WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

I could barely stand to listen to Trump address military brass yesterday. It was triggering. He sounded like an abuser. You can laugh if you want to. You can clap if you want to. You can leave if you want to, but you’ll lose your rank. I’m positive every woman recognized that language.

A veteran, on Pete Hegseth and Trump. 🎯🎯🎯👇

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

MIKE JOHNSON: FEMA won't be funded. It's real danger for real people COLLINS: The president talked about eliminating FEMA before this shutdown happened JOHNSON: He wants to reform FEMA

Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.

Donald Trump and his lapdog Republicans just shut down the federal government after refusing to protect Americans from an imminent spike in health insurance costs. This is what the GOP stands for.

So much corruption... @raskin.house.gov

First decline in ADP construction payrolls since 2021. (via Kev Gordon)

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life”

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Stephanopoulos: “Do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training for the U.S. military calling those people in the American city as the enemy within?” Johnson: “I'm not going to comment on your characterization of what the President said.”

Doing some historical research for a project and while it's an obvious point that we all "know" in some sense, it's bracing and shocking to be reminded of just how violent a place America has been throughout its history.

They wanted to run America like a business. They chose a CEO with a history of financial fraud who had bankrupted many of his businesses. Ergo, we have Trump shutdown #3.

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Are you sick and tired of republicans controlling the government? Tired of the circus in Washington? It's time to make sure we vote out all the republicans we can. They do not know how to govern this country and are not willing to negotiate with Democrats it's time to take their power away. #Vote

Today, Generals and Flag Officers sat there thinking, "This is the DUMBEST son of a bitch on the planet." Which one were they talking about? Take your pick.

“Don’t be fat, bullying is ok again, buy my book”

Wednesday is COMING

JB Pritzker, along With Gavin Newsom, are Taking The Fight Right Back To Chump........

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The shutdown is on Republicans. Democrats held the line and stopped 22M Americans - many making under $82k - from watching their health premiums double or even triple overnight.

Attention New Yorkers: Governor Kathy Hochul has issued inflation relief checks for anyone in the state that filed a New York State IT 201 form. The checks will be anywhere from $150-$400 depending on your income. It’s not a lot in this economy, but it’s something and I wanted to make you aware 🙏🙏💜💜

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Jasmine Crockett for Attorney General in 2028.

Here are three more factual statements: 1. 25,000 of Mike Johnson's constituents are about to lose health care 2. 27,000 more are about to have their premiums skyrocket. 3. A 60 year old couple in his district would pay $19,000 more a year.

If they claim they haven't heard the quote, play it for them and ask for a response. If they claim it's being taken out of context, play a longer version and ask for a response. If they try to sidestep the issue, play it over again and ask for a response.

AOC: "This will experiences the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence. Which is why we have to stand tall right now alongside everyday Americans who want us to be standing up."

🚨Chief of Police, Bob Day for the Portland PD addresses falsehoods that has been spread about the current situation in Portland. - A must watch. No drama, just facts. 1/2

President Jimmy Carter would have been 101 today. He had a life of service, and faithful works. When someone says one should be remembered as a servant of Christ, I look to his example within my lifetime. Love and compassion, versus hate and vitriol. #SheShed #DefendersOfDemocracy

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

Elizabeth Warren: "If fighting to reduce the cost of healthcare and avoid a coming catastrophe is not worth fighting for, then I don't know what is."

It’s going to take a lot of time and money for the next Democratic president’s administration to remove all this tacky crap.

I called Speaker Mike Johnson's office saying he needs to immediately swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.). The aide hung up on me! WOW!

Ohio’s new age verification law targeting porn goes into effect today, which means people will either have to use a VPN or submit their IDs to use Bluesky. This is Project 2025 in action. The goal is to limit freedom and make it harder to access anything remotely progressive

Are we winning yet?

HEY CORPORATE MEDIA, Say it with me. Your headline is REPUBLICAN CONGRESS FAILS TO FUND GOVERNMENT: SHUTDOWN IMMINENT Let me know if you need any help with this

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files. My team has now filed motions to defend those states against this attack on federalism in 6 of those states: ME, MI, MN, NH, OR and PA. I suggest that tomorrow DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining two: CA and NY.

I don’t need a message from Newsom. I came to that conclusion on my own. I suspect most of us did. It was based on listening to what Miller says, watching what he does, and understanding history.

Why did the GOP shut down the government? Oh, that’s right—because Fat Satan demanded it.

Generals getting lectured by a draft dodger and a drunk. Welcome to MAGAmerica.

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SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

The comedian Fred Armisen’s new album, “100 Sound Effects,” was released last Friday. On a recent episode of #NewYorkerRadio, Armisen joined Michael Schulman for an auditory tour of New York City. Listen here.