American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

23 Democrats decide to

I think they’re setting things up behind the scenes for JD. This Epstein files will come out eventually. Maybe before midterms, maybe after. The second it does the GOP, collectively, will throw Trump under the bus like he’s a live grenade, and pivot towards the new lackey in less than a news cycle.

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.

DO NOT CAVE!

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Do Not Cave!!!!! The results of caving will be catastrophically worse!!!

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Delta flight attendant breaks down how flights will be cancelled moving forward.

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

A father suffered violent seizures his arms locked around his toddler after an ICE GOONS allegedly beat and grabbed him by the neck in Fitchburg, MA. Link- www.wcvb.com/article/fitc...

BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I hope he keeps up this level of transparency throughout his term

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

Stop by one of our free vaccine clinics open now through mid-December. Check the schedule and find which vaccines are available at boston.gov/vaccineclinics. #Boston #PublicHealth

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Lovely last summer day in Boston

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

"Reign of terror"??? Look, if you don't want the oatmilk latte, just don't order the friggin' oatmilk latte!!!

He wants to start a Civil War so he can suspend elections and stay in power.

Did Sinclair buy stock in YouTube?

At 1am Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue with Robert De Niro already has 1 million views. Guess that black out backfired badly.

What a reasonable and proportional suggestion from Watters. The WW1 kicked off with the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand. The WW3 will be kicked off over a broken escalator. Trump made French President Macron walk 30min to the UN last night and you don’t see him having a tantrum.

Stations refusing to air Jimmy Kimmel

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

Fuck you, make me. I do love John Oliver.

I’m sad that the world is so shitty on a daily news cycle basis that Robert Redford of all people couldn’t get his day of morning. Absolutely no one on either side of the isle, any isle, would be able to say a bad thing about the man. While absolutely everyone everyone would have a good thing to say

Every time Harrison Butker misses a kick a woman gets admitted to college.

HBO has Fuck You money. They’d be stupid not to lean into this moment, let John Oliver be John Oliver, bring in Colbert and Kimmel. They may lose some of the Maher fans but in general his fans care so little about affecting political discourse they won’t cut off their subscriptions to make a stand.

If Hollywood went on strike right now, I’d fully support it. I’d donate to a GoFund me for the workers out of a job. Stop watching sports. Get the scores later, it’s not like you watching influences the games. Turn everything off, read books until this regime has bankrupted themselves.

This is damning testimony from Susan Monarez. She was fired from her job as CDC Director for refusing to rubber-stamp RFK Jr.’s unscientific orders. Her testimony confirms what we already know: RFK Jr. is unfit to serve. He must resign.

This is what he said? These people are such whiny fucking snowflakes. It's so mild. I cannot believe that they're pulling the show over this.

Jasmine Crockett representing Texas, 30th congressional district today at the FBI oversight hearing

👇👇

Don’t be an asshole 2 these guys. They don’t want 2 be there. Express sympathy that they’re being pulled from their lives, thank them for signing up 2 help our country in times of actual distress, and leave them with a better view of the city they’re being forced 2 occupy than FOX tells them 2 have.

Going to spend the day with Ken Burns, imagining a world where this chaos eventually leads us to something better.

Didn't feel safe in NYC. Got shot in Utah. Right winger discovers reality does not match his bullshit.

This is how we learn from the Charlie Kirk killing.

And if we don’t admit it was Charlie Kirk conservatives and people like him who broke it we will be down this road again

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

The only way to deal with a tyrant is to stand up to him. Harvard — where I taught many years ago — is doing just that.

the Biden library plans, now set for Delaware: Biden’s team envisions constructing an “immersive museum” to recap his legacy and wants the library to become “a hub for leadership, service, and civic engagement. www.cnn.com/2025/09/06/p...

Tim Walz: "Where are the don't tread on me people? You are being tread on every single day. These folks are enriching themselves. The most successful thing he's done is grift off the American people."