I had a doctor’s appointment down at #Portland’s south waterfront, and took some very boring video of the “war zone” by the 🧊facility. About 1:15pm on 9/30/2025 One of the guys across the street is likely an LEO. Another is maybe media. #FootageFromTheWarzone #PortlandOregon #PortlandWarZone

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Keep talking, Howard, keep talking.

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files. My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA. I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

If you have to say you are tough, you aren't.

If Justice did its job, Stephen Miller would be finished

Applauding like trained seals. Why do they think it’s a great thing to have the majority of American citizens afraid of what the government is doing to our lives???

Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

Sure, the federal government is shut down, but…at least we are planning to bail out Argentina. “America First,” my ass.

Donald Trump shut down the government because he doesn't want you to have healthcare. But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there. Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Quick reminder: they can still release the Epstein files during a government shutdown.

Mamdani’s got it. “Trump and republicans in congress shut down the federal government.”

I feel hope for the first time in a long time. Finally they stand up for us!

I have never seen a more concerted effort from the entire GOP/rightwing media landscape to call this the "Schumer Shutdown", trying to blame it all on the Dems. It's all that's on X right now from every Rep and Senator. Talk about looking panicked.

Jeffries gets it: “Trump and his Republican cronies have officially shut down the government.”

2/2: undocumented immigrants on Medicaid. Nonsense. That law he was referring to wasn't ever needed in the first place. It was based on the LIE that immigrants were receiving Medicaid. Only people impacted are healthy people who should be working and immigrants. He should be ashamed of himself!

So he would not convene The House while all the Democrats sat there waiting but he can make rounds to all the news networks to spew his lies.

The narrative needs to change. Universal healthcare.

In what world is there a trillion dollars worth of people sitting in mom’s basement pulling in that sweet Medicaid cheese? There are not enough willfully unemployed 28 year olds for that kind of money. Same for SNAP, the GOP is happy to let kids go hungry to prove some point about their parents.

There’s always an old pic that’s worth 1000 words.

(Reuters) - More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years .. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Mike Johnson stalled so the shutdown would happen before the epstein vote. He's just gonna keep pushing it off forever if he can

Another "win" for Donald Trump: 32K jobs were lost in the private sector in September. 🤬

Elizabeth Warren: "If fighting to reduce the cost of healthcare and avoid a coming catastrophe is not worth fighting for, then I don't know what is."

Priorities.

public sector jobs are not included in the jobs reports so the job reporting for the majority of this year has not accurately reflected job losses nor does any report track the number of college grads finding no jobs available to them, worst job mkt for them since 2009

The Republicans were not able to cancel the Affordable Care Act thanks to McCain. So they are trying to do it in a more incidious way: raise premiums so high that people can’t afford the premiums and have to cancel their ACA healthcare.

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Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

Nether does Hegseth

DonOld never experienced being in the military & has ALWAYS denigrated it. No surprise he & arrogant dumbbell Hegseth thinks they can bully the entire defense department into doing it their way against American Domestic terrorist revenge tour.

The fight we want and need

COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time? BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

For the generals yesterday, resistance meant total silence. And I thank them for it. But for the rest of us, silence is cowardice. Silence in the face of this daily onslaught against democracy, the rule of law, pluralism, the Constitution, and basic human decency is utter cowardice.

Will there be risk to personal safety in attending the big No Kings rallies planned on 10/18? I did not worry about personal safety, at least not here in our city, at the last such rally. I think it has to be a concern now. Shows how far we have come in a few months' time.

He was given intensive training on how not to get caught. ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty - CBS News share.google/DqI8l5HKnSYV...

I would like to highlight the pettiness of the man-baby (who is hopefully temporarily residing in the People's Whitehouse)! WE have to get him out!!! ✊️

Correction: he's attempting to weaponize the military against American citizens. Whether they disobey the USMCJ is what we are waiting to see.