Finally, a bright spot in this dystopian timeline we are all in: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.   During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

Thank you Kenny Loggins! 💙🫶💙

There are several bills to cut off Congress's pay checks during government shutdowns Now there's a bill to halt White House ballroom renovations during the shutdown: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

Yeah. So The White House is designated a National Historic Landmark. That means: It’s formally recognized as having exceptional national historical significance. Any substantial changes, demolitions, or new construction affecting it are tightly restricted. It’s not his house! WTF.

Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.

🚨Children’s Hospital Chaplain released after being detained in Cincinnati’s Butler County Jail for 73 days. He shares powerful words with us. 1/2

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Watch this. And then the whole thing. They are destroying the rule of law: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

It's Prison Banned Books Week — a week dedicated to shining a light on the widespread denial of incarcerated people's freedom to read. We all have a First Amendment right to read and receive information, in and out of prison. Censorship has no place in a democracy.

A St. Louis ordinance lets courts banish people from huge swaths of the city as a punishment for petty crimes. These neighborhood orders of protection often prevent people from accessing the services they need and raise constitutional questions. (Published 2022) By @jeremykohler.bsky.social

ATTENTION CALIFORNIA: Tomorrow, October 20th, is the LAST DAY to register to vote. ✅ Register NOW: registertovote.ca.gov ✅ Check your voter registration status: voterstatus.sos.ca.gov After the 20th? You can STILL register and vote in-person through Election Day using same-day registration.

Did you know that Members of Congress continue to draw full paychecks during government shutdowns? It’s plain wrong. That's why I have directed that my paycheck be withheld until the shutdown ends.

California doesn’t just mail you a ballot. We make sure you KNOW your vote is counted. Track your ballot from the moment it’s sent to the moment it’s counted: wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov Rastrea tu boleta desde el momento en que se envía hasta el momento en que se acepta: wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov

LOWER PRICES FOR ACA AND NO CUTS TO MEDICAID IS WHAT DEMOCRATS ARE FIGHTING FOR! (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...

The TRUTH - no matter how inconvenient- ALWAYS matters. Shooting the messenger doesn't change the truth. Denying reality does not suspend it. Genocide and apartheid are wrong - ALWAYS - even when committed by friends. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

“Trumpism is an attempt to make the world a playground for the rich and ruthless, so it seeks to dissolve the sinews of moral and legal restraint that make civilization decent”. David Brooks Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Estimates show the ruling could hand the House to Republicans as Democrats could lose six to 19 seats which Abrams warns could ensure “one-party rule” going forward Justice Jackson gave the act its most elaborate and convincing defense, which soon might be transcribed and remembered as its obituary

🎁 article. 🐸✊🏼 www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation. youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...

Vote for Zohran over the sexual harasser! No brainer!

Democratic leaders, it's time to endorse Mamdani.

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

"His vision reflects both compassion and common sense." Samra Brouk and Jo Anne Simon — Chairs of the Mental Health Committees in the NYS Senate and Assembly — endorse our plan to address the mental health crisis with real, evidence-based solutions.

This is an emergency. In a month, health premiums are going to go up by 75%, ruining families' lives. What's happening in Chicago, where people's rights are being obliterated, is an emergency. What the FCC is doing - censoring our political speech - is an emergency.

I dont think enough Americans realize Republicans are gearing up for permanent rule. I dont know if we will get to midterm elections. Even if we do, with gerrymandering, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and violent intimidation, they'll rig the elections for minority rule. All hands on deck.

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

The Supreme Court is on the verge of gutting the Voting Rights Act's equal opportunity protections for minority voters — 12 years after they first rolled back its safeguards against voter suppression.

Straight-up racial profiling.

How China Threatens to Force Taiwan Into a Total Blackout—A Chinese blockade would quickly deplete resources on an island that depends on imported fuel. www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

Blondie is going down for this decision. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Swear-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva! Release the Epstein files!

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue. POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

Does anyone wonder if social media is enabling complacency during these horrific acts by the government? I, including myself, can respond in horror, but don't actually have to put any skin in the game to make it stop. When will Americans, one and all, take to the streets to make it stop?

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms. Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Member of the Chicago press gets arrested by masked ICE GOONS

IT'S FASCISM!!

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵 Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

No, Portland is not burning. No, the windows are not boarded up. Yes, there are stores and they're open. If you believe this, someone is lying to you. This is a free click: www.oregonlive.com/living/2025/...

קיבלת במתנה כתבה מהארץ! 'I Saw the Bodies of Children': Moral Injury and Mental Strain Breaking IDF Soldiers www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... #IDFmustleaveGaza #LatAidIn

A win for the first amendment and librarians. xplore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Thirty of Bob Ross’s artworks are being offered for sale in auctions with the syndicator of programming for public television stations pledging that 100 percent of the net sale proceeds will benefit stations run by APT and PBS, auction house Bonhams said. https://wapo.st/3WrRXP0

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"