There is only one reason Trump directed Bondi to investigate specific names in the Epstein files. It’s so the DOJ can stonewall growing calls for their full release. Not long ago, the DOJ declared there was nothing to investigate. You are witness to the most blatant coverup in American history.

It's becoming chillingly clear: an administration that gleefully dismantled USAID and consigned countless people to slow death by starvation and preventable disease will not hesitate to inflict hunger on tens of millions of Americans by cutting off SNAP funds.

It’s not just that they don’t have to turn off SNAP benefits — they’re not legally allowed to. They legally must use the contingency fund. The admin is pretending they can’t use it even though their own guidance from a month ago (that they’ve since deleted) contradicts that.

Cutting families off from food assistance is unacceptable. I joined over 200 Members of Congress in calling on the Admin to release SNAP funding. We are also dropping legislative language to force the Admin to release this funding and supporting states in taking legal action to release those funds.

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

Watergate every day

Good to see unity! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has been among @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Letitia James’s most fervent supporters, participating in a Friday night rally, chanting “Hands Off Tish.” James spoke at Mamdani’s primary victory party. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/n...

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th. If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

Chicago is safe, beautiful and vibrant. In fact, it was just voted the best big city in America for the ninth year in a row. If the jaw dropping images you’ve seen recently on TV or social media make it look like a war zone, that’s on Donald Trump. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

The idea that these two traumatized peoples, one of which spent two full years grinding through the other as if with a meat grinder, have any kind of normal to ~return to~ is psychotic. The idea that *more* oppression & dehumanization of the Palestinians is what will bring actual peace is doubly so.

Baruch Hashem the hostages are going home. Fewer deaths, & breathing room to tend to the injured & grieving, is always, always good. But we still don't know how many actually died, because so many are under rubble. And the plan sure seems to continue to erase the Palestinian people & their rights.

idk what to say about the ceasefire. I've been living/covering/researching/writing about this conflict for decades & it's only ever been one step forward, one & a half steps back.

The 📷 shows an apartment building in #Kyiv hit by a Russian Shahed last night.It captures the overall atmosphere in the city with painful accuracy A hellish night of Russian strikes...We cherish every moment of life,because any moment,any day could be our last.That's why we live a bit desperately⤵️

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This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

Today is the 17th day in a row that House Republicans have refused to come to work. Instead of preventing health care costs from skyrocketing, they’re preventing the Epstein files from being released.

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1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people. This is very well known now.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"

Under Trump, working Americans have become the piñata at a billionaire’s birthday party.

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The person who did all of these things was called a “tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in 1776. Yup. Give it a read…

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Convincing colleagues to vote with them is the literal job of politicians - if they can’t do that, they can’t do their jobs. They own this shutdown and all of the consequences.

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health" www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Sen. Merkley: Republicans are in charge of everything. They have the keys to the kingdom. And they decided their priority was a families lose, billionaires win agenda. And at the heart of it was destroying health care for Americans

A simple message worth repeating

Hey Republicans. This is on you. As a reminder, you have the power to impeach and remove www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

It’s decision time. If we are going to fund the government, it should only be a government that respects our democracy, that isn’t corrupt, that doesn’t treat people and places that oppose President Trump as enemies, deserving of indictment or military deployment.

Republicans want to take away people's healthcare so badly, They're willing to shut the government down to do it. SAD!

Pete Hegseth: only clean-shaven men can win wars U.S. Grant:

I listened to this thrice just to feast my ears on some refreshingly rare plain speak.

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG

CARTOON OF THE DAY

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

They do not have enough popular support. So they are trying to outlaw / silence opposition. And that’s where we are. Pushing back has never mattered more.