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FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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.”

The way this made me laugh! 🤣

“.. It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.” @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“.. weakest September for job creation since 2011 ..” > @weisenthal.bsky.social

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones: "In New Hampshire we do not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants, we have never done that, and you are just wrong."

LOL Nice, @mcbride.house.gov.

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

It’s a bad look.

N.C. waterfront restaurant mass shooting suspect was obsessed with anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theories www.advocate.com/cri... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Take it from Mr. Art of the Deal, if there’s a shutdown, the president is to blame.

Breaking: The federal government has shut down under Donald Trump again.

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Phang: So, as we can see you have a DHS official—you clearly hear him say on that body cam footage, “I am arresting the mayor. Even though he stepped out, I’m going to put him in cuffs.” Who told him to do it? He says: the Deputy Attorney General… And who’s that? Todd Blanche.

Brendan Carr must resign. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

🚨🚨🚨Newly released footage of the premeditated, politically motivated arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka. This arrest is a crime! 1/2

🚨The Russian asset in the White House & his regime just visually catalogued every single flag officer in our military, and televised it across the globe. If that does not raise massive alarm bells for you, then you are woefully fucking stupid.

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

Joni Ernst’s lifelong legacy for women serving in the military from her time in the Senate is Pete Hegseth. Every woman denied promotion, denied a job specialty, sexually harassed, or forced out for bs reasons, owes it all to Ernst and the Republican Party.

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

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

Over a two-year period, prosecutors across 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, with most of the charges originating in states with near or total abortion bans, according to a new report released Tuesday.

Erasing history.

"Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy is donating $100,000 from his political fund to the progressive organizing group Indivisible — the latest in a series of donations he says total nearly $1 million to grassroots groups taking on the Trump administration..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Update from Portland: supplies running low. Please send fig jam and artisanal cheeses. For the jam, prefer GF, vegan, small batch, processed by a guy named River, who only stirs it during Mercury retrograde.

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

On this episode of 'Headlines That Aged Like Month-Old Milk'... Got any comment on this @thehill.com?

"This could have been an email." -800 generals and their staffs

California is awarding $127M in grants to local communities for programs that address the mental health & drug issues on our streets. This adds to the multi-billion-dollar investment we've made to support substance abuse treatment & mental health services to keep families safe.

Mornin, @thehill.com

#Epstein 218

Wow! This ICE agent has bigger problems than just dropping his gun. Just asking questions: why is tough guy pointing a gun at bystanders, and does he even notice that the magazine is on the ground too?

Jeffries: "Trump, get back to DC. Why are you at a golf event right now & the govt is 4 days away from closing? That's outrageous. And it speaks to the fact that these extremists could care less about the health, safety, and economic well-being of the American people. They're on vacation right now."

“Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants… www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Imagine the response if a Dem Administration removed every top general and admiral from every US military post all around the world (including conflict zones), in order to force them to attend a big in-person meeting in DC (with a former cable news co-host). www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

She’s not done yet 🎥✨ Another Maria-inspired surprise lands tomorrow! Pre-order No Exit, the Remastered & Expanded Deluxe Edition, out October 31 on digital, CD & vinyl (for the first time ever).

Jimmy Kimmel did a great job w the monologue. I really appreciated that he made clear that this is much bigger than him. He even mentioned the awful new Pentagon policy. Gift link to story about the policy: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

As I was saying…

Reminds me of how the Koch brothers funded the “grass roots” tea party.

It's grape picking season and "Alma" works 7-8 hours a day in the Madera CA area. She is picking a special black grape for wine. She gets paid minimum wage and no benefits despite temps being above 100°. She doesn't have a choice. Her work feeds her family. #WeFeedYou #CALOR

Release the Homan files and tapes.