🇵🇷🇺🇸 Did you know? Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens by birth since 1917, thanks to the Jones–Shafroth Act. This landmark legislation granted American citizenship to all Puerto Ricans, securing their right to live and work in the U.S.

"Girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa." Omfg. They are so embarrassingly insultingly bad at everything.

Has a single “journalist” in mainstream media asked Trump, Mike Johnson or John Thune why they haven’t used their Senate majority to override the 60 vote threshold and reopen the government?

Gov. Wes Moore: "On behalf of 6.5 million Marylanders, my message to Trump is this: stop attempting to gut healthcare for working families and end this shutdown now. You're the one causing it. We're the ones feeling it. It needs to end."

DHS and ICE have 20 days to produce all raw footage in their possession from the South Shore Chicago apartment complex raid. Darkness is no longer YOUR ally. We will shed light on your illegal actions.

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

MAGAmuffins are praise Kristi Noem for ‘staring down’ Antifa—it was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit.

A $50,000 bribe. FBI investigation mysteriously closed. Still appointed 'Border Czar.' Who on the Trump-Vance team knew about Tom Homan's corruption before his appointment, and why did they cover it up? Read my letter with @democrats-judiciary.house.gov @raskin.house.gov and Rep. Swalwell here:

This was never about deporting criminals. It’s about Stephen Miller’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Democrats are fighting back against Trump and MAGA’s authoritarian book bans. Today, Senator Brian Schatz and I are introducing a resolution to protect the right to read at schools, libraries and universities across the country.

2 Key Democrats Come Out And Say It: Trump Has 'Some Kind Of Dementia' (TCL: When the most powerful man in the world is evil AND losing touch with reality, it's time for serious concern.) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jb-pritzker-trump-dementia_n_68e60661e4b0d98d3e52b9bb

Trump himself signed the bill guaranteeing back pay for federal workers. Now he’s threatening to deny 750,000 federal employees their paychecks.    Nobody is fooled by his hollow and illegal threats, and we won’t be swayed by them. Instead of threatening us, why don’t you negotiate with us, Donald?

This is well said. Trump and Noem need to back off before we have another Kent State tragedy.

A message for anyone who cares about the environment:

Manufactured chaos for the use by Fox and Stephen Miller and for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act.

Josh Hawley was an AG. He knows this was not phone tapping. He’s playing to his ignorant base.

Canada vs. America

States who will see the biggest increase in healthcare premiums. Notice a trend here? All red states. Dems fighting for EVERYONE! West Virginia 387% Wyoming 382% Alaska 346% Tennessee 320% Mississippi 314% Texas 289% South Carolina 285% Alabama 284% South Dakota 235% North Dakota 234%

How many ways does he have to show he doesn’t give a damn about working folks?! Troops invading states. Sleeping kids woken up & zip-tied. Prices soaring. Insurance through the roof. Media muzzled. Personal enemies punished. This isn’t America. This is what authoritarian rot looks like.

Kristi Noem is in PDX today. She brings the cameras w/ her and is desperate to incite Americans to do things she can film and edit into propaganda vids. Do not give her what she wants. The regime is frantic to manufacture a riot. Do not give them what they want.

PDX, the regime is tweaking out over the fact that they can't get us to riot. They are frantic to get us to do something to justify their extremism. Do not give them what they want. They want to manufacture a war. Don't let them. We have to power to deprive them. So deprive them.

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

A leaked memo shows Trump is trying to deny furloughed federal employees the backpay they are legally entitled to after the government shutdown ends. This won’t be allowed to stand. And it’s because of a law he signed!

The praise (yes, *praise*) by CNN for Pam Bondi is stunning, given that this was the most startlingly unprofessional public performance by an Attorney General in at least a century: "Bondi fended off questions....using quick-one liners to deflect and personal attacks to push back against Democrats."

The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient And that's a profile in cowardice

Pam Bondi’s defensive attacks against Senate Democrats questioning her was not the flex she thinks it was. All it did was vividly point out how she has abandoned Justice Dept. independence to serve the desires of her authoritarian boss.

By all means, indict Jack Smith on bullshit allegations and give him the trial that SCOTUS denied him. Poke the bear, Donnie. See what happens.

Legacy newspapers: "Print media is dying, and the public will suffer for it." Also legacy newspapers: "We can't offend the government with information and framing that helps the public."

Snipers on the roof, pointing their guns at peaceful protesters. Welcome to Nazi America.

Bari Weiss becoming head of the news division at CBS does not just tarnish the legacy of Murrow and Cronkite, it tarnishes the legacy of fucking Hee Haw.

Same. #AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

Every day I’ve been getting angrier when I think about how maga, the so called alpha male bros, always punch down at people who are less fortunate or struggling. This isn’t manliness. It’s cowardly, it’s shameful, and it makes you look like a tiny little douche face

We secured the 218th signature. The press conference was scheduled. Epstein’s survivors were ready to speak. So what did Republican leadership do? They sent us home during a shutdown. Bring Congress back. Swear @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social in. It’s time to vote to release the Epstein Files.

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Every question any reporter asks about the government shutdown should include, “Is it true the government is shutdown so Congress can’t vote on the release of the #EpsteinFiles?”

A federal judge just ruled that Donald Trump is trying "to deny Americans their birthright." Trump is a serial violator of the Constitution. But Congress CAN STOP HIM & save the republic. Call your elected officials early and often. Red states, blue states, it doesn't matter. Pressure bursts pipes.

Apple caved to the Trump DOJ and removed the anti-ICE apps from its App Store. Cowardice.

Stephen Miller’s attacks on a judge that President Trump himself appointed, and the American people as a whole, must stop. As I told Alex Witt today, it’s time to demand that the president explain why he is allowing Miller to drive strategies that ignore the Constitution and are unAmerican.

JD Vance is blaming Democrats for Trump’s government shutdown. That’s BS. What he didn’t tell you? Senate Republicans voted against our bill to reopen the government and prevent a health care crisis FOUR TIMES. The truth: They’d rather keep it shut than lower health care costs.

Christian nationalist fascism: when they lower masked Gestapo goons from helicopters in the night to smash apartment windows, terrorize residents, and zip-tie and kidnap children for not being white looking enough— and then violate the 1st Amendment by reciting scripture from a government account.