Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.   During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

Gotta love Jack! I share your opinion!

THAT OCTOBER is only $1.06 right now on kindle. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKTC8LK...

Impeach.

Justice Department whistleblower Erez Reuveni says he was fired after refusing to lie to the court. He sits down with Scott Pelley in his first television interview. Tonight on 60 Minutes.

I'm ready for Fall. How about you?

Chancellor Merz: "This war could be ended within 24 hours if Ukraine stopped fighting and handed the country over to Russia. But then we can be quite certain that the next country would be attacked by Russia tomorrow."

#A_NewHope ✊

Shout out to all the small town protesters out there. There is no anonymity in a tiny town. No strength in numbers or hiding in a crowd. When you stand up for democracy in a small town, EVERYONE knows. Y'all are brave as hell. #NoKings

We stayed classy. #NoKings

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

🇺🇸 #TODAY #NoKings #Washington #DC 🇺🇸 #NoKingsDayOct18th #WeThePeople Chanting “USA! USA!” at what Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson called a “hate America” protest. 14th St, Washington DC

RELEASE THE #EPSTEINFILES!

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

RIP

Name and ages of the "kids" in the young republican group chat - Peter Giunta, 31 - Joe Maligno, 35 - Annie Kaykaty, 28 - Alex Dwyer, 29 - William Hendrix, 24 - Luke Mosiman, 24 - Samuel Douglass, 27 - Rachel Hope, 27 www.rawstory.com/vance-young-...

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

This is madness.

In the face of mass illegal firings & efforts to “traumatize” them, federal workers aren’t backing down—and we’re with them all the way. Trump & Vought—stop attacking American civil servants. Join with us to cancel your devastating health care cuts and to reopen government.

If you see any post online saying that the #IRS is sending you inflation/stimulus payments, that is absolutely untrue. We are shutdown. There will be no checks coming from the IRS. #skytax #scamalert

Congress needs to demand transparency re these CDC firings and what happened. I don't think "miscoding" is the reason nearly 50% of those fired were rescinded. Maybe it was the public awareness that programs like global health, suicide prevention, and measles response were being eliminated...

Money over Integrity!

Let’s do this, California!

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50! #FightFireWithFire

BlinkRX, an online prescription drug delivery company, stands to benefit from proposed changes by Trump that would allow pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs directly to patients. His son, Eric Trump, is on the company’s board. Always follow the money.

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

Get mad. And stay mad.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics goes to three US-based scientists for groundbreaking experiments in the field of quantum mechanics https://cnn.it/46X4wqz

The governor of one of America’s most trade-reliant states has a warning for President Donald Trump: Tariffs are hurting the industries he’s trying to revive.

Red flowers for a Red Monday. Go #Chiefs!

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

"The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression even if that feels hopeless...the history of the first red scare teaches us that a better future is possible and worth fighting for." Nice @davidrlurie.bsky.social historical meditation here: www.publicnotice.co/p/emma-goldm...

#TCMParty is always fun.

Dr. Jane Goodall

Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"

Basically the same at the Forest Service. Also: latest bi-weekly pay period for USDA Forest Service ended today; normally employees sign time sheets and get paid halfway through the next pay period. If gov’t doesn’t re-open, USFS workers still on the job for key roles just worked 2 weeks w/ pay 😵‍💫

RIP Patricia. You brightened up my life. #KeepingUpAppearances

He was an officer in the Imperial Navy of Austria-Hungary before 1918. Look at a map - they had access to the whole of the Adriatic. #TCMParty #TheSoundOfMusic

I think I'll drop this right here. (I'd give credit, but a friend shared via text and doesn't know the origin) #TCMParty

There’s an off ramp as wide as the world to get out of this. Real bipartisanship and solving a real health care problem for constituents should be the order of the day.

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Never been prouder to be a veteran than seeing the generals response as they listened to Trump and Hegseth. #veteran

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

Late last year, Finnish special forces seized control of the Eagle S, a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker, after it dragged its anchor and severed undersea cables. The maneuver was the first time Finnish forces had boarded and seized any foreign ship since WWII. cbsn.ws/470fIUs

When Trump calls climate change a "con job," he is representing his fossil fuel billionaire friends, not science.   Climate change is REAL. It is an existential threat to the planet and future generations. We must transform our energy systems away from fossil fuels.