"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query 'does trump show signs of dementia' as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents." www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

Is it our government’s position that if an American commits a drug crime with a cartel (or they allege that) it can just kill that person without trial even if not an immediate threat? I am genuinely trying to understand what if any lines they believe exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Why Aren't Democrats Raising the Alarm Over Trump’s NSPM-7 "Terrorism Indicators?" @kenklippenstein.bsky.social has obtained a national security memo that the Trump Admin plans to use to attack Americans as potential terrorists for anti-MAGA thought crimes. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Republicans will bend over backwards to pass tax breaks for billionaires. But stopping your premiums from doubling? They would rather shut down government than do that. And that's exactly what they are doing.

Trump has taken a scalpel to federal projects backed by Democrats. But so far, he has held back from unleashing a wrecking ball across the federal government. This underscores the tightrope he’s walking: How to wreak maximum pain on Democrats without angering Republican allies.

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.

“This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That’s how he had money.” Who was Epstein blackmailing? Well, look who shut down the government to hide the files. Maybe they know. https://bit.ly/475oQal

Wait!? Why is Ted Cruz protecting pedophiles????

A judge has recused from hearing the Portland troops case because his wife is a Democratic Congresswoman -- even though it is not "required under either federal law or the [judicial] Code of Conduct." The new judge was appointed by Trump. We have a legal system with two different sets of rules.

Let's be clear: "immigration judges" are Trump's DOJ employees. He's already fired more than 80 of them — and he's made clear he'll fire anyone at DOJ who refuses to fall in line. They've lied about this case from the start. A total corruption of our immigration justice system.

BACKGROUND: Judge Simon’s wife is a U.S. Congresswoman for Oregon’s 1st congressional district. DOJ sought Judge Simon’s recusal based on public comments she made opposing the national guard deployment.

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

Stephen Miller straight up murdered people in those boats off the coast of Venezuela and this is their attempt to make it legal.

Hero fighter pilot Amy McGrath - Let's set the record straight.... There has always been ONE standard for combat, whether you're a man or woman. I'm sick of Pete Hegseth using this talking point to diminish women in the military. Here's the truth.

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..

Meiselas: I think this is a serious oversight issue. $17 trillion is apparently missing right now, and we’re in a government shutdown. Trump keeps saying he’s got $17 trillion. Where did it go? Garcia: If there is $17 trillion somewhere, the government doesn’t know about it.

Meiselas: You’re saying to Donald Trump, to Senator Thune, to JD Vance: show up at the Capitol. We’re going to do this in front of the press and address these issues before the American people, correct? Jeffries: That’s my position—and we’ll even let Mike Johnson into the meeting as well.

General (Retired) Mark Hertling: Military Rally Organized by the Republican Political Party was, "An attempt at separating The Military Institution from the people from the people they defend."

Global warming is causing ice to melt. It’s the wrong ice.

The thing about Trump bailing Argentina out to the tune of 20 billion while shutting down the US government to kick Americans off healthcare… Argentina has universal healthcare. 😑

Wow...its almost like its all one big connected country

Russell Vought's sadistic threat to kill projects in blue states will blow back on GOP. One getting defunded is reportedly a huge hydrogen project in the northwest that would also serve Montana. Its GOP governor has hailed it as a big job creator. Oops. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2012...

"They want it to be put into the law that universities don't get life-saving research grants if anything happens on campus that belittles the feelings of the conservative snowflakes." "They should sue....it is brazenly illegal." @timmiller.bsky.social joined by @symonedsanders.bsky.social:

Donald Trump in 2024: "I know nothing about Project 2025. And I'm not interested in it." Donald Trump in 2025: "I'm going to meet with the guy who was the architect behind Project 2025 and let him do my job of deciding which parts of government to cut." Does this man tell the truth about ANYTHING?

Republican Political Party celebrates Government Shutdown as an opportunity. www.bbc.com/news/live/cl...

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY. RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

This is illegal, and yes this is the same guy who claimed he'd never heard of Project 2025. But there's a larger point to make here about public service. No one who wins elected office wins 100% of the vote. But everyone who holds public office represents 100% of their electorate.

Some statistics about the 16 blue states Russ Vought wants to target: - 39% of the country lives in those states. - They contribute 44% of GDP. - They are also home to almost a third of 2024 Trump voters, some 24 million of them. www.pbump.net/o/sorry-abou...

Bernie is right: the Republicans cannot be allowed to axe healthcare for 15 million people and double the premiums of 20 million more to give tax cuts to billionaires.

EXCLUSIVE: Democrats to Probe Trump’s 'Missing' $17 Trillion?! open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

The continuation of the tech fascist takeover- everybody needs to look behind the clown show curtain- please!

Trump has said he’ll meet with Vought to decide which “Democrat Agencies” to cut as the shutdown continues.

Early polls show Republicans, which control all branches of the government, are being blamed for the shutdown.

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

President Trump appears to have formally declared an armed conflict with drug cartels to cement his claim to extraordinary wartime powers. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us...

“We have to understand that standing up matters, to not give into the cynicism, because that is what they rely on in order to perpetuate this idea that they have total immunity from consequences,” AOC said. “They will experience the consequence of this, but [the Dems] have to be the consequence.”

If policies and programs need to be cut, as Johnson says, why is it only happening in blue states? www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...

NEWS: Major unions @nationalnurses.bsky.social and @ueunion.org are publicly demanding that the U.S. immediately halt military aid to Israel, recognize Palestinian sovereignty, and intervene “to put an end to the violence, starvation, and injustices being inflicted on the Palestinian people.”

My story from July 5, 2024. meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...

July 24, 2024

New polling suggests that Trump’s efforts to falsely claim that Democrats shut down the government because they want to provide “free health care for illegal aliens” are not working. Nearly half of Americans blame the shutdown on Trump and Republicans in Congress, and for good reason.

Who is going to win the shutdown fight? I don’t know and to a degree, I don’t care. The Trump cartel is evil. It must be fought. It must be forced to face the truth about itself and what it has done. That’s what I care about. If saying so puts me in the minority, so be it.

Signs of hope

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social

Vought was fired by the Biden Admin, from a low level Board of Visitors job. What a loser.