Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: 'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..." chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Whenever they call Mamdani a Communist remind them of this: finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that. But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal. You can’t negotiate with people like that.

But thank god we remodeled the Oval Office to look like a Saudi palace, right?

Blumenthal: We’re going to continue finding more of the ballroom donors who evidently didn’t want their names revealed. And let me name them: BlackRock, Susquehanna International, Nvidia, OpenAI, Vantive, and Extremity Care. And so, we will use every possible resource to expose this corruption to

Hi, I’m God. Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Thanks, God

Welp — @davidhogg.bsky.social to Scott Jennings: "People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country. That’s why Zohran is resonating."

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

10/ So bottom line: 8 months after Trump starts a massive trade war with China: - U.S. factory jobs declining - U.S. families paying thousands for tariffs - China makes not a single concession - The world watches Xi bully Trump into surrender Awesome.

It's been a few days since Trump announced his "deal" with Xi. It's now clear that Trump got fleeced. America gave up lots and got nothing. It's a story you should know bc few things matter more than the U.S.-China relationship. 1/ So here's a🧵

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

This is quite good...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined. They own the media. They own the algorithms. They own politicians in both parties. The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

He’s right

In the poverty of Trump’s American faith comes the impoverishment of our founding ideas — and the fractures ripping America apart The destruction of the White House was visceral, sacrilegious It profanes our secular American religion My latest: www.greatpower.us/p/the-sacred...

These photos get more outrageous the more you look at them. Tearing down the People's House for a $300M vanity project while federal workers go unpaid and America barrels towards a health care crisis. A literal depiction of what Trump is doing to our country.

Monsters

#FeedTheShutdown Over 25 STATES told @politico.com they're issuing notices of SNAP BENEFITS being cut Please consider helping If your area is ok please consider donating to foodbanks all over our Country I donated to mdfoodbank.org where so many federal workers are laid off Please BOOST

New polls from Gallup, YouGov, and out of Virginia show voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy. Nationally, Dems now have a 4-point margin on the issue — an 18-point shift away from Trump since 2023. Time to update your priors www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...

I think the ballroom story is gonna mushroom into a much much much much bigger thing. I see the visceral reaction people have towards the videos.

Normal people: wow, it really sucks that Trump is destroying the whole East Wing MAGA: ☝️ well ackschully, in 1948… Shut the fuck up.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

Hey Democratic leadership. Here is the message, and it's the ONLY message. Full stop.

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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Moskowitz: We need $30 billion to extend, obviously, these healthcare subsidies, which allow Americans—Americans, not illegal—Americans, citizens, to afford healthcare. And the president’s like, “We don’t have $30 billion, but I am going to send $40 billion to my dear friend in Argentina.”

Call me old fashioned but I miss the days when we would all be shocked if a President posted a video of himself flying over protesters and dumping poop on them. I miss the days when a video like that would have been grounds for instant removal from office. I miss accountability.

Share this with Uncle MAGA Are we great again yet? Buckle up, friends. Shit is getting real

Apropos of nothing, once the President of the United States confirms covert CIA operations in a country… say, Venezuela, those operations are no longer covert. And it puts CIA officers at significantly more risk.

Some families in America are on track to pay over $22,000 more per YEAR for their health insurance. Where are their Republican senators?

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Authoritarian countries that were once normal and free. #pinks #resist

🚨 🚨 NEW WHITEBOARD A quick whiteboard explaining how the Democrats position on ACA subsidies stops a downward spiral of a spike in both costs and the number of uninsured Americans. No wonder most Americans support our stance. WATCH

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Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation. This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

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 )

Release the jobs report. And while you’re at it, release the Epstein files.

Murdering kids is wrong. Zip-tying kids is wrong. Starving kids is wrong. Marrying kids is wrong. Raping kids is wrong. Just a few common sense things that I never a million years thought would be controversial.