Source: New York Post
by staff

“President Donald Trump moved Monday to blunt the pain Democrats are inflicting on food-stamp families with their government shutdown, which will be the longest ever if it continues through Wednesday. Rather than cut off payments after the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ran out of cash this weekend, Trump & Co. will cover at least partial benefits, using money from a contingency fund meant for food during natural disasters. The president doesn’t want to see the 42 million Americans who depend on food stamps have to struggle any more than necessary — plus, as ever, he’s complying with valid court orders directing the payments to continue (even if the judges in question are likely to be overruled by higher courts). ‘President Trump wants to make sure that people get their food benefit,’ noted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday.” (11/03/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/opinion/trump-offers-food-stamp-relief-to-dems-hostages-as-the-shutdown-nears-record-length/

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“The former vice president, Dick Cheney, has died at the age of 84. Cheney was one of the U.S. officials most responsible for the illegal invasion of Iraq and the government’s torture of detainees. He was a leading advocate of both regime change and torture, and he used his substantial influence in the Bush administration to make both happen. Like other Bush administration officials responsible for the criminal aggression against Iraq, Cheney never faced justice for his crimes. … When awful politicians die, there is a tendency to whitewash their records and to withhold criticism. That is frequently a mistake. Cheney escaped accountability in life. He never paid any price for the destruction he caused and the lives that his policies ruined and ended. The very least we can do now is to remember what he did and to tell the truth about it.” (11/04/25)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/dick-cheney-war-criminal-dead-at

Source: Reason
by Tosin Akintola

“President Trump’s pretextual claim that fentanyl carrying drug boats in the Caribbean are an existential threat to Americans doesn’t pass muster.” (11/04/25)

https://reason.com/2025/11/04/what-does-fentanyl-have-to-do-with-alleged-drug-boats-2600-miles-away-absolutely-nothing/

Source: TomDispatch
by John Feffer

“Donald Trump hates Antifa. He hates late-night TV hosts, Democratic-controlled cities, and anyone who has ever challenged him in court. As of October, he officially hates the Nobel committee for not giving him a peace prize, despite his efforts to strong-arm its members into voting for him. The president has gone after everyone he thinks has ever done him wrong. But there is a Venn diagram to his vendettas, an overlap in his circle of obsessions. Map out his attacks, subtracting the purely personal and the primarily partisan, and you’ll see that they converge on a profound disgust for the liberal international order. That Trump has personally profited from that very global order — his portfolio of international real estate, his business’s reliance on global supply chains, the unacknowledged benefits he’s accrued from the international rule of law — makes no difference.” (11/04/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/the-multipolarism-of-fools/