In Chickasaw Country we call it Piomingo Day. Sending cooler-weather-and-hot-coffee fall vibes to everyone as we take today to reflect on the start of a new season of work, growth, and opportunity. To our federal partners: #solidarity Strong vision is more important than ever.

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Thank you for this, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ✊🏼💙💪🏼🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸

Bribery is a hell of a motivator. Spiro Agnew is rolling in his grave.

Good. Hopefully her appointment implodes and both cases go with her. This is a fundamental distinction about the Trump Cartel: they're too lazy or too dumb to actually put in the legwork. Hopefully that catches up to them more and more as they bumble around their assault on the Rule of Law

And it’s wrong and it’s hateful. Go ahead and close this race out and show her the door, Abigail 🙌🏼💪🏼💅🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song. But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

“Habeas who?” I don’t know her 💅🤣

These thugs DO NOT get to quote a beloved Zach Bryan song to further their hate and lawlessness. Zach is a veteran who explicitly does not approve of these action and he's said so over the past 48 hours.

There's only one of these three found guilty by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts of criminal conduct.

The Speaker thinks they should punish federal workers for *Congress* not doing their job? Got it. On the one hand, it's pretty clear that the civil service should never vote for GOP members again. On the other, they're more than happy to continue traumatizing the federal workforce.

While lawmakers debate the calendar, a top GOP insurance regulator is pulling the fire alarm on ACA subsidies. If Congress doesn't act before the Nov. 1 enrollment deadline, 24 million Americans will face sticker shock so severe it will crash the entire marketplace.

*checks notes* they’ve had since roughly mid-2009 to produce an alternative to RomneyCare (adopted as the ACA/ObamaCare) & they have not. Most recently: “concepts of a plan”.

You don’t host a cabinet meeting during a shutdown—you get your ass to the Hill and negotiate with the opposition party. May they pay mightily for these miscalculations. ✊🏼🔥🇺🇸

Sen. Gallego: "Who are we dealing with? Mike Johnson has sent away the Republicans to hide the Epstein list. Trump, the man who wrote 'The Art of the Deal,' cannot be found anywhere...There's negotiations to be had, but two of the three people that need to be involved are gone."

Ummm, that boy gay. 👀🧐🏳️‍🌈 (Based solely on my anecdotal analysis of the two photos in this article 😆) So who's gonna tell the MAGA crowd?

Perhaps class action lawsuits against all these rogue LE groups might do at least a little to counter this rampant lawlessness?

Give the fascist no safe harbor. They need to feel the shame of their hateful positions—even with things as small as the kindness to use a restroom. (Or maybe they should have checked her gender marker on her ID first?) GTFO of Illinois and polite society.

How many unhoused people could we assist with the amount of money we’re paying the Brownshirts to inflict unnecessary domestic terror in Portland instead?

I think everyone currently working for Trump needs to think about this--one day he will be gone, and you will be accountable for your actions.

"By our Law, all Ministerial Officers are accountable for their Actions: The Authority of Superiours, though the King himself, cannot justifie inferiour Officers, much less Ministers of State, if they should execute illegal Commands." Rev. William Sherlock, London, May 1688

*won’t (because they care more about billionaires than average folks health insurance.)

Or, you know, the job that Johnson *should* be doing as the head of the Appropriations branch of government. 🙄

Murphy to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "If we’re going to sign on to a full year budget, it must have constraints on corruption & illegality. We cannot sign onto a budget that basically puts a bipartisan endorsement of the illegality. We’re literally signing our own political death warrants if we do"

This is what we should have been doing in March. CC: @schumer.senate.gov Imagine if you had established boundaries then instead of waiting. 🤬✊🏼🔥🇺🇸

Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal. I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t. Watch all the way through.

This is what our foreign policy has been reduced to.

New: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Good work

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

They’ve chosen party over everything else—at all costs. Refusing to bar Trump from running again *after he literally incited an insurrection that could have killed some of them* is about as stark a contrast as can be drawn regarding the need to protect the own constitutional authority. Cowards.

A shocking abdication of power *checks notes*…the Speaker of the House of Representatives. As if congressional appropriations doesn’t fund the executive branch and it’s not *still illegal* to ignore their funding directives.

Maybe if we’re not going to fine or jail people for blatantly and unapologetically violating the Hatch Act…they could at least be fired. 🤬

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I never expected so much sheer giving up without even a hint of a fight from major institutions. 🤷🏼‍♂️

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that? MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

MAGA will be like, “It must be awful living in a hell hole like Portland,” and then be from a state that ranks near the bottom in crime, poverty, healthcare, income, obesity, education, and overall quality of life

I wonder how the idea was put in his head? (Old enough to remember an entire political party, multiple candidates and elected officials, and several propaganda stations masquerading as news repeating scary things not founded in reality as a major election talking point.)

Did…didn’t Netanyahu hold up a map with like three other countries on it labeled in bold “THE CURSE” like three days ago…? 😅🙄 Peace through eternal war.

Big Ugly Bill — DAMAGE CONTROL New Mexico is showing the rest of the nation how it’s done: Special session starts Oct 1 to protect Medicaid, lower premiums, and keep hospitals open. While D.C. Republicans are playing games, New Mexico is fighting to save health care for every family. 1/3

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

Would be great to see today statements denouncing the invasion of Portland by: - All Dem govs - All Dems AGs - Senate and House Dems We have to denounce, attack, challenge immediately and defend the American people from this dangerous man.

lot of reporting on Ryan Walters sure is ignoring all the vicious and cruel transphobia he peddled. Especially that which he peddled in the immediate wake of Nex Benedict's death.

You can add to this the fact that they fired many HR people who were supposed to be processing other civil servants’ resignations & retirements. So there was nobody to separate them formally. We are probably still paying hundreds of workers who think they quit or retired but still receive paychecks

🙄🙄🙄 Good luck proving your case, gurl. 💅

People seem determined to remember Charlie Kirk as a devout Christian. This includes mainstream and liberal descriptions of him and not just MAGA hagiography. But look, the things he said about people were in direct contravention of Christ’s teachings. It’s deeply perverted to suggest otherwise.

Article: The e-commerce giant did not admit guilt, and the settlement did not require additional changes to its sign-up and cancellation process. So Amazon paid a pittance to be allowed to continue doing what they have been doing. Trump's FTC in action? Sad.