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Justice department folks undermining justice. GOP women setting back women. "Christians" corrupting christianity. FBI ruining intelligence/public safety. Defense officials being offensive. Health department destroying our health. Education officials ruining education. This is Trump & the GOP.

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t. And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks. Did I get that right?

Slow Horses is the best show ever.

Update from war ravaged Portland. On what might be the last 70 degree day of 2025, a beautiful full moon beamed over the city. No rockets, no bullets, no bombs, no fires. Just a moon!

Jeffries: "Republicans enacted permanent tax breaks for the wealthy, well-off, and well-connected. Permanent tax breaks. And now the nerve of these people to say to us that 'we do not have the time or inclination to address the ACA tax credits for working-class Americans'"

New pet peeve: Interviewers who tee up a subject, then say "I wonder what you think...." instead of just asking "what do you think about..." Every other sentence is "I wonder.." Drives me crazy. Also #Brave browser is way too slow.

If I Ran the Media™ Fewer stories on: —How Dems Need to Change Their Messaging —How [event xx] Will Play w [voter bloc YY] —How 2028 Field Is Shaping Up More of: —Which points of resistance are actually working —What specifically GOP Reps/Sens are so afraid of —Real-world tariff/immig effects —ETC

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Seems to me that reporters should maybe go look for themselves and , I don’t know, maybe REPORT the fucking truth @npr.org this headline is shameful. Do your fucking job. www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...

www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/f... I have been asking for this for years!!! Especially here in OK where the portions are huge.

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@timmiller.bsky.social you are everywhere today!

.@morganevelyncook on TikTok is trying to figure out why Trump is sending troops to Portland, Oregon, and her video is the greatest thing ever 🤣

For the love of dog, stop saying "Democrat" when it should be Democratic. It's the Democratic Party, not the Democrat party. Rush Limbaugh started this as a dig to imply we aren't democratic. And now everyone is doing it. Even Democrats. Democrat is a noun. The adjective is "Democratic." So stop it.

Trump is taking money from one group of Trump supporters (those getting taxed via his tariffs) to buy off another group of Trump supporters (farmers getting screwed because China stopped buying soybeans due to Trump). Well done, MAGA! Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2012...

Republicans are lying, because they are banking on this: that large swaths of the country will deny themselves healthcare because they don’t want undocumented people to have it. Speaks volumes.

(1/3) I think Ed makes a pretty strong point here about Lindsey Halligan: She hasn't been lawfully appointed under 28 U.S.C. § 546, and as he also points out, his view is supported by a 1986 OLC opinion written by some guy named … {checks notes} … Samuel A. Alito. (1/3)

The New Orleans Pelicans have traveled to Australia for two games against local teams, marking the first time an NBA team has played there.

Has Jeff Flake been in a coma?

It’s so pathetically predicable. “Democrats did __________ because of illegals.” They think the American people are dumb. They aren’t.

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

Right on the prediction. Right about the reaction.

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

It was harrowing. But I managed to survive the abject hellscape that is Portland, Oregon today. Nearly choked on my oat milk latte.

Things that I wish would go away forever: Accept Cookies, Do you want 15% off, and emailing me telling me I unsubscribed (from texts and emails). I know I unsubscribed.

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So even with no defense attorney there to cross examine witnesses, no defense witnesses, nobody challenging the authenticity of any of the evidence, Halligan was still only able to convince barely half the jurors when the standard isn’t even proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

This is perfect @maryltrump.bsky.social

Republicans control Congress and the White House. THEY planted a ticking time bomb that could kick millions off their health care. We’re trying to defuse it, but they’re threatening a government shutdown instead—while demanding a blank check for Trump. That's what's happening.

Imagine the response if a Dem Administration removed every top general and admiral from every US military post all around the world (including conflict zones), in order to force them to attend a big in-person meeting in DC (with a former cable news co-host). www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social. #Kimmel

I'm so angry about the weaponization of government and corporate America capitulation, I just swore on MSNBC. Sorry, but it is how I feel.

Share this document on how to engage in the Nexstar and Sinclair protests. docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Any journalist or commentator who writes a wrap-up of this speech that suggests that any of it was normal, worthy of respect, not absolutely deranged, not an insult to the audience, not an embarrassment for the US, should be relieved of their jobs.

I'm so embarrassed to be an American right now. Donald Trump is a senile old codger, standing before the United Nations, reading a speech clearly written by an alt right lunatic and a bunch of oil and gas lobbyists. Well done, U.S. voters. You really fucked this one up.

“This is the way it’s always been done.” Schumer continues to point to a rule book that no longer exists. It’s irrelevant. And he’s still attached to it. He’s failed. He should resign. For the good of the party & more importantly, for the good of the country. Let the next generation lead.

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I hold you responsible. You chose this. You chose him. For likely the third time, you had a chance to reject his vitriol, condemn his criminality, prevent his lawlessness, denounce his bigotry—and you flat-out refused. More than that, you celebrated it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-peo...

Can’t believe the CDC. Can’t believe the DoJ. Can’t believe the BLS. Can’t believe the FBI. But I believe in us.

I have been struck with something. We all mourn the death of Charlie Kirk. It absolutely was pure evil. But there have been an immense amount of school shootings… against children.. and the GOP doesn’t show 1/456th of the remorse they demand America shows for Charlie

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Exactly. We knew when it started…