Republicans just shut down the government to rip away healthcare and hand Trump another blank check for his illegal power grab. Instead of negotiating a budget that protects families, Republicans chose to throw working families under the bus. This is the GOP’s shutdown & they own the damage from it.

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

Damn @carolleonnig.bsky.social with a barn burner of a scoop www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

“The whole US party system would have to change.” Yes. That’s the point. But to answer your question: Party primaries with PR could continue to work the way they do now. There are lots of elections now where each party nominates by primary 5 candidates to fill 5 seats in a general election.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

So, just to clarify, the choice for homeless people is concentration camps or prison, where the cost of either one is around $4,000-$10,000 a month. Meanwhile, a $500/mo basic income in SF reduced homelessness by two-thirds. It should be considered cruel and unusual to not do Universal Basic Income

Taylor: I had a six-figure income Substack until late 2023. I moved it first to Beehiiv then, because I didn't care for it, then to Ghost in late 2024. Each time the new site handled migration with no subscriber falloff and no income interruption. You are operating on bad information. Just move.

Substack sent a push alert to users not just of a Nazi sub but one that uses a swastika for its icon and people are still writing about the discoverability on the platform being hard to replace - I mean what are we even doing here

I made the switch from Substack to Ghost in January, and I said out loud I was wrong to have used Substack in the first place. I knew about the Nazi ish but believed the PR about needing the "network." My old posts migrated smoothly, my site looks better, and I feel better.

In a 2010 deposition, Epstein invoked the Fifth when asked if he’d socialized with Trump around underage girls. The resurfaced clip renews scrutiny of Trump’s Epstein ties and efforts to bury the client list. “105…‘Have you ever…?’ Epstein took the Fifth.” Id. at 89. reason.com/wp-content/u...

That's a bold strategy, Cotton.

If this bill passes, in whatever hybrid House-Senate form, it would truly transform U.S politics & society. It would create massive new misery & poverty, make the super rich even richer, and create an enormous internal army that Trump treats as his personal guard and that operates largely unchecked.

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

First, SCOTUS issued a sweeping grant of immunity to a president who committed unprecedented crimes in office Now they have prevented courts from stopping this administration's open and routine violations of the law Democracy and the rule of law are on the line www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Still struggling with the idea that the President authorized a country, with which we were engaged in armed conflict, to attack a US base with US soldiers in harm's way ("gunners") and it isn't a bigger story. This goes beyond even impeachment and removal from office.

Trump gave Iran permission to fire missiles at U.S. troops at our base in Qatar. You’ll recall the last time this happened and our troops suffered TBI, Trump downplayed the serious injuries as “headaches.” www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/ju...

This should be it. Trump brags that he gave permission to Iran to attack a US military base. This should be repeated ad nauseam. It’s indefensible, so make Trump and Republicans talk about OKing Iran attacking the US.

Trump drops UK-US trade deal Starmer picks it up Trump says it's a trade agreement with the EU Trump congratulates Starmer Starmer explains it's a UK-US trade deal (not with EU)

I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.

Fascism. www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

Known fans of violence LAPD says it was a peaceful protest today. Everybody mark this press release.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration. apnews.com/article/el-c...

So much either lying here. But the clearest part is only losers pay. Ballers do bribes.

The entire transcript of Time's interview with Trump is insane. Just to pick one moment: Trump says Biden would never do an interview with Time, then when told that he had asks how it went, then when told he can read it himself says that he had read it and it didn't go well time.com/7280114/dona...

We are rapidly hurtling towards a critical moment in this constitutional crisis. When the deportation orders return to the Supreme Court, which they will in weeks if not days if not hours, one of three things could happen: 1/

In case you're wondering... it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans. And nobody has been fired... Don't stop talking about SignalGate

“I couldn’t care less” makes Page One in Kansas City @kansascity.com $GM $F

After decades of stagnant wages and rising wealth inequality, people got angry. Trump weaponized that anger to gain power. Dem elites said everything was good—only marginalized people need more help; a losing message. The anger is real. Redirect anger to billionaires. Demand wealth taxes, M4A + UBI.

In the eighth year of a GOP trifecta, Iowa was the second worst state for real GOP growth.

Seriously: arrest him. The governor should have state police arrest him and charge him with election fraud. Then immediately hold a press conference explaining you arrested someone for committing election fraud and will continue to do so. Just fucking arrest him already. You can actually do this

🚨 Big SCOOP 🚨 Tax revenue could fall by as much as **10%** this year, per sources, as taxpayers and businesses see the Trump admin as less likely to challenge tax cheats. That'd be **$500 BILLION** in lost revenue. It'd nearly double the tax gap in a single year.

"I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down." But you fucking did, though. You fucking did it as your literal next official act. You voted yes on cloture, and then you voted no on the Continuing Resolution. YOU VOTED TO SHUT OUR GOVERNMENT DOWN. TODAY.

Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

Another source, at NIH: "I’m absolutely furious at Chuck Schumer and the other Dems going along with this CR... Schumer should be using this fight to bang the drum about Trump/Musk’s destruction of the government and instead he’s giving them they keys to do it."

Senate Democrats must refuse to provide the votes to pass this partisan Republican spending bill. Stand up and fight for the American people like House Democrats did. Vote no on cloture. Refuse to be complicit in giving Musk and Trump a slush fund to destroy Americans lives.

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

He is lying. I was on Columbia's campus the day Johnson visited, April 24. The congressional delegation spoke from the steps of the Low Library, hundreds of feet from the pro-divestment encampment. No one could even hear Johnson– only press microphones. He was heckled. That's all.