Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

“Enshittification” was a term coined by Cory Doctorow, in 2022, to describe how the technologies that dominated our daily lives seemed to be all getting worse at the same time. Now, in a new book, he expands on the word that has become bleakly relevant.

The bogus claim that the ACA extensions were giveaways to undocumented immigrants caromed through the MAGAsphere, and Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson took up the baseless charge with gusto, writes @chrislehmann.bsky.social. https://bit.ly/3KQ33e7

Here’s my article on how a government shutdown works. Shutdowns are complicated, and each shutdown is different. Some things stay open. Some stay open for a bit and eventually close. Some close immediately. I did my best to explain it all here:

Every #ShutDown is a chance to gut NPS staffing and privatize public lands. Lay-offs are still in the works. Call Congress and demand they not go through a Reduction in Force on the Dept of Interior or Park Service! We're partnering with @5calls.org to #RehireRangers: 5calls.org/issue/public...

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know. A great soul if ever there was one www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

🎯 @repdean.bsky.social is right, and @SpeakerJohnson knows it. What is it called when everyone in a group is too afraid to criticize the leader for something they know is objectively wrong?

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi is a writer and poet living in Gaza. Words are everything to her. But the relentless trauma of the genocide is robbing her of her ability to say those words out loud—and she's not alone. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

It’s fitting that Rep. Joe Wilson's 2009 lie about the ACA, which is now old enough to have a learner’s permit, is the Trumpified GOP’s only threadbare rationale for allowing a shutdown to proceed, writes @chrislehmann.bsky.social. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/government-shutdown-aca/

Tech workers in the most corporate, nerdy, non-union, Northface-wearing-ass environment you can imagine have been putting their jobs, safety, and even immigration status on the line to try to stop a genocide, writes @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The government funding talks are not good-faith political negotiations; this is a hostage situation, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social. Do exactly what Trump wants, the Democrats are being told, or hundreds of thousands of workers will lose their livelihoods. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Whilst on the Global Samud Flotilla, Greta Thunberg clapped back at Trump 👉 "The statements that some of the world's most powerful people are making are nothing less than out of a parody." The climate crisis is real & it's here — for a world where we can all thrive, we need concrete actions now!

What would it mean for the Democrats to “win” the government shutdown? “Maybe winning, here, is showing a pulse,” @jonallsop.bsky.social writes.

US tourism is facing a sharp decline in 2025 as political backlash, tariffs, and visa chaos drive away foreign visitors and billions in spending.

Yes... we are definitely on our own.

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

This is absolutely horrifying. Every Republican should condemn this immediately. newrepublic.com/post/201016/...

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.

The National Lawyers Guild national office has launched a federal defense hotline, for activitists subjected to unlawful FBI door knocks, violations of civil rights, & use of unidentified agents to police protests. Call 212-679-2811 to make a report. #pdx @pdxoregon50501.bsky.social #Portland

Call Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, and ask him why he's protecting pedofiles and childhood sex traffickers. His official DC numbers are: (202) 225-4000 and (202) 225-2777 Bossier City office: (318) 840-0309 DeRidder office: (337) 226-6385 Leesville office: (337) 423-4232 Be relentless.

“I’ve not heard of anything this egregious — a donor calling up and saying I need help and getting it,” one disaster relief expert said, “while others may be getting denied assistance or otherwise waiting in line for help that may or may not come.”

Congratulations, @billmckibben.bsky.social!

“As voters desperately try to detect a principled stand or a remnant of fighting spirit in FDR’s party, they’re given just more triangulation in a vacuum: Let them eat targeted tax credits.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

More than 100,000 federal workers are going to formally resign tomorrow, the largest such mass event in US history. This is part of a Trump program to dramatically gut the federal workforce. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Starting in 1 hour: Don't miss our virtual event on the upcoming Supreme Court term with Justin Levitt, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, and Nancy Gertner. https://www.americanprogress.org/events/twenty-years-of-the-roberts-court-the-chief-justices-legacy-and-the-coming-term/

We’re living through a golden age for losers who don’t seem to realize how much they keep telegraphing their loserdom to the rest of us. They preen and pose as world-conquering superheroes while continually exposing just how sniveling and pathetic they really are. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

JUST IN: Trump floats using U.S. cities as military "training grounds"

Demanding an end to Italy’s complicity in the Gaza genocide, half a million people abandoned their workplaces, schools, and universities. Niccolò Barca writes that they were inspired by a slogan: “Blocchiamo tutto.” (“Let’s block everything.”) www.thenation.com/article/worl...

It's been just over a week since our huge day of action for solar energy and we aren't stopping there. Want to know what comes next? Join us TOMORROW at 8pm ET for a webinar on how we can keep building momentum ☀️✊ Register here: bit.ly/3Kjr3Go

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson and Governor Tina Kotek out in Portland yesterday. @mayorkwilson.bsky.social @tinakotek.bsky.social @indivisible.org @coin-indivisible.bsky.social #nokings @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @pdxoregon50501.bsky.social

Always loved that Arby's/coal fact, and the coal industry has shrunk a lot since then. The piece also noted more people work in museums than in coal..... (and Mr. Weinstein is responding to yet more coal-industry welfare in the name of jobs.)

Mainstream journalists have failed to describe the full extent of Trump’s newly energized radicalism, choosing to focus on whether his ravings are factual or legal rather than examining the larger ideological goals he is pursuing.

Kudos to the state of Oregon for immediately fighting back against Trump’s authoritarianism. Tyranny is only possible when we submit to it. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/oregon-sues-trump-administration-deployment-national-guard-troops-port-rcna234307