Are we great yet?

💥 Russ Vought's directive to fire federal workers during a shutdown is illegal By Rep. James R. Walkinshaw, VA-11 @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"

HEY CORPORATE MEDIA, Say it with me. Your headline is REPUBLICAN CONGRESS FAILS TO FUND GOVERNMENT: SHUTDOWN IMMINENT Let me know if you need any help with this

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

It’s no accident that Senator Wyden cannot get the documents he needs to follow the Epstein money. Bissent is throwing every barrier in the way. The shutdown, all of this… they are all distractions to deflect from THE EPSTEIN FILES.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

This is very, very bad.

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

Remember: Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes every year. They pay into government funded healthcare programs, but can't access them except in case of emergency. Emergency Medicaid spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending in 2023.

Republicans this week: "If I intentionally drive this vehicle off a cliff, it will be the fault of the people in the car that didn't have control of the steering wheel."

I'd be curious to know who much it cost the American taxpayers to flying generals in from all over the world so Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump would have a captive audience to witness their weird and dangerous witlessness live.

(1/3) I think Ed makes a pretty strong point here about Lindsey Halligan: She hasn't been lawfully appointed under 28 U.S.C. § 546, and as he also points out, his view is supported by a 1986 OLC opinion written by some guy named … {checks notes} … Samuel A. Alito. (1/3)

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW YORK… ICE puts a photographer in the hospital… Completely out of control

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Update: Lisa Cook stays on Federal Reserve Board at least through January. Question: long enough to rubberstamp the Pinnacle - Synovus innercitypress.com/cra5pinnacle... and PNC - FirstBank mergers? innercitypress.com/cra4pncfirst... Inner City Press on the case(s)

This photo just about sums it up

WOW. Remember this May video of a US citizen wrestled to the ground by ICE agents and detained for an hour despite having a valid REAL ID? It gets worse. Two weeks later, ICE did it AGAIN — handcuffed him and detained him for 20 minutes despite his REAL ID. Now the Institute for Justice is suing.

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Hell no. Fuck you, Ted.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

AOC: When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves

“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.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

AOC: "This will experiences the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence. Which is why we have to stand tall right now alongside everyday Americans who want us to be standing up."

Watching Trump and Hegseth address top Generals be like...

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WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

The #TrumpShutdown is imminent.

JEFFRIES TO TRUMP: “The next time you have something to say to me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video — When I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.”

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Weak, broken, insecure men who get power and use it to cosplay. That's what we have.

When the American Government decides the only immigrants coming in will pay 5 million for gold card that goes right into trump's pocket so they can launder money through our government, that's a Kleptocracy.

The U.S. has “been planning for months to deport around 400 Iranians,” largely those who entered via Mexico. However, in almost every case, the New York Times’s sources said, “asylum requests had been denied or the people had not yet appeared before a judge for an asylum hearing.” trib.al/fuLZgtW

This. This administration is even worse than any of us thought possible. Who had destroy NIH, CDC, USAID, EPA, scientific research all at the same time on their bingo card?

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration. It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

When hearing them brag about blowing up fishing boats.

Trump seems to call American citizens 'the enemy from within' again: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances … It's the enemy from within and we have to handle it."

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at an ICE facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to Latino civil rights leaders representing his family.

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

Florida powerbrokers are set to offer a prime piece of real estate to Trump’s library foundation, which could double up as a hotel monetized by the president.

This is the cringiest MF on the planet. He’s actually saying this to our most senior military officers from around the world.