Michigan Avenue right now.

Excellent. We should all be in the streets demonstrating against these fascists.

I’m glad they’re not coming after Grantifa.

I've had a long day and so can't really do this myself, yet. But I hope people realize this shitshow propaganda fest needs a very coordinated vigorous response? Like rap sheets for all the people present? Mockery? Music videos?

I just wanna underscore this. For general use in language, you've got a loadout of idioms and phrases at the ready to string together, and Trump has clearly replaced the n-word with "low IQ" in his loadout so he doesn't accidentally do another Apprentice Backstage Tape on live TV.

See how he always calls Black Dems "low IQ"?

This was disturbing crooksandliars.com/2025/10/did-...

A fine example of how quickly *anything* can be recuperated as grist for the far right idea mill. Here, a minister pepper-sprayed in the face by masked ICE agents. The take: "When Christianity in America became so compromised that God had to use the state to put the communist clergy in their place."

I wish one Dem would say that Republicans can reopen the government whenever they want. GOP just lacks the will.

This is good. We need more of this.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

JUST IN: Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss "without prejudice" the charges against Huburt Mazur, who faced a misdemeanor charge stemming from ICE protests in Broadview. Mazur's preliminary hearing was set for Wednesday morning. Background: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Awww they changed the headline to something gentler.

Someone saying "Let's do the fucking news" is the ultimate sign that person has never, ever worked in a real newsroom (the fantasyland of the NYT Opinion section doesn't count)

Really looking forward to the @jasonleopold.bsky.social FOIA for the staffer's notes who put this together, DURING a shutdown. Not least bc (as @whitehouse.senate.gov noted), the Reid Hoffman slur was false.

WTAF @cnn.com ???

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats: “Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

I'm unable to articulate the level of my fury at CJ John Roberts, but I feel like we ought to be bombarding the courts with challenges to Trump's unlawful behavior in order to understand what is, and what is not, covered by immunity.

Charlie Kirk wasn't shot by a "leftist." But they're never afraid to use that lie as an excuse to suppress voters.

So perfect. You don't even have to remember the URL

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

We can give permanent tax breaks to billionaires but want ordinary people to have "skin in the game"??? This country is broken. #healthcare

Never forget that Republicans could end this shutdown today. They're the majority across the board. So for them to say *Dems* must end the shutdown is just duplicitous. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

As @willsommer.bsky.social has reported, Project Veritas has repeatedly peddled similar "scoops" as this, which have been fed to them by a known Brazilian fraudster who touts herself as a "whistleblower" who happens to somehow have all these bombshell texts. www.thebulwark.com/p/flimsy-mag...

Note there’s no mention here that all of these mortgage fraud claims have been found to be absurd/false on the merits

Amazing that Project "Veritas" still exists. Ratfckers gotta ratfck

There is no low too low.

He should have interrupted her and told her it doesn't matter if she's answered the question, she works for the American people and she can answer it again.

I'm on the record saying that Russ Vought will do things during the shutdown that will make his illegal rescissions visible in the way they otherwise weren't. And boy howdy, threatening to ignore the law on backpay is a great example. [corrected]

The M$M case for sanewashing: What if we don't?

Put a thought bubble over PM Carney's head.

Rhetoric like this is going to get people killed. Or start a civil war. crooksandliars.com/2025/10/gasb...

🚨BREAKING: A top Texas Republican revealed in federal court Monday he didn’t tell legislators about a phone call with the national GOP operative who drew the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The thing is Collins and Murkowskis of the world are part of that squad. They are playing their roles and know exactly what they are doing and the reporters are playing along with that game. Q is whether Sen Dems like Shaheen, Hassan, Peters, Gillibrand, Kaine et al will keep falling for their BS?

Tomorrow is shingles shot day. Also Covid vax

Yeah man great idea what if we used submerged state policies to raise everyone's taxes as a hidden cost and gave some of that money back to people stochastically in the form of a check with Trump's signature on it around election season, great freakin' plan, galaxy brain logic for the working class

What do people think about giving working class Americans a $2000 tariff relief check for the unfair tax that has driven their grocery and housing prices up?

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Ugh, I'm exhausted and it's only 4pm. Is anyone else exhausted? Are we going to be like this every day?

BREAKING: Judge Ellis says that "it appears that the plaintiffs have shown a likelihood of success" on their claim that DHS has violated plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment and First Amendment rights. In addition to the standing ruling, this is the key aspect of deciding whether to enter a TRO here.

In Chicago, children were paraded outside in the thick of the night, zip-tied and alone, while ICE rampaged through their homes — all at Trump’s request. He talks about an “enemy from within” but the biggest enemy is him and his lackeys.

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

It’s of note that during tonight’s hearing the DoJ didn’t even try to make the case that changing conditions on the ground in Portland warranted the CA National Guard. Instead they relied on legal technicalities. Proving again that what they say in court is different than lies they tell the public.

It's a pattern.

Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to bully courts into letting his illegal military occupations proceed unchecked by rule of law. Inventing a fake crisis wholesale to bulldoze what's left of constitutional restraints: Unhinged despotism. Okay, then. Make him invoke it.

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security. Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. Now he's in charge of IRS.

If Miller is feeding Trump video from 2020 to convince him American cities are hellholes and ICE is doing their best to incite riots by teargassing peaceful protests so they can back up the idea of hellholes, Trump needs the 25th amendment now. Anyone with judgment that poor cannot be potus.