Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

Can you and your family afford to pay double or even triple the price for health insurance? Trump and Republicans have let the government shut down instead of lowering the cost for American families.

Minnesota: Split bipartisan legislature. Kept the government open. Invested in improving lives. Responsible budget cuts. Washington: Republicans control House, Senate, Oval Office. Government shutdown. Driving up health care costs by thousands. Skyrocketing national debt.

Say it with me, everybody: R-r-r-radical R-r-r-republicans.

Donald Trump should listen to Donald Trump. He owns this shutdown.

FREE SPEECH WINS 🦅🇺🇸

Senator Bill Cassidy has just announced that Senator Mullen (R, verbal abuser and liar) has admitted he LIED when he said the meeting between Dr. Monarez and RFK Jr. was recorded. She stood by her testimony in the face of these lies and abuse. Mullen should be removed from office for this.

Her name was Melissa Hortman. She and her husband Mark were shot and killed in their home in an act of vicious political violence. She was Minnesota’s Speaker of the House Emerita. They were dog lovers. Amateur bakers. Great parents. Best friends. You should know their names.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Please stop calling everything a distraction. Authoritarianism is a complicated, multifaceted attack on all the things all at once. I know it feels better to break it down into these narratives, but we have to be capable of grasping what’s going on in order to fight back. It’s a multi-front war.

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“I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do,” Smith wrote on the social platform X ... “Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls‑‑‑. You should be fired.” thehill.com/policy/healt...

A reminder....it took only ONE School shooting in Scotland DECADES ago for the entire British Nation to make sweeping gun changes because that's what a Nation that cares about their Children does, they protect them! It's the FUCKING Guns! Another useless Round of Thoughts & Prayers will do NOTHING!

Sadly, there are documented cases:

Uncooperative Federalism is here! open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

For the record, I just want to point out that Patty Murray mocked Trump’s tweet style way before Gavin Newsom, but agreed it is enormously effective and all Dems should adopt.

Fixed

Here, fixed it.

A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture. More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

“the plane was nearly intercepted by a privately owned Hawker Hunter fighter jet after less than six minutes in the air.” Privately owned fighter jet? This country is 🍌. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fire Noem Now!!!

I hope this paves the way for a democratic president to layoff supreme court justices, who are not elected, but merely appointed federal employees.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The Big Ugly Bill passed the Senate. Murkowski only voted yes after GOP leaders “packed it with sweeteners that insulated Alaska from cuts to health care and food assistance.” The Golden Rule is officially dead. We are headed to Rock Bottom.

Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.

Sick fucks

At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.

Hoping this will reach women who have been reticent to seek a medical practice/clinic for testing. Will undoubtedly be a game changer in other countries with less access to screening. Now if we can only get HPV vaccines and treatment this accessible.

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

This: 💯

Resistance is NOT futile

Straight into my veins

We really have to knock it off with these DUI hires. Pete Hegseth is not fit for office and must resign.

Pssst, Columbia, this is how you do it

So tragic the loss of young vibrant lives to vaccine-preventable diseases. Childhood vaccines are so much safer than the infections they prevent. Infections that can be lethal to this age group and others. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

This is why it’s important that RFK Jr doesn’t make cuts to mRNA vaccine funding as being proposed. Informed citizens need to spread the word about how science like this is saving lives.

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.