I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

This is what the weaponization of prosecutors' offices looks like under an authoritarian regime. Facts - even the very most important one - do not matter. All that matters to them is if you oppose the authoritarian reign.

Trump’s political prosecutions require members of the public—specifically jurors—to go along with him. Every time Trump wants to prosecute one of his political enemies, the people should say: no. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump was wrong about tariffs and, instead of removing them, he's going to use the tariffs China isn't paying on soybeans to give to farmers who can't sell soybeans to China. Our country is being destroyed by rich white men who refuse to admit they are wrong.

Forcing everything through a narrow lens of campaign strategy is not only morally flawed, it overweights small movements in polls far from elections, prompts negotiating against yourself, and creates excuses for weakness. Everyone doing that type of “strategic” thinking would make for bad strategy.

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

You can tell the tylenol thing was really crazy because it even got jd vance to do the thing where you just pretend trump said the opposite of what he actually said

Kennedy contributed more towards the current state of the nation than 99.9999% of the population. This is the America he worked for decades to create.

He lied. Gotta use the word

Lol.

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

I'm glad to see House Democrats are pressing to get Rep-Elect Grijalva seated, because the fight over this is just a prelude to what the House Republicans will try in January 2027, when charges of "voter fraud" will lead to "serious questions" that will delay the seating of several new Democrats.

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

I’ll be in Portland today watching a soccer match, eating dinner outside (it’s a beautiful fall day here), maybe going to a bookstore because life in Portland is totally normal. But in case I’m met with the “full force” of the US military during my regular rounds, it was nice knowing you all.

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

Government funding runs out in four days — House Republicans are on vacation.

I keep thinking about buyers and how—over the space of a decade or two—I watched how the chain bookstore I worked at went from "let us tell find the right book for you" to "these books go here on these displays, exactly like this, no exceptions." It… sucked. (1/?)

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

this made me wince because it's not wrong.

This

Instead of lowering prices, as he promised to do, Trump is pushing gimmicks that protect Big Pharma’s monopoly power and force consumers to hunt for better deals in a sea of outrageous prices. A Trump prescription for more medical debt.

Amelia Earthart would want Trump to release all the Epstein Files.

I think we found an inconsistency.

A guess: this would leak anyway, especially something on this scale; and every single person in the Pentagon except Hegseth rightly thinks that this is insane and hopes publicity will make it not happen.

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

Weird how this comes on the same day new Epstein evidence is released by House Oversight.

The Trump admin illegally leaked my unredacted personnel file to Jack's allies to try to smear me. The full force of the federal government is being weaponized to defeat me — I’m asking you to help me fight back! Donate here: secure.ngpvan.com/NGY2cCnISU6c...

Republicans, however, are claiming that Democratic legislation is a “cut” to rural hospitals because it replaces their $50 billion “rural health fund” with fully restored Medicaid funding. This is a lie. They voted to cut rural health, and they know it. 6/

The Democrats have allowed themselves to believe their own party is the one depicted every day on Fox News and that’s where groups like @searchlightinst.bsky.social derive their power. It’s like a battered spouse who believes all that shit talk from their abuser. “I’m clumsy and stupid.”

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. If Tom Homan did nothing wrong, then the DOJ should have no issue releasing the tapes. Otherwise, it smells like another cover-up from this corrupt administration to me.

I'm always heartbroken to read this, but the awareness of healthcare always seems to be low on the Congressional agenda until it's hanging by a thread. This is why I have devoted my life to bringing awareness to healthcare. I will keep fighting until my last breath. NEVER GIVE UP!

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign. Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

that was fast

you win if you fight

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Bailing out a failed libertarian austerity agenda in Argentina... "That's just how it is."

once again I'd like to extend a huge congratulations to establishment Democrats for their ingenious plan to solve TikTok privacy and propaganda problems by helping Trump give TikTok to his rich asshole privacy violating fascist friends for propaganda purposes me, in March of 2024:

Trump picked the wrong country to try and takeover as an authoritarian. He has bitten off far more than he can ever chew. America will reject him and his hate. I am convinced that defeating an attempted fascist takeover will eventually unite this country like nothing before has ever been able to do.

Every Democrat should do a video stating, "I am anti-fascist." I'd also like to see them burning copies of that memo. Free speech the fuck out of them.

“In China, more electric cars will be sold in the last quarter of this year than the total number of all cars sold in the US.” This is how China extends its advantage while Trump screws up U.S. auto production.

A University of South Dakota professor removed for calling Kirk a “hate spreading Nazi" has been reinstated, in a temporary win for free speech. trib.al/JcLoMaJ This ruling comes as VP Vance has warned against calling political enemies Nazis (something he once did to the sitting president).

The National Archives released the military records of Mikkie Sherrill, then admitted they shouldn't have. The documents appear to contain personal information like her SSN number, per ABC: abc7ny.com/post/calls-i...

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

I seem to remember that there was a political movement in the US that was powered by resentment over bailouts and an opposition to sending “our money” to other countries. Blanking on the name right now, but it’ll come to me.

Well done, Kristi Noem, she who, btw, STILL has not had to publicly answer for the racial profiling policies at DHS that resulted in this disaster. Can no enterprising reporter confront her about this international disaster?

When the Scholars Strategy Network Medicaid working group briefed folks on the BBB in June, we got a question about how to do a Medicaid work requirement that minimizes coverage losses. My answer was that that wasn’t the point of work requirements. Acceptable alternative answer: Not Like Georgia.

Ha

CNN: The ratings are in for the first day. 6.26 million viewers on ABC. That was four times Jimmy Kimmel's average. And that's despite the show not even being available in a quarter of all American homes.

Right-wind billionaires such as this one back the toxic propaganda efforts such as Turning Point. This needs to be emphasized wherever possible. #ProudBlue