President Trump on the suffering many Americans will endure because of his shutdown and his layoffs

Republicans in Congress could end the Trump shutdown today by passing a budget deal that protects your health care and takes away Trump’s blank checks. Let your legislators hear from you.

NPR stop playing defense for people who hate you challenge

Or a pig sty with the rest of the swine... www.rawstory.com/tom-homan-ja...

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

We’ve gotten several messages that the Trump administration has tampered with federal employees’ email systems, making some people’s automatic Out of Office replies blame the government shutdown on the “radical left.” This was done without the employees’ knowledge.

Remember when Republican pundits used to threaten to shoot Census workers if they knocked in their door?

Yeah, man, be sure to announce you’re cutting “Democrat agencies” so when voters face the consequences they know who brought them the things they liked and who’s to blame for their loss, great plan

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

DHS has effectively reinterpreted (also illegally) “reasonable suspicion” as racial profiling, so now here it is making a statement that it uses racial profiling to arrest and cuff people, even Americans abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

With the GOP holding the White House and both chambers of Congress, we’ve entered a shutdown. It’s the first since 2018, which is also the last time the GOP held the White House and both chambers of Congress. They want to rule, but they have no interest in governing.

Sen. Andy Kim: "What Donald Trump is clearly showing is that we do not have three functioning branches of government — we have one branch trying to dominate the other two, and we see congressional Republicans acting as if they are cabinet members in Trump's administration."

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” (Pub. Oct. 2024)

RUSS VOUGHT ARCHITECT OF PROJECT 2025 wants to cut $8 billion in climate funding for CA NV CT NY CO IL DE HI MA MN MD NJ NH NM OR VT WA These states generate 80% of the country's revenue And thousands of jobs Lots of Independents and Republicans in those jobs btw

The university compact being offered to universities requires colleges to eliminate the recognition of trans people and ban them from bathrooms, locker rooms, and gender segregated dorms. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

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…

Some low-hanging fruit would be things like: —Popular Vote compact (Electoral College) —massive judicial reform —dramatically increase the size of the House (WY rule at a minimum) —national gerrymandering ban —DC statehood —PR statehood IF they want it (yes I know they could go GOP but still)

JUST IN: Former Trump spiritual adviser and Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl. He will serve only 6 months in jail and pay $250,000 in restitution.

As Trump threatens to fire thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown, lawsuits are already being filed over what legal experts both inside and outside the administration warn is an illegal plan: Here’s your Evening Briefing.

“About three-quarters of Americans support the release of all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds. Another 13% want some of the Epstein files released, while only 9% don’t want any documents released.” www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

CBS POLL: “.. the number saying the economy is getting worse has ticked up again, as prices continue to weigh on perceptions.” @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-ne...

The ripple effects of Trump's insanity trying to govern.

The president is claiming the power to make up a war so he can engage in extrajudicial killings

Mario had the right to work and report in the U.S. at the time he was arrested for livestreaming a protest in June. He was held for over 100 days in ICE detention, and he did not have the chance to say goodbye to his family in person before being deported.

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

It has been a whirlwind two days. From our launch yesterday to four media interviews today. Nearly 2,000 folks have stepped up to donate to our grassroots campaign. It’s humbling. We are working to come out swinging and take back MO-2 and help working Missourians. ICMYI our kick off video.

Lutnick Lived Beside Epstein, In Manhattan, For Years…. NEW: Commerce Secretary Lutnick just said federal prosecutors struck a deal with Epstein after he turned over "compromising" videos of MANY rich and powerful clients. 😳 Oversight Committee's Rep Garcia is demanding he testify. 👏 GOOD

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power. We should all be outraged. freedom.press/issues/mario...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

District judge throws out prosecution against protester in DC with prejudice, slams US attorney for a pattern of abuse assets.alm.com/ab/b6/aa7477...

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

On Wednesday, Rep Malcolm Kenyatta D-Philadelphia was called "boy" and told to "be careful" off camera by Rep Scott Barger R-Blair/Huntingdon after making this statement on the PA House floor.

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick. Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

They rapelled down from Blackhawk helicopters in this raid. I promise you this raid was done for a cinematic 4K promo video that will be released shortly. This stuff doesn’t just happen. It’s almost always for digital content.

July 24, 2024

Thanks, Mr. President. FWIW, here's a detailed timeline of WHEN the various healthcare provisions of the #MAGAMurderBill & the CMS "Integrity Rule" go into effect. It ain't pretty. acasignups.net/25/07/30/hea...

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

Trump’s former “spiritual advisor.”

Even with a farmer bailout, if there is no market for beans, there is no incentive to plant next year. I’m not a farmer. I didn’t vote for Trump. But the only two businesses we have left in my town revolve around corn and beans. My town will fold. My school will close. It’s over for us.

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

I would like to know how we can identify the specific persons at CNN who researched, wrote, edited, and approved this and hang it around their necks for the rest of their professional lives.

After Jeffries condemned the video as racist and bigoted, Trump on Tuesday posted another deepfake video mocking his reaction. On Wednesday, Vice President Vance called the videos “funny,” adding, “The president’s joking, and we’re having a good time.”

"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

Was anyone really expecting TSA to show up and not get paid?