(🚨) ICYMI: Rooftop Trump Sniper Shoots Unarmed, Peacefully Protesting Priest in Head in Shocking Video

Has a single “journalist” in mainstream media asked Trump, Mike Johnson or John Thune why they haven’t used their Senate majority to override the 60 vote threshold and reopen the government?

it’s all just a grift

Well, here we are.

Why are Democrats fighting back so hard in this shutdown? Under the Republican budget plan, your family's health care costs could double or even quadruple next year.

Pelosi: "Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We're not doing it. It isn't a question of, 'let's come back together so we can discuss it.' That isn't going to happen."

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t. And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks. Did I get that right?

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

This from @jessicatarlov.bsky.social may be the most efficient use of 76 seconds of Fox News airtime I've ever seen.

Remember, a major component of the MAGA cult establishing an alternate reality—a term I use here literally rather than figuratively—is getting Trump supporters to *actually* (not merely rhetorically) believe that Joe Biden was president in 2020, when the pandemic started. This cannot be overstated.

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Surgeons General from each of the past five administrations (including Trump 1.0) declare RFK Jr. a threat to the American people.

Sometimes refusing to respond to a question gives a clear answer.

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

I am really fucking tired of the Republicans trying to portray January 6, and it's place in the larger "Green Bay Sweep" in which a large portion of Republicans participated in, as anything other than attempt to overthrow the United States Government.

Israel and Argentina are getting paid during the government shutdown. The men and women in the American military are going without pay.

MORE: You can find live video of press coverage of this situation, in which media confirms that rubber bullets are being fired at peaceful protesters who are not trespassing. It's merely unfettered fascist violence being unloaded on Americans for the crime of exercising their First Amendment rights.

If you voted for Trump 3 times, and his policies put you out of business, shouldn’t you be asking Eric and Trump Org for your bailout instead of the rest of us?

Jeffries: "Why don't Republicans want to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Is it the Epstein files?"

HOLY SH*T. There it is. Trump says he will speak to the DOJ about giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon.

NO FARMER BAILOUT Farmers keep voting for their own destruction & my tax dollars shouldn’t be used to fund it. Trump’s expected to announce a new bailout. He wrecked them w/tariffs, then acts like a hero by bailing them out w/our money. They’ll cash the check, then vote to burn it all down again.

If "states' rights" mean anything, they must include the right to not get invaded by another state in peacetime. Americans everywhere: Speak up and stand against Trump's outrageous assaults on Illinois and Oregon. gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

If they can do it for another country, surely we can do it for our own. October 18 #NoKings nokings.org

There is a legal distinction, but Miller never studied or practiced law. The supremacy clause also doesn’t make the federal government all powerful- we have a federalist system, which Republicans used to believe in. Now they believe in wielding power, gangsterism, and thuggery.

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Trump has declared war on the United States of America. He told the top officers in our armed forces that they were going to fight the “enemy within.”

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

So, Youtube has paid Trump 24.5 million to settle. Oh…and as part of that settlement…Noel Casler’s podcast can no longer be watched on Youtube. They are buying up media at an accelerated rate of speed…to silence dissent. Notice, however…Trump never threatens to sue Noel. Noel has THE receipts.

Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans. Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies. Folks, I think America First might be a scam.

After a mandatory meeting with Sec Hegseth, Air Force General Bussiere announced his retirement. He has led Air Force Global Strike Command since Dec 2022, was previously nominated by Trump admin for higher position but had his nomination withdrawn.

The mask just slipped. Trump’s team got caught plotting to send the 82nd Airborne into Portland….an American city. Not rumor. Not “fake news.” Fact. This is what authoritarians do…when fear replaces law. (Guardian)

We are going to lose our democracy because everyone refuses to listen to the women. About anything.

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

Trump apparently so pleased with Hamas's response he reposts the militant group's entire response verbatim

Thugs.

One of the core tenets of the oligarchy is that everything should be controlled or owned by the oligarchy. The top 10% already own 60% of the nation’s wealth. It will be 90% by the time Trump and project 2025 are done.

No reason to believe this was anything but the premeditated murder of four fisherman in international waters: a war crime. Trump and his jackals destroy the evidence every time, and never release any intel, and have a history of committing and celebrating war crimes—so that must be the presumption.

Trump is defunding the police where he can so he can fill the void with his masked Gestapo. He did it in DC, and he tried it in New York but balked. Additionally, Pam Bondi is investigating the Portland police bureau because they arrested a right wing agitator. Pay attention.

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight. But consider this... Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending. Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

Awww, how nice! The statue of #Florida man Jeffrey Epstein holding hands with President Convicted Felon has been returned to its spot on the National Mall & thanks to the govt shutdown, nobody seems likely to remove it. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... via @washingtonpost.com

80% (!) of the ACA subsidies that are about to expire go to people in states that Trump won in 2024. Time and time again, Trump and MAGA Republicans will sell out their own voters — all to fund massive tax cuts for the super rich.

At least some people are thriving in Donald Trump’s economy. How about you?

Charles Booker is coming, and we should all be excited about it. @booker4ky.bsky.social

In the first quarter of 2025, farm bankruptcies increased by 95% Remember: the policies leading to bankruptcy are purposeful. Our food supply is in danger…there is no better way to bring a country to its knees than having control of its food supply.

Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term. Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times. Never delivered one. Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure. Now Russ Vought is taking that away. But only in blue states.