Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

This is about women and children as objects and tools and how abuse of them is not just tolerated and ignored but facilitated and celebrated.

Tell Congress Right Now: Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act

Former NYT reporter Landon Thomas, Jr.: Its getting scary. The stories you could tell... Epstein: Wow Thomas: Actually I don't think he/voters would care. Being effectively shameless is a pretty powerful weapon for a presidential candidate. Epstein: But by being a phony rich person

🧵1/ Back in the office after shutdown fizzled — thanks to Dem fold. We’re not the same feds we were 43 days ago & we're not resigned to defeat We are: 🤬Mad as hell🤬 Still believe in truth, science & raising hell for the public good. We serve the people ✊ #FedStrong @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social

Ehud Barak is the fucking former Prime Minister that almost killed Virginia Guiffre during a sadistic terrifying encounter. In her book she was too afraid of reprisals to her family to reveal his name.

We deserve leaders focused on small business, our farmers, and hard work over self-interest. That’s why I’m a candidate for MD-29 State Senate! Our movement is based on innovation, affordability, and growth. Join us! www.chuck4md.com #SOMD #innovation #solutions #Flip29 #VoteForChuck #Chuck4MD

Don't forget to tune in to @freespeechtv.bsky.social's live premiere tonight at 8 PM, ET on YouTube, Dish Network and DirecTV! ▶️ Youtube: www.youtube.com/@freespeecht... BECAUSE COURAGE IS CONTAGIOUS! #idosolemnlyswear #federalworkersagainstdoge #governmentshutdown #freespeechtv

📢 Many federal workers are unable to provide essential services as the shutdown enters its 4th week. Tune in to Free Speech TV tonight, 10/28 at 8 PM ET, to hear directly from Federal workers across the government. #idosolemnlyswear #governmentshutdown #freespeechtv #federalworkersagainstdoge

#AHRQ ELIMINATED OFFICES & FIRED ALL non-SES Staff: Grants Finance/Budget Contract Peer Review & NOFOs Comms Policy Dirs Office BUT it hired a new Dir in July & used FDA staff to process grants How many laws is #HHS violating? @fedsagainstdoge.bsky.social @firedbutfighting.bsky.social

Well, well, well...

The brutality. The corruption. The lies. Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson. Watch.

Big thanks to @lesleyjlopez.bsky.social for providing a platform to talk about the work we're doing doing and how allies at the local, State and Congressional levels can help support our organization & federal workers, in general. We must stay courageous! lesleyjlopez.substack.com/p/how-to-sup...

Nota Baloyi, a South African who spoke to The Intercept on Wednesday, had his visa revoked for tweeting that Kirk “won’t be remembered as a hero. He was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash!” interc.pt/47tzE2c

Just a quick reminder to tune in at 11 AM (ET) today as we talk with @lesleyjlopez.bsky.social about how to best support federal workers in such unprecedented times. Courage is contagious. See you there! ➡️ open.substack.com/live-stream/...

📣 Heads up! 📣 We're joining Maryland Delegate Lesley Lopez at 11 AM (ET) to talk about our Call to Action for federal employees, allies, Congress, and the American public! Mark your calendars & tune in! open.substack.com/live-stream/... #NoKings #CalltoAction #SupportFederalWorkers

Just a reminder for the #NoKings protests. Kidnapping/abduction laws by state. Be safe. www.findlaw.com/state/crimin...

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited. It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

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He made up baseless concerns to Joni Ernst, promising to “ask the right questions” about how agencies are monitoring their employees, specifically workers who “might be benefitting from the D.C. pay rate” without living in Washington. I'd love to know what they found!

he added. “That doesn’t mean there’s not amazing career civil servants, many of whom I’ve worked with at OMB. I look forward to [being] confirmed, getting back to work with them, … But I do believe that there are bureaucracies that are weaponized against the American people.”

When Vought was pressed on this in his confirmation hearing, he lied and told Senator Kim that he was referring in those comments to “bureaucracies” that he believes have been “weaponized.” “There are portions of weaponized bureaucracies across the federal government,”

ProPublica obtained the videos and quoted him: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected… We want their funding to be shut down… We want to put them in trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/vide...

In private speeches from 2023–2024, Russell Vought (a lead architect of Project 2025 and now a head of OMB) said a future administration should make career civil servants “miserable” and “put them in trauma.”

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

"In 1756 the Pennsylvania governor, declaring war against the Lenape, offered '130 Pieces of Eight for the scalp of Every Male Indian Enemy above the Age of Twelve Years' and '50 Pieces of Eight for the Scalp of every Indian Woman." (2/4)

Re California, "This campaign of genocide was carried out not by the military or police, but by a willing, participating public." Whether ICE are seen as legit state agents or groups of unlawful "thugs," the settler state builds upon centuries of violent precedent, and they know it. Why don't you?

"Following California statehood..the state's first governor inaugurated an extermination policy that..paid between 25 cents and 5 dollars per scalp. At least 4,500 Indigenous people were murdered between 1848 and 1880...the state issuing close to $1.5 million in payments for their scalps." (3/4)

"Unprecedented." "This isn't us." Please read a book. Try Joanne Barker's 2021 "Red Scare: the State's Indigenous Terrorist," to start. On pages 28-29: "In 1703..the Massachusetts Bay Colony offered.. between 250 and 300 pounds for Indian scalps." (1/4)

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JUST IN: The Supreme Court has denied consideration of Laura Loomer's lawsuit over social media censorship:

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do. It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate. Always punching down

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Trump and Republicans spread lies and scapegoat immigrants to distract you from how they are picking your pockets. Do not be fooled.

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that? MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The deputy prime minister David Lammy made history today as he was sworn in as the first black lord chancellor. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/lord-ch...

a true miracle that one one was injured or killed!

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BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

Hey, you know what is fucked up... NONE of the GOP are working today...zero, zip, none. And they won't be back until, maybe, tomorrow. What fucking loser, lazy, slackers. So tell me, JD, who is at fault?! The Dems are working. #GOPShutdow #TrumpShutdown

Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency because its infant mortality rate has surged. And with Medicaid cuts coming, experts fear the crisis may worsen in other states.

Please...PLEASE stop referring to the military occupation of American cities and the brutalization of minority communities as "distractions."