The #TrumpShutdown in 36 seconds 👏🏼

Mississippi has had to declare a public health emergency due to the concerning increase in the infant mortality rate. To put it into perspective, Dr Warren explained that this very concern increase in infant mortality rate translates to about 20,000 infant deaths a year. #Pinks #InfantMortality

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE just made the LA Times' Top 10 Nonfiction Books. And thank you. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

If only someone had warned about the Republicans and #Project2025... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/project-20...

I can't exaggerate how important it is that every ICE officer is met with contempt & mockery in public, everywhere they go, for the rest of their lives.

Even with a farmer bailout, if there is no market for beans, there is no incentive to plant next year. I’m not a farmer. I didn’t vote for Trump. But the only two businesses we have left in my town revolve around corn and beans. My town will fold. My school will close. It’s over for us.

Oh, that’s a good one.

ICE agents have been abducting our neighbors, brutalizing protesters, and operating with impunity. Tomorrow I will be speaking alongside other local leaders at 1930 Beach St in Broadview, IL. Tell your elected officials to take a stand alongside us.

Hegseth just tapped Anthony Tata to lead a “cultural refresh” at the Pentagon. Don’t be fooled: Tata once smeared Obama as a “terrorist leader.” This is a purge, and it puts loyalty to a man above the Constitution. In an hour or so...I have a full piece coming out on Anthony Tata. Stay tuned.

"Between June 9, when the video dropped, and the June 14 registration deadline, 54,291 people registered to vote... That’s 82% of all the voters who registered in June and 43% of all registrations in 2025 before the June 14 cutoff."

www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/02/g... #Pinks #ProudBlue Gavin Newsom just gets it done!

TODAY: The impacts of the trump shutdown, the Pentagon issues polygraphs and NDAs, negative 32,000 jobs in September, and republicans are defunding the police. Free to listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This was always the plan. Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home. Thank you to former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra for explaining.

Meiselas: There’s the golden ballroom, which he claims is being funded by companies or corporations. Garcia: Well, stay tuned, because we’re asking those same questions. Who’s involved? Are foreign governments paying for it? Oversight is already working on getting those answers and investigating..

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

Millions of veterans got this email from the official VA account with a blatant political smear and lie about the government shutdown yesterday. This is a massive violation of the law and federal regulations using our government resources for political actions.

Wissenschaft unter Beschuss: Im Podcast von Anne Will spricht Prof. Dr. Brosius-Gersdorf über Angriffe auf Wissenschaftlerinnen, Wissenschaftsferne in der Politik und die Verrohung der Debattenkultur –

Republicans in Congress could end the Trump shutdown today by passing a budget deal that protects your health care and takes away Trump’s blank checks. Let your legislators hear from you.

This regime can’t stand to be laughed at. They can’t stand to be the butt of a joke because the moment we’re able to laugh at them, their fragile ego begins to crumble. @nowthisimpact.bsky.social

I’ve been through government shutdowns. This one is radically different. Here’s what is at stake, and why Democrats must hold the line. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-shutdown-is-different

So much chaos, just to protect monsters in the Epstein files.

Today, I'm signing legislation to safeguard our elections and the voice of every voter. It's now illegal to use contests or payments to get people to register to vote. And in the 2026 election, voters have the chance to repeal our state's ban on the public financing of elections.

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House. This government shutdown is on them.

Told my mother her right-wing media was propaganda. She said "I know, but they tell me what I want to hear." I'm her gay son. It would hurt less if she were just ignorant. The cruelest part is she knows it's propaganda but that propaganda gives her more comfort than protecting her own son.

No more cover-ups. ‼️RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES‼️ #TrumpsShutdown

Me, to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social on @msnbc.com last night: "[Lindsey Halligan] has no more authority than you or I or my two corgis to present an indictment to a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia."

MEMPHIS—An unmarked law enforcement SUV caused a three-vehicle crash while chasing another vehicle through an intersection in Frayser. The unmarked vehicle had its blue lights on but did not have sirens on when it entered the intersection. wreg.com/news/local/u...

On Monday, RFK posted a rambling video on the HHS X account showing a series of graphs and directly stating that vaccines have had minimal impact on human health and saving lives. Today, in response, we brought our own graphs. We will not let his dangerous nonsense go unanswered.

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is not just serving a #CupOfJoe to the people of Illinois, but to every state. Get out your phones & record what ICE is doing! If the government won't hold them accountable, We the People will.

gift link - no paywall. very much worth reading: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

America blames the orange moron It’s Thursday. There are 397 days until the midterm elections. They’re zip-tying children, the White House tries to shake down more universities and America blames Republicans.

Democracy Docket reporter @jenrice.bsky.social is in El Paso for the entire ten day Texas redistricting hearing. At stake are five House seats -- and potentially control of Congress. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Good news! Pennsylvania voters have the opportunity to affirm 3 of their Democratic State Supreme Court justices—Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht—will be on the ballot for retention. Tell everyone you know to vote "YES!" VOLUNTEER TO CALL VOTERS OR DONATE! Elections matter!

“.. What this administration is doing is unprecedented, illegal and flat-out wrong. .. I’ve been deeply engaged in our federal government for over 30 years and there is nothing that has come close.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Ret. General Mark Hertling on the speeches presented by the Secretary of War and the POTUS to top military officials: “It’s illegal.” m.youtube.com/shorts/R0A0G...

🎯 SEN. YARBRO: “Historically bad decision by Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in the hell this is.”

Republicans are trying to hoodwink Democrats. News broke on Jen Psaki’s show last night: Thune claims they’ll “negotiate” on healthcare if Dems cave and pass a clean CR. Elizabeth Warren called out the obvious: Republicans wouldn’t negotiate on healthcare when the government was open before…

Well, this aged well. Unfortunately. (Except for the part where @jimmykimmel.com said he thought I was higher up on Donald Trump's enemies list than he was.)

Rep. Madeline Dean is not holding back. She flat out calls Trump “unhinged and unwell” and challenges Speaker Johnson over his fitness for office. More of this please 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Gov. Pritzker: "ICE is running around harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace. That’s not making America great."

Since Mike Johnson is all over the media today spreading lies about the shutdown, anchors should take the chance to press him on why he still hasn’t sworn in Democrat Adelita Grijalva.