Republicans don’t need a single Dem vote to keep the government open. Yet here is the banner at HUD today.

Trump and Republicans made devastating cuts to Medicaid and plan to let vital ACA subsidies expire. Millions on Medicaid will lose coverage. Millions on ACA plans could see premiums rise by as much as 75%. Every lie they tell about a shutdown is meant to cover this up.

This is who Chuck Schumer thought he was going to negotiate with I am sick of Democratic leaders who have no idea the level of danger this country is in and how far we have fallen from the democracy we had just 12 years ago

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

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"

Since Lindsey Halligan personally indicted Comey she should personally try the case and not hand it off to someone else. She can show us how competent and qualified she is for this job in front of a jury.

So let me get this straight: 1. Trump kills soybean market in trade war with China, Chinese orders to Argentina explode. 2. Trump wants to give US farmers billions to offset losses 3. Trump also wants to give Argentina billions to supplement the billions China gave them for the soybeans…...

It sort of concerns me that Brooke Rollins is explaining to Todd Bessent that Argentina pantsed us and gave China more leverage after he bailed out Javier Milei as if she thinks he's not aware.

Direct air capture is too expensive and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

This is rich..

Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.

80 mph increase in winds between 11 pm ET Thursday and 11 pm ET Friday means that #Humberto too has exceeded the threshold of Extreme Rapid Intensification. Again.

Here we go! Proper reporting! #Iowa

This needs way more noise given what's a stake. She has earned her place.

Being a House member since Mike Johnson became speaker is a pretty easy gig since he only has it in session about 18 days a year.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Imagine if there were huge anti-Trump protests everywhere, but you don't know, because the corporate media is hiding it. Imagine if Russia were waging a huge disinformation war against America, but you don't know, because the corporate media is hiding it. That's actually happening.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

one time elizabeth warren proposed making the ultra-wealthy pay 2 cents on every dollar of their net worth above $50 million and republicans ate their own faces

Also, remember it was a HUGE SCANDAL that Obama AG Loretta Lynch was accused of potentially interfering in an investigation? Funny how Fox News spent so much time on that but won't mention something like this... www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index...

Maybe France should eject the U.S. ambassador until they cut this fuckery out.

It’s just as stupid as it sounded in the press conference. They propose to treat the $1M or $2M contribution as evidence that the applicant meets the statutory requirements for an extraordinary ability visa. This is obviously inconsistent with congressional intent.

Dutch late night TV has its take

This scenario was an entire scandal in the George W. Bush administration that lasted for months, with hearings and the eventual resignation of the AG.

So there’s this new “digital food court” in my neighborhood where you order food from a bunch of different restaurants and then show up to a tiny room lined with lockers. You get a code to a locker and your food is inside. The kids have invented The Automat. times-square.picnicfood.com

Yes, farmers are mad about Trump’s farm policies. Yes, those policies suck. But it would be a huge mistake for Democrats to read stories like this and decide to pander even harder to farmers who will never vote for them. Pander to eaters! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

The Indiana Fever REALLLLLLY want to win.

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

Good thread.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

This is the way.

Yesterday, a late-night show vanished with a simple directive from 2 of the largest media companies you’ve never heard of (Nexstar & Sinclair), backed by the FCC. That’s not “the market at work.” It’s concentrated corporate power cooperating with an authoritarian. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

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Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

When the GOP loses control of the presidency, there needs to be a concerted play to break up these huge mergers and companies. We can NO LONGER allow business interests to decimate our constitutional rights. Also Epstein files could be released today if Trump said yes

“Mount Antifa"

So many leaders in business and academia, so many politicians, clearly assuming that if they just go along with the fascists a little bit, they’ll survive and everything will be back to normal soon… This is not how it works, people! Read some history!

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.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

When JD Vance brags about the U.S. blowing up alleged drug boats and says, "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world," he's really saying: "We're so reckless and dishonest that fishermen should worry that the U.S. will murder them and then falsely accuse them of drug trafficking."