The government shutdown is underway, and the parties are trying to control the narrative and the messaging. We should understand that this shutdown is different because the stakes are so high. A helpful comparison is a prisoners’ hunger strike. My explanation in the link in the replies.

Q: Do you think these tariffs are worth it? Laid off John Deere employee: It's really killing us. We were told that they were going to do everything we could for the American workers, and we're seeing quite the opposite

🗣️ Did you know that @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social, who writes the #FridayLimericks we all love so much also has a book?! And better still? Jeff donates half his royalties to a different charity each month. This month’s charity is so important. Grab a copy or two and do some good while you laugh!📚

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Congrats Stephen King! 🥳 Your goal is to terrify. You scare the hell out of em. You nailed it! 🏆

It's worth asking how differently things might look on the ground right now if #SCOTUS hadn't eviscerated Bivens—and made it all-but impossible to bring damages suits against federal officers (like ICE agents) who violate our constitutional rights. This is from my rebuttal in Hernández v. Mesa:

The Trump regime has ordered nine top universities to agree to its demands or lose access to federal funds. Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House. This government shutdown is on them.

We stand together — elected officials, business leaders, the faith community, law enforcement, educators, and more — in our opposition to the abuses of power by Donald Trump's administration. We're telling this unwarranted and unconstitutional occupation to stay out of Chicago.

24 million constituents #Healthcare www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Thank you, General (Retired) Mark Hertling, for saying what all of us who have served know we serve the Constitution and will not execute any order that goes against our oath.

Me, to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social on @msnbc.com last night: "[Lindsey Halligan] has no more authority than you or I or my two corgis to present an indictment to a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia."

“.. The officials cautioned that firings — known as RIFs, or reductions in force — could be vulnerable to legal challenges under statutes labor unions cited this week ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Oregon Police claim to have things under control in court filings, arguing that Turnip's deployment of the #OregonNationalGuard to protect the facility will make things less safe. "We've got this." More here, from @democracydocket.com ⬇️ www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

catch On today⬇️

Being against Donald Trump isn't enough to get the Democrats back in power @smith.senate.gov tells @karaswisher.bsky.social Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1bM...

Cuddle puddle with @profgalloway.com in all the hellhole cities with live @pivotpod.bsky.social!

New filing: "AFL-CIO v. USOPM (mass terminations)" Doc #265: USCA Order Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69655364

New minute entry in Rhode Island v. Trump (Defuning Museum and Library Services EO): TEXT ORDER denying 83 Motion to Stay: The Court is required to continue its constitutional functions, and therefore the Motion to Stay is DENIED. Department… [full entry below 👇] View Full Case #CL69844582

New filing: "ABA v. Trump (American Bar Assn. defends law firms)" Doc #29: Leave to File Amicus Brief Download PDF | View Full Case #CL70551899

New filing: "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. APPLE INC. (Department of Justice sues Apple for antitrust violations.)" Doc #328: Letter Download PDF | View Full Case #CL68362334

New filing: "Oregon v. Trump (national guard deployment)" Doc #23: Attorney Appearance Download PDF | View Full Case #CL71481149

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home. Thank you to former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra for explaining.

NEW: THREAD: Just a small collection of propaganda emails sent by the regime to federal employees who have sent them to me on the condition of anonymity. First, we all saw the HUD banner from Tuesday morning. 1/

Gov. Beshear: “What we're seeing on the other side is the president making threats, almost negotiating through blackmail, saying, 'If you don't agree to exactly what I want, I'm going to fire a whole bunch of people and cause a lot of pain.”

“Maximize pain” — that is what the White House literally told the GOP their strategy is. Imagine responding to the fight for human dignity with a strategy for maximizing pain. History will remember those who stood up, spoke out, and did what was right in this moment for the American people.

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones: "In New Hampshire we do not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants, we have never done that, and you are just wrong."

#Trump was best friends with #Epstein and close to Maxwell. He’s trying his hardest to keep his pedophilia behavior buried. Do NOT let up. #SheShed

at most, most of those detained lived in the same building as people who *might* be here without documentation. flagrantly unconstitutional, but permitted by SCOTUS as a #KavanaughStop.

a core attribute of an authoritarian state is that NOBODY IS SAFE from arbitrary police actions. these federal agents had no probable cause that *anybody* in this building had committed an illicit act, but "I didn't do anything wrong" does not protect someone from having their lives destroyed.

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

What in the living *fuck* is happening to this country!?!

Argentina’s libertarian government is such a failure and has created such a mess trying to artificially prop up the peso that not even the promise of a $20 billion U.S. taxpayer funded bailout is stabilizing the country’s markets. A house of cards.

Drop the pipe, Corey. It's the freaking Super Bowl. Your stormtroopers would be eaten alive. globalnews.ca/news/1146121...

I knew, knew I had read something about finding away around this a month or two ago " The RECOURSE Act would let the state withhold payments to the federal government only after it withholds funding for New York programs. "

Shocker. The judge knows he'll be fired if he rules in favor of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The system is rigged.

@skpawlicki.bsky.social was, until the Trump administration canceled the program, working as a Mellon fellow for the National Parks Service. She created the most incredible women's history programming, and now, she's recreated it entirely separately: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

Hegseth is a joke.. Country over Party 🇺🇸 Fuck you and your loyalty test.. #SheShed

Up to speed now, thanx Captain #NoKings

REPORTER: The HUD website blames 'radical Democrats' for the shutdown. Is that an appropriate use of taxpayer money, being overtly political? MIKE JOHNSON: I think what the HUD website says is the objective truth

🎹🎸 “is there gas in the car?!”

Trump exhibits signs consistent with dementia, particularly frontotemporal dementia.

#Healthcare #ACA #Economy #Jobs

I missed this yesterday but Geogetown Law's Center on Poverty and Inequality did a very nice visualization of the impact of the OBBB act on state governments. As with Medicaid, the GOP foisted a lot of costs onto states to pay for their tax cuts. www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/snap-...

Imagine what could be, then make it happen. Hard work is Good work folks, change is possible. 👒👛👟👟🗳️

The GOP’s lies are a smokescreen to gut your health care - excellent explainer open.substack.com/pub/contrari...