This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

I'm sure this will stem the tide of air traffic controllers calling in sick

Legend.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..." apnews.com/article/chic...

When it wasn't deploying troops to U.S. cities, accusing judges of terrorism, and politicizing the military this weekend, the Trump administration also carried out another extrajudicial execution in the Caribbean, murdering four people. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

These stories are shocking - how is this continuing to happen in the U.S.? A: SCOTUS’ absurd rulings and an authoritarian administration ignoring any semblance of the rule of law and civil/human rights.

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

The oldest man ever elected to the Presidency, with clear health problems and increasingly unhinged, untethered public appearances and postings, has now disappeared from public view of an extended period for 2nd time in recent weeks. Truly, how is this not a bigger story? bsky.app/profile/did:...

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

#TechOligarchs do not support democracy. 👇

Running out of ways to communicate they are violating the consntitution

"I think in a free country we should be able to post onto the internet, 'hey, there are masked agents on Broadway and Vine and not have the government or the tech oligarchs prevent us from doing that.' Shame on you, Tim Cook." @radiofreetom.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

This ⬇️

Wow. This really says it all.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Stephanopoulos drops a truth bomb on Johnson….

This is insane.

Anyone ask Thune why the GOP didn't just vote to waive the 60-vote requirement to pass such a vital bill? They've done it 3 times already this year. Waived it to repeal the EV standard but not to fund the government. Huh.

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

It takes a special kind of stupid to twice inherit a booming economy and destroy it twice. CNBC: "Very disappointing. Private sector jobs for September comes in at -32,000. Economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. August was also revised down sharply, the month now showing -3,000...”

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Ok. Now we’re getting somewhere.

Y’all. Republicans are FINE with poking holes in the filibuster. They did it ten days ago so they could confirm 48 Trump appointees at once. Don’t let them tell you they can’t pass a CR without Dems. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Saying the illegal part right out loud as usual. Unfortunately, the SCOTUS majority is no longer a bulwark against this madness.

A 5x draft dodger lecturing 800 generals, telling them they can clap if they want? This is delusional insanity. The silence in that room said it all: America’s top military brass had more discipline & dignity than the man disgracing the stage. @atrupar.com

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

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One of the reasons why I don’t think there will be fair elections again is that everyone in the administration is acting like there won’t be. *So many* are going to jail if they’re ousted and I honestly can’t see them letting that happen.

LOL "I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place... www.kgw.com/article/news...

Positively Orwellian. Nature doesn’t give a damn about their denialism. #ClimateChange

left-wing terrorism rises to 30-year high, still 4x lower than average yearly number of right-wing attacks over the last decade

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Clarence Thomas at Catholic University: now that I and my fellow Opus Dei acolytes are a majority on the Supreme Court, we no longer feel any need to pretend to respect precedent. We will simply do as we like, because we can. www.rawstory.com/clarence-tho...

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

This 👇

Can we get some focus on the perfidy of Speaker Mike Johnson? So much of Trump’s excesses are made possible because Johnson has disabled the House as a check on the President. He has handed Trump his gavel symbolically and in reality. We need to focus on Trump’s enablers.

🔥PLEASE REPOST🔥 🚨If ACA tax credits are NOT extended, premium payments will increase by more than 100% for many of the 24M Americans who buy their own coverage & it's on top of rising food & housing costs among other inflationary pressures that are adding major STRESS.🚨 www.kff.org/from-drew-al...

This gets weirder by the day. #Epstein

This court has got to face serious oversight and #courtreform asap.

157 years after the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States," Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to overturn the U.S. CONSTITUTION by executive order.

This is an infuriating and shameful scandal. The Roberts Court is condoning Trump’s law breaking, again, pure and simple. There is no serious path forward for democratic government without Supreme Court reform.

Leading the dissent, Kagan laments that her colleagues continue to use the shadow docket to decide novel issues. She called Trump's actions "essentially, a presidential usurpation of Congress's power of the purse." @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

Well well well…

Trump, despite having a Republican trifecta in DC, is refusing to meet with Democrats. It shows his reckless disregard for the pain a shutdown will cause to American families. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

When you’ve even lost Newsmax…you know you’ve jumped the shark.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Dozens of delegates from multiple nations walk out of UN hall as Israeli prime minister prepares to speak.