Sen. Chris Murphy: "President Trump is refusing to negotiate because he likes the fact that the government is closed because he thinks he can exercise king-like powers."

Sen. Chris Murphy: "The government of Ontario has the right to criticize Trump, but he's now going to use the tariffs to try to punish people overseas from speaking out against him just like he's trying to use the DOJ or FCC to try to punish people speaking out against him here."

Murphy: "Trump is refusing to negotiate because he likes the fact the govt is closed, bc he thinks he can exercise King-like powers. He can pay the employees who are loyal to him. This is a leader who is trying to transition our govt from a democracy to something much closer to a totalitarian state"

Kelly: "You gotta remember in Trump's big legislation they added $4t to the debt to give a big tax cut for wealthy people on the backs of the American people & what their healthcare costs. That's why these [subsidies] have gone away. They didn't want it to be $6t. They wanted it to just be $4t."

@panetto.bsky.social @moneill16.bsky.social @mlauriat.bsky.social THIS sounds insane..but getting rid of Roe versus Wade, destroying the White House to build a ballroom sounded insane. A private Army he's forming, sounded insane. Presidential immunity sounded insane..

On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic.

You know what day should be a national holiday in 2029? THE DAY OF THE COMPLETE AND TOTAL BULLDOZING OF THE PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP BALLROOM.

This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

This isn't chaos. It's a plan. The defunding of the NEA, the gutting of the NEH, and the capture of the Kennedy Center are straight from the Heritage Foundation's 'Project 2025' playbook. Read my latest TIME article to see why this cultural attack demands our attention.

Joined my friends at the Illinois Farm Bureau at the Will County Fair to talk about the issues important to our farmers in our northern Illinois community.

Where is your Member of Congress during this government shutdown? For five straight weeks, House Republicans have refused to re-open the House, refuse to negotiate, and even refuse to hold town halls. Disgraceful.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Trump and his fascist ilk have got to go.

Donald Trump's puppet DOJ has no business screwing around with next month's election. Sending the feds into California polling places is a deliberate attempt to scare off voters and undermine a fair election. We will not back down. Californians decide our future — no one else.

The White House just issued a sweeping federal directive transforming how dissent might be policed in the US—here’s why civil liberties groups are so alarmed.

And this is why you can’t just palm any candidate off on Dem voters. When it comes to the Senate we all suffer. Vet them.

Trump hit his lowest approval rating on the economy *ever* this week. And not only ever in his history, but ever in *any* president’s history. Trump is wildly unpopular, and the economy is his single worst issue. Don’t forget it and don’t treat him like he’s inevitable. He’s not.

Journalist @briankarem.bsky.social says the Pentagon's new restrictions on the press enable "a proliferation of propaganda." "Journalists aren't going to be at the Pentagon," he said. "What you're going to have are propagandists, stenographers, people who will spout the company line."

Prime Minister Schoof: What we see is that Russia is the only party rejecting a ceasefire, circumventing all diplomatic initiatives and continuing to attack Ukraine.

Trump is unstable, unpredictable, and too emotionally fragile. He’s willing to jeopardize $3.6 billion in daily trade between the US and Canada over a television ad. We must take away the remote and his authority to impose tariffs on a whim.

Slash YOUR Social Security to make themselves richer. Fire veterans and those who serve them at the VA to make themselves richer. None of this is about “waste, fraud, and abuse” like Republicans are claiming.

Trump is once again trying to rig the system. California refuses to stand back while Trump and red states try to dismantle our democracy. #VoteYesOnProp50 Already voted? Join the fight as a volunteer! Get involved at https:// gavinnewsom.win/50-volunteer

Just so I'm understanding correctly Trump has, again, taken power of the purse from Congress to somehow fund the military with money from....who? Why would Trump ever want Congress to come back? With Congress essentially ruling itself out he's getting his authoritarianism on autopilot.

But sure, more tax cuts for billionaires.

We’ve become a bad joke.

“Everybody needs to protect their neighbor.” — Dolores Huerta

What happened to lowering prices from day one? Trump sold us out for corporations & his billionaire friends. Oh, and let’s not forget the #BallroomGrift! So much for America first.

East Chicago council member Robert Garcia: “I'm of Puerto Rican descent, most of East Chicago is Hispanic, and they can stop anybody. It doesn't matter what nationality you are. I'm a U.S. Army veteran also. They stopping…and deporting some veterans that serve this country. That's wrong.”

If you'd please note: the MAGA propaganda machine is simultaneously accusing "No Kings" of being an evil plot and of being privately funded, while simultaneously boasting that the destruction of the White House is a glorious plan because it is being privately funded🤷🏼‍♂️

IBEW Statement on the Ongoing Government Shutdown: “A government that demands labor without pay isn’t leading its people — it’s betraying them.” ibew.org/press-releas...

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BREAKING: Per new reporting, ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting under Kristi Noem. One was discovered to have a history of robbery and battery related to domestic violence while already in training.

SCOOP: I obtained internal documents showing Amazon has been selling cloud computing and AI services to the state-owned Israeli weapons manufacturers whose bombs and missiles have ravaged Gaza. theintercept.com/2025/10/24/a...

We are one week away from Open Enrollment. Under the GOP health care crisis, millions of families will lose insurance. There is no time to waste. We need to pass a budget that protects everyday Americans.

We need to give young people something to believe in.

(Bret Stephens reading this post): Why is he so obsessed with Israel?!?!?!?

This is amazing!!

NEW: A guide to what is happening in the challenges to Trump's National Guard deployment efforts. Expect significant rulings from the courts — including the Supreme Court — in the coming weeks. This evening, at Law Dork:

Over $2,000,000,000,000 in new debt from Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, all to give tax breaks to billionaires and the largest corporations. And Republicans call themselves the "party of fiscal responsibility." What a joke.

Let people see Jack Smith for who he is and not the characters depicted by Trump and others.

Release the Epstein Files, you fucking child rapist!

SNAP benefits are about to lapse for 42 million people, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.

“.. Villagers said the corpse had burn marks on its face and was missing limbs, as if it had been mangled by an explosion. .. Who were they? Did a U.S. strike kill them? Will more bodies appear on Trinidad’s beaches?” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...

That’s a trillion dollar increase in two months.

Earlier today, Mother Jones talked to Bay Area faith leaders about what brought them out to protest ICE. Here's what they had to say.

BREAKING: Jack Smith is insisting upon a public hearing if Congress wants to talk to him Good. Why does the GOP want backroom secret questioning? What are Republicans afraid of? Let the American people see & hear for themselves!