Here’s my shut down demand. -> Restore Border Patrol/ICE funding to previous level. Period. No deal without that. You want to be a Deal Maker? Play hard ball - NOW That’s the deal.

Um, hey... what happens to you guys when you don't show to work for months at a time? Like, they usually fire me after just a couple of days.

Arellano: In Chicago, residents mount a community-wide defense against Trump's deportation machine Whistles! Brilliant!!!

Another abuse... "At the request of DHS and citing “Special Security Reasons,” the FAA has imposed a sweeping, 12-day-long ban on non-governmental drone flights across a vast area around Chicago." "A no fly zone has also been announced over Portland Oregon" Our news helicopters and drones...

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

If we don't test for COVID, then there's no COVID! If there's no flights, then there's no late flights! Brilliant!

@davidhogg.bsky.social Dear David, You are winning now. The ´machine’ is BS. Glad you said No. Stay the course, please. Signed, 70 year old New York City Girl! ❤️

The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough. 25/47

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106. 12 days of work in 106 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

What do you get when you put together a stupid turkey, a lame duck and a chicken? #Trump 😉

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

My dogs have noticed that I get up and do something when an appliance beeps. Now if I don’t get up, they come to check on me. Some people have service dogs; I have chore dogs.

My good friend @itsbek.bsky.social has her new pack for you all to connect and meet new people. Have a look!

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the winners of this year’s Weather Photographer of the Year Competition. Shuchang Dong and Geshuang Chen, entitled “The Glorious Ring.”

Hmm: Yesterday, Colorado increased taxes on households making more than $300K a year to feed the state’s children, free universal public school lunch and salary bumps for school cafeteria staff. To fund this initiative, high-income single filers in CO can expect to pay $327 in extra taxes a year.

Some Signs I Saw at the No Kings Rally www.commondreams.org/opinion/no-k... I've re-read these several times over the last weeks... I recommend it!

No, it wasn’t just blue states where trumpism got its ass kicked last night

#NYC #NewYorkCity In total, Republicans will hold 5 seats in the Council next year, with Democrats occupying the remaining 46 seats in the 51-member city legislature. LFG!!

Raskin: "South Korea gave him some kind of golden crown or something, and then he lowered their tariffs. That is a monarchist mercantilism, that is not the American system."

THERE IT IS

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

Maryland Governor Wes Moore has announced that $62 Million will be released to ensure full November SNAP benefits for the people of his state. That’s the kind of leadership I want to see. 💙👊

Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care. And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

The squeaker of the house.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social "While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together,hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. ... We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us.”

"When asked about their rampant immigration abuses, Noem lied, saying: “No American citizens have been arrested or detained.” But a ProPublica report from mid-October found “more than 170 Americans have been held by immigration officials this year.”" #ImpeachNoem

@governorwalz.mn.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov @governor.ca.gov @govevers.wisconsin.gov @govevers.wisconsin.gov #ICE #Police #BorderPatrol Attention Governors! Please draw up the Rules of Engagement for our local police to protect us from the masked, armed Border Patrols!! HELP!!

I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.

English translation of my interview with El Pais in advance of my testimony this month to the Mexican Congress re: the risks and harms of fracking for climate, water, air, and health. “Fracking is the worst US technology since the atomic bomb” is a thing I said. english.elpais.com/science-tech...

On this Day of the Dead I’ve loaded the altar with the names of loved ones near and far who have left us, and lit a candle for the neighbors, known and unknown, who have died in custody this year. Too many names, as we all know

My shoulders relax when I hear his voice. 💖

I’m just going to say it… It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.

Is ´Rule’ the correct word here? Asking for my friends…

It’s November and I am starting a new starter pack. Please check it out and let me know what you think. go.bsky.app/QiYKsv7

Cool optics bro

Obama: The weird videos of a U.S. President with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens… All of that is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.