Earlier this week I joined colleagues in urging Sec. Rubio to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla. Now my constituent, Zuleyka Morales Rivera, a U.S. veteran, has been abducted with other Americans bringing aid to Gaza. The State Department must act now to protect all captives.

It also means we can arrest them later. Bribery is also a state crime.

"If they can arrest James Comey, they can definitely arrest Google CEO Sundar Pichai. But the rest of us now have to live in a country that is much closer to oligarchy, thanks in large part to the quiescence of the tech bros who fashion themselves as defenders of free speech." — @lizdye.bsky.social

“If you can beat the oligarchs here…that will send a message to every community in America that real change is possible.” More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.

On this point, Jesse Lee nails it:

still absolutely frying me that Pete Davidson went and performed a comedy show for the guys who murdered his father

A serious problem is that eight years after we learned via multiple documented sources that the president is a habitual and serial liar, our US Senators still haven’t figured it out. Tell them he also can’t be trusted to follow through on any “negotiated” agreements.

“I have no idea what Project 2025 is.” - Trump, October 31, 2024

Herriot Tabuteau combined his Yale medical degree and two decades in finance to start Axsome Therapeutics. Now the company has three drugs on the market and five more in the pipeline.

Me, to @chrislhayes.bsky.social on @allinwithchris.bsky.social on @msnbc.com last night: "[Lindsey Halligan] has no more authority than you or I or my two corgis to present an indictment to a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia."

The president gave an incoherent rambling speech in front of the generals and the media hasn’t talked about it. But they still bring up Biden.

This is such great news. @ashleyallison.bsky.social is the truth! www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/m...

Remember the MAGA GOP in DC comes from states. These are those from #Michigan. If u want to stop MAGA, Dems need to focus on the states instead of just the president.

Reminder: Best reporting on Harvard v Trump is consistently in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social Today: Why the fed shutdown freezes Trump's ability to *appeal* the fed court ruling that went 100% against him and ordered admin to start releasing funds. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

NEW: THREAD: Just a small collection of propaganda emails sent by the regime to federal employees who have sent them to me on the condition of anonymity. First, we all saw the HUD banner from Tuesday morning. 1/

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MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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The government funding talks are not good-faith political negotiations; this is a hostage situation, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social. Do exactly what Trump wants, the Democrats are being told, or hundreds of thousands of workers will lose their livelihoods. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Tech workers in the most corporate, nerdy, non-union, Northface-wearing-ass environment you can imagine have been putting their jobs, safety, and even immigration status on the line to try to stop a genocide, writes @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Trump budget chief says firings are coming in 'one to two' days due to shutdown www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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

When will democrats push back against the use of the word ‘clean by republicans when they refer to the CR? There’s nothing ‘clean about it. It allows continuation of all the absurd cuts being made on health care and giving massive amounts of tax dollars to ICE.

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This was well worth watching https://youtu.be/Tq3piSqe1z8?si=uSbmSWlGP1jSwjtj

People, including me, throw around terms like “must read” a lot, but I genuinely believe you must read this story about the sources of Peter Thiel’s obsession with the Antichrist to understand what’s happening in the US right now

Here is that unlawful order ppl have talked about. What now? Resignations?

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

German officials like to frame their suppression of Palestinian solidarity as motivated by the “protection of Jewish life.” In reality, writes @nikkicolumbus.bsky.social, Germany has learned to weaponize antisemitism, perversely exploiting its own dark history. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

If the country is now an authoritarian state, as #Democrats have said, then how is saving $ on a healthcare copay going to help? What is the plan for getting out of an authoritarian state, the 2026 elections?

More comedians need to speak out about this. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

This is the podcast with Andy McCabe @nicollewallace.bsky.social played excerpts of today on Deadline White House. You can listen to the entire thing here, or wherever you get your pods. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

YouTube TV has accused NBCUniversal of asking it “to pay more than what they charge consumers for the same content on Peacock,” NBC’s streaming service.

The biggest open secret, #Republicans love shutdowns. And if u live here in #Michigan, u get 2. www.reuters.com/world/us/gov...

Here Democrats are portrayed as wanting to end the filibuster but at the same time Schumer says that these changes to the filibuster are a bad idea. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Y’all. Republicans are FINE with poking holes in the filibuster. They did it ten days ago so they could confirm 48 Trump appointees at once. Don’t let them tell you they can’t pass a CR without Dems. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Can he get a fair trial? www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Really interesting chat with @katmabu.bsky.social who could have broken her back when was recently tossed to the ground by ICE. She explains why the Democratic Party needs to grow a spine. youtu.be/1y_fPgG4jp0

from @brianklaas.bsky.social, "a dystopian America, where people blame everything but the real cause: a country awash with unlimited guns" www.forkingpaths.co/p/guns-at-an...

I was hanging on to being a Dave Chappelle fan but no more. variety.com/2025/politic...

Pritzker as governor can have the state police monitor the situation officially. The state police would not be at risk of personnel injury and can arrest anyone who violates the law. This is a political message. It’s BS. #Pritzker represents the people this is his job.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Reasons why these talking points are failing #Democrats 1) this ain’t affecting the White community 2) Blacks in America have always had these experiences and no one is promising change 3) it’s directed at dark skinned immigrants and there is a universal prejudice against that group

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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This is brilliant & it captures what's happening to justice in the U.S. better than anything I've read. "That’s how authoritarians work, how they have always worked, and it’s why it’s useful to read the Niemöller poem backward." slate.com/news-and-pol... by @dahlialithwick.bsky.social

BREAKING: The White House claimed the FBI deep state targeted Homan in the $50K bag-o-cash bribe for government contracts, but it was actually a fellow ICE colleague that steered undercover agents to Homan. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...