Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"

Lawrence O’Donnell is on fire tonight.

HEY CORPORATE MEDIA, Say it with me. Your headline is REPUBLICAN CONGRESS FAILS TO FUND GOVERNMENT: SHUTDOWN IMMINENT Let me know if you need any help with this

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Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

A 79-year-old Los Angeles business owner has filed a $50 million federal administrative claim alleging he was body-slammed & detained by ICE during a raid at his Van Nuys car wash earlier this month. He suffered multiple broken ribs, elbow injuries & a brain injury. abcnews.go.com/US/79-year-u...

Trump's branded Bible—now an Oklahoma school requirement—includes copies of key American documents .... However, the Constitution provided was 160 years out of date and excluded more than a dozen (seemingly specific) amendments. ... Like the abolition of slavery & women's suffrage. trib.al/Ci8ivsl

I called on Trump months ago to work with California on expanding our successful $750M California Film & TV Tax Credit into a national program. Instead of just waving his arms and yelling “TARIFFS,” how about we do something that will actually work?

BREAKING: The White House claimed the FBI deep state targeted Homan in the $50K bag-o-cash bribe for government contracts, but it was actually a fellow ICE colleague that steered undercover agents to Homan. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

It's hard to fathom the speed with which we fell from the nation which was about to cure cancer with mNRA vaccines to one that wants to ban Tylenol for pregnant women.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

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.”

“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*

What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”

For years, influencer Nick Fuentes was too extreme even for MAGA. Now he's working his way into the mainstream—and has a plan for his secret followers to seize the levers of power.

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All we have to do is win. #Mets #LFGM 💙🧡

It’s going to be a long afternoon. #Mets #LGM 🧡💙🧡💙

You know what treason looks like? A convicted criminal using the White House to send troops as his personal army to peaceful American cities that he hates in order to instill fear and create chaos.

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Klobuchar: "When I questioned AG Bondi during her confirmation hearing, she assured me that politics would not play a role, that they would make independent decisions. That is not what this is. This is a vengeance prosecution. It is not about the law."

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

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A full-blown AP article about the US becoming “Little Turkey”: “.. Trump is emulating Erdogan much faster than I expected,” said Henri Barkey, a Turkish professor .. “We have to see if Trump is going to go to that next step.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

Donald Trump is using federal agents to stoke fear and violate constitutional rights — all with the aims of expanding his control and sending military troops to our cities. It’s unlawful and un-American. We must all stand up and speak out against fanning the flames of violence.

Republicans don't need a single democrat to keep the government open. If the government shuts down, it's because republicans want it to.

Never forget!!

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

It’s a fact. Data from three decades of political violence reveals that right-wing terror attacks outnumber attacks from the left. And it’s not even close!

Portland is not "war ravaged." This is delusional and dangerous. Sending troops into American cities doesn't make our communities safer — it just stokes fear and stirs up chaos. Trump is plunging further into authoritarianism every single day.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Thank you to all who called or emailed to complain. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

I honestly don’t care about James Comey. But I want to live in a democratic republic. His indictment proves we live in a banana republic, where the autocrat personally orders indictments of his political enemies, and when his own officials refuse he finds new ones that will.

If we're finally going to crack down about lying to Congress under oath, I think there are several Cabinet members and a few Supreme Court justices whose testimonies might need revisiting.

MAJOR BREAKING: At the U.S. Open, Donald Trump laughed about whether he would have been invited to the ROLEX luxury suite if not for his TARIFFS.

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

Watching the Ryder Cup, listening to the commentary re the orange megalomaniac and it’s clear - the country has normalized him and his un-American, unconstitutional, unkind, and authoritarian behavior. We are lost. My heart weeps.

“The cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made him seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is, sapping strength from others who might have discovered the courage to stand up” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...