Sorry… the USAID budget was LESS than the US is now chucking Argentina for giggles?! Jesus…

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts. We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Yes, color me shocked.

“New Zealand is bearing the brunt of these warming seas because of its position…Meanwhile, the Subtropical Front — the boundary between cold subantarctic water and warmer subtropical water…has moved 120km west…the first time a shift in large-scale ocean circulation around NZ had been observed”🧪

NEW: Trump meant to send a Truth Social DM to Pam Bondi about indicting his rivals. That sounds like official business, so I'm filing a FOIA for her DMs, plus those of five other cabinet members. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/my-latest-...

Portland 🔥

Who is overseeing ICE as they use batons, chemical sprays and pepper-ball guns against unarmed people who appear to pose no threat?

Since Kid Rock is trending, let's all revisit these fun lyrics he included in his Osmosis Jones cameo: "Young ladies, young ladies I like 'em underage, see Some say that's statutory (But I say it's mandatory)" Makes sense that he's such a Trump guy. Release the Epstein files.

Kid Rock is trending. This is the most definitive thing you will ever see about Kid Rock. The opening to the pilot of Silicon Valley🤪 #KidRock

Kid Rock has a habit of calling liberal women ugly but rarely addresses the facts that he appears to be the malnourished ghost of a skeleton's bug-eyed penis.

Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss. More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Trump's tweet that Portland is "war ravaged" just backfired. A Trump-picked judge cited it in blocking National Guard deployment to Portland, declaring him "untethered from facts." On the pod, Oregon AG Dan Rayfield illuminatingly explains the ruling and what's next: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

@thomyorke.wastehq.social Happy Birthday from Brooklyn 💘

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

One fact. One hallway. One night in Chicago. After this, you won’t say “just another immigration story.”👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

It’s Trump’s shutdown. Trump is an adjudicated rapist. Trump is a seditionist. Trump is twice impeached. Trump is a felon. Release the Epstein files because Trump is a pedophile.

In a new interview, Howard Lutnick reveals the reason why Trump, Bondi and Mike Johnson have been working so hard to cover up the Epstein files, which we pretty much already knew but now it’s coming from someone who was friends with Epstein. nypost.com/2025/10/01/u...

BREAKING: This is Donald Trump's Shutdown. Rep. Greg Casar: “There are more mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein Files than there are House Republicans here in Washington D.C. today.”

If Trump would just release the damn Epstein files he wouldn’t have to shut down the government to distract from them.

Repost if you REFUSE TO FORGET ABOUT THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES!!! We made a song. 🤣😂

Trump LOVES the shutdown not only because it gives him attention, but because it delays the Epstein files vote once again. He DOES NOT want those files published.

I think President Trump is brave to shut down the government instead of releasing the Epstein files

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

They’re baaack. 🤣 Repairs and all…

And here's another one:

DO NOT LOOK AWAY!!! TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

GOP Last Week: "We control everything." Today: "The shutdown was out of our control."

Donald Trump in 2024: "I know nothing about Project 2025. And I'm not interested in it." Donald Trump in 2025: "I'm going to meet with the guy who was the architect behind Project 2025 and let him do my job of deciding which parts of government to cut." Does this man tell the truth about ANYTHING?

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

This masterpiece is 25 years old today 🎈#Radiohead #KidA @radiohead.wastehq.social music.apple.com/us/album/kid...

Donald Trump shut down the government because he doesn't want you to have healthcare. But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there. Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.

Rep. Madeleine Dean confronted Mike Johnson on Capitol Hill yesterday, demanding accountability for Trump’s latest gross behavior. Dean said Trump's AI nonsense: “It’s disgraceful. It’s bigoted. It’s racist. You should call it out.” The fact Johnson refuses to is absolutely deplorable.

Anytime, anywhere you hear anyone say that democrats have shut down the government, kindly correct them. The republicans shut down the government. The republicans shut down the government. The republicans shut down the government.

CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"

Tomorrow: From The Onion and Global Tetrahedron, this is Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. Buy tickets at theonion.com/badpedophile.