Republicans are lying about who’s to blame for this shutdown so they’ve resorted to blatant partisan hackery on official agency websites. These violations of the Hatch Act are Exhibit A of the Republicans' desperation to divert from the truth: the GOP owns this shutdown. youtu.be/jwqrxcrfsf8?...

"Indicators of violence:" followed by a laundry list of MAGA grievances...notably, "acts of violence" are not amongst said listed grievances. Shyte is straight from the pages of 1984...

New: The CDC acknowledges that pregnancy, in and of itself, is a high-risk condition for severe Covid. Yet it removed its vaccine recommendation for pregnant people without other conditions. Its contradictory messaging, plus the Trump admin's broader actions/inaction on vaccines, has reduced access.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

The Trump Admin is using government websites and the emails of civil servants to promote blatantly partisan propaganda about the government shutdown. This is an intolerable abuse of power and a form of bureaucratic identity theft from federal workers.

James Talarico cuts through the noise with moral clarity: Jesus healed the sick yet Republicans in Congress, who claim to be Christians, kick them off healthcare. He’s not afraid to call out their hypocrisy and remind them that true faith means healing, not harming. @jamestalarico.bsky.social

"We don't control what he's going to do" says Leader Thune as he literally tries to give Vought a blank check to do whatever the hell he wants. Don't let them gaslight you — Senate Republicans are complicit in everything coming out of this White House.

Desantis blames the Trump admin for FEMA claims not getting processed in FL.

I missed this part of the Constitution...

Who died and made him mayor...GFYS Stephen

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobbs denies DOJ's request to stay certain proceedings in the DC v. Trump case over continued military presence in the city due to the shutdown. She grants a slight briefing extension, but within the currently scheduled Oct. 24 hearing timeline.

A $20 billion bailout for a foreign crypto scammer President and Bessent’s hedge-fund manager bestie, who REQUESTED the bailout and apparently traded on advance knowledge of it. It’s not “America first.” It’s “Autocracy, Inc.” open.substack.com/pub/populari...

✅I have been a supporter since her 1st run for Congress. 🩵💙🩵💙 Abigail Spanberger cast her early vote in Henrico County with an amazing crowd of supporters! 🚨 Early voting is ON in Virginia, and every single vote matters. Don’t wait! Make your voice heard 🗳️ #VoteVA social.demcast.com/s/be1u5P36

Trump can’t even keep his own government open and pay American workers, but he’s putting $20 billion of American taxpayers’ dollars at risk to bail out Argentina—after Argentina took action to undercut American farmers. Let’s focus, Mr. President!

🚨Raid on Chicago apartment complex 🚨 10/1 Video here was taken by the Department of Homeland Security — They are proud of rounding up brown people in the middle of the night. Additional information provided in next post. 1/2

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Using data provided in the United States Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey estimates published in September 2025, & based on districts enacted after the 2020 census, there were 148 U.S. House majority-minority districts. This represented approximately 34% of the nation's 435 districts.

Pete Hegseth said, "It's tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world." www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...

How it's done... bsky.app/profile/the-...

“There is something genuinely wrong with this man and the 25th amendment ought to be invoked.” Truth bomb from @govpritzker.illinois.gov 💣

The racist fascist Nazis are in Memphis. Goebbels Miller just declared a federal surge in Memphis with chilling words: “We’re sending in real cops with GUNS… shoulder to shoulder with ATF, DEA, FBI, ICE, Dept of War.” White nationalists want to cosplay war. www.c-span.org/program/publ...

Fascinating article from 1941, by the great Dorothy Thompson. harpers.org/archive/1941...

They’re bullying Minnesotans because I had the AUDACITY to ask to negotiate a deal to help my constituents afford to live in a broken health care system.

Thread of writings about Vought before the election. It does help to know these sorts of specifics. Senate still chose to confirm him even after the told them he planned to ignore their appropriations bills. bsky.app/profile/donm...

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

From the 2024 Presidential debate: “I have nothing to do with Project 2025. They came up with some ideas, some good, some bad, but I haven’t read it. I don't want to read it. Everybody knows I’m an open book.” He’s right. The election was an open book test. Here’s the result:

It’s simple: Trump and MAGA Republicans shut down the government to cut your health care. Democrats are fighting to protect your health care and lower costs.

All those 2024 media fact-checks that said, “Donald Trump and the Trump campaign deny any connection to Project 2025” look pretty ridiculous right now. A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to “debunk” a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.

I’ve been through government shutdowns. This one is radically different. Here’s what is at stake, and why Democrats must hold the line. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-shutdown-is-different

DOJ's internal watchdog warns about conditions at Terre Haute federal prison, in a document that they can't post to the interwebs because of the government shutdown. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

FAFO MAGA-land

I’ve been looking around for the most credulous mid-campaign piece about Trump’s obviously fatuous Project 2025 disavowal, and I think it might be this one from Politico. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

While Argentina farmers steal the soibean export market from American farmers...but Harris has a funny laugh. FAFO MAGA-land

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

TRUMP I have a meeting with Russ Vought of PROJECT 2025 Fame to determine which Democrat Agencies, most of which are political SCAMS, he recommends to be cut & if the cuts will be temporary or permanent. I can't believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity.” 1 YEAR AGO:

Tim Walz: "We're in a massive misinformation campaign. The president himself tweeting out AI videos of fake news reports on healthcare. This is really dangerous. I cannot express to you the concern and absolutely bafflement and fear of our European allies asking me, 'Is this stuff really going on?'"

NPR looked into malfunctions on lines that power individual homes in one of the communities hardest hit by the LA fires in January. Here's what we found.

During the last shutdown, (35 days), your air traffic controllers were out driving Uber on the side so that way they can make sure they can pay for the insulin for their sick sister.They were going out and trying to find any kind of job in their off-hours to just bring in some type of revenue.”

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

New WaPo poll: Extend ACA subsidies 71%-29% Blame Rs for shutdown 47% Blame Ds for shutdown 30% Dems winning the big arguments so far www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Also known as extortion. The universities that were quick to negotiate now see where this is going. They may not care. The destruction of America’s crown jewel is well underway. Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

WaPo poll: Public opinion today is comparable to several past government shutdowns when Republicans have shouldered the bulk of the blame - including twice during Trump’s first presidential term.

Trolls gotta troll

When Americans call the White House comment line this week, they won’t be able to vent their anger over the first government shutdown since 2018.

FAFO MAGA-land

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.