make Argentina great again.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, meanwhile, offered a $20 billion swap line and other forms of assistance to help stabilize the Argentine peso, and said the U.S. remained “prepared to do what is necessary” to sustain the “important strides” taken by Milei.

Newsweek contacted the White House via email for comment.

Why It Matters

Following years of inflationary struggles, Milei’s presidency and the economic turnaround it inaugurated has been hailed by some—including Trump and his allies—as a model of how slashing federal spending and bureaucracy can steady a faltering economy.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/truck-driver-country-illegally-influence-drugs-california-crash/story?id=126804313

The driver of a semi-truck that slammed into multiple vehicles, killing three people, on a California highway was allegedly under the influence of drugs, authorities said.

The driver -- identified by authorities as 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh -- has been charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence of a drug causing injury in connection with Tuesday's chain-reaction crash on Interstate 10 in Ontario, according to a criminal complaint.

He is in the United States illegally and an immigration detainer has also been placed on him, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/shutdown-budget-congress-republicans-noem-johnson-20251022.html

The power of the House, the Senate, and the White House belong to MAGA. A simple rules change in the Senate and vote on the clean continuing resolution would reopen the government in time to keep food on the table for millions this Thanksgiving. We don't need the Democrats to save our people from going hungry the one day no one should.

https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fluoride-kennedy-trump-science-antiscience-legislation-73af8e65f407331e8f31b2909812a004

More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.

An Associated Press investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The effort would strip away protections that have been built over a century and are integral to American lives and society. Around 30 bills have been enacted or adopted in 12 states.

Trump administration officials are directing activists to push anti-science legislation in the states – where public health authority rests – with the ultimate goal of changing laws and minds nationally.

The effort normalizes ideas fueled by the anti-vaccine movement that Kennedy has helped lead for years. His Make America Healthy Again agenda masks anti-science ideas while promoting goals such as making food more natural or reducing chemicals. Meanwhile, vaccination rates continue to fall, allowing the infectious diseases measles and whooping cough to make comebacks as Kennedy has sought to broadly remake federal policies on public health matters including fluoride and vaccines.

Kennedy’s allies dispute that their agenda is anti-science or driven by conspiracy theories, but many experts disagree.

“The march of conspiracy thinking from the margins to the mainstream now guiding public policy should be a wake-up call for all Americans,” said Devin Burghart, president and executive director of the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, who has tracked the anti-vaccine movement for decades. “People are literally going to die from it as a result.”