I want Congress to get back to work. Pass a budget, keep health care affordable. If they won’t do their jobs, why are we? generalstrikeus.com/strikecard

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

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😂😂 We recently watched Veep…yes FOR THE FIRST TIME! Don’t judge. Talk about art imitating life. Or perhaps prophecy.

Trump signed this law back in 2019 guaranteeing that both excepted (working without pay) and furloughed workers receive back pay once the shutdown ends. It covered any FUTURE lapses in appropriations. If they try to get around it, they’re breaking the law…AGAIN.

Trump’s openly talking about invoking the Insurrection Act with zero insurrection in sight. He’s inventing chaos in Portland and Chicago, and even saying he’d use it if courts or local officials are ‘holding us up’. Wild how he didn’t bother using it during the actual insurrection on January 6.

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

They sure do.

Shut up, nerd. No-one buys your propaganda that this is a Democratic-led shutdown no matter how many public-facing government websites you put it on. Do your job. Work across the aisle or get out of public office.

According to USA facts, in 2023 (the most recent data I found) Illinois is one of 19 states that sent more money to the federal government than it received. To the tune of $28 Billion. With a “B”. Time for state offsetting, perhaps?

Rieckhoff: A vet on CNN said we haven’t fought to win in 20 years. I said, I was fighting to win. You were fighting to win. Kander: That shit pisses me off. Rieckhoff: He said he meant the generals. Which one? It’s boogeymen—and now cosplay warriors who never served join ICE to bully immigrants.

Actually, we’re not friends anymore. Effectively disowned some family too.

Isn’t NY the second (or third) highest state contributor to the federal government coffers? So let’s see if I understand. The government is going to take New Yorkers hard earned money and give it to…who? Billionaires? To bail out a far-right foreign government? A plane. A ballroom. Got it.

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown. Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

As Senator Kim pointed out from the Senate floor just a few hours ago, if the government shuts down tomorrow, thousands will be working without pay, but House Republicans couldn’t be bothered to stick around and do the work necessary to keep the country running.

If you aren’t white, Christian, and male you have no right to serve in the United States military according to the diarrhea coming from drunk-tank Pete. I hope Congress is proud of themselves for confirming this POS. You’ve decimated the integrity of the armed forces.

New in PN: The Trump Murder Policy "Trump has claimed Venezuelan boats are being attacked because they’re smuggling drugs, but his evidence doesn’t amount to much more than 'trust me, bro.'"

It’s what I find amazing about the norm breaking, short-sightedness of this movement. If SCOTUS grants POTUS immunity, allows firing of independent agency employees, or ends birthright citizenship, what might a democrat might do back in office? Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/a...

“…power does not reside in the hands of those who dominate or divide. Real power resides from people, from our shared resolve to uphold dignity, to defend equality, to believe—fiercely—in our common humanity, and the potential of every human being.”~Sec-Gen, UN, António Guterres

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Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Andor, a Disney+ show about resisting fascism, just won 5 Emmys. Three days later, the network caved to it.

Instead of everyone getting their knickers in a twist over Kirk murder suspect Robinson’s motive and plotting some sort of vigilante payback, why don’t they just wait until somebody f*cking asks him.

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Was this part of the budget request? Where is Congress? Why are the tax payers paying for these unhinged ego trips?

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Mark Nevitt, former naval line officer and JAG writes: "Applying a new label to an old problem does not transform the problem itself – nor does it grant the U.S. president or the U.S. military expanded legal authority to kill civilians." www.justsecurity.org/119985/label...

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

This Labor Day, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest. We must continue standing together to show Trump that we, the people, have the power – not his billionaire buddies and corporate cronies. bit.ly/4lMgKaR

Moscow Mitch has missed every chance he had over the last 9 years to act for the good of the country. But at least he didn’t vote yea to confirm that psycho Kennedy who is likely to kill us all. Is Collins still very concerned?

"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?

#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/

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The birds couldn’t care less that the world is shit. They’re singing away.

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

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Newsom: I mean, even poor Kid Rock — these guys, they’ve gotten a little precious, haven’t they? The folks at Fox are like, “Oh, this is so unbecoming of a governor. Oh, oh.” And meanwhile, they sit there reading his tweets every single day. Are they really that out of touch?

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August 18, 2025

Let’s be very clear about what’s happening: Trump is going to surrender to Russia this week because he is the pussy that Putin grabbed.

It makes sense once you realize that every accusation is a confession.