When the President threatens to fire federal workers if there is a shutdown, you know he doesn’t care about serving the people or saving money. Who is he fighting for? Just the uber wealthy, not the rest of us. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

Democrats want a bipartisan budget that protects healthcare & lowers costs. Trump & the GOP want tax breaks for billionaires & scraps for working people. Guess who’s holding the government hostage? #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

Republicans plan on cutting healthcare for Americans and laying off more government workers. If Dems were in  power, they would not do that. They are not in power, but I am grateful they are fighting this every way they can. #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

Trump & the Senate Republicans would rather shut down the government than ensure millions of Americans can keep their healthcare. How messed up is that! #ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

In other words: Democrats are fighting to keep people healthy and economically secure, Trump is using federal employees like hostages, and Congressional Republicans are fighting only to keep tax cuts for the uber wealthy. Do I have that right? This is Trumps Shutdown.

There isn't any question this is Trump's Shutdown Because Republicans control all levers of government-the House, the Senate, the presidency and even the Supreme Court Now he's threatening to throw a temper tantrum at the expense of federal employees Showing just exactly how weak he is

A shutdown can be avoided. Republicans should: Cancel the cuts Lower the costs Save your health care Democrats will NOT back down. We're fighting to protect affordable care and put patients before politics. #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown 🗣️ @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social

Trump blames Democrats for “violence” while unleashing untrained thugs who drop their guns, aim at bystanders for filming, and terrorize immigrants just trying to work. These Gestapo tactics must end. This was in Maryland.

Republicans have argued that Democrats should stop calling ICE agents thugs Perhaps instead, they should start telling ICE agents TO STOP ACTING LIKE THUGS

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

How do @corporate.comcast.com / @xfinity survive this many decades with such horrible service and customer support?

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.

L’Shanah Tovah to those celebrating these Days of Awe. May the spirit of renewal and forgiveness help us find a way forward to a sweet new year and a brighter future, where we find truth, compassion, and justice prevailing.

🚨Protest Power WINS They caved. Disney folded under the weight of public fury. Jimmy Kimmel is back on your screens TOMORROW. 📺✊🔥

#MorningVibe In this scene from Lessons in Chemistry, Elizabeth Zott challenges that a woman’s worth is tied to the home, to motherhood, & to supporting others rather than leading them. Age, sexuality, ability, or circumstance be damned. Don’t let your dreams die.

A bit of James Baldwin today: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

Trump's latest power grab is trying to rig election maps in his favor. Stop his assault on democracy. CALIFORNIA, Vote Yes on Prop 50 on November 4th. #YesOn50

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

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Thank goodness other countries still have employed comedians. This was BRILLIANT 😂🤣😂 Also: F*ck you, Disney.

Donald Trump can't win the 2026 midterms fair and square - so he's trying to cheat by calling up his cronies in red states and asking for seats. California: YOU have the power to stop him. #YesOn50

It wasn’t on my bingo card but I’m always glad for reminders … we can find common ground. If we remember that, we can build on it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... At least the Courts still seem to understand the 1st Amendment. If only the networks and telecoms did.

Let’s be clear, GOP feel entitled to control & be in every aspect of your life as their religious imperative from GOD! GOP want to be in your bedroom & dr’s office with bans on birth control, abortion, IVF & vaccines; everywhere from home to work banning free speech, books, education, culture!

As National Voter Registration Week comes to an end, I just want to congratulate the @votersoftomorrow.org chapters that collectively registered THOUSANDS of students since Monday. Genuinely couldn't be prouder of our team.

Didn’t I tell you this was a solid PAC to entrust with your donations? Voters of Tomorrow attracts young people whose hearts are given to standing for human rights in all its forms. People as young as 12 provide—& learn—leadership here. And they make an appreciable difference in voting numbers!

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

⚠️🚨⚠️ The Department of Education is working with 41 Conservative groups, including Turning Point USA, Moms for Liberty, and the Heritage Foundation, to lead civics programming for what they are calling “patriotic education.” Grants from $23M to $160M, to rewrite history and cut out the hard truths.

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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I am actually sad to have to say this since I have admired much about Disney CEO Bob Iger over the years, but what a profoundly quisling move this is by someone who knows better. It’s shameful and he has tarnished his once proud reputation.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

"No right was deemed by the fathers of the government more sacred than the right of speech. It was in their eyes, as in the eyes of all thoughtful men, the great moral renovator of society and government." ― Frederick Douglass, activist and author

I pledge to faithfully watch any bold new network that platforms the amazing talent that is now looking for a home, from Stephen Colbert to Karen Attiah to Jimmy Kimmel. Come on rich people - here’s a very obvious biz opportunity tied up with a bow! #MomSky

On social media Wednesday night, after Kimmel’s suspension was announced, The Onion’s Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social wrote: “[it’s] Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love.”

It is not about Kimmel or what he said. It is about the US government forcing a network to fire someone - no government should have that power. If the network decided this on their own, that’s one thing. But in this case they absolutely did not.

Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.

This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment. This is the litmus test. Learn from history. Who will step up and fight? Who will bend the knee and be complicit? History will remember.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

In a world where so many have trouble finding love, why choose hate?

Brian Kilmeade and Fox wants Genocide of homeless human beings: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill 'em." Kilmeade is trying to normalize Genocide. There's absolutely no other way to frame this: "The Final Solution" – different group, different decade, same thing.

The Evergreen High School shooter’s social media accounts were filled with white supremacist content, posts exhibiting a fascination with mass shootings and reposted videos that “were explicitly antisemitic or depicted people in Nazi uniforms. coloradonewsline.com/briefs/everg...

It really is so striking how much The Discourse operates untethered from…what we actually know. The killer is still at large! We have no idea who did it! Seems pretty important to get that sorted.

#ItsTheGuns It doesn’t have to be this way. We shouldn’t have to mourn so many young people. www-denverpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.denv...

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.