This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

Just learned Johnson's own district has 1 in 5 on snap! Wow. And so many other districts across red states. VOTE THEM OUT!!!!

Remember when Republicans sent Marshal's to arrest Texas Dems for not working? Can we do that with Mike Johnson? Can we stop paying them since they aren't working? Send their salaries to help fun SNAP?

"I always understood that it wasn’t my ‘house’; it was The People’s House. The erasure of the East Wing isn't just about marble or plaster — it's about Trump again taking a wrecking ball to our heritage, while targeting our democracy, and the rule-of-law." Read more: https://bit.ly/4oHPb4q

@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social time to clearly spell out what specifically the Rs want to be passed! Point by point. We hear Ds want health care but you are starting to lose the argument 😤

Marge calls BS on Mike Johnson’s claim that Republicans have a healthcare plan.

I don't understand this. Members of the military are required to keep national defense information secret - no NDA needed.Unless it's about unlawful orders? I wish we could see a copy of the NDA. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

BREAKING 🚨 42 million Americans are about to lose food assistance because Donald Trump is withholding funding for SNAP. They’re letting families go hungry while sending $40 billion to Argentina.

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social get busy writing legislation for all the "norms" that need to be law or amendments- limit pres powers, redefine senate and house rules, declare what are States rights. Don't take years to to this, be ready jan '27!

I see that the United States' peculiar brand of Christian Nationalism includes judging the poor for needing SNAP benefits (judging is something Jesus said *not to* do) but not helping the poor with SNAP benefits (helping the poor is something Jesus told them *to* do).

This is a dementia test, not an IQ test. Trump is insulting YOUR intelligence when he says otherwise. We need to see him take the 100 question citizenship test. Let’s see how poorly he grasps the basics of American government.

Conrad Cable (@conrad4congress.bsky.social) is running against Mike Johnson! If you want to see change, give him a follow and share his page! 🌱

Release The Files 💪🏽 #MichaelWolff #jeffreyepstein #donaldtrump #epsteinfiles #releasethefiles *substack link included

That's frightening. #TrumpSucks

“For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.” - Thomas Paine, 1776 America has no kings and it never will.

Trump should have to spell Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia before we have to pay for him to travel there. ‘Where’s Sean?, they told me I was meeting ASEAN!’

Another one from @jesseduquette.bsky.social

This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about. Would be a shame if it went viral.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

Which does not make the demolition of the East Wing any less of a crime against history, mind you.

Priorities.

Gift link. (I object to the New York Times calling this a "crime crackdown." The Trump regime is bringing violence to my city, Chicago, not fighting violence.)

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Your health care premiums will be going up 500% or more so that Trump and the Republicans can use those taxpayer funds to build American concentration camps.

an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III 🤔 #dictatordon #republicans #republucanparty #fascism

But he's just too busy to know about the East wing demolition, $230m shakedown, swearing in duly elected rep, and oh yeah RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILE!!!

We're long past the time that if, in some moment of clarity, the Republicans in the House impeached Trump (simple majority) – then the Senate convicted him (2/3rds of senators present), he would not leave. He would have to be physically removed. And on what side would the US military then stand?

BREAKING: The top federal prosecutor in Maryland has reportedly notified Pam Bondi that she sees no basis for Indicting Adam Schiff on mortgage fraud. Who wants to bet that the prosecutor will be fired within days, and a new prosecutor will seek to indict Schiff regardless?

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.

That’s a trillion dollar increase in two months.

murikkka #trumpsamerica #usa

protest sign in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 🇺🇲 #NoKingsDay #antifa #resist #fightfascism #fucktrump #defenddemocracy #resistance #defenddenydepose #trumpregime #wethepeople #togetherwerise #solidarity

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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Come on Dems! The Rs putting up a wealthy and big name 1term, 17 years ago candidate and another 1term senator from MA!! Back Pappas or lose this seat! 🤮

SCOTUS' corrupt immunity ruling paved the way for this shakedown. They've effectively crowned him king, and now he's treating the Treasury like his personal piggy bank. This isn't governance. It's a mafia state with a judicial stamp of approval. 1/2

$170B for ICE and Border Patrol $40B for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $98M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Trump's ballroom donors include: -Google, whose CEO thanked Trump for "resolution" of an antitrust case -Palantir, which has lucrative contracts with ICE -Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who would profit from Trump's regulatory rollbacks for private equity Pay-to-play.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.