A few minutes ago in the House: - Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week - House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

The reason people THINK employer coverage is significantly less expensive than ACA coverage is because around 75% of the premium cost is typically PAID BY THE EMPLOYER. ACA tax credits effectively take the place of the employer's share of ESI premiums.

Un-fucking-believable

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

@senatorhick.govpeeps.us @bennet.senate.gov @pettersen.house.gov Do it. He is behind everything terrible this admin is doing. Trump is just a puppet.

This is the lesson of 2025

"The broader goal is the militarization of major cities before 2026 elections... Next year, I fear that what they're gonna do is deploy these folks to polling places & say they're protecting the vote. Trump knows without these breaches of the Constitution, he's gonna lose Congress." - Gov. Pritzker

“Liberals must get out of their progressive bubble and fight!” Powerful interview with Charlie Sykes one of the leaders of the “never Trump” movement, on the disastrous failure to stop Trump’s return to the White House open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

California is the 4th largest economy in the world. It’s time it and other blue states used their economic clout to fight Trump’s agenda. The latest from @clarajeffery.bsky.social:

Of course he’s back. He’s their ideal employee.

Illinois just joined the legal fight to keep Trump from sending red states National Guards into blue states. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10... Once you start looking for evidence that soft secession might happen you see it everywhere: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hey @colorado.gov are you paying attention???

The trickle ain't tricklin' 😒

Trump and the GOP are gearing up for Martial Law. Suspending our rights, punting the elections, crushing critics, and elevating Trump into Supreme Leader. Every week, they're searching for their Reichstag Fire or trying to create one.

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

How can this be happening? Why can’t governors call up their own state National Guard so Trump can’t? How tf do we stop this???

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits.

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans." REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

What do you want to bet this guy is a sociopath and domestic abuser? This is assault and abuse of power, pure and simple.

Republicans said Democrats shut down the government because they want health care for immigrants in the U.S. illegally. That’s False. Democrats want to reverse parts of Trump’s spending law that made some legal immigrants ineligible for health care.

After shutting down the government, House Republicans went on vacation all this week. Now they're on vacation ALL NEXT WEEK, TOO. It's absurd. No one should pretend Republicans care about reopening government or saving your health care.

"America is 'going in an authoritarian direction at an accelerated pace', with centralisation and personalisation of power under Trump, attacks on independent institutions, and criminalisation of protests. 'All the US’s checks and balances are collapsing.'” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-madnes...

Exactly this. He has no idea what’s really going on. Stephen Miller and the other sociopaths just feed him BS, wind him up, and turn him in the direction they want. He’s completely clueless.

“F—k them kids!” That’s what federal agents said about the half-naked children zip-tied together & dragged into the streets of Chicago in the dead of night Tuesday morning during one of Convicted Felon Trump’s raids. Americans MUST speak up now to save this country. youtu.be/XIukXTZNXN4?...

And if Republicans do the right thing, they’ll take all the credit.

This is it exactly - they would rather lose their own healthcare than help a single immigrant. What is wrong with these people?

Hatch Act violation in plain sight.

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.

“This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That’s how he had money.” Who was Epstein blackmailing? Well, look who shut down the government to hide the files. Maybe they know. https://bit.ly/475oQal

The ACA subsidies @ center of this fight will cost $358B in the next decade, 35.8B/year. Seems like a lot, but don’t forget that we’re set to send $20 billion to bail out Argentina just bc Milei is Trumps bro. In the big scheme it’s couch change but w/out it, millions can’t afford health insurance!

This is f***ed up. Illegal, too.

“If they can see it, they can be it.” #RepresentationMatters

Still gives me nightmares. Trunk and his ilk are reprehensible psychopaths. Never acquiesce to these people. They have no honor or morals and care only about themselves.

gift link - no paywall. very much worth reading: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

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."

"Not a single Democrat has talked about wanting to fund care for people in the United States unlawfully. Instead, what Democrats have said is they want to undo Medicaid cuts projected to leave nearly 10 million Americans uninsured." Eh, close enough!

Our democracy is badly broken when a president can illegally suspend projects for Blue states in order to punish his political enemies. They continue to break the law, and expect us to go along. Hell no.

Not to fan the flames, but if we’re having to fight an invading force, does that mean we’re at war? I think we need to stay talking about this very real possibility.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned much: Republicans could have passed whatever budget they wanted without Dem votes...if they hadn't already used reconciliation to force Trump's billionaire tax cuts and slash Medicaid and SNAP.

Troops, Military Families, and Veterans all are going to get screwed by the #TrumpShutdown, but at least construction of his ballroom is considered more urgent and won't stop.

These states are mostly blue, meaning they are net givers to the federal budget. Can we stop sending $$ to the federal gov that misuses hand abuses it?

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Little Mike (Fake Moses) is a LIAR.