Barbra Streisand is joining Jane Fonda and 600+ entertainment figures in re-launching the Committee for the First Amendment. Fonda announced the revival of the organization, initially founded by her father, Henry Fonda. The organization was founded in the 1940s to defend free speech against fascism.

He was just in the news a couple weeks ago again because he had another warrant issued for his arrest after he missed a court date for yet another driving incident.

* ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY DECLARES ON X THE GAZA AID FLOTILLA'S 'PROVOCATION' IS OVER * ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTRY: ONE LAST VESSEL REMAINS AT A DISTANCE. IF IT ATTEMPT TO BREACH THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA, IT WILL ALSO BE PREVENTED @reuters.com

This is not a fight about tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. We have the chance to protect the health care of millions of Americans. We need to take it.

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that? MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

Are we winning yet?

ME: "Jesus, why does your close friend Speaker Mike Johnson relentlessly bear false witness?" JESUS: "WHO???"

Let me be clear: this will impact ALL of us. It’s bigger than just Medicaid & Medicare. We will all pay the price.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

We are in a Republican-created health care crisis. Premiums are rising. Hospitals, nursing homes and community health centers are closing. Doctors are in short supply.  While Democrats are fighting to extend tax credits and lower costs, Republicans are fighting to take them away.

If you know anyone in the U.S. military at any level, please make sure they see The Orders Project, "a non-partisan program...to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal."

Elizabeth Warren: "If fighting to reduce the cost of healthcare and avoid a coming catastrophe is not worth fighting for, then I don't know what is."

Swear her in.

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Racists think their racism is funny. Cute. Vance is a blatant racist, not funny or smart, & a big fat creep. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown #trumpShutdown #GOPShutdown www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

307,000 residents of Chernihiv region are without electricity due to a Russian strike. Blackout schedules have been put into action. Russia continues attacking Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.

Priorities.

Keeping Americans in a constant state of fear and chaos is one hell of a tactic to avoid releasing the Epstein files #USFascism

Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

open.substack.com/pub/thiswill... @mattburgess1.bsky.social @wiredproductions.com @wired.com Florida Dem (and veteran with cybersecurity expert credentials) @johnliccione.bsky.social , is suing VR systems/DeSantis/Election Supervisors/DJT. Because the VBM Reports sent to FL had OBVIOUS data 1/

Freedom Flotilla - Al Jazeera LIVE text updates Israeli navy officers have boarded several flotilla ships and are detaining activists. Interception and detaining started about an hour ago at 10:00pm Gaza time. Tracking comms for the entire flotilla are offline as of 15 mins ago.

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

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COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time? BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

How humiliating for the United States military

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Federal judge, appointed by Reagan, in 161-page opinion today in deportation matter: "There’s the issue of masks... To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police"

Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals! Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

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“Misleading” “falsely” You can call it a “lie”, @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Trump Might Have Just Signaled a Momentous Change on Abortion

We need someone who can be in front of the press all the time like this asshole is. Because this is not on Dems. It's on Trump and the Republicans and we need someone who can message that. NOW

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress. Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights. But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

#LoriChavez-DeRemer. Let’s make her famous. She has no immunity.

New — DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs responds to ICE shoving a photojournalist to the ground, leading him to be escorted out in a neck brace by medics. Says nothing on whether injuring the press violates ICE standards, nor if the officer will face any repercussions.

That said: - DACA is quite limited. It applies only to people who got here before June 2007 at the age of 15 or younger. - DACA is fragile; the admin will likely move to take DACA away again whenever it gets around to eliminating the reg. Those who qualify may rightfully be afraid of applying.