RELEASE THE FUCKING FILES

Serious question: What can be done to stop the Speaker from just not swearing in a Congress person? God is no legal expert but it sounds unconstitutional!

If the Speaker refuses to swear in a member, Congress or the courts can act. A member-elect can sue under Powell v. McCormack, colleagues can force a floor vote or resolution, and public pressure can make it politically impossible to delay. No one is above the Constitution… except you 😘

"This is part of the administration’s nationwide effort to deny climate science and erase the parts of American history that they simply don’t like. It is beyond troubling — and we shouldn’t stand for it."

Thank you, Rep. Friedmann! "Today, I sent a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum condemning the recent removal of educational signage from Acadia National Park." (Continued below because we ran out of room.)

On 6 Oct 2025 a soldier who I proudly called friend punched his own ticket. It happens far too frequently. If you find yourself in those dark places, please reach out for help. Don't make a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Until Valhalla, my friend. Rest easy. We've got the watch.

Ohh www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Governance according to liars and cheats.

Tell me your political movement is made up of ignorant fools without telling me your political movement is made up of ignorant fools.

Dick Durbin: Did you consult with ethics officials before you okayed the flying bribery palace? Bondi: How dare you say I cut law enforcement?!?!?!

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are. If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

The Brutal CBP Assault Tied to the Marimar Martinez Shooting www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/t...

Don't look now, but Pam Bondi is refusing to answer Lindsey Graham's question about how many "illegals" live in Chicago. Instead, she filibustered about how many drug traffickers were caught there, most based on investigations started under Biden.

Right Wing Group Lies To SCOTUS On Conversion Therapy Research

Schumer: That issue that MAGA Mike keeps talking about—illegal immigrants getting health care. It’s an effing lie. The law says that federal dollars cannot go to illegal immigrants under Medicare, Medicaid, or the ACA. And I said that to him in the room. I said, You’re lying. He smirked.

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

OR GOP posts low-effort fake photo, badly merging old scenes from S America (!) claiming it's current Portland protests, and when called on it says "we're not reporters" and leaves the fake up

Sending the National Guard into a state that doesn’t require it is violating state sovereignty, and is against the law. Activating your state’s National Guard to do so when you know this is also a crime.

Count Clorox and the Beige Crusade open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down. The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed. And they get another vacation

On the left: Sept 2: Judge Breyer opinion (in CA case) showing DoD's own instructions of actions that violate Posse Comitatus Act (eg "crowd control"). On the right: Sept 26: DHS request to DoD for military forces in Chicago "in direct support of ... access control, and crowd control."

The troops are deployed and doing one hell of a job at the battle of Voodoo Donuts

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder: * There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: The Supreme Court has denied consideration of Laura Loomer's lawsuit over social media censorship:

Illinois sues Trump, Noem, Hegseth over federalized U.S. troops in Chicago

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Stephen Miller is the domestic enemy of the US Constitution.

I remember when this 🍆 cried and ran out of a restaurant and left his sushi order because people were making fun of him ….

Donald Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein scandal is about to blow up again

While thousands of federal workers are furloughed & may miss their next paychecks, Senate Repubs were off golfing & playing pickleball this weekend at a luxury retreat on Georgia's Sea Island. This after a 2 week recess & refusing to reopen the gov't. Golfing with their donors more important.

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

🚨It feels like things are getting darker faster. Now, more than ever, we need to show the Trump regime, ourselves, and each other that we can and will fight back. 📣See you October 18. 🚫👑https://www.nokings.org/ thepeopledissent.substack.com/p/weekly-map... #weekinprotest

Don’t let them intimidate you! Show up, get loud, stay peaceful! 💕

Why the Riyadh Comedy Festival isn’t funny

9/27/25😳Texas churches targeted for foreign influence operation by bibi🇺🇸🙏

Cartoon: Back in my day ...

You're going to want to read this. 🤯

Simultaneously creating a convoluted relationship between the now 3 agencies where normally there would be clear independence and separation. There is not supposed to be so much overlap between the Treasury and its 2 largest spenders/contributors, SSA and the IRS.

So now, the Commissioner of SSA technically works for the Secretary of the Treasury while they both serve on the SSA Board of Trustees as equals as well as both being Cabinet members. You see where the conflicts start to come from right??? So this will start to decrease the independence of SSA while

Now I’m probably gonna get this next part wrong but I’m working fast. There is a Board of Trustees at SSA whose role is to essentially oversee SSA finances and monitor the trust fund. One of those members is the Secretary of the Treasury. Another is the Commissioner of SSA. This is half the board.

So today they announced they created a NEW POSITION called CEO of IRS which they announced will be filed by Frank Bosignano, current SSA commissioner. So it’s not a position that’s existed before and is designed to be like the second in command to the IRS commissioner.

Scott Bessent is also acting commissioner of the IRS since their last one was removed because Trump stopped liking him (translation: he told him no to something and ManBaby Pedofuhrer hates that word so he had to go). But being head of both IRS and Treasury is already a bit of a conflict of interest

Frank Bisignano is the COSS(commissioner of SSA) who came to us from financial land (most recently CEO of FiServ) and seems intent on enriching his former employer through government contracts, specifically SSA contracts, which is a separate thread I need to do.

I don’t have a lot of time so quick thread on exactly WHY what I posted about today is so bad. TLDR: it’s like the most convoluted fucked up incestuous polycule I’ve ever heard of. 🥴🥴🥴 First who is everybody? Scott Bessent is the Secretary of the Treasury so cabinet member from hedge fund land.

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.