This is the dumbest poll question ever. Try polling the question, "Should the Republicans shut down the government in order to make sure families' insurance premiums go up by 75%?"

Here are three more factual statements: 1. 25,000 of Mike Johnson's constituents are about to lose health care 2. 27,000 more are about to have their premiums skyrocket. 3. A 60 year old couple in his district would pay $19,000 more a year.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

*stares in DC budget left with a $1 billion hole after Schumer negotiated a stand-alone funding bill during shutdown negotiations that the House GOP simply never took up*

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Klein reminds me of a pop star in that his brain seems fixed at the moment he became famous. He makes numerous references to the passage of the ACA, but none to the ARP or IRA, which in many ways were imposed on this very new style of politics, using, I would argue, the lessons of the ACA passage.

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.

They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this? A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

This is your reminder that on this date, in 1983, Stanislav Petrov saved the world.

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

Occasional reminder that Trump hates American Indians even more than he hates immigrants (though arguably less than he hates Black Americans).

He talks about moving a World Cup game out of Chicago because it has high crime, which is interesting because there is no game slated for Chicago. But Dallas has a World Cup game, and Dallas has a higher violent crime rate than Chicago, and Dallas has a Republican mayor … oh, OK, I see it now.

Trump taking food from your mouth, healthcare from your kids, and picking your pockets for a South American loon. Big Bird died for Argentina.

I appear to have caused an international crisis.

Great that they’re backing down, and good for Disney and ABC. Imagine what would happen if other institutions—universities, museums, law firms, news organizations—also rejected Trump’s threats! We might even get our Constitution back.

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

This is why I talk about the aristocracy being immortal and mutable. It's always in the human bloodstream. It wakes up every day trying to win, and we need to wake up every day trying to destroy it. There is no finish line.

George R.R. Martin could do the funniest thing in the fucking universe by putting an empty set of his clothes out in front of his movie theater right before the sun comes up in Santa Fe this morning

This is the most amazing response to the "Kristi Noem is having an affair" story you'll ever see.

Irony is truly dead.

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

No, I will not celebrate this evil, vile, man who knowingly distributed hateful lies, intending to fuel hate in others. If you think he's so great, own his words. Own his entire body of work. Be proud! Go on record yourself saying "this is what I believe" and post it. Anything less is cowardice.

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TikTok will be co-owned by China and Trump allies, Paramount was sold to a pro-Trump billionaire who's also set to buy Warner Bros, X is owned by an apartheid-bred fascist, WaPo and Meta are owned by Trump-cowering billionaires, and Murdoch owns the Fox empire. Here's why media has a liberal bias.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

The professor dared to post Kirk's own words. That got her suspended.

Over the weekend, the world's richest man appeared on screens in central London to call for a race war and for the UK government to be overthrown. No arrests were made in connection with that communication.

They used Kirk’s podcast to praise his alleged commitment to free speech, while announcing that they’ll be using the full force of the federal government to silence the left. Just so we’re clear on how disingenuous this is: Vance mentioned Soros by name. Soros has never promoted violence.

Man, it would be great to have an opposition party in DC right now.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Whether it's Joe Biden condemning the killing of Charlie Kirk in 2025 or Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden in 2024, both men have issued strong words about the other's killing.

Yeah this has outstripped the post-9/11 frenzy even, especially when you factor in that the entire country was genuinely traumatized by 9/11 while most people didn’t know or care who Charlie Kirk was

here's Elon Musk's dad going 100% mask-off on the entire white South African racist colonialist package and saying "Elon agrees with me" EXTREME ANTI-BLACK RACISM CONTENT WARNING www.mundoamerica.com/news/2025/09...

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

I had a professor in grad school who was on Turning Point's Professor Watch List and was threatened. When the group wanted to form on our campus, they had to agree with the university that they would not participate in the list. Afterwards, students tried to record professors out of context in class

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.