The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee. But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education. A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot. We can never normalize this:

Wells Fargo scammed millions of people by opening fake accounts. The Trump Administration just reduced a former Wells Fargo exec's $10 million fine to $0. Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Only a sick bastard would harm a pregnant woman! Even the women in prison here in America get better treatment than this! ENOUGH of this nightmare! #Pinks #WomensRights #ICE

ICE goons (Temu cops) at an immigration court, hoping to kidnap poor immigrants as they attempt to go through the immigration process properly, get roasted by an NYPD cop who is tired of their shit. They seem to be harassing him because of his skin color: America, land of the free. 🙄

Your regular reminder that we desperately need to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics. It is among the worst Supreme Court decisions in history. It corrupts our political system every day.

New Yorkers are blocking Ice from kidnapping people. This is solidarity ✊✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾

This is amazing!!

Stripped of their rights and financially abused! money.cnn.com/magazines/mo...

Actually a good idea.

First the The Rose Garden, then The East Wing... Add Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the list of beautiful things Trump is going to intentionally destroy.

Illinois has now achieved its 10th credit rating upgrade since I took office. It reflects our continued growth in financial standing and speaks volumes to our state's commitment to fiscal discipline. With each upgrade, it means saving Illinoisans millions of dollars.

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

I am looking forward to this hearing. It will provide an excellent opportunity to remind people of all the reasons why Donald Trump should he serving a long federal prison term.

COLLINS: Today you pardoned the founded of Binance. Can you explain why you did that? TRUMP: Which one was that? COLLINS: The founder of Binance TRUMP: I believe we're talking about the same person, because I do pardon a lot of people. I don't know. He was recommended by a lot of people.

nokings.org Find a protest near you.

Jeffries: We have an American president behaving like an organized crime boss, stealing taxpayer dollars in real-time in front of everyone in plain sight. And Republicans have nothing to say about the emerging crime scene at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue.

It already cost us the East Wing of the White House...which will have to be replaced when Trump is gone....because that gold monstrosity is coming down first chance we get. We will not let that crap stand. We're replacing the Rose Garden too.

This is what Republicans voted for?

Is there any indication at all that they did any conservation of this interior or did they literally take the wrecking ball to it all?

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People are using GoFundMe for groceries. GoFundMe has 250k pages for medical bills and 40k for tuition. Americans are fundraising for basic necessities, while the top 1% increased their wealth to $52 trillion. This is what a rigged system designed by the wealthy looks like.

If you think Trump’s done attacking abortion, think again. He’s got a nationwide ban in his back pocket — and Prop 50 is the only thing stopping him. #YesOnProp50

The man who doesn’t read and can’t handle a briefing furloughed the people guarding America’s most dangerous weapons.

“.. It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

Live look at next week's break-in at Fort Knox. Which you will also have to sit by helplessly and watch, I guess.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Two Democrats seeking to challenge GOP utility commissioners in Georgia are running on ramping up clean energy production. They’ve also called for lowering electricity rates, which have increased six times since 2023.

🧵 Veterans, like everyone else, are being hurt by this reckless shutdown. VA hospitals stay open, but GI Bill payments are stalled, casework is ignored, and thousands of veteran federal workers are missing paychecks. Our heroes deserve stability and respect, not to be used as a means of leverage. 1

Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts. #NoKings

The Illinois secretary of state’s office is reminding everyone — including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — to refrain from swapping or altering state license plates amid concerns of plate tampering.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

In the midst of a government shutdown, and in the face of fundamental challenges to the rule of law and to democratic accountability, the House of Representatives--the people's house, the heart of our democratic republic--hasn't cast a vote since Sep. 19. An extraordinary failure of responsibility.

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

45 yrs of US history, in 25 words:

I like how Joe Biden never demanded that I pay his legal bills.

A little reflection on history, morality, money, and protest by me. I'm not Heather Cox Richardson, but you still might find it interesting. @hcrichardson.bsky.social jeffsjottings.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/m...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social Good morning Dorchester! 😀

I guess they don’t think the images of Trump tearing apart the WH and grounds are helpful to them.

There it is. Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) says Republicans’ next goal is to kick seniors off Social Security: “Get off of Social Security. Get back into the workforce.”

The Trump Admin's decision to RIF almost the entire staff for special education programs for our schools is a disgrace to our children, teachers, and school administrators.

How does one steal $23K and not get arrested?

The war zone in Portland is out of control.