Trump’s weakness creates huge openings for a whole series of unelected figures whose main difference consists in having different motives and methods of wrecking the government.

This is why you don’t negotiate with Republicans. They let two unelected lunatics run their party. Vought is rescinding appropriated funds and Stephen Miller is rounding up innocent people. Vance is a useless, unqualified loser

Pope Leo XIV nails it: US obsession with anti-abortion "pro-life" rhetoric rings hollow amid the cruel detention of immigrants fleeing peril, stripping away dignity for kids and families alike. #ImmigrantRights

Text RALLY to 63033 to find a No Kings protest near you on October 18th.

Lutnick on Epstein: Devine: So how come these other people could hang around him and not see it? Lutnick: They participated. That's what his M.O. was, "Get a massage" And what happened in that massage room, I assume is on video. This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That's how he had money.

Friendly reminder to please ignore your own lying eyes and ears. Speaker Johnson has confirmed that direct, videotaped quotes of Donald Trump are now just "characterizations." So glad we cleared that up.

Everything Trump is doing is crazy. It defies logic, law, morality and the Constitution. Pritzker is offering an explanation for the insanity as well as a solution to it. It's genius in its elegance and simplicity. Trump has dementia. He should be removed from office under the 25th amendment.

Russ Vought is a mob boss masquerading as a public servant. Illegally canceling clean energy projects will raise the cost of your power bills. Meanwhile the government is shut down because Republicans raised your health care premiums.

BREAKING NEWS: Veterans in Congress tear into Trump for Quantico speech, threats to Americans in cities.

National Black Farmers Association President: Within 10 months, Trump has caused complete chaos for American farmers with his tariffs. Trump says he's a great dealmaker. Well, Trump got played on this one, and the American farmers are hurting

The vice president, who previously asserted that undocumented immigrants were eating our cats and dogs, has now settled on the lie that undocumented immigrants are eating our health care. All politicians lie, but he's really elevated it to an art form.

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

@nytimes.com is $9 billion publicly traded corporation 2,700 journalists, countless editors - is there anyone who understands the Constitution or democracy? “Mr. Trump's defiance of military norms”. This is legendary democracywashing. No mention of President’s detachment from reality. 3/

NYT Editors set the standards for attention and framing. Multiple NYT pieces today covering this calamity as a routine/normal event. It was not. The President threatening war on war on the citizens of the United States using the US military to do so. This is tyrannical. FrontPage NYT graf 2/n

News organizations are failing to communicate that POTUS is detached from reality & democracy. Democracywashing his declared war on US cities by zero context for how *unconstitutional* & dangerous this is. “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.” 1/n

She said the very same thing on @msnbc.com this morning, too. Clearly they work shopped that talking point so get ready to hear it again and again.

This is nuts. I’ve been riding the Metro for almost four decades and my kids ride it growing up. This is BS propaganda gaslighting. Such shameless lying.

New in PN: Trump attempts a major step toward dictatorship "So far, nothing he's done has prompted a critical mass of Republicans to speak out about his abuses of power. And in his address to military brass, Trump signaled he intends to go much further."

There ain't but a few of us talking about Trump's dementia. @rexhuppke.bsky.social is one. @gregsargent.bsky.social is another. Lawrence O'Donnell leaned into it last night. www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

With barely any euphemism, Trump put the military brass on notice that they should expect to be deployed against Americans. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-a-war-...

Interesting argument here that Lindsey Halligan’s appointment did not comply with law, rendering the I indictment, signed by her alone, invalid. This argument is based on an old DOJ memo written by . . . Samuel Alito. www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/...

Trump is “America’s Hitler!” - JD Vance

The President of the U.S. appears to have declared war on American citizens. “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military – national guard, but military – because we’re going into Chicago very soon" - Donald Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It’s a bad look.

Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

Republicans just REJECTED our attempt to keep the government funded & stop your health care costs from skyrocketing. They have the White House, House, and Senate. They could have just kept costs stable – they refused. Don’t let them gaslight you. This is a Republican shutdown.

This is a huge win www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

Shut down all but inevitable Senators rejected spending stopgap bills on a House passed continuing resolution -the final off-ramp to avoid a government shutdown set to go into effect at 1201 Wednesday. Speaker Mike Johnson sent his members home until Monday to pressure Senate to pass it.

He always announces victory prematurely until such time as it is revealed that it was all just another grift. Stop reporting what he says is happening and start reporting what is happening.

This Republican CR ignores skyrocketing healthcare costs and abandons working people. They took NO input from Democrats and refused to negotiate. The GOP owns this shutdown. In fact, Trump is celebrating it.  Democrats in Congress can't back down - too many Americans are counting on them.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Senate Republicans just voted to shut down the government and make millions of Americans pay more for health care.

Oralè Resisters What The Generals saw today What The Generals are saying Fat Man and Little Boy #FatManLittleBoy #Generals #USDemocracy #FatGenerals

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"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

We made a serial child rapist — who’s owned by Putin — the Commander in Chief of our military. Today he told military brass he’s going to use them to get revenge on liberal cities because he’s a psychopathic malignant narcissist. Just. Following. Orders. Won’t. Prevent. Tribunals. #RemoveTrump

These lies are pissing me off. This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants – that’s already against the law. It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums.

Naturally Trump’s mouth gift wraps a perfect lawsuit for every government worker he fires after he makes it clear he is doing it solely for politics and is specifically targeting civil servants who are registered Democrats. He basically wrote their lawsuit for them today.

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

Nonpartisan watchdogs keep the government from breaking the law and harming Americans. Donald Trump is eliminating their funding.

If Republicans shut down the government, 2,000 military servicemembers in #IL13 will be forced to work without pay. President Trump and Republicans in Congress would rather make our military go without a paycheck than cut a deal to save Americans’ health care.

SCOOP/UPDATE — The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instructed *all* federal agencies to send out the shutdown email with NO modifications permitted, a federal source confirmed. Leadership received these orders via email at 1:30pm ET and then reinforced on a 3pm intra-agency call.

Republicans control the House, the Senate, & the White House. It's their job to pass a budget that addresses Americans' needs. Instead, they shut the government down. They would rather shut the government down than work with Democrats to protect health care and lower costs.

Re-upping this in the hopes that there's someone who will say it in a forum that reaches the general public.

One of my grandfathers was antifa (that is, he fought for the US in WWII), and he was a journalist who worked for Stars and Stripes. He did not kill people and break things for a living — nor was that the goal of the US military as a whole

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

⁨20 million Americans are on the brink of higher premiums, co-pays, and deductibles because of Republicans’ refusal to negotiate. This is what Democrats are fighting to prevent.⁩

My statement on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump’s meeting with military officers at Quantico:

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