“Strong yet benevolent“ no more. Today I weep as well.

📣 OK, with ~3 hours to go before the midnight government shutdown, I'm going to go through ALL 50 STATES +DC ONE BY ONE to remind everyone of how many Americans healthcare Democrats are fighting to save (and this is just #ACA exchange enrollees; don't forget about Medicaid). Please bear with me.

My next appearance: This Sunday at We The People Palooza! Join Indivisible Louisville Kentucky, me, and others to resist and energize. Indoor and Outdoor stages, short and sweet speachifying, music, food, beer. What else could you ask for? Oh, yes, a functioning democracy. We’ll discuss . .

If your child, your neighbor or anyone you know is unprotected, please do everything you can to get them to the clinic, pharmacy or health department NOW.

This is madness. There is blood all over Trump, Homan, Rubio, Nome and that ghoul Stephen Miller's hands.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

Georgia spent $54 million in under five years to administer the country’s only Medicaid program with work requirements, over twice as much as it spent to provide health care to enrollees. Now those requirements are going national and will cost every state ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/30/r...

Trump‘s speech wasn’t leadership—it was a threat. Cities as war zones, generals warned to obey or be fired, civilians framed as enemies. This isn’t politics. It’s a blueprint for authoritarian violence. If your not scare, your not paying attention.

Trump is planning martial law in real time. Wake up. He's admitting the supervillain plot.

🇺🇦😭🇺🇸 Our Beloved US American Brother Thomas Riley Hamburger, who had been serving in Ukraine as a Volunteer succumbed on the Battlefield. Honor, Glory and Gratitude To Our Brother.

House painter and father of 4 - with a 5th on the way www.npr.org/2025/09/30/g...

Today I am sending the final draft of *A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw to @uncpress.bsky.social. It's been an incredibly difficult year on a number of fronts, but today is certainly a day to celebrate and thank everyone who helped me to reach it. 🗃️

The day before Jan 6, the 10 living Secretaries of Defense wrote about the danger of politicizing the military. Their words are essential rereading today. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Those who are required to work, like Air Traffic Controllers and TSOs, still don’t get paid during the shutdown. Safety is not a political game. As aviation’s first responders, we and our fellow aviation workers deserve better. The flying public deserves better, too.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Nevada voter, my firm has filed a new lawsuit in Nevada state court challenging a ballot initiative seeking to undermine and alter the state's current redistricting process. www.democracydocket.com/cases/nevada...

Trump posts this AI video on Truth Social tonight where he has Schumer saying that Democrats are all “woke pieces of shit.” I guess the hat means Jeffries is a migrant or something.

Thousands of new jobs. Medicaid expansion. Medical debt relief. Improved public education. Revitalized rural communities. These are just a few of Roy Cooper's accomplishments for North Carolina. Imagine what he can do in the U.S. Senate. Elect Democrat Roy Cooper U.S. Senate, North Carolina

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Immigration experts warn the Trump administration is trying to keep a DACA recipient in detention so her protected status expires.

And evidence that he wasn’t just following orders.

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ICE Trump regime trooper stands on top a mother with his fist clenched after shoving her to the ground in front of her children. US media allege he was removed but MAGA insiders such as propagandist Jack Posobiec, claim he's being reinstated. Abusing women & children is a MAGA principle.

A majority of US children rely on Medicaid or CHIP, new study finds | via Nada Hassanein #ksleg

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting The names of the dead and wounded Jose Andres Bordones-Molina Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

Release journalist Steve Held.

Portland braces for the same violence seen in Chicago and LA. Watch as one protester in Chicago removes his shirt to reveal all places he was shot by projectiles. The US government firing indiscriminately upon protesters and press alike. No one, regardless of political party, should support this

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Mexican Repatriation was deployed during the Great Depression. Local thugs helped the federal government deport Mexican Americans—40-60% of whom were US citizens. We have a long history of making Mexicans the scapegoat at times of economic uncertainty. 🫤 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican...

This is not a law enforcement operation. Trump himself said this is WAR—and that the TROOPS he is deploying to Oregon are there to break a SIEGE and fight SEDITION using FULL FORCE. This is not what happened in DC. This is not what almost happened in Chicago. This is something new. From the NYT:

This is one of my biggest concerns over the BBB (Big Bastardly Bill). They are already offering to pick up various costs for local police departments if they team with ICE. It’s a HUGE bribe!!! 😡😡😡 youtu.be/DTK8N-9CA7A?...

Another inexplicable insurance denial for mental health care. Their son was 'too unstable to function outside of hospital.' Insurance denied his mental health treatment anyway.

Sure seems like the president just instructed the military to use lethal force against US citizens.

Oh no. I will never be able to be an FBI agent.

Why isn't anyone investigating this?!

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

As a current federal employee, I’m all in.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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"Beckwith reminded him of the federal court order [restricting CBP operations]... "At 10:57, she emailed him to reiterate she expected 'compliance with court orders and the Constitution.' "Hours later, her work cellphone went dark. Then her computer did, too." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

GOP doxxed Mikie Sherrill Take action against GOP JERKS www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve... #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #ResistanceUnited #MomSky #BlueCrew #FightBack

Yesterday, Meta unveiled a new "feed" on its platforms that will exclusively feature AI-generated videos. This overshadowed another big announcement... On Tuesday, Meta launched a super new PAC geared towards electing politicians that will block any AI regulation. Hello?

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database. Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away. The cruelty is the point.

The National Archives under the Trump administration released @mikiesherrill.bsky.social full, unredacted Navy personnel file to Jack Ciattarelli's campaign. This is an unprecedented and illegal weaponization of the National Archives and private, personal records to attack a political opponent.

On 11/4, PA votes in a critical election for the Supreme Court. The current 5–2 Dem majority has upheld reproductive rights, environmental protections & fair maps. Now GOP groups are spending big to flip the court. ✅ Vote YES to retain the justices. #PACourtsMatter

This smells like big trouble. If the government shuts down, will Trump declare another phony "emergency" and deploy the military?