My sense is that Trump and Republicans will cave in this shutdown fight (he won’t admit he’s caving, of course, but he will cave). Why? Air traffic controllers. Let me explain: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-shutdown-ends

History repeats.

2022: Elon Musk claims this is Ghislaine Maxwell photobombing him at a party and that he did not know her. 2025: Elon Musk's name appears in the Epstein Files. 👀

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Kash Patel has "summarily dismissed" a trainee for displaying a pride flag. "Summarily" means without attention to formalities. And there are formalities for firing a federal employee. So the twit Kash is admitting that the firing was done in a pique of bigotry, not in accordance with the law.

Prediction: "The NFL sucks" will be a messaging fail

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett... Chicago: One witness, who lived across the street, described crying upon seeing naked children separated from their mothers, & asking the agents about their humanity. “One of them literally laughed,” she said. Then the agent replied, “Fuck them kids.” #BoycottUSA

Furloughed Department of Education workers’ out-of-office emails were changed to blame Democrats for the shutdown without their permission. Why is Trump resorting to such desperate, and likely illegal, tactics? Because he knows that he’s the one to blame for this shutdown.

"An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month..."

Trump friend Trump spiritual advisor Sexually assaulted a 12yo girl (Sound familiar?) Mega church pastor Not an immigrant, not transgender Sentenced to only 6 months Our country is very sick. MAGA is the Virus #DefendersofDemocracy

Vital Norm therapy. Hope you’ll join.

The absolutely horrific reports of inhumane and degrading treatment that the courageous people abducted from the Sumud Flotilla have been subjected to should jolt the Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong into action.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now is meant to distract you from this.

Honestly I'm tired of unnamed lawyers being upset that their firms capitulated, federal prosecutors concerned about the politicization of DOJ, and reporters dismayed that their media owners are capitulating to Trump. Either do something or accept that you watched democracy collapse and did nothing.

Buttigieg: You’ve got a president and a Republican Congress who would rather see the entire government shut down than allow Americans to afford their healthcare.

Headlines like this — "Morale is extremely low at CBS ahead of Bari Weiss taking over" — is, perversely, a key reason Paramount's leadership paid such a ridiculous premium for Free Press. The *point* is to break the real journalists. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Absolutely bizarre. Trump takes credit for a judge blocking HIS OWN PLAN to cut $34 million in funding for counterterrorism in New York.

He's not just unfit to be president, he's unfit to be a human being. He’s unfit to be a carbon based life form. He’s a waste of cytoplasm.

I just signed legislation allowing the 800,000 rideshare workers in California to unionize. California is determined to give working people a voice, to give them choice, give them dignity, and give them a say about their future.

Choose a side farmers, are you socialists or not? You know what I think? I think you’re hypocrites and you’re only pissed because you’re expected bailout is coming as fast or as big as you thought it would! Just Fucking Saying!

This is all they want. They don’t care about a trial or a conviction.

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said." www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Odd, how MAGA couldn't draw enough attention to imaginary children being molested in #Pizzagate, but when it comes to *real* children being molested in #Epsteingate, they desperately want our attention to be elsewhere.

🚨BREAKING: In a major blow to President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, the First Circuit Court of Appeals flatly rejected the administration’s attempt to enforce his executive order ending birthright citizenship. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump and Hegseth are openly committing crimes and murdering people and they publish this shit

Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents. The legacy of the Roberts court.

A federal appeals court in Boston ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, adding to the mounting legal setbacks for Trump’s birthright order.

NEW: Tell Congress: Cancel GOP healthcare cuts and end Trump’s shutdown actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Wanna know whose shutdown this is? Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.

You know how Sen. Mike Lee is VERY CONCERNED about voter fraud? He should probably have a chat with his buddy Jack Posobiec who votes in Pennsylvania but reportedly lives in Maryland. Sen. Lee has appeared on Posobiec’s podcast a few times.

Today so far feds in Chicagoland have: Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things Violently handcuffed an Alderperson It's 3pm

Speak up! Act up! Show up! #DefendersOfDemocracy #SheShed

Just imagine how much better off we’d all be tonight if Pete Buttigieg were the leader of the Senate. What a difference it would make to have a leader who is a great communicator, who can explain complex ideas in a simple way

Little Kash Patel has purged an FBI agent who refused to "perp walk" James Comey related to his phony abusive indictment. This is what fascism looks like, people. Demand its end! www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

Imagine having the privilege of serving in the United States Congress and doing nothing but protecting a deranged child rapist, ripping healthcare away from Americans, and funding the ICEStapo to zip-tie children. Call your GOP Reps: 202-224-3121 #FuckTheGOP #AbolishICE #EpsteinFiles

Russ is absolutely faint from the constant raging boner he's getting about hurting people he hates.

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true-- ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!