Evening Roundup, October 30
Featuring "The Tea" with April Ryan, Joyce Vance, & Kelley Robinson; Susan Corke; Senator Jacky Rosen with Jen Rubin; Brian O'Neill; Meredith Blake; Shalise Manza Young; Anonymous; & RJ Matson
The Tea w/ April Ryan ft. Joyce Vance & Kelley Robinson
Host April Ryan is joined by guests Joyce Vance and Kelley Robinson to discuss the Trump administration’s attacks on our democracy and how we work together to overcome them. Joyce also gives us a glimpse into her new book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Authoritarians don’t get the last word
The bulldozed White House East Wing is an all-too-obvious metaphor. The president of the United States is taking a wrecking ball to our democratic institutions and using the trappings of democracy to glorify and enrich himself.
The MAGA GOP Doesn't Care If You Starve: Sen. Rosen on SNAP, Shutdown, and Senate.
The clock is ticking on SNAP benefits. If Republicans, who market themselves as the “family first” party, fail to reach an agreement on emergency funds for SNAP, millions of Americans will lose the ability to feed their families.
The Veruca Salt Strategy Has Metastasized
In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the greedy and demanding Veruca Salt wants it all and wants it now—and the adults keep saying yes. The point is simple: Indulgence dressed up as strategy invites only more demands.
The Forgotten Status in the Immigration Narrative
Anonymous
If you’re a young adult in America asking yourself what am I doing with my life?, you are not alone. Anxiety about making the right move, career choice, or dating the right person can be overwhelming for anyone. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
Culture recs: Frankenstein (and Mary Shelley) Through the Ages
It’s Halloween, the time of year we can briefly escape the horror of the real world by gorging on fun-size Twix bars and watching scary movies about fictional monstrosities, like homicidal sentient dolls and reanimated pets.
Kamala Harris was right about everything
By Shalise Manza Young
She gave voice to the racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, un-American goals spelled out in Project 2025 and that are coming to fruition now.
Spooky season
RJ draws several editorial cartoons each week for his substack, e pluribus cartoonum, and for Roll Call, the newspaper of Congress and Capitol Hill. His work is widely syndicated to print newspapers by Cagle Cartoons.
I think the most frightening aspect of this Administration, and the one we most need to fight against, is the slide into becoming a police state. The Senate just voted against tariffs on Canada and Brazil. While these resolutions may not stand, at the very least they seems to portend that there is some life still left in GOP. Hopefully they are beginning to see the bigger picture because it does NOT seem to show preservation of liberty for all. So, while there is much to protest/fight against, it is the militarization against Americans that truly worries me.
Senator Jacky Rosen and Jen had an excellent conversation about loss of SNAP benefits and GOP complicity in loss of healthcare and other unlawful activities by this regime.