For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Reporter: Is it the WH’s position that furloughed workers should be paid their back pay? Trump: It depends on who we’re talking about. We're going to take care of our people. There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of, and we'll take care of them in a different way

You want to know what a couple of decades of standardized testing has done to literacy rates? Look around, friends.

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

The president said he would be working on a bailout for farmers after his tariffs destroyed their biggest market.

Grassley should demand that Jack Smith come before the Senate to explain the reasons. I'll bring the popcorn. 🍿

So I guess the FBI can never go after members of Congress who break the law, eh? Poor Bob Menendez.

💯. At the very least, if a criminal calls you or you call a criminal in the middle of his execution of a criminal conspiracy, you should expect that those conversations may be a subject of inquiry.

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state. The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility. “Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

OH, THE RAVAGES OF THE WAR ON CARNIVORISM

ICE kept most offices open in shutdown — but not the one inspecting detention centers www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Indeed. Unfortunately, though, in the absence of any sanction from Congress, they continue to be correct. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social & @gallego.senate.gov DO NOT CAVE IN. WE NEED OUR HEALTHCARE. WE WANT THE EPSTEIN FILES. #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks www.kjzz.org/politics/202...

Know someone in MAGA who is beginning to see the light but might need help escaping? The organization "Leaving MAGA" can help. Empower others to leave MAGA and tell their stories. Foster reconciliation with their friends and family. Develop movement leaders to help others leave. leavingmaga.org

Hey California! Please vote yes on Prop 50! Our democracy is counting on you! Stop Trump’s election rigging by voting yes! #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

bsky.app/profile/adam... Donald Trump: "Ghrislaine's daddy Robert Maxwell was like a father figure to me" spookyconnections.com/2024/10/19/r...

A federal police officer walked up to a 19-year-old protester and blasted chemical spray directly in her face. WTAF?

Great @theguardian.com interview with @katmabu.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMkWvGW9/

MAGA: “why didn’t Biden release the files and why didn’t you guys call for it?!” America: “Because we assumed the justice dept was doing their job. But you all demanded it and now Trump is panicking…. So uh, ya now we def want to know why he’s panicking.” See? Easy!

NOTICE that when GOP doesn’t say a word…neither does anyone in the corporate media? Hey, MAGA still trying to argue about the “librul media” being out to get you? They’ve been tiptoeing around this issue for decades now.

“Trump can keep condemning Dems as ‘the enemy within’& lie about rising violence…The question is whether judges will continue to fearlessly stand up for the rule of law & Democratic governors will continue to stand up for their states’ people and sovereignty.” www.americaamerica.news/p/stephen-mi...

Q: What do popular medications Keytruda, Lyrica, Viagra, Truvada, Ozempic, & Sovaldi have in common? A: They were developed at US universities with federal funding. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone, and we should invest in research funding - not cut it. wapo.st/4q1M3ly

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

Trump is running a hustle with our healthcare, and the American people are his mark. “We are speaking with the Democrats, and some very good things could happen with respect to healthcare.” –Trump What Democrats is he talking to? Hakeem Jeffries says Trump and Republicans have gone “radio silent.”

Trump lies “I haven’t heard the name in a long time” when asked about a pardon for his long time friend “Ghislaine Maxwell. That is a provable lie. Todd Blanche promised Maxwell a transfer and pardon. Trump knows it. Pam Bondi knows it. And the entire world knows it. Trump lies again #ProudBlue

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

I'll take drug boats for fifty plz. Marco and Pete are going to pay for that. Possible silent warrants in their future.

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

#KYsen @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

WIC serves 53% of all infants born in the United States. This is literally taking food from babies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIC_pro...

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.” “That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause. thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Then went in front of congress and said that Yes, Russia did indeed interfere in the 2016 election. He said it 3 times, including in his opening statement. Then, under cross from Schiff, said that yes, Don Jr. and Paul Manafort met with Russian Intelligence for Clinton dirt. So collusion.

“.. told federal prosecutors investigating James Comey that he was unable to uncover evidence that would support false statements or obstruction charges against the former FBI director ..” abcnews.go.com/US/special-c...

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

Former FCC Chair Wheeler: An autocrat's favorite tool is a monopoly on telling the story. And if you can control the people who tell that story, then you've got an autocrat's greatest dream.

NC circuit court judge who blocked DOJ from getting the state’s voting data has had her house out in the middle of nowhere burn down. Her family was home and had to jump from windows. Don’t wait for investigation: do what maga does: make assumptions and cast a wide net

Yeah cool. Pull even more federal agents off counterterrorism, child porn, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and fraud investigations to do absolutely nothing.

Choose your fighter:

Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

In the Third Reich, Hitler’s will replaced German law. Whatever he wanted, he did. Life in the early months of Trump’s second presidency hews to this framework in important respects.

👇🏼😡😡😡

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

Why is MSNBC the only major news outlet that is covering this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

🚨BREAKING: Republicans in Utah advanced a new congressional map favored to help their party retain total political control in the Beehive State. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Why did China stop buying US soybeans, Kevin?