🚨 Forcing members of the military to separate because of a shaving waiver. Where I come from it’s called racism. 1/2

It can’t be said enough: the last three times the government has shut down, Donald Trump was president of the United States, and Republicans controlled the House and the Senate. They cannot govern.

ICYMI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook can remain in her job for now and announced it will take up the case in January. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Covid cases rising with new variants Nimbus and Stratus If you feel unwell with a bad throat and a temperature you may well have caught one of the new strains of Covid circulating this autumn. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Democracy is hanging on by a thread. It is up to all of us to sound the alarm, talk to friends and family about it, and do as much as we possibly can to help make sure that Republicans never win another election again.

🎯 Pete Hegseth speech in a nutshell: “There was a lot of talk about haircuts but nothing about character”

This is a thundering ruling by Judge William Young (a Reagan appointee). He says that it's "perhaps the most important case" in his district and writes more than a dozen pages on "JUSTICE IN THE TRUMP ERA," focused on Trump's "bullying" and "retribution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

I will never forget what Trump and his goons are doing to my beautiful city #Chicago. Everyone should be outraged by this abuse of power to intimidate Black and brown people who didn’t vote for him. bsky.app/profile/unra...

Trump’s attacks continue. Shortly after 1:00 AM last night, dozens of federal agents with U.S. Border Patrol and the FBI raided an apartment building in #Chicago South Shore neighborhood as part of a “targeted immigration enforcement operation.” Neighbors report hearing flash grenades and screaming

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

🔥 MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how military commanders who listened to Donald Trump’s “deranged” speech have to be wondering “just how much more dangerous their jobs are now that they've seen just how lost and sick their Commander-in-Chief is.” youtu.be/gPpUI3xJx_c?...

🎯 This is #TrumpsShutdown Republicans haven’t been interested in governing since at least 2010 with the tea party crowd. They just want power to drive culture wars and their far right agenda.

“Instead of negotiating a bipartisan agreement in good faith, he is obsessively posting crazed deepfake videos” #TrumpShutdown

🎁🔗 Trump’s cruel #USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs at regional warehouses in dozens of countries. Children like 5-year-old Suza Kenyaba died waiting while for the malaria medication that could have saved her life was only 7 miles away. wapo.st/46GSwcv

🧵 Excited to see the transition of this dedicated and talented team of FOIA attorneys from federal government service to private practice to fight the good fight. Congratulations! 👏🏽👏🏽

Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans just shut down the government to push their extreme agenda. They’d rather strip Medicaid, eliminate SNAP benefits, and close rural hospitals than keep our government open. It’s appalling.

🗣️THIS is the message!! Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

So after over 8K complains of sexual assault in the military in 2024 alone, Unqualified Pete Hegseth declares his answer: “No more anonymous complains... no more walking on eggshells.” Just like Trump, instead of addressing the problem, he is silencing the victims.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

🔗 During his confirmation hearings, #SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts famously promised to “call balls and strikes, not to pitch or bat” instead for 20 years he has led one of the most activist courts in American history. Major rulings expected in the 2025 term beginning October 6th.

Donald Trump's militarization of our city streets isn't about fighting crime or public safety — it's about consolidating power in his hands. What he plans to do with that, now or during the 2026 elections, should worry all of us.

"ICE is running around the Loop, harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now #ICE is making it commonplace That's not making America great.” IL Governor JB Pritzker www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

How a U.S. Government Shutdown Would Affect You - great summary of services at risk #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Yesterday, we filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s illegal federalization of the National Guard. This morning, we filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to block the federalization from going into effect. We’ll keep sharing updates as things progress.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s power trip continues to stretch out of hand, inciting fear and chaos in cities that don't need military presence to occupy their streets. When does enough become enough? End this nonsense now.

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

Look at what the United States Government is citing in the birthright citizenship case. Non-expert legal scholarship and work done hastily in service of their political goals.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

🎁🔗 Of course John Thune’s oped in WaPo is riddled with lies about wanting bipartisanship with Democrats but check out the comment section. It’s mostly Republicans. They are not having any of his propaganda 🔥 wapo.st/482kjXn

🎯 Mike Johnson definitely needs more scrutiny. Where are the media fact checkers?

Like everything else with this administration, Trump’s decision to extend a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina involves corruption. trib.al/aFHss29

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

🧵 Audio: Chilling words from Andrew McCabe about the #DOJ Comey indictment. “This act will go down in infamy as an indicator of just how serious this fall from independence and integrity in our justice system has become.” #DeadlineWhitehouse

Racial profiling admission by Gregory Bovino, commander at large of the border force, contrasted the people being arrested with a white WBEZ reporter, saying agents consider a person’s appearance before taking them into custody. #Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

IL Governor JB Pritzker slams Trump’s military deployment to #Chicago “They’re acting like jack booted thugs” 🔗 youtu.be/XwMOh1E4puQ?...

"FEMA officials arrived to go door-to-door to help residents apply for federal funds. But then they stopped as the administration canceled the door-to-door program. FEMA closed disaster-recovery facilities where residents could apply for financial assistance last week." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

It is a catastrophically bad plan to say winning elections are the best way out of this, and assuming it is is part of why people spend too much time obsessing about Schumer and Jeffries.

🎁🔗 Excellent deep-dive into unitary executive fanboy, Trump’s OMB Director and Project 2025 architect, Russell Vought “MAGAs Bulldog”. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling. Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

BREAKING NEWS: Oregon sues Trump administration over unlawful federalization of National Guard. Read more.

🚨This. Is. Madness. Do not normalize seeing heavily armed federal forces in the streets of Chicago (or anywhere). Posted on IG a few minutes ago. 1/2

Again. Same as Trump’s first term. Who should pay for Trump’s repeated self indulgent tariff folly? The people about to have their healthcare increase exponentially? The 300,000 Black women who were put out of work by DOGE and Trump economic policies? Teachers? Librarians?

Stop the scapegoating and start dealing with America’s real gun crisis. HOMEGROWN‼️

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

BREAKING: Mayor Eric Adams is dropping out of New York City's mayoral race. nypost.com/2025/09/28/u...

Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.