When you see how excited Trump, Russ Vought, and Republicans are about the government shutdown, it becomes pretty obvious the reason why they refused to negotiate a compromise with Democrats is because they wanted this and they completely own this, regardless of their lies.

Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.

Just a reminder: democrats can’t shut down the government. Republicans hold the majority.

As I said on MSNBC ten days ago, of which I was fired for, "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words lead to hateful actions".

“Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke.”

Make them ride circuit. Cancel a Supreme Court term. No more clerks. And strip jurisdiction.

Your library card most likely also gives you access to e-books, audiobooks, music, and video entertainment. Libby, Kanopy, etc…

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine council voted to stop recommending a combination vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, in what “seems to be an agenda of Kennedy’s own design,” Katherine J. Wu and Tom Bartlett report:

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

Political violence and threats are not the answer. This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion. We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

Yes. Yes, they are.

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

New in PN: Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism "Five justices calculated that it was better to remain silent and be thought of as a bunch of racist hacks than to speak out and remove all doubt. But Kavanaugh, channeling his inner Col. Jessup, refused to sign on to the plan."

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

Y’all, Missouri needs our help📢 Spread the word… The GOP is trying to ram through another redistricting power grab, but there’s a secret weapon: a referendum —to block it. All it takes is 106,000 signatures across 6 districts. Let’s make sure Missouri voters, not politicians, decide. 1/3

SCOTUS keeps helping the Russian asset in the White House while pretending to be offended that they are being accused of being political.

Every small business owner you support today gets closer to their dream tomorrow.

I keep seeing people say that less than 1 percent of mass shootings are committed by trans people. That's somewhat misleading. It's actually less than 0.1 percent. More than 99.9% of mass shootings over the past decade were committed by non-trans people.

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“She reportedly secured a $2 million advance for her book published on the conservative Sentinel imprint of Penguin Random House.” Their attacks about “activist judges” were always a projection.

Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.

Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

id be slightly less angry at dem leadership saying theyre only interested in throwing political punches on “kitchen table issues” if they were currently out there landing punches on “kitchen table issues”

Rangappa: Do you believe that Ghislaine Maxwell is guilty? Ferguson: Yes Rangappa: She denied her guilt the interview. Ferguson: Most criminals lie, newsflash. That's, like, not shocking. Rangappa: Then why on Earth would you believe anything she said?

What can we do to get ready to go into midterms? Make sure we have a candidate on every ballot in every race in every district in every state… No seat uncontested.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

VP Harris wanted to give first time home buyers $25K in down-payment assistance. Instead we voted for tariff and trade war and higher prices.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney - addressing me directly - says there’s no such thing as prisoner work details outside the facility in the federal prison system. Yes there are. I have receipts.

The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university. One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

She's also the only child rapist in history to be moved to a minimum security camp with potential work release one week after meeting with the Deputy Attorney General.

Can someone explain how banning gay marriage will fund schools and lower rent and make groceries affordable?

Do something today to resist. Even small actions add up when millions of people do them.

Trump's attempt to militarize and federalize D.C. is an incredibly dangerous acceleration of his fascist takeover of the nation AND It's clear he's pursuing it to distract from the Epstein Files His craven personal self-preservation is driving this escalation and that makes it all the scarier.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

we do not need to live like this

Remember when Vice President Harris bought a few quality cooking items at a French cookery store with her own money and legacy media melted down? J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.

You’ve got to understand the game they’re playing when they say “waste, fraud, and abuse.” Take a listen: