Dear Dems, learn how to negotiate. Ask for more each time. Ask for things you know your states & counties need. Every. Single. Session that they refuse to open. Put more things forward. PUSH it. NOW is the time. #shutdown

Senate is back in session today. 1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown. You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. - Bryan Stevenson Pic of the day #photography

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx. The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake. And that’s why we’re fighting back.

Ah, States’ rights are so 1776

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Cutting The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and TRIO. There’s a deep, disgusting part of hell for Linda McMahon and anyone else that’s part of this or supports it. Fuck this country.

THIS

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

Mother and daughter help man escape from ICE

Wow, yeah, fuck Keira Knightly. Wow. #translivesmatter

I just found half a toad in the yard & it was still alive & goddammit I love toads & I had to try & euthanize it & I hope I did it right & I can't stop crying. Fuck everything right now. 😭

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth. I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Garcia: It’s really shocking for him to essentially lean into this possibility of a pardon. And we know why that’s the case, right? He wants to control what she says. He wants her—someone who has a ton of information on what actually happened—to perhaps… omit memories she might have of the president

Alabama was the first state to declare Christmas a holiday in 1836. The idea caught on and grew in popularity over several decades and President Grant signed it into Federal Law decades later in 1870.

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

Greatest city on this goddamn planet. ✊

Broadview, Illinois 10/10-10/11

Plane crash northwest of Fort Worth, Texas multiple semi-trucks on fire

DEVELOPING...... Plane crash reported in Fort Worth, Texas #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Texas #Breaking #breakingnews

Plane Crashes In Fort Worth, Multiple Trucks on Fire A small plane has crashed near Hicks Airfield in Fort Worth, Texas ... sparking a massive fire involving multiple semi-trucks. The Fort Worth Fire Department says the crash happened Sunday. The impact ignited several trucks in the area, though……

WTF 🤬 Goons brutally pushed a peaceful protester to the ground and dragged them across the floor.

MAGA.

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫,

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

Are you back to shopping at Target? Man, I'm seeing packed parking lots. Please remember what they said not said about Black and Brown people, about our LGBTQIA communities, and WOMEN.

I am worries about the best of you getting into frog costumes they say they get at Amazon Amazon is Jeff Bezos is complicit and I don’t trust him and Musk and theft of all private data <<<< That is leaving a trail to identification of frog people Don’t buy through amazon please!!

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

Goons jump and tackle Captain America in Portland.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

People need to stop the thinking that’s like “well when things get back to normal we’ll do this.” Remember how we said that about COVID years ago & we’re still in a pandemic? The United States is not coming back to glory & that shouldn’t be the goal. But WE can try to survive if we get together.

ICE are guys that were too chicken to join the military and fight in Iraq/Afghanistan and cosplay their fantasy of being a man by terrorizing innocent people and children.

The solutions proposed for New Zealand's (and virtually every other country's) problems are always like: "We need to make people work for more years" "We have to cut back on services, I'm sorry, there is just no other way" "We have to cut benefits for young people" never: "We need to tax the rich"

I know, right now, there are some white boys thinking it will be funny to go as ICE for Halloween. I'm a just say, don't let "Cleverness" walk you into a beat down. I assure you, for many, the treat would be showing you just how unfunny you are. Trick around and find out.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

Echoes of a very dark past. From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Border Patrol & ICE operating under Trump regime directives have repeatedly attacked and detained US citizens violating their civil rights and human rights. Regime agents have also been caught falsifying reports, destroying evidence to cover up their actions. #3E 🧵

POLICE: “If you aren’t out by six o’clock, you will be under arrest.” POLICE, before six o’clock: “Six isn’t a magic number. Since there’s no way you’ll be gone by curfew, we will grab you here and now.”

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Every single cyberpunk author since the 70s basically told us this was going to happen.