"From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, Democrat-backed candidates ran successful campaigns in some of the nation’s largest school systems. The trend was enabled by voters’ increasing weariness with the culture wars that helped MAGA..." politi.co/3JXnWnP

And the grift continues in Florida. Largest utility hike in U.S. history, second largest was just 4 years ago when FPL did the exact same thing.

A federal court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington D.C. was likely unlawful and inflicted serious harm on the District’s right to govern itself. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.

This week, the House will finally vote to release the Epstein files. This is not a difficult or complicated vote. Every Member of Congress should vote yes, and Trump should immediately sign our bill into law. The victims and the American people deserve the full truth.

The truth will have its day. That day is now. Release all the Epstein files.

This should alarm everyone. On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.” It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025. THIS IS INDOCTRINATION

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

OR, Trump Admits His Tariffs Caused Grocery Prices to Rise.

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Moms for Liberty went 0 for 33 on Tuesday.

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

Newsom: Just today in Los Angeles, Donald Trump called up the border patrol, sent them to dodger stadium and threw a fastball at free speech right at the head, free expression to suppress the vote

How is that plan going?

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

@pkrugman.bsky.social is right, as usual. And this is why Senate Democrats were spot on by refusing to agree to the cruel Republican budget. It is now crystal clear who is responsible for starving Americans, and taking away their healthcare: Thune, Johnson, Trump. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Bunkering down in military housing. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“I was going to school!” 16 year old citizen assaulted by Trump’s masked goons in unmarked cars and clothes. (“beaten, choked, subjected to racial slurs”) More: www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Thursday: Target to lay off 1800 corporate jobs Monday: Amazon to lay off 30,000 corporate jobs Tuesday: UPS to lay off 48,000 operations and management jobs You'd think with all these layoffs, CEOs and CFOs and COOs would also be fired. Alas.

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“Dysfunctional government” doesn’t even begin to describe this. 1.4 million civilian federal employees didn’t get a paycheck. And the part no one’s talking about: even if the government reopens tomorrow, we’ll be right back on the edge by November 21—the next shutdown deadline. Chaos on repeat.

NYT puts $UMAC on Page One: @ericlipton.nytimes.com

What is the price to pay for the healthcare of a human being? People are going to lose healthcare and die if we don’t protect the healthcare tax credits. And Miami-Dade County is the epicenter of this healthcare crisis. Congress must act now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

We’re giving $40 billion to Argentina. This is $5 billion MORE that the entire USAID budget that DOGE cut.

“.. It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic ..” @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

“.. It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Mom of high school junior. This approach will be part of the decision making moving forward. 👇 Thanks @uofmichigan.bsky.social for taking a stand. It won’t go unnoticed. (Ad is in November edition of @theatlantic.com).

“If Obama had done this fix would’ve declared World War 3” 💯

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

This isn't complicated, he's just straight up extorting the Justice Deparment and looting taxpayers to put $230 million in his own pocket. Don't hold your breath waiting for any Republicans in the party to speak up about this either. https://nyti.ms/4oxtpQW

The people running this country have zero respect for the Constitution, laws, rules of ethics and professional responsibility, traditions or norms. They are lawless gangsters drunk on power and nobody in their party outside the admin has the courage or integrity to stop them.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days. They have worked 12 days in 3 months. Epstein Shutdown.

Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

@housedemocrats.bsky.social are here and ready to do the work to: ✅ Stop the cuts ✅ Lower costs ✅ Save health care ✅ Reopen the government After 27 days of vacation, where’s the House GOP?

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

"Most Americans probably don’t have a detailed grasp of what’s happening with ACA subsidies right now, but once people start getting letters notifying them of how much their premiums are going up, it will become a much bigger issue."

FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔 Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...

5/ But here's the even darker kicker. The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess. And why?

4/ Ok, so then the obvious next step is to negotiate a compromise. That's how we've always avoided shutdowns. And Republicans need to convene those talks, bc they're in charge. But here's the kicker - Trump is telling them to BOYCOTT NEGOTIATING. And they are following orders.

3/ The Senate keeps voting on 2 bills to reopen. 1. The GOP bill - it raises premiums on 22m Americans and lets Trump keep acting illegally. 2. The Dem bill - it stops the premium increases and checks Trump's illegality. Each time, neither bill gets the necessary 60 votes.

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

So Trump gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout and is now building a Qatari military facility in Idaho. While Americans can’t afford groceries.