I keep coming back to the Joseph McCarthy moment where the red-baiting senator was finally asked, “Have you no decency,” and his cult of personality burst. “Quiet, Piggy.” We shouldn’t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment.

If you're the parent of a disabled kid, I just want to tell you I know it's hard and I know you feel like you're failing constantly, but you're doing it and you're doing the best you can and your kid absolutely loves you for it.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us

Remember when QAnon said a cabal of rich, powerful men ran an international child sex trafficking ring out of a pizza shop? Well they got the first part right. But it turns out it was being run out of Mar-a-Lago.

Trump doesn’t have to call on House Republican to vote to release the file. Trump can order Bondi and Patel to release the files. Tomorrow. The question is, has he already ordered Bondi and Patel to destroy some of the files after they went through them months ago.

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

He's undoubtedly planning the Mother of all Distractions but can't think of anything to top flying over a city in a crown dropping poo on American citizens.

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”: wapo.st/448fDw6

McGovern: Buried in this bill is a corrupt kickback for eight Republican senators, a million dollar payday funded by taxpayers, taken from the treasury and deposited directly into their pockets. What the hell is wrong with this place?

Time for @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to replace @schumer.senate.gov

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Hey @schumer.senate.gov You suck at this.

The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?

SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.

Trump is illegally suspending November food assistance payments for 42 million Americans, including 16 million American children, 8 million American seniors and 1.2 million American veterans. Hard to explain how taking food away from hungry Americans is "America First."

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

The Senate is still meeting and holding votes as normal despite the shutdown. The House has not held a vote in a month and a half now solely because Mike Johnson wants to prevent the release of the Epstein Files. They've killed our government to save their pedophiles.

BREAKING: THE NEW YORK JETS WON A FOOTBALL GAME.

It took a pedophile to abolish Congress, well done, dead man

They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.

i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.

just call it a lie for fucks sake

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.) Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

We waited 20 years for John Bolton to be punished for telling lies about Iraq. Instead, he gets punished for telling the truth about Trump.

Because Speaker Johnson refuses to reopen the government, I’m doing my weekly #EndHungerNow speech from the steps of the Capitol. This week, I’m talking about my new bill—the Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act. Here’s how it will help feed hungry kids & support local farmers.

7.5 million children with disabilities will be affected.

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..." www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

For generations, the federal government funded research that leads to medical breakthroughs & even cures. But Trump’s massive cuts at NIH and beyond will make our country sicker, poorer, and worse off. Like many of you, this is personal for me.

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

Ask him: WHY WOULD SHE DESERVE A PARDON? WHY?

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. If the government shuts down, it’s on them. They own this. And the American People will pay the price.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

They’re making me team Comey.

They’re making me team Comey.

THE CLEVELAND GUARDIANS ARE IN SOLE POSSESSION OF FIRST PLACE IN THE AL CENTRAL

Trump always seems to find billions to bail out his authoritarian friends—but not for food assistance or universal healthcare or anything that helps regular people. If we can prop up a foreign currency, we can damn well afford to provide basic services for American families.

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

With everything that Trump is doing to this country right now with new assaults on the economy, civil liberties, the rule of law, institutions and alliances, and rampant corruption, I have zero interest in rehashing the 2024 election and will focus on things that matter today.

Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again, says John Grosso.

“Hit roadblocks” is a weird normalizing euphemism for “refused to invent evidence of a crime that didn’t happen after being ordered to do some corruptly by the president.”

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.