Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.

"the government may not condition access to government benefits on the recipient’s agreement to waive their constitutional rights, including the rights protected by the First Amendment" blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-uncons...

The Federal Election Commission, which regulates campaign finance, has lost another member. But the FEC has actually been without a quorum for months, leaving the agency unable to do much of its work.

The Trump administration is illegally stealing taxpayer dollars and raising the energy bills of millions of Americans in states with Democratic senators who are simply standing up for the people during the #TrumpShutdown. This is corruption, plain and simple.

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."

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

"in America over the last forty or so years ... Christianity has morphed into an identity group, untethered from much of Christian teaching" www.thebulwark.com/p/the-rise-o...

@timmiller.bsky.social: “The Commerce Secretary is really stupid…He's just being dumb enough to say the obvious truth, which is that 'my fellow cabinet members and the President of the United States, who I work for, are covering up something related to this sex trafficking ring.'”

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

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," Pope Leo said. "And someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

The Economist is ruthlessly on point. Let us work to pull the U.S. back from being an autocratic kleptocracy

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

The crazy thing is that we want affordable healthcare for them, too.

its weird that the president brags about inflicting pain on american citizens and cities right?

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.

Sen. Coons: “You can only benefit from the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid if you have legal status in this country. We are not fighting for health care for people here illegally. That’s not true. We are fighting for health care for Americans.”

Republicans would lose their minds.🤯

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

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do. It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate. Always punching down

One of my many, many questions about America in 2025 is how long it will take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history

Next Monday's "One First" was going to be about how we should stop covering new #SCOTUS terms through the "big" cases the Court will hear; and instead focus on how the Court is behaving. Fortunately for me (and you), @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social did it first—and *way* better:

The "ultraconservative Trumpist majority are responsible for the systematized shredding of independence of federal agencies, kneecapping district court judges & abuse of the shadow docket as Trump’s get-out-of-jail-free card" slate.com/news-and-pol...

Queen Trumpette!!!!

Federal law doesn't recognize the concept of a "domestic terrorist organization." That hasn't stopped President Trump from trying to use the concept to authorize investigations of (and necessarily suppress) lots of constitutionally protected speech, protest, and advocacy. Me in today's "One First":

Good article! Many people don’t realize the coal mining begets water pollution, not just air pollution from burning the coal. www.alleghenyfront.org/monongahela-...

Like Scandinavian...but brown.

Rep. Madeleine Dean: The president is unhinged. He is unwell. Mike Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don't control him. Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn't see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

For the price of a $400 million jet/bribe, you too can get your very own US security guarantee

“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

They didn’t drain the swamp. They sold VIP tickets to it.

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

🙏 💚

“.. Bailouts of banks, hedge funds, and foreign governments have long been despised by the U.S. public, especially when households face cuts to health care and other critical services. .. Why would the United States bail out Argentina?” @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

I’m confused how it is despicable to ask that question. These are exactly the kinds of questions we have been begging reporters & TV hosts to ask. You see when they do get asked how sensitive they are about it. Much, much more of this. More crypto questions, Qatar, UAE, etc bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump and Hegseth want "to turn the U.S. military into an institution more like ICE: an internal police force, unconstrained by many laws or norms, bullying and intimidating people here at home on behalf of the current administration in Washington." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-silenc...

It’s a bad look.

NEW: The Supreme Court rules that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can keep her job, stating that the Reserve's "uniquely structured, quasi-private entity" status bars presidential removal of governors. Cook will remain until the Court hears oral argument on Trump's removal efforts in January.

(1/3) I think Ed makes a pretty strong point here about Lindsey Halligan: She hasn't been lawfully appointed under 28 U.S.C. § 546, and as he also points out, his view is supported by a 1986 OLC opinion written by some guy named … {checks notes} … Samuel A. Alito. (1/3)

Read this one sentence from Zohran Mamdani: “I will be a mayor who doesn’t bow down to corporate interests, doesn’t take his orders from billionaires, and sure as hell doesn’t let ICE steal our neighbors from their homes." It's the perfect rebuttal to "Trump's authoritarianism is a distraction."

If they claim they haven't heard the quote, play it for them and ask for a response. If they claim it's being taken out of context, play a longer version and ask for a response. If they try to sidestep the issue, play it over again and ask for a response.

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that? MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

Chilling: "The Department of War isn’t preparing to fight the Chinese. It’s getting ready to fight Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-depart...

"no more superficial individual expression"