Trump Administration to Withhold $18 Billion for N.Y.C. Infrastructure www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

Long overdue to say what needs to be said.... 👇 Pritzker claims Trump has dementia. www.mystateline.com/news/pritzke...

These new poll numbers are the best political news I’ve seen in a while. Dem voters are now as mad at their party leaders as GOP voters were mad at their party’s leaders before Trump took over the GOP. In short, these are the exactly conditions for a long-overdue takeover of the Democratic Party.

Real estate moguls & landlords have been slamming NYC lawmakers for requiring gas appliances be installed by master plumbers who actually know how to deal with that kind of dangerous equipment. Literally days later, a gas explosion today just partially collapsed a massive NY apartment building.

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

Republicans control all three branches of government. This is THEIR shitshow! Democrats MUST retake the House in 2026 and hold MAGA accountable for their crimes. Donate to support Democrats in the midterms and Please Retweet

Democrats are fighting to preserve an Obamacare tax credit. Without it, a 55-year-old couple making $85K would see their premiums more than triple to $24,535.

P.S. Government still releases a lot of (most? all?) administrative data during a shutdown. So the above was from today's Daily Treasury Statement. UI Claims are also administrative data and have always (I believe if memory serves) been released on schedule in past shutdowns.

For now: USA is not a total shithole ! 🍿

Pure blackmail #GOPTraitors

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Denmark, one of Kyiv’s firmest supporters, is forced to reckon with potential repercussions of its muscular opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The lines are blurring between capitalism as practiced by Trump and socialism as advocated by the likes of Mamdani, writes columnist Greg Ip.

Many GOP senators seeking an end to the government shutdown say a deal can be reached on healthcare subsidies, but are demanding Democrats vote to reopen government first.

EU leaders agreed to keep working on a plan to put hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian cash to use—without Kyiv ever needing to repay a cent.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Put more money in his crypto so he can scam you more!

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

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

Maybe the right-wing billionaires who bankrolled Alex Jone's defamatory efforts need to pay some of his $1.5 billion dollar debt to Sandy Hook victims' families...

Uhhh, does anyone other than MAGA cultists imagine Trump is not stealing this money? www.rawstory.com/trump-tax-do...

The Trump Presidential Bribrary is going to be located in Florida.

When are all the terrified people who know this is wrong but think they can just wait out the next three years going to wake up and take their heads out of the sand?

Time for every blue state to start withholding their tax dollars to the Feds. Give them a taste of their own medicine.

Blue states...don't send a dollar to the federal government

Russ Vought is an enemy of the state.

Blue states need to withhold their federal taxes. Let the red states tough it out. They already are.

Blue states have been abandoned by the govt. Our constitutional rights expand significantly when the govt fails it's duty and obligation to the people. Blue America needs to accept reality and act accordingly 💙

Just try to imagine the public outcry and wall-to-wall media coverage if President Biden had cancelled $8 billion in funding to red states.

What happened to Russ Vought to make him, Stephen Miller and the gang so horrid?

It is clear to me that Stephen Miller is the power/brains/malevolence behind the throne. TRUMP IS STEPHEN MILLER'S BITCH! Trump is an empty suit. 1 Cor. 13:1 sums Trump up: "If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."

That’s exactly how Putin started in St Petersburg, and, then in Moscow. Stephen Miller is creating an authoritarian system. It’s alarming that 44% of the voters support the movement to destroy democracy.

Again, Trump uses "Radical Left" for anybody to the left of Stephen Miller so when he issues executive orders around declaring the "Radical Left" to be "terrorists" we should not pretend he isn't targeting all political opposition, no matter how many times you throw trans people under the bus.

SCOOP: Federal workers are being told to blame democrats for the shutdown. At SBA workers got an email suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown and at HUD internal systems have a pop-up blaming "the Radical Left." @wired.com www.wired.com/story/govern...

JVL and I on this morning’s Conclave at Quantico. The good: The discipline of the stone-faced senior military officers. The bad: Hegseth’s cartoonish version of an effective military. The ugly: Trump’s threats to deploy troops at home against “the enemies within.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxQN...

“Siri, zoom in.” @calltoactivism.bsky.social

“.. the Trump Organization’s press release promised the phone would arrive in August, while the Trump Mobile website claimed September — but either way, it hasn’t happened.”

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"Donald Trump is a vulgar bigot and a reprehensible human being. He is unworthy to serve in any high office in this country, let alone its highest. Just because he’s acted this way before doesn’t mean we should let it go unremarked upon." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-ai-...

“.. My ratings aren't very good!?” he replied as the audience booed loudly. "Last time I checked, your ratings are somewhere between a hair in your salad and chlamydia." @ew.com ew.com/jimmy-kimmel...

Trump and congressional Republicans are lying about their health care crisis because they know their extreme agenda is very unpopular. We won't stop fighting to protect health care for millions of hardworking Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

At the very least, Democrats should literally just say the same thing as Trump. If Schumer weren't incompetent and lost at sea, he should say "We're going to send the army in to Mar-a-lago and see if we can stop more laws from being broken there, like pedophilia or tax evasion. Expect casualties."

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On the one hand, Trump is explicitly threatening to use the military to occupy Blue America. On the other, he's so clearly in mental and physical decline that he can barely choke out his "look at me I'm a fascist dictator" routine without slurring words and stumbling all over them

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

“.. a lecture on fitness and grooming standards.” @gregjaffe.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

“.. Judge William Young concluded, in a scathing, 161-page opinion that he described as the most crucial he’s delivered in his 30 years on the bench.” @politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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