Sen. Ruben Gallego: "They're trying to condition some of these generals to the idea that they should be using the U.S. military to enforce the political agenda of this president. It's not going to work."

I understand why people get frustrated when liberals fixate on things like ICE wearing masks. But the masks symbolize something very dangerous, the very thing people frustrated with liberals are worried about—absolute impunity from a secret police who report directly to a fascist.

How many felonies do we need on video for one of these violent criminals to be arrested? What’s it gonna take to get some gd law enforcement around here?

But there's no money for food stamps, Medicaid, Social Security....

WATCH — @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “Trump is posting racist AI videos, saying ‘I don't need to deal with them’. JD Vance is lying about what Democrats are asking saying we want to fund healthcare for illegals, which is impossible and doesn’t happen.” Bad faith. #TrumpShutdown

There was a conservative effort to recall a reform-minded prosecutor in the Denver suburbs but it has failed: sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora...

Lots of small dick energy on that stage today

I love that for... us? welp. I love them for being smart.

In a rare move, members of the press have organized a rally in protest against rising repression following the arrest of *yet another* NY-based photojournalist for documenting the aftermath of a protest event. 3pm - Foley Square - 10/1 #JournalismIsNotACrime

Speaker Johnson is going to such lengths to block the Epstein Files vote I'm beginning to think he's not just covering for the boss, maybe he's in there himself?

Wanna destroy a nation? -dismantle its government -fire its experts -isolate it from allies -ruin its economy -start unnecessary trade wars with biggest trading partners -retreat from international security treaties -polarize its populace -deconstruct its education system -devastate its healthcare

It's wild that Speaker Johnson is refusing to open the House for business in order to avoid an Epstein vote.

stay w/ people until it's safe again. No-one should underestimate the amount of the force Bovino and his goons are willing to *immediately* use w/o warning to stop people from using their 1a rights.

You know what concerns me greatly is that the sexual abuse of women in the military will be overlooked or encouraged in this regime. This practice was already a horrific stain on our military, but rapists will no longer face consequences now.

A North Carolina GOP operative who pushed to limit early voting and previously asked election board members to “make party line changes to early voting,” has been appointed to a position overseeing the state’s elections.

"'The prosecutor’s office is there to do justice,' Ronald Safer said. 'And, my goodness, if you have reason to believe that your office was used by rogue police officers to convict the innocent, why wouldn’t you investigate?'" #CIU boltsmag.org/chicago-cook...

The only one in that room who skipped the line was Hegseth himself. He won't recognize that truth, but the rest of us know.

He’s no soldier. He couldn’t hack it. He knows it. That’s why he’s covered in aggressive gun and skin head tattoos. That’s why he fears POC, women, “men in dresses”… and everything basically. He hates bc he isn’t what he wants to be. If he can’t be, neither can we. Classic abusive bully

…day after day. And hearing the N-word time after time said by his classmates as he took in the humiliation. This is a moral moment. It will certainly be interesting to see how this affects enlistment numbers, not just among people of color and women but white men who aren’t down with this. 3/3

My thoughts when hearing Hegseth live was that there are so many POC and women that serve. Including high ranking Generals and Admirals. How humiliating to sit through that and hear that you aren’t worthy or that you skipped the line because of your skin color. 1/3

Two months before Calvin Alexander’s parole hearing date, he was told he was no longer eligible. Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board. (Published April w/ @veritenews.org)

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

As US govt shutdown looms, workers across many agencies received identical emails blaming Democrats. The message mandated by White House OMB had "one clear stipulation: Absolutely no modifications to the language." Great scoop from @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-omb-...

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

I can't wait to see the commander in chief take his annual military fitness test

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and the House. This government shutdown is failed Republican leadership on full display.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

In a gross abuse of the public trust, Ron DeSantis and his sycophants have now voted to just hand over valuable land worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Trump presidential “library” foundation. Trump plans on putting up a hotel there, too. Disgusting. youtu.be/FnwtxslO82k?...

Trump admitted in the Oval Office he is shutting the government down. Democrats are ready to stop your health insurance costs from doubling.

A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Just stepping out of the Capitol for the first time after Republicans officially forced us into a gov’t shutdown. It’s hard to step away feeling so angry. How is giving families healthcare they can afford our breaking point? I won’t give up on doing better by the American people.

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"The cost of a single subway, bus or paratransit ride will hit $3 for the first time come January, after the MTA board on Tuesday approved the latest in a series of every-other-year increases." — @jmartineznyc.bsky.social reports www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/30/m...

Incredible that these little fascist toddlers are passing laws to protect lawmakers (who have access to security) from doxxing. Many of the people they are so “scared of”, like myself, survived doxxing attempts with no help at all ten years ago and the same people tried to gaslight our concerns.

The Deputy Chief of Staff... is in charge of military strikes? Do we even have a president?

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence. I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

This is just sadistic & pure, unadulterated misogyny.

This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given ... for (ICE) masking-up ... It rejects this testimony as squalid, disingenuous and dishonorable.

Where are House Republicans?

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

www.kold.com/2025/09/30/a... Once again Waiting... Could be tomorrow when Congres is "pro forma" and no roll call votes are held. Or wait till October 7th when Congress in session Worst case October 14th when her election is certified All do to #EPSTEINFILES Release the Epstein Files !

Good job, @latimes.com Factual headline and poignant opening.

Mike Johnson cancels votes, locks doors to U.S. House as he has refuses bipartisan negotiations to keep the gov't open

I'm choosing to live in a world where every single officer who was at this meeting gets back to their base and immediately starts drawing up contingency plans for how to push back when Trump orders Civil War 2 to begin.

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...