The Republicans have majorities in both houses of Congress so there's a "way out" of a government shutdown if they can only get their shit together. This isn't on Democrats, at all.

Too close to home perhaps?

got some bad news for anyone who voted for Trump because he promised to bring down prices www.ft.com/content/dd6d...

MAGA voter who can’t pay rent watching Trump give $20 billion to Argentina

Why is Trump so mad at IKEA? “Equality, diversity and inclusion turns our workplace into a home “At IKEA, you’re welcome no matter where you come from, what you believe, what you look like and who you like to snuggle up in front of the TV with. We don’t even care how you organize your kitchen”

"If I could, I’d make the algorithm 100% MAGA related. But it’s not going to work out that way unfortunately," Trump said. "Everyone’s going to be treated fairly.”

Imagine celebrating a massacre of Native people. The absolute depravity.

Two lawsuits allege that Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil, is the “principal beneficiary” of tribal lender Minto Money. CreditServe, a company that McGraw plays a key role in, controls the operation while “the Tribe is merely a front,” the suits said. (Published May w/ @adn.com)

Trump has unleashed a gold rush among private prison companies taking on immigration detention. In cash-strapped cities, like Walsenburg, Colorado, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.

May Mailman, the Trump administration’s point person in its crackdown on higher education, relies on culture war cliches in making her case rather than evidence or law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

Your health care bill is about to explode. The notices will start arriving next month. A $7,000 bill could jump to $24,000. Democrats are fighting to stop this. Republicans are fighting to guarantee your costs go up. We need to fix this. Now.

There's a reason they chose this spot: it's in rural North Louisiana, one of the poorest places in the country, a place national media barely knows exists, a place with essentially no local journalism, where people and resources can be exploited (and lied to) with no consequence

Trump's corrupt prosecutions of enemies as "retribution" for legitimate fact-based prosecutions of him are really about the core authoritarian goal of erasing the very idea of legitimate guilt and innocence. This new firing is all about that. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

The newly discovered Huashanosaurus qini singing by himself in the marshlands of southern China during the Early-Middle #Jurassic #dinosaur #paleoart #sciart

Maurice Hastings was exonerated. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n....

A.I. tools are already shaping patient care—but we should be wary of letting them diagnose us. “Patients and doctors alike could think of A.I. not as a way to solve mysteries but as a way to gather clues,” Dhruv Khullar writes.

Hand and Foot massages go a long way in helping us to, relax, be more grounded, regain our focus and recharg our personal energy.

No money for USAID, no money for healthcare or Medicaid or rural hospitals or scientific research or schools or libraries, but billions of dollars for a corrupt strongman in Argentina.

"Militant transgender ideology" is the latest manufactured attack Fox News has concocted to smear a tiny marginalized group of people. Andy Ngo has built his career off of demonizing leftwing protesters. He's also from Portland, OR. I'm not sure why he sounds like that. 🤷‍♀️

Ngl it’s kinda funny a coalition of people from his own party and other groups tried to curb his power because he’s nuking an already fragile public education system and he’s still going full steam ahead

A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration. The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.

Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.

whoa. Every single one of the Sinclair advert buyers on this list is automotive or automotive related (insurance). That is one aspect of the power in our society held by car companies that I haven't seen studied enough.

Making this more absurd, Trump himself has *said in his own words* that he wants Brendan Carr to use state power to censor criticism of him. Yet the @nytimes.com headline makes this sound like some kind of righteous crusade on Carr's part.

💕 Liebesgeschichte 💕

Media markets against free speech substack.com/profile/3107...

Fine: 1) What’s happening to the U.S. is part of a transnational far-right, autocratic wave and it cannot be treated as a purely domestic issue 2) A major subset of these dynamics is globalized kleptocracy/oligarchy; tackling that requires rebuilding & enhancing int’l anti-corruption mechanisms

NEW: A young new associate deputy attorney general at the DOJ directing US attorneys to call repeated grand juries if they don't get indictments in DC, and to prioritize charges against protesters in LA, was convicted of a DUI while a federal prosecutor. / www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Well, yeah, it’s kind of irrelevant now. We know where they’re at, they’re in the White House.

President Trump is using his time before the United Nations to once again rail against "the green energy scam" and...windmills. A good time to read how Trump's war on wind power has one very big exception, by @russchoma.bsky.social.

NEVER FORGET: EVEN IF THE ACA SUBSIDIES ARE REUPPED IN DECEMBER THE INSTABILITY IN THE MARKETPLACE WILL CAUSE PREMIUMS WAY OUT OF CONTROL. THIS IS ALL ON TRUMP AND THE GOP CONGRESS. EVERY. SINGLE. DOLLAR. PEOPLE WILL GO UNINSURED BECAUSE THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNAFFORDABLE & UNSUSTAINABLE. DISGUSTING!

There is so much corruption in the administration and nothing is being done about it. Most of them belong in handcuffs. This is absolutely disgusting, unlawful, and infuriating.

No. Deport Elon. Deport David Sacks.

So, an app was created with the express purpose of anonymously doxxing critics of Charlie Kirk, including their names, locations, and employers. Guess what? Yup! The app leaked the personal details of its *own* users. #irony san.com/cc/app-for-o...

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, as the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships to minority students works to raise $1 billion to strengthen all 37 of its historically Black colleges and universities. apnews.com/article/mack...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

I used to wonder how people were so ready to accept the Christianity of human traffickers as an expression of righteousness & Good News. Then I saw people fawning over “the gospel” being presented at a WWE produced White Citizens Council rally, and it made more sense.

Leaves typically start to peak in northern states by early October, but projecting peak foliage isn't an exact science. Here are some things you can do to get the most out of fall's colors.

Richard Goldberg & Marc Levin have issues with the racist and anti-Semitic GOP. He points the finger at Tucker Carlson as if he alone is the problem. He condemns the Left, on which jews have depended for centuries. Christian Nationalism & Judaism are not made for the long term. #magaisevil

There are echoes in our political rhetoric of the men who helped talk the United States into civil war

Another beautiful beach morning. #beach #bestlife #peace #dogs #doglife

libertarianism doesn't work because eventually you run out of other people's money and have to borrow it from the US taxpayer

One new detail from yesterday morning: apparently one of the first problems the Lege is gonna address is Johnson County having local control over our own damn flagpoles. littlevillagemag.com/jon-green-jo...

😱 “U.S. Department of Education, AFPI, TPUSA, Hillsdale College, and Over 40 National and State Organizations Launch America 250 Civics Coalition” 9/17/25 … 1/ www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

he is trying to ensure that there aren't Black soldiers because he thinks they won't massacre protests