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.

Mister free speech wants to fleece his shareholders real bad.

#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...

Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️

Something blue states will need to explore: how to create cross-state compacts dedicated to a functioning government as the Trump administration walks away from it's responsibilities.

Unconditional surrender, military occupation, and war crime tribunals. Yeah. “Negotiated peace.” I think he’s trying to quote a bit from Hardcore History and screwing it up.

JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

Good for Obama. Unilateral disarmament is not a sustainable strategy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

Dude did one bad podcast and everyone throws out the track record of actual legislation signed to protect a pretty vulnerable group. "He's not perfect so fuck him" is kind of how we got where we are where many vulnerable groups get nailed by people who are actually out to get them.

my public policy degree meant nothing, imma kms

No shit.

Texas' only severe weather warning system is watching for when Ted Cruz leaves the country

Trump trying to choke off clean energy in order to make Americans the buyer of last resort for Saudi oil assets that will otherwise go stranded.

I'm calling it "Zohran Derangement Syndrome"

If this is how it’s gonna be, that a person needs to be a party to a suit to have their rights protected, then we’re gonna need a lot more lawyers. Maybe I’ll fuck around and finally take the bar now that I’m no longer a federal employee (and thus allowed to rep parties adversarial to the govt).

You can see the ICE agents in their minivans then the LAPD cars in the back appearing to block the Dodger Stadium parking lot entrance. When I asked an LAPD officer if they are blocking ICE from entering the parking lot she said “put it this way. The Dodgers don’t want them coming in.”

Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed. (video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)

Well then.

Oh my heavens!

He needs his precious American 5th column to bail them out of the ass beating they’re getting from the neighbor they tried to murder.

Use a normal charities for Gazans. Someone telling you to use your bank account to funnel money in exploits your altruism and puts the risk of prison squarely on you. The person exploiting your goodwill that won't do it themselves tells you something about how things are going to go...

Putin stated in his invasion address that the root cause is his own territorial ambitions to take over historically Russian land. Kind of seems like the root problem is that guy.

molly is straight up recruiting people to take felony risks she will not take herself

"Well, well, well, not so easy to find a trade partner that doesn’t suck shit, huh??"

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.

BREAKING: Trump's Alien Enemies Act Proclamation is "unlawful," a federal judge in Texas ruled. That judge was appointed by Trump. Ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Background www.allrisenews.com/p/aea-inquis...

Brain worms from Schumer here. Tariffs are most definitely still on.

History will remember April 9, 2025 as America’s actual liberation day—the day that President Trump backed down from his ridiculous tariff fiasco.

Markets woke up and realized that a 10% global tariff and 125% tariff on China is still going to devastate America’s economy.

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

We appear to have been liberated from wealth.

Trump has cut the NIH budget by more than half in defiance of Congressionally mandated appropriations for the agency. No comparison historically, not even the Great Recession. This is clearly not legal and Congress needs to address it.

For clarity, if you didn't already know, it's Amy Berman Jackson

That last sentence goes pretty hard.

If you're confused about how bad the Signal scandal is assume you're a Houthi with that info pre-strike. At a min, the target is getting moved, limited AA can target US planes, if you're real quick you can take a shot at the carrier given flight schedule/time to target to figure out where it is.

Standard bachelor/bachelorette party has better OPSEC than our highest ranking gov officials. 😂

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

I meant to say something about this earlier, but this should actually provoke a severe civ-mil crisis on the uniformed side in the Pentagon; based on what Hegseth relayed to them they've moved out on what they believed to be clear Presidential guidance This is evidence that doesn't exist

NEW: DOJ goes full "technically correct, the best kind of correct" in a new brief telling Judge Boasberg why it didn't violate his orders—e.g., the court wrote that the govt couldn't "remove" anyone, not "undo removals that have already occurred"! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For whatever it’s worth I think the Signal scandal is probably the end of our friends not pushing back. Smart, highly organized bad people doing bad things is terrifying. A bunch of morons doing moron stuff you realize the slightest pushback works pretty well.

Many Dem consultants urge adopting bad GOP positions. Better to adopt proven GOP tactics. Republicans made issues out of nothing through repetition and outrage. A national security breach implying many more (Signal? Not DoD comms?) must be made into an issue by Dems. It won't just become one.

Just the most powerful people in the United States accidentally adding the EIC of The Atlantic to a Signal chat about a military operation. I can't think of the last time anything close happened in terms of such an egregious and accidental leak. archive.ph/JEYep