The real choice Democrats face is not between a continuing resolution that allows the government to function normally or a government shutdown. Under the Trump regime, the government is not functioning normally. It is already shutting down. Why vote to legitimize Trump's coup?

It's the largest strike of the year: a 5-day walkout of 45,000 workers at Kaiser hospitals on the West Coast. While they seek better pay and staffing, the "nonprofit" has $67.4 billion in reserves and is heavily invested in hedge funds and private equity. @exposedbycmd.bsky.social has the story:

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A MAJOR SHAKE-UP AND A RED FLAG 🚩 Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned after 37 years. Trump’s escalated strikes in Venezuela raised legal alarms. Behind the scenes, Holsey clashed with Pete Hegseth over the mission. 1/2

Watch this: I keep TELLING PEOPLE that #Vought, #Miller & #Surveillance #TechBros are far more dangerous than the #ClownCar of #Incompetence that lets #ANTIFA critics feel smug

Ah, we've hit one of the key problems of our time: The billionaire class is NOT committed to liberal democracy. The billionaire class LOVES authoritarianism because they see themselves as the rightful rulers of the little people. So when the billionaires buy all the media....

What other Nazi Governor's in Red States are activating national guard,,,,,No Kings protests across US set to kick off with National Guard on standby www.bbc.com/news/article...

Walsh said Trump’s defense of Santos proves loyalty beats law in MAGA world. Ten pardoned Republicans later, Trump’s message couldn’t be clearer: commit crimes, stay loyal, and daddy Don will make it all go away. www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

Wisdom from Schoolhouse Rock.

According to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Trump's latest moves all share the same goal: Keeping Americans distracted from the ongoing fallout over his administration's handling of unreleased documents pertaining to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein www.rawstory.com/rachel-maddo...

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This is a profoundly absurd show of force that could put Californians directly in harm's way. Flying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isn't just wrong — it's dangerous.

She is doing awesome, but had she stood by her constituents and Americans from the beginning, we wouldn't be in this mess. This merely scratches the surface of the harm she's done.

In a coordinated move, multiple federal agencies joined BlueSky yesterday and turned to trolling the opposition. Our Assessment on Democratic Decline warns of this autocratic practice: attacking the free press and narrowing the space in which factual reporting can safely operate without retaliation.

Jessica Tarlov leaves her Fox News co-hosts speechless as she drops a list of issues Americans are protesting Trump for on No Kings

BREAKING: Congress has just released the Alex Acosta Congressional Interview transcript about Epstein. krassencast.com/p/breaking-a...

M.I.T. Brown. Penn. USC. Now UVA — “the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of White House demands.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Looks like the Russians like his Russia tie. It’s not red-white-blue either. It’s red-blue-white. Like the Russian flag. For a meeting with Zelensky.

Funny, how the "No Kings" protesters were "elderly white hippies" in August (per Stephen Miller), but are "pro-Hamas terrorists and violent criminals" in October (per Karoline Leavitt). It's *almost* as if this regime makes its shameless lies up as it goes along . . .

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House Democrats have unlodged more details www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

I don't watch Fox, so I have no idea if they ran a segment on Don Lemon appearing on The Left Hook, saying people of color in Chicago should consider legally & peacefully exercising their 2nd Amendment Right to own arms. Jesse Watters' show reached out to me for comment. This is how I replied:

The Trump administration shows, once again, that they work for the wealthy. They're not here to help small businesses, the engines of our economy. Instead, his policies seem designed to hurt them most. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/h...

Trump plans to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain to oil drilling—one of Earth’s most fragile ecosystems. Critics call it an environmental catastrophe that endangers wildlife and violates Indigenous rights www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The old “we’ll allow it to continue while the lower courts discuss it again,” routine.

The request follows a U.S. Court of Appeals decision that blocked the administration’s earlier attempt to activate the Guard in the state.

Trump has asked the Supreme Court to immediately authorize the deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois, arguing that they are needed to “protect federal agents carrying out immigration enforcement operations”.

Judges are refusing to accept Justice Department attorneys’ explanations at face value and even telling them outright that the executive branch has forfeited its claim to presumed honesty.

2021 the stage for cpac was designed as an odal rune, a symbol used by nazi germany . They cry indignation at being accused of what they obviously are and deny it until the bitter end. This is true of their rampant pedophilia, their fascism, their contempt for the American people. Stand up folks!

@thewarningses.bsky.social explains how the GOP became the party of victims

The trump regime is setting up official agency accounts here on BlueSky, and they’re dragging their MAGA trolls with them. Block liberally.

Was this reported on Fox News? #arrestrepublicans

Also, they want to make content. And that means they are going to take the worst stuff people say in response to them (this being the internet, some of which might be quite bad) and splash it across the official comms organs of every major federal law enforcement agency. So take that into mind.

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

UPDATE — MEMPHIS: “Elected officials claim deployment of the National Guard violates the TN Constitution… Councilman JB Smiley Jr., Commissioners Erika Sugarmon & Brooks, Mayor Lee Harris, Reps. Hardaway & Salinas, Sen. Yarbro plaintiffs in the suit…” www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/l...

the opposition party at work

Things to do electronically before no kings day: Charge power bank if have Change your phone's password to pattern/pin Cops/ice can legally use your thumbprint/face/eyes to open your phone, they can't force pattern/pin passwords Turn off GPS and put on airplane mode or turn off phone.

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“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.” Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights Our @rollingstone.com investigation www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Been in the Chicago a few hours now, gotta say, purely anecdotal but seems like people here are largely anti-kidnapping

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