there's really just zero motivation for Ds to negotiate when they're saying things like this. if they're just going to rule by recissision anyway, might as well make them admit they're gutting the fillibuster in order to destroy healthcare.

A few minutes ago in the House: - Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week - House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

meanwhile:

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

WWWWWWWTTTTTTTTTFFFFFFFFF!!! bsky.app/profile/atru...

These are very housecat-style headbutts, like scent-marking more than celebration.

Second threat walked back after a couple days.

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

[forest] ME: omg there’s a wolf WIFE: where? ME: no the regular kind

This has been a Republican promise for more than 15 years and not one Republican leader has put forward an actual plan. In the meantime the popularity of the ACA has only increased.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

“A federal team in El Paso that once pursued child traffickers has been disbanded. “A task force in Kansas focused on stemming fentanyl has been redirected. “Highway checkpoints near the border—on roads identified as major drug-trafficking routes—have gone unstaffed” 🎁 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Or swear in a new member of Congress who was elected two weeks ago

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

It’s a good thing Texas installed so much reliable solar, wind, and battery capacity to shoulder the load in the event the state’s unreliable coal generation suffered a catastrophic failure. Because apparently it did. 🔌💡 ieefa.org/resources/ne...

This strikes me as pretty bad

"Are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?" "You're a poopyhead" "I repeat, are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?" Silence. Bondi ain't defending Trump on this one.

Draw on your own experience: Is there any situation you've ever been part of, with you or anyone else in the hot seat, in which a person who does NOT have something to hide, reacts the way Bondi does? I've been on trial juries that concluded "we can't trust that witness," after evasions like this

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

well, that ought to put it to bed, great work everyone

I mean, I've got to say, the insane thing about all of this is that I didn't think the GOP could have -less- of a plan than they did on previous shutdowns. TURNS OUT I WAS WRONG

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

This should be seen as authoritarian: A refusal to allow the work of oversight to be done, masquerading as a debating club when she ought to be answering questions.

Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽

oh cool so these guys are being called away from their actual livelihoods to go get booed by washingtonians and chicagoans and portlanders etc for free lol

Zach Bryan wrote an anti ICE song. officially declaring Woke 2 in full effect.

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

I still think one of the most unhinged "stay the course" media decisions ever is The West Wing keeping their upbeat outro music even as their content got more serious and darker. The dissonance is laugh-out-loud aggressive.

It’s not even 10 a.m., and so much has unfolded in Chicago: – Illinois sues Trump over the National Guard deployment – Mayor Brandon Johnson bans city property use for immigration enforcement – Journalists and protesters sue the feds over Broadview violence

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

Another snippet from Trump's campaign rally style speech to the Navy in Norfolk. The content was totally inappropriate, but more remarkable is the evidence is furnishes of advanced senile dementia. Grandpa can't even remember his own book. He's fading fast.

a significant reason this is happening is because out of a combination of partisanship and cowardice Congress has essentially abdicated its constitutional role in the republic

Love that I've seen ICE's 'promo' videos where they play at Black Hawk down in their helicopters - and then this counter video depicting one person in an inflatable frog costume scaring the bejesus out of them.

This fella gets it

They're sending like a couple hundred, at most, and they're probably going to take pictures with the gyrating frog

Yes mister Trump the third rail is the one whose electricity is the final ingredient to give you unstoppable superpowers. Grab it and fulfill your destiny.

Also, here is a thought: I wonder how much "not feeling like an adult" is correlated with impostor syndrome.

It took 3 meatheads to body slam 1 guy. It’s gross, violent, and assault, it’s bully behavior, and they’re not even adept at that.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Criticizing Charlie Kirk is a fireable offense that incites domestic terrorism. But calling political opponents "the party of hate, evil, and Satan" is proper and good. Got it.