Everything they’ve done since January has been illegal & unconstitutional yet FULLY backed by the highest court in the land. KKKavanaugh says it’s perfectly fine for citizens to get swooped up & detained when they have their citizen ID right on them. They INSTALLED this Regime. This is a COUP.

Haha yes. Because ADP shows a really really really bad jobs report.

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

If you are shocked by what the Trump regime is publicly stealing or crimes it is committing, imagine the magnitude of the crimes they are actually hiding.

Release the Epstein files

Here's a great video from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew who is the first indigenous Premier dancing in his jingle dancer regalia for a every child matters gathering for Truth and reconciliation day 🧡 so powerful #EveryChildMatters

GOP Last Week: "We control everything." Today: "The shutdown was out of our control."

Meiselas: I think this is a serious oversight issue. $17 trillion is apparently missing right now, and we’re in a government shutdown. Trump keeps saying he’s got $17 trillion. Where did it go? Garcia: If there is $17 trillion somewhere, the government doesn’t know about it.

Don't you miss having a President who looked out for the greater good and actually got stuff done for the American people? #ResistTrump

Republicans are trying to hoodwink Democrats. News broke on Jen Psaki’s show last night: Thune claims they’ll “negotiate” on healthcare if Dems cave and pass a clean CR. Elizabeth Warren called out the obvious: Republicans wouldn’t negotiate on healthcare when the government was open before…

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

Boeing paid its CEO $18 million for 4 months of work while taking away health care benefits from 3200 machinists in St. Louis who have been on strike for 2 months & were making as little as $18 an hour. I say to the CEO of Boeing: End your greed. Sign a fair union contract NOW.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

For all the media repeating that ACA COVID subsidies “cost” ~$30B, the U.S. just pledged $20B to Argentina to stabilize an autocrat’s government and protect a GOP megadonor who loaded up on Argentine debt. No one’s blinking at that. Let’s keep things in perspective.

Mike Johnson on Russ Vought unilaterally firing federal workers: "If you can downsize the scope of government and some of these inefficient program, that is a great benefit to American taxpayers."

Tina Peters, convicted of tampering with voting machine to try and prove Trump won the election, is demanding that Bondi get off her ass and get her out of prison now.

He is a tyrant – by definition. He is a sadist – by definition. And Sadism never exists in isolation – it's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD). Impeach and Remove. Now.

The word that keeps running through my head about this administration (among others) is "adolescent." These are people with a little boy's idea of what sounds manly.

Jane Goodall's mother, Vanne Goodall, accompanied her to Tanzania when she began her research in 1960, as British colonial authorities would not allow the young woman to conduct research alone in the field. Thank you to all the empathetic and empowering mums out there. Thank you, Vanne Goodall.

Just an American ISR drone flying over (checks notes)... Hungary. It's not like it isn't a major hangout for Russian spooks or anything.

Wake Up! Trump Is Moving Swiftly to Become the First American Dictator NO KINGS 2.0 MASS MOBILIZATION Stop shredding our Constitution! Oct. 18th nokings.org

🚨Chief of Police, Bob Day for the Portland PD addresses falsehoods that has been spread about the current situation in Portland. - A must watch. No drama, just facts. 1/2

Shouldn’t it be the other way around—donating to his victims? www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

The Government is now shut down, but apparently nobody called the school in the Bronx that had come to the Capitol for their tour today, so they're getting the treat of a lifetime since AOC agreed to give them the tour herself! I’m loving this for all of them!

Just yesterday Trump promised to spend a record $1 trillion on the military — roughly half of which will go to private defense contractors that price-gouge the government. Remember this when Trump or Republicans talk about "sacrifices" that need to be made during a shutdown.

Trump is terrorizing those in the United States of America. That's his joy. That's his choice. That...is what is happening. Plain and f*cking simple.

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.

His tariffs are unconstitutional. His using the military to play cop on our streets is unconstitutional. But we don’t have a Congress right now, and this Supreme Court can’t be trusted to follow the law & the Constitution. We’re in a very bad place.

Let The Shutdown Games Begin open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

JD and Mike.😂😅🤣

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

Is there absolutely any ONE person who can and will stand up in front of all of Congress right now and shake the bushes and trees and talk to the magat-monkeys?? Wake them up, scream at them. My God, is everyone afraid of one big fat NOBODY??

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

Let's go!

Mamdani: "What we have built in this city is also an indication of what politics can be. After the November election, we heard that young people were leaving the Democratic Party, they were getting disinterested in politics. And we built a campaign where we said, what if we treated them w/ respect?"

If they claim they haven't heard the quote, play it for them and ask for a response. If they claim it's being taken out of context, play a longer version and ask for a response. If they try to sidestep the issue, play it over again and ask for a response.

Wha a spineless coward he turned out to be. What happened?

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org

Deeply disappointed to hear that the Israeli Navy illegally stopped the Global Sumud Flotilla 75 miles off the coast of Gaza. This was a non-violent mission to break the IDF’s horrifying siege and deliver food and medicine to those who need it most.

For the generals yesterday, resistance meant total silence. And I thank them for it. But for the rest of us, silence is cowardice. Silence in the face of this daily onslaught against democracy, the rule of law, pluralism, the Constitution, and basic human decency is utter cowardice.

How it started.... How it's going .... 💪⚖️🗳️👻

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

The number of people that go bankrupt every year from medical bills: Canada - 0 Australia- 0 France - 0 Sweden - 0 Norway - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 UK - 0 Finland - 0 Iceland - 0 Germany - 0 United States - 326,000

Sure, the federal government is shut down, but…at least we are planning to bail out Argentina. “America First,” my ass.

Despite a government shutdown, Republicans will make sure Argentina gets their $20 billion.

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?