Pay has not kept up with productivity. There's a thousand charts showing how this started to fall in the 1970s and hasn't recovered since.

Whoever donald don't pardon in this administration GOTTA GO TO JAIL!!!

“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation” Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in. The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight. They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night. “Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

Trump golfing today during the government shutdown

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

Despite the GOP talking points, WE can stay peaceful

Yes. I would expect lawsuits immediately. There are clear rules for RIFs, and this seemingly violates all of them. Thank a federal worker, though - a good chunk of them are working without pay, even more of them are wondering if they’ll have to fight to even HAVE a job. Morale sucks right now.

TCM's running the 1962 version of "The Manchurian Candidate" right now - it's almost over. There are several scenes that would strike a chord with those of us opposed to what the GOP is, at this point in time. There are Lincoln symbols throughout the movie, to make it clear+

OUR tax dollars are being used to bail out Argentina, OUR troops are being put on the ground in Israel & OUR soil is being used by Qatar for a military base of their own. While OUR government is shutdown. Anyone who believes OUR so-called “president” when he says he is “America first”, is an idiot.

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"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

Make sure everyone knows: these mass firings are NOT because of the shutdown. Trump doesn’t have to fire any of these people—he’s choosing to do it as an intimidation tactic. Difficult to overstate how stupid and reckless this is.

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Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th” 👉👉 nokings.org

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎 Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org #BeThere 👍

To put it in cancer terms, the U.S. is stage 3.

I can't even begin to imagine the spittle inducing rage we'd see on Fox News, for weeks on end, if Biden had let Qatar build a "facility" on U.S. soil.

Fighting for the independence of the judiciary matters. We know this is true, because Trump is trying to take it away. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Recommend you follow the @steadystatevets.bsky.social! They are fighting the Trump Admin move to authoritarianism!

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Like he told them - "I don't need you, I just need your vote". MAGA on Trump: "😂 what a kidder!" You still laughing now, MAGA?😐

Trump takes corruption to a new level—pocketing a $400M jet from Qatar, planning a $5.5B Trump-branded resort in Doha, and greenlighting a Qatari airbase in Idaho in return. Peter Thiel and Musk have also taken large sums from Qatar. Clearly, money matters more than this country.

not gonna lie, I see Peter Thiel trending and throw up in my mouth a bit, from anxiety. that man *is* the antichrist

Billionaires, politicians, and billionaire politicians can get all the checkups they want. Reminder that the government is shut down over whether the rest of us deserve to afford checkups at all.

Pro Tip: POTUS that respect our service members don’t leave them standing around for an hour just because they can. Guys who only see them as props do that, Trump would disown one of his own kids if they joined the armed services. He wouldn’t invite wounded vets to ‘CA’ finales.

It’s ironic that Trump is receiving his government subsidized healthcare while MAGA shuts down our country to take away healthcare from millions. Got email this week that my plan thru NY State of Health will end next July. As a freelancer ACA was a blessing these last 15 years.

The fact that we are even talking about Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize feels indicative of mass psychosis. The dude spent most of his adult life sexually assaulting women, girls and breaking the laws of business, morality and democracy. He is the most unpeaceful cunt ever.

Pro Tip: If Vladimir Putin says you deserve the Nobel Peace Prize you DO NOT deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

The brave Secretary of War who had US service members literally rolling out the red carpet for Putin will now have them cleaning toilets on a Qatari Airforce base in Idaho. You think operational maintenance and housekeeping isn’t part of the deal Kushner cut? America First, baby.

Banana republic shit. If the reported facts are accurately, this is going to be a colossal embarrassment for DOJ.

Nothing to see here, just Trump going for his second “yearly” checkup this year. Anyone ready to admit that something is wrong with POTUS yet?

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs: 1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt? 2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies? 3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

Karoline Leavitt is a disgrace to not only Christianity, but the human race. The utter gaul of her to wear a big ol' cross to manipulate people into thinking she can be trusted!

RIFs during a shutdown are 100% illegal. @oversightdemocrats.house.gov Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia and I called on @USGAO to investigate Russ Vought’s illegal directive ordering agencies to fire federal workers in violation of the Antideficiency Act. This scheme needs to be investigated.

I love this image.

And the scum around him just stand around like this is normal. They should realize they're no better than any other group that's backed a dictator.

If you missed Trump‘s speech to the military leadership, or have been snoozing since he resumed Office, it appears that he and roughly 30% of the voting population that support him, want the 70% that does not to give up our liberties and freedom. If we don’t, he will take them using our military.

Donald Trump: Stop trying to incite Illinoisans into violence. Pack up and go home.

Thank God a clearly demented "non-doctor" and a former heroin addict whose brains were feasted on by worms aren't making life and death science and medical decisions on behalf of 330 million Americans. Oh wait. They are, aren't they? 🫤

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

The GOP doesn’t hate pedophiles. You don’t protect the people you hate.

This economy, Trump’s economy, has pretty much destroyed my art career that I have built up for many decades. Paintings aren’t selling, and normally at this time of year in October I have about 15 holiday commissions lined up. I have one right now Trying to figure things out