Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trump is holding our federal workers hostage, using their livelihoods as leverage while refusing to negotiate to keep govt open. Democrats will defend health care & workers’ rights. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown #USDemocracy #Pinks social.demcast.com/s/EpvXmwWd

Trump’s administration has trampled the law, withheld funds, and abused power at every turn. Now they’re threatening to shut down the government, holding workers and families hostage, unless they get their way. America deserves better. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown #USDemocracy #Pinks

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress canceled talks to avoid a destructive shutdown. They’re intent on inflicting economic pain and spiking healthcare costs. Make no mistake: they own this shutdown. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown #USDemocracy #Pinks

“The Democrats have the leverage here,” Wolff told co-host Joanna Coles. “They can decide whether the government will be funded or not funded.” #Pinks www.thedailybeast.com/why-democrat...

#ProudBlue #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Good time to release the Epstein files

Planes still fly. Social Security checks still arrive. The real shutdown is trust in our politics. Here’s my first-hand look at what a government shutdown is—and isn’t. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

BOLDUAN: When I was asking you about Comey, you've twice now brought up the Epstein files and Tom Homan. Why? RASKIN: Because the DOJ is in full coverup mode

Trump is holding paychecks hostage to kill healthcare — a bully move to scare Americans into backing down. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

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Republicans have the House, Senate, and White House. They will fully own any shutdown.

Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.

BREAKING: Sinclair FOLDS and ends its preemption of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The show will return tonight on Sinclair's ABC affiliates.

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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" Bailing out a failed libertarian austerity agenda in Argentina... "That's just how it is."

p.p.s. It is important to connect Hegseth et al's effort to rewrite history to erase the genocide of Native Americans to the Trump Administration's recent attack on the Smithsonian, including the National Museum of the American Indian nativenewsonline.net/currents/nat...

Yours truly commenting upon the Trump Administration's undermining of history at the National Museum of the American Indian ny1.com/nyc/manhatta...

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!): www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...

Last word about the massacre to American Horse (Lakota): "The women as they were fleeing with their babes were killed together, shot right through, and the women who were heavy with child were also killed." /fin

I would also add that Hegseth is damaging the prestige of the Medal of Honor by supporting its being awarded to people who committed atrocities against women, children, and the elderly. 7/

Fortunately, history does not work as Hegseth seems to believe. It is never "settled" and the government cannot (at least for now!) impose its interpretation of events on the rest of us--especially an interpretation so at odds with the historical record. 6/

Even Teddy Roosevelt (our least "woke" president ever) called Wounded Knee "a massacre," in which "squaws, children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly and with circumstances of marked brutality." 5/

Even in 1890, the massacre was controversial, which is why the US Army awarded so many of its highest award, the Medal of Honor, to soldiers involved. Most of the US casualties were likely victims of "friendly fire": since the Army had surrounded the Lakotas, the soldiers shot one another 4/

Dakota physician Charles Eastman was an eyewitness to the massacre: "Fully three miles from the scene of the massacre we found the body of a woman . . .and from this point on we found them scattered along as they had been relentlessly hunted down and slaughtered, while fleeing for their lives." 3/

US forces surrounded a community of Lakotas along Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 and used the new invention of rapid-firing Hotchkiss cannons to kill large numbers of the population. Soldiers than pursued the survivors for miles, killing them wherever they were found. 2/

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Being a House member since Mike Johnson became speaker is a pretty easy gig since he only has it in session about 18 days a year.

Freedom of the press is one of the cornerstones of our democracy, and it must not be compromised by political pressure. Sinclair’s decision to ban Jimmy Kimmel from its stations under pressure from Donald Trump’s Administration is censorship.

In a genuine WOW moment, this administration publicly acknowledges (perhaps for the first time) that an ICE officer violated procedure and will be taken off duty and subject to an investigation. This is a step in the right direction — I just wish it wasn't only because of such an awful viral video.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday sued six states — California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania — over their refusal to hand over sensitive voter registration data. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The administration’s fight with Home Depot has escalated from the initial raids by the crack ICE agents in Sealant Team 6 to a full blown economic war. He’s going to nuke one before November

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

NEW. Even if Comey's statement at the September 20, 2020 Senate hearing was false (which it was not), it cannot be the basis of a false statements or obstruction conviction. 1/

🚨BREAKING: 6th Circuit Court of Appeals DISMISSES Republican National Committee lawsuit challenging Michigan's voter roll maintenance practices. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...

Updating my favorite chart to summarize the state of the (real) economy. Squint one way, it looks healthy. Squint another, and you start to worry.

Inflation is running hot. It doesn't look that way because the absolute level of inflation is still low. But that masks a more worrying reality. The middle of the year tends to see low inflation, before it picks up at the end of the year. In 2025, the pick-up in inflation is already happening now...

Bathroom vanities are now “national security”.

Even low information voters should get that it’s not normal for a President to make billions of dollars as soon as they’re in power.

Our lead story this morning begins with: "This is an escalation in the President's plan to get retribution against his political opponents" =====>

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

The Israeli prime minister's speech was defiant, despite his growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war to eradicate Hamas.

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