Once again, where is the CNO? SECNAV? After what just happened in Quantico, when will the military top brass speak up? I asked this after the disgrace at Ft. Bragg, too. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."

Gee, JD, maybe because the premium notices have already started going out, window shopping is already live in several states, Open Enrollment starts on November 1st and the exchanges have to reprogram their subsidy formulas any time there’s a change in them?

REMINDER: The "avg. 75% rate hikes" figure which you've seen tossed around is based on outdated data and a tax credit formula which the Trump Regime has since changed. @kff.org confirms that the ACTUAL average rate increase would be around *114%!* acasignups.net/25/09/30/114...

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

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

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at an ICE facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to Latino civil rights leaders representing his family.

It’s decision time. If we are going to fund the government, it should only be a government that respects our democracy, that isn’t corrupt, that doesn’t treat people and places that oppose President Trump as enemies, deserving of indictment or military deployment.

Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now - not just banking money for the next election. If we don't build right now, there might not be another election.

"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...

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Okay- going to call out all those countries listening to this nonsense Trump is spewing out. Didn't you coordinate with each other to do a mass walkout if this happened??

This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in www.nokings.org

Dutch late night TV has its take

Listen to @PaulaPoundstone.bsky.social 🎧 Trump “knows about important things” like my cat thinks it understands astrophysics—adorable but wrong. If you believe in expertise born from action (not bravado), help @FieldTeam6.org #RegisterDemocrats. 🐱🗳️ #Voterizer social.fieldteam6.org/s/rQ6Ep1IK

This isn't just a case of them thinking too small. The fix they're proposing will shield their Republican colleagues from facing any blowback in the midterms over the health care cuts they voted for. They've got one card to play and they're using it to bail out the GOP. Unfuckingbelievable.

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

This conversation echoes precisely the way certain white Americans talked about Indigenous Americans in the nineteenth century. It's so close it's eerie.

“There’s never been a president in our lifetimes who has excused political violence on his own side,” Robert Pape, expert in political violence, says. At a time when Trump's biggest supporters are vowing open season on the left, he's saying: Go for it. newrepublic.com/article/2004...

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine

Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

#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/

Communist regimes: Own companies Control their central banks Use tariffs to insulate their economies Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition Idolize their leaders with posters & praise Sound familiar?

Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.

One of the most important and urgent pieces I have written! contrarian.substack.com/p/our-guardr...

@aprildryan.bsky.social points out what no one is asking about Trump’s federal military crackdown: “How much is this costing the American taxpayer? There is a cost to this in cities where the crime rate has dropped”

Sorry. He can’t do this job. He is a good man. He cares. He is not the man for this moment. Gobbledegook is not the antidote to fascism.

What more needs to be said. www.youtube.com/shorts/Wxq1B...

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

Protect Rep. Jolanda Jones at all cost. Part 2:

What’s really going on in Texas? I give you Rep. Jolanda Jones in two parts speaking from temporary exile while they deny a quorum to state Republicans. She lays out every bit of it out - chapter and verse. These Texas Dems are the real deal. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social Here’s Part 1:

On the other hand, students at Brown University could take direct action by spamming those comments, making them worthless as a tool of the investigative state. Come on guys, time to think of creative ways to resist this madness!

The price of 1 lb of ground beef is now higher than the federal minimum hourly wage…

RFK Jr & his HHS has declared thimerosal dangerous. It’s not. The result? US will no longer recommend vaccines with thimerosal (a safe preservative). This lie, now policy, will ripple around the world, destroying vaccine trust, access, & uptake. A thread ⬇️ 1/

He’s not interesting. He’s not smart. He’s not anything. He’s just a mean, stupid, mediocre narcissist. https://trib.al/kLitFCz

Running this back

EPSTEIN LATEST: In light of what we released last week from my staff's investigation, I'm handing Trump's DOJ a ready-made case with seven different lines of investigation for them to follow the money on Jeffrey Epstein.

NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Challenges Bondi in new way. Read here: newrepublic.com/article/1982...

"Sadness is like a little bit of an emotional death but not a defeat if you can find a way to laugh about it. Because that laughter keeps you from having fear of it, and fear is the thing that keeps you turning to evil devices to save you from the sadness." -- Stephen Colbert

It's remarkable that the Biden administration spent money on rural red areas, which then voted enthusiastically for Trump, who has now repeatedly made moves to screw over those exact same areas.

This is patently false. DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry. But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone. This lawlessness must stop.

A periodic reminder that the DOJ lawyers current fighting to strip infants of their constitutional right to citizenship are performing monstrous deeds to promote evil aims and should face shame and disgrace for the rest of their careers. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵