I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

OH THE HUMANITY

if you respect the law and the constitution, the trump administration has no use for you

Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans: "We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it." youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...

I'm attending Healthcare Not Authoritarianism's event, “MASS CALL- Healthcare Not Authoritarianism: Shutdown Showdown” - sign up www.mobilize.us/healthcareno...

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This. Always, at the beginning and the end of every day, this. American capitalism has killed American democracy. Money translates directly into political power in the US.

War ravaged Portland.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Our craven Attorney General will really do anything Trump says.   The DOJ doesn't exist to punish Trump's enemies, it's meant to work for the American people. This is an egregious abuse of power by the most corrupt President in history.

I find it … difficult to watch violence. It’s vicarious trauma, and I experience rage. So I really do avoid watching these videos. But I think it might be worse to avoid it. We have to witness state violence in order to believe it. Watch this officer of the state. And condemn him.

Trump's masked Gestapo thugs are beating & kidnapping people indiscriminately. Some are documented immigrants, some are citizens! There's no due process, just cruelty. This 80yo heart patient/business owner was brutalized & detained. Talk to friends & Volunteer/donate: Stopelectionrigging.com

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

The irony is not lost on me. Chin up, Jimmy. 🙏

Cleta Mitchell thinks President Donald Trump may declare a national emergency to allow him to take control of national elections. Her comments will add to growing concern that Trump is plotting a way to use his power over the military and federal law enforcement to rig next year’s vote.

Hospitals across Washington state are being forced to lay off staff, reducing services because of GOP health care cuts. This is real. And it’s happening because Republicans chose tax cuts for billionaires over health care for our families. I'm fighting to repeal these cuts.

Jesse Welles says that Jimmy Kimmel was the only one to allow him to perform his song “The Poor” on national television. The slope is getting slipperier.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

I can only imagine how outraged and disgusted Robert Redford would've been by the events of this week, the events of today. I also know how committed he would be to fighting back, to reclaiming our rights. Here's how I know that. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/why...

The suspension of Kimmel and the anti First Amendment campaign of which it is part is one of the most disgusting and dangerous developments in modern US history. What is happening makes McCarthyism look like a small scale dress rehearsal. Orbanism too. This is full fledged fascism.

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

“We are all terrified,” said Montaser Bahja, a former schoolteacher sheltering in an apartment in western Gaza City near the coast. “Death would be more merciful than what we’re living through.” STOP THIS UNJUSTIFIABLE MADNESS. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Justice Sonia Sotomayer went on a talk show circuit to discuss what's happening today. Her words: Democracy will not survive unless the people in it understand, they are the agents of law. #ProudBlue Video credit: ABCNewsLive on IG

BREAKING: Trump’s Education Dept. cancels grants that help students who are both deaf and blind. “How low can you go?” said one person who works with DeafBlind students and their families. W/ @jsmithrichards.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.” -Justice Kavanaugh

I am sickened by this ruling. Trump’s Supreme Court has reopened the door to dangerous and racially motivated immigration raids in Southern California, leaving families to wonder if heading to work or taking their kids to school could end in detention because of the way they look or talk.

The misogyny - and for that matter The racism The homophobia The xenophobia - are not incidental or adjacent to fascism. They are AT ITS CORE.

No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip. And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.

Can someone in the legacy media explain to me how this is not front page news? How is it that only Democracy Docket is covering this unfolding authoritarian takeover? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Sen. Maria Cantwell to RFK: "Stop interrupting me—You're a charlatan."

Just listened to an interview with The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg. Someone who attended prep school with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recalled watching him place metal cutlery under the dining hall table and holding a lighter to them. This was so the boy clearing the table would burn his hands.

Wow. I guess not caring what a bully says about you makes an impact on the people you respect and love. Thanks @firedbutfighting.bsky.social firedbutfighting.org/shop/p/daska...

Love thy neighbor.

The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.

You need to accept that what RFK is doing at CDC goes hand in hand with tearing down democracy. They don't think everyone is worth surviving, much less having a say in how they are governed. Democracy is a story that says every person is worth it. They are telling a different one.

At a health center in Uganda yesterday I came across a line of moms who had walked three hours with their babies to get them vaccinated. They value vaccines, because they see kids dying without them. They understand modern science and medicine more clearly than our HHS secretary.

SB1 will lead to the suppression of free speech and academic freedom. We remain steadfast in our commitment to First Amendment rights and stand prepared to enforce them. We are monitoring closely and exploring all options for forthcoming litigation. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/25/i...

If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.

@naomiaklein.bsky.social on the rise of end times fascism—a coalition of economic elites and the working poor who have all given up on the future.

Ugh, this hurts my heart

This is Ohio’s democracy in action. On Aug. 9, thousands lined 8 miles of High Street, hand in hand — for Medicaid, immigrants, truth, and justice. Against corruption, cruelty, and lies. Ohio doesn’t sit down. We link up. We fight back. And we’re just getting started.

No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.

Fiona Hill: The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression.

In Alabama, another horrible ICE detention story— pulled over for going 1 mile over the speed limit and then put into detention, a woman who earned a masters degree and has become a beloved community advocate. Not a criminal. Someone who contributes to America. www.al.com/news/2025/08...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "I led the effort to build the IL Holocaust Museum. What I know is that in 53 days, Nazis tore down the constitutional republic in Germany in the 1930s. It doesn't take much. We're seeing pieces of that sort of authoritarian activity happening right now in this country."