"A majority of western Alaska’s weather balloon network was not operating during the landfall of the storm last weekend due to staffing constraints inflicted by the Trump administration..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The USDA confirmed over the weekend it will not follow its own contingency plan — which the department has removed from its website — to tap into its multi-year contingency fund to cover food assistance for more than 42 million people for November.

So, which media outlet is digging into the White House general contractor's background and supply chains?

Congratulations @aftynbehn.bsky.social 🍾🎉 The next 24 hours for her will be crucial to make sure she has the resources she needs to win. I just sent her $100 - will you join me in donating? Her campaign slogan is simple: Feed kids. Fix roads. Fund hospitals. LFG!! secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...

The shutdown isn’t an impasse over legislation. It’s not the old “gridlock” in Washington. It’s not even a partisan fight in the traditional sense. Trump and the MAGA hordes have laid siege to the gov't from inside its walls, much as they auto-couped on Jan. 6. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

“I have no idea what Project 2025 is.” - Trump, October 31, 2024

🧵: As of today, my spouse is no longer employed as a federal employee. Thus concludes the most difficult and intense 10 months of our 16 years of our marriage, including the first year when he was deployed for a combat tour in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump-Vance admin for secretly merging millions of Americans' personal data to create a national database. Some states are already using this “Big Brother” database to purge voter rolls and open criminal investigations. It’s illegal. We’re in court to stop it.

fastest way for Dems to improve their fav ratings is to dump their leaders it’s something entirely within their own control, it would be popular with both its base and swing voters, and it would grab the attention of media

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Yes, do this. "You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

PRITZKER: “.. The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Democrats are actively refusing to treat Trump’s military campaign against American cities as a crisis, because they’re in thrall to a bunch of idiot pollsters who tell them to only ever react to Trump across a tiny range of kitchen-table issues. The Democratic Party is a huge part of the problem.

None of this is normal

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National media: Are *you* ready to start asking this question - every day?

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & well, 👇

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Fellow Tennesseans, we deserve so much better than this. My heart just weeps for our kids.

Excellent question.

The CDC was known as the “gold standard” that set the mark for the rest of the world. Lives are being put at risk and our global leadership in shambles from what Trump and Kennedy have done.

A lot of people can't seem to accept that what is happening in the US is not complicated. Stopping it is complicated. The psychology that's letting it continue is complicated. But the thing itself is incredibly simple.

Once again, there is a class of Democratic officials in DC who are fundamentally unsuited for the current political moment. They can't see that the fascism is the signal, not the noise. And they are unable or unwilling to change their pre-authoritarian approach to politics. It is deeply revealing.

Rep. Veronica Escobar: "We need more people marching in the streets."

It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

The political reason Trump is doing the fascist assault on the Fed & trying to fire Lisa Cook is because he’s a fascist. The economic reason is that he’s locked himself in a policy trilemma where the only way to not blow up the economy was to not touch the stove in the first place.

I mean….aren’t Americans concerned about our increasing isolation as a result of Trump?

Tyrants govern through fear. Dictators take their power from the acquiescence of the good people who don't speak out. It is our obligation as citizens to set aside fear and take a step forward not a step back.

This

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.

👇🎯 Again, the wildly illegal and unconstitutional authoritarianism is the hed, dek, & lede. It’s the <only> story that matters. Everything else is details & diversions.

i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo

Definitely back to school 🦠 season. Subbed one day this week and tested positive for covid today. Be safe out there, friends.

What’s it going to take? I think about this every damn day

Rep. Nicole Collier files a state court application for a writ of habeas corpus concerning her detention in the Texas State Capitol. www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

If Trump is going back to the well with the stolen election lies and mail-in ballot nonsense maybe now is a good time to remind everyone there was a whole series of hearings and witness interviews with his own people about this?

This is 1/4 of Israel's ENTIRE population, including children. On the streets. Think how many protests you agreed with but didn't join in on. Israelis REJECT Netanyahu's war. They want the hostages back and the genocide and starvation over.

Social Security turns 90 today. Social Security is the largest form of wealth 90% of people will have. Privatizing Social Security won't help workers—it would just enrich Wall Street. Learn more about Social Security in our new FAQ: www.epi.org/publication/...

rural america fundamentally no longer believes in public goods and hasn't for a long time now

Again I ask, sincerely & w/o being alarmist, what anyone has seen since Jan to make them believe the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any meaningful sense of the words Every day we pass another "it won't happen/they can't do it" exit on the interstate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

super great that 22% of the population voting for him has somehow turned into "well, he's king now"

This is why jurisprudence is important www.huffpost.com/entry/multip...

Not enough people are talking about the chilling subtext and imagery in the messages being sent by the official DHS accounts

I am a *lawyer who practices federal law.* Several times a week I see a headline that makes me think "there's no way the President can do that, right?" and I look into it and it turns out that maybe he can because Congress ceded some of its power in the What's the Worst That Could Happen Act of 1983