“They was bringing the kids down too, had them zip-tied to each other,” she said. “That’s all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where’s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘f*** them kids.’” trib.al/QmjwZi0

I photoshopped it.

Haha I’m totally using this in my Meidas show tomorrow. Full credit to you.

Many Trump voters now hate the MAGA policies they voted for: analysis

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?

Meanwhile.... 👇 Trump’s Tacky $200 Million Ballroom Is Under Investigation. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

NEW: A 20-year federal prosecutor, fired abruptly this week even as he lead case against Abbey Gate bomber, warns his colleagues: the Trump administration is sacrificing national security to purge Trump's perceived adversaries. w/ @dnlbrns www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

lmfao

Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn's (R-NC) shot at returning to Congress suffered a major blow Friday after NOTUS reported the Donald Trump administration wants nothing to do with him.

This is what happens when the president decides it's his right to unilaterally declare war, and Congress does nothing to reclaim its authority. trib.al/j7AScpL

Khanna: "There's no one in America who believes the Dems are in charge. Trump brags about his big victories in the House & Senate. Everyone knows he's controlling govt - in fact, too much. So the argument to blame Ds ... no one believes it. If he wants Democrats' votes, he should get healthcare."

Q: We've seen this spate of gun violence in this country- mass shootings, Michigan church attacked, children being shot in pews in Minnesota. Has any of this made the president rethink gun safety prevention? LEAVITT: The president is always going to protect the 2A constitutional rights of Americans

REPORTER: Is it the administration's position that hospitals should not have to treat people who come to ERs who are not here legally? LEAVITT: No, that's not our position

Prosecutors will present evidence to a grand jury about the Hope Florida scandal involving first lady Casey DeSantis.

overt nazi language in this DHS job listing (which i’m told is for a low-level but important job in adjudicating immigration applications and requires knowledge of the law)

Another Take.... 👇 President Trump is considering providing $10 billion or more in aid to U.S. farmers as the agriculture sector warns of economic fallout from his far-reaching tariffs, according to people familiar with the discussions. www.wsj.com/wsjplus/dash...

Trump claims that Kristi Noem cut millions from funding supporting the cops who protect Trump Tower against terrorists w/o telling him. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

Oh. Election denier and right winger Pizzagate TPUSA hack Jack Posobiec appears to have voted illegally - living in Maryland but voting in Pennsylvania. From Jacqueline Sweet at @slate.com and @marisakabas.bsky.social at The Handbasket: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Damn this is amazing!

A woman in Maine says that her latest Amazon package came with hundreds of blank ballots for the upcoming state election.

this season of survivor sucks anyway

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” (Pub. Oct. 2024)

Haha yes. Because ADP shows a really really really bad jobs report.

Also in the running, also from POLITICO. www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

President Donald Trump’s new scheme to transform the federal government into a pharmacy is already raising red flags for legal and health experts. Especially since the Trump administration has a history of playing it fast and loose with Americans’ private information. trib.al/9cxb4FR

“Republicans fund foreigners during lockdown”

Mike Johnson agrees that Trump is “unhinged” and “unwell”

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.

Taxpayers and charities helped develop the gene therapy Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price of $2M+ per dose, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices reflect huge industry investments in innovation. (Published Feb.)

Breaking: Lawler demands Hochul release Epstein Files! (oh wait)

Halligan’s episode of South Beach Tow (“Bernice Pops Off”) was pretty good. But it doesn’t hold a candle to this scene, which is arguably one of the greatest moments in reality(ish) TV: youtu.be/3X1bc4kNLHI

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

Fair play correcting the right wing journalist, but I have to confess it’s hard for me to enjoy a political culture whose main point of consensus is that it should be illegal to use federal funds to treat people who are injured or sick and happen to have the wrong immigration status.

Republicans control the shutdown. Top to bottom. For example, construction of Trump's ballroom will continue as "essential" during the shutdown. But the stuff that helps you will not. abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

Next time you find yourself in a discussion about the differences between liberals, leftists, democratic socialists, moderates, progressives, and never trumpers, remember: billionaires don't give a fuck. We're all the same to them: human capitol stock. And they love it when we fight each other.

Jane Goodall Dies at 91 While on Speaking Tour: She Was a 'Tireless Advocate' for Nature. people.com/jane-goodall...

Here we are in another Republican government shutdown and my Rep is home doing photo ops instead of in D.C. trying to help working Americans. I didn't think I'd have to run to the trumpets again but I am. I'm running for Congress because I'm not done yet and neither are we. youtu.be/OSOAPMl_BSc?...

As I have been saying… bsky.app/profile/muel...

White House Notches First Big Shutdown Victory: Cover to Ditch BLS Weirdo Nomination talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-w...

The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.

NEW: In the lead-up to Trump’s second term, a PA businessman hired Tom Homan as a consultant and said he could put together a group of companies wanting to get in line to win contracts for a massive immigration enforcement plan, sources said.

FUN FACT: Prior to to shutdown, Republicans did a carve out to make sure Argentina’s $20billion bailout was put under “essential “ spending. So it’s Republicans who are handing out US taxpayer money to foreigners.

The Speaker of the House flailed across television as reporters fact-checked his claim that Democrats shut down the government to lavish undocumented immigrants with free health care. In reality, those immigrants are ineligible for tax credits, Medicaid, and Medicare. trib.al/jn6rb4g

Here’s a note at Law Dork on this from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...

These two tunnels you want to dig are too diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

Mamdani: "Every day, Trump wakes up and makes another threat, a lot of the times about the city that he actually comes from. What is angering to me is not what Donald Trump does, because we've come to expect that from it. But it's the idea that we have to accept that as the law, as normal."

They don’t even need democratic votes. They changed the rules 12 days ago to approve 48 Trump appointees at once with a simple majority. They can do it here, too. They don’t want to.

WHY REPUBLICANS ARE SHUTTING DOWN GOVERNMENT ✅Stalls release of Epstein Files ✅Delays really bad job numbers ✅Gives them more time on Grindr