Republicans in Congress are concerned by the damage Russell Vought’s weaponization of the government against Democrats might do. What’s more pathetic is John Thune, (R-SD) Senate majority leader, says they have no control over what Vought might do. WTF🤷‍♀️

Just look at this crap. It reads like a satire of what someone would say she'd write.

Crowd chanting, "lick them boots! Lick them boots!" at ISP.

The President gets no special new powers during a shutdown. He can't eliminate agencies. He can't use federal funds to punish his political opponents. As Trump's illegality grows during the shutdown, Democrats' spines should stiffen to oppose his corruption.

3 days into the shutdown, @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social is better able to see where we are and where we're headed open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Wherein, @defector.com ultimately triviliazes the massive success of the @wnba.com amid the failure of its corporate leadership, even on it's own money driven terms. defector.com/napheesa-col...

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.

Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...

Oh and by the way; it was confirmed in court today - during the shutdown, the Guard dont get paid if deployed.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Napheesa Collier Put A Face To The Fight - defector.com/napheesa-col...

I’m old enough to remember when the Biden campaign, not even the government, asked a tech company just to behave with a modicum of responsibility, and it was such a big deal that entire TV channels and Matt Taibbi wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it ever.

There are simply so many fires to attend to; we don't even have a story on the gov shutdown up, but I feel proud of what the @texasobserver.org did get to this week. Today's story, ICE snatches a Dallas Muslim leader known for his gentleness and humility: www.texasobserver.org/ice-marwan-m...

This is critical. I asked Chris Murphy if Dems risk sending the message that they're okay w/Trump's lawbreaking provided they extend ACA subsidies. His answer was striking: On the full year budget, Dems cannot give a bipartisan imprimatur to Trump's lawlessness. 7/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

I’m glad Murphy is out there saying these things in a clear and succinct way, because Schumer sure as hell isn’t. We’d be better off with Murphy as minority leader, because he seems to really understand the fight.

Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"

Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"

Move over Salieri, mediocrities have a new patron saint www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

You can listen to the full interview with Chris Murphy in this link: newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Chris Murphy makes a detailed case that Trump is on the brink of meaningfully restricting the space in which the opposition can do politics, in the competitive authoritarian model of autocracies abroad. "If we are not already there, we are really, really close." 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Chris Murphy says Dems should lay down a simple marker for Trump: No Dem support for anything that funds his lawbreaking. "if you want our votes, it can’t be for rampant lawlessness. This isn't a normal time...the world [is] watching to see what we stand for." 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Were I in charge of the Democratic Party instead of the barely sentient empty suits that are, I would be in front of a camera talking about Speaker Johnson giving the House a vacation while the gov’t grinds to a halt and ppl lose income. I’d yell that the GOP is clearly completely uninterested in…

Right Wingers Dick-Stepping Their Way Through Shutdown www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/03/r...

worth remembering that hoover's administration was defined by 4 years of economic chaos, suffering, dislocation, and fear. People genuinely believed the country itself was on the verge of irreversible collapse. He still got 40% of the vote.

Honestly, this is the perfect summation of the nazi collaborator, faux left/centrist grift. Literally everyone with a clue knew Comey was going to get whacked by Trump. No one has ever appeased a bully and ended up better off or appreciated for it.

22. If the Democrats choose to bargain with Trump over the shutdown, *knowing* that he will betray them once their backs are turned, they would not only enable his crimes, but protect him from their consequences. They would permit him to avoid facing the truth.

14. “The main point I think most are missing [about Klein’s interview with Coastes],” Jake Grumbach said, “is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates [is saying] the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth.”

1. I don’t know who is going to win the fight over the shutdown of the US government. I do know that it’s wrong for Donald Trump and the Republicans to do nothing while 24 million Americans enrolled in state exchanges watch their health insurance premiums spike by two, three or four times.

Hard to tell the real illegal militia from the fake illegal militia

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

Had dinner tonight with a friend who goes every day with a bunch of other septuagenarians to be “observers” at the immigration courts. ICE thugs routinely throw them out out of public courtrooms, and then public hallways, and then public waiting rooms as they grab immigrants who did nothing wrong.

American Christians deciding the Pope doesn't know the Bible because he said immigrants are human is the perfect summary of the evangelist movement

The GOP health care for immigrants lie is an old one. Here’s me six years ago:

Was Pinochet doing it in a “smart” way? Were the Argentinian & Guatemalan generals doing it in a “smart” way? What about Putin or the Chinese, are they doing it in a “smart” way?

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

I’m sorry, which is it: are boys in an acute crisis that demands that all the nation’s resources and attention be leveraged toward their improved happiness and status? Or is their natural superiority only obscured by affirmative action for women? You have got to pick one because you can’t have both.

WTAF?!?!

When fascist freak Stephen Miller boasts about how tough they are, this is what he means

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

That first graf is all sorts of fucked up.

I would like to know how we can identify the specific persons at CNN who researched, wrote, edited, and approved this and hang it around their necks for the rest of their professional lives.

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you That is not, in fact, what ICE does He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Why don’t you post this story on X? 6 months Former Trump “faith advisor” It tracks

Robert Morris, 64, entered guilty pleas to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child in an Oklahoma courtroom on Oct. 2.

"Juxtaposed with Leo's lawsuit, & the unending horrors perpetrated by Trump's goons in Alabama & elsewhere, Kavanaugh's concurrence in Vasquez Perdomo becomes more preposterous w/each passing day." Excellent piece by @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...