If the White House can decide not to spend money appropriated, why do they need Congress to pass a special appropriation?

Under the doctrine of command responsibility, the fact that Hegseth uttered these words at a mandatory gathering of generals and admirals has certain legal consequences—it makes Hegseth personally liable for war crimes, if and when committed. Ask Tomoyuki Yamashita and Wilhelm Keitel.

Until Democrats come out and flatly say that no, they're not going to accept something like that in the budget, I'm going to continue to act as though Republicans are trying to take away my healthcare (which they are!)

oh look, it’s literally the thing i wrote about for @rollingstone.com happening in real time. as we speak. like exactly what i reported, like a carbon copy. as a reminder, here’s what i said people within the party and trans care advocates believe will most likely happen next.

It’s useful to think of Christian Nationalism as a subculture like any other, with one important difference. THIS subculture thinks of itself as the default “normal” culture of “real Americans,” but which is also under siege by “the dominant culture.”

Using the DOJ website for hatch act violating propaganda

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

This is trans genocide

This is pretty unbelievable. Qatar giving Trump that jet is really paying off for them in a big way.

i've been down a rabbit hole of local florida economy youtube videos and they're panicking because canadians are not traveling there this year, and the housing market in much of the state is in the beginning stages of a complete collapse.

1/2 - If Republicans are not willing to talk about ACA subsidies now, what makes anybody think they would support them after a short term funding bill? They’ve been obsessed with killing it for 15 years. If subsidies die, so will countless Americans. Dems care. Republicans don’t. It’s now or never!

This literally the same line for trans youth. The diagnosis is too watered down and we can't help the real "insert here" population and these others are ruining it for us. Then the framing of pitting these parents against unnamed activists.

Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Those who remain in Gaza City will be terrorists and terror supporters." In other words, Israel declares its intention to exterminate everyone in Gaza City who could not move south. That is what calling everyone 'terrorists and terror supporters' means.

you just know the response would be something like "the hatch act is for pussies"

The federal government is officially shutdown

Well, the federal government has officially shut down, and it’s entirely the fault of Trump and the Republican Party. They control the White House and Congress. They cancelled multiple meetings with Democrats to hash out an agreement. They clearly wanted a shutdown. Pathetic.

Trump is cutting health insurance funding, slapped a tariff on pharmaceutical imports, and now wants to force you to buy from TrumpRX - a crisis he created to profit from. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h...

Republicans hate prevention. They love to play the hero after people have died, though. Witness: Kerr County, Texas

Under Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL totally reverses its historical mission. It is now engaged in the persecution of Jews who criticize Netanyahu and is a major advocate of secret police and concentration camps.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

Rieckhoff: And if you watched that speech, you'd think that our enemies are fat generals, the city of Portland, Trump's political enemies and DEI

DC politicians like John Cornyn promised to lower costs, fight for families, and drain the swamp. Now they’re trying to gut healthcare for millions to cut taxes for their donors — even shutting down the government to do it. If you feel conned, you have a place in this campaign.

But don’t worry, Congress will still get paid and still have health insurance. Billionaires will still get their tax breaks. Incompetent hacks will continue to heap embarrassment on this country with their deranged and incoherent speeches.

Trump just posted these photos on Truth Social. We’re not a serious country anymore

The #MAGAShutdown is upon us

This was the desperately important speech that top ranking military were forced to travel from around the globe for? .......the president rambling on incoherently with, "and you have animals...........shooting at them."

You are either a fascist or anti-fascist now. The lines are drawn.

Paging @jaketapper.bsky.social More evidence of Trump’s decline for you to ignore

Dear @apnews.com The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once. Fix your headline.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

More Impeachable Actions…. BREAKING: Former ICE official Jace Calderas allegedly (on tape) took $10k cash in Tom Homan's bribe scheme. This makes it a CONSPIRACY – more prison time for not only Homan & Calderas, but those who COVER IT UP, ie Trump. 💪 More motivation!!

Not a single dem will say anything to defend trans people

So MAGA is #DefundingThePolice Whoda thunk it

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

The ADL thought it could fall in line with Musk and it would stop his attacks on them. Instead, it just made them complicit, legitimized Musk, and ultimately didn’t actually change him at all. This is how fascists work. Greenblatt tried being transactional: for fascists, it only goes one way.

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

It should be noted that this will be the third government shutdown during a Donald Trump presidency.

I’d love to talk with someone about the kind of passive violence that’s planned. First they make you choose your safety, so they can reframe your response as a mental illness not rooted in overcoming violence.

Trump's secret police are aiming to be the state surveillance organ for the regime. ICE has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.

Our cities are not training grounds, they're homes. It doesn't come as a surprise that the president who called fallen soldiers "suckers and losers" is continuing to shame the brave men and women who dedicate their lives to protecting ours. Our military deserves better.

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.

THEY DID NOT WANT BLACK KIDS IN THEIR WHITE KID SCHOOLS SO THEY DECIDED TO END DEMOCRACY bsky.app/profile/goth...

Welp, looks like I'm done posting on @bsky.app for the day. I didn't even realize the daily video limit was still a thing. Any help, @support.bsky.team?

The conservative version has been centuries of Conservatives ostracizing anyone they discovery is queer (among others), blacklisting them from making a living, and pressuring their families to abandon them.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

This is straight-up bullshit. Since when are chats categorically defined as “adult content”?!?

Is this not straight-forwardly a declaration of civil war?

Interesting for Hegseth and Trump railing about “political correctness” after the admin spent two weeks policing what people can and can’t say about Charlie Kirk