the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

The more they blame and slander democrats for the shutdown, the more the democrats cannot work with them on a budget. This is basic politics against a non-cooperating rogue agent in an iterative game.

Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.

Just three months ago they were brazenly denying that there were any #Medicaid cuts at all in the budget reconciliation law, despite the $990B in cuts being the largest cuts to the program in history which will make 7.5M people uninsured.

The Dems either need to abolish ICE or turn it into an entirely remote workforce dedicated to processing asylum paperwork.

Mass resistance to these kind of police state tactics is more than justified. Democrats should also threaten to fire and prosecute anyone who participates in these illegal raids.

And caving is gonna get schools nothing, see Columbia.

8-year-old Nour Daloul was killed when Israeli missiles hit the Medical Relief building in Gaza City. Israel had issued a warning before it attacked the building, but several were killed in the attack. Her parents, Nidal and Mirvat, were seen clutching her body after discovering she had been killed.

A gas explosion occurred this morning to NYCHA's Mitchel Houses in the Bronx. It's been reported, "We are extremely fortunate, at this time, we have no loss of life or no injuries." Residents are being sent to a community center at 138th Street and Alexander Avenue. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Jayapal: It is a strange and bizarre time when we literally have a president thinking about plating the ballroom in gold—while he’s thrown 15 million Americans off healthcare, fired over 150,000 federal workers, and is threatening to fire even more if we go into a shutdown.

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

Heroes.

part of the reason this is more effective than a lot of schumer/jeffries communications is that Mamdani is addressing *voters* rather than begging *Republicans.* 1

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic: Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

Kegsbreth's insane rant today got me to thinking of an experience I had in the Air Force. The military has been "woke" for a long time. open.substack.com/pub/kellysca...

If a Hatch Act violation takes place in a forest, but the Office of Special Counsel is vacant, did the violation actually occur?

Man is really on the good shit. He woke up and was like “these tunnels are unconstitutional under the 14th amendment because they’re black”

If they're from Germany you can just call them Nazis.

A new report from Bright Line Watch finds experts now rate the U.S. as a "mixed" or "illiberal" democracy. The rating is dragged down by Trump's attacks on institutions, a weak legislature, political violence, and partisan gerrymandering www.gelliottmorris.com/p/experts-no...

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Another brutal jobs report. The economy lost 32,000 jobs in September, and August was revised from +54,000 all the way down to -3,000. That’s not just a slowdown—it’s a collapse. The economy is clearly in trouble under Trump, and Republicans are still in total denial.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

This is literally Trump's plan. Turn the US economy into pay-to-play. Everyone involved in this needs to face consequences. This is the conversion of the US economy from capitalism to kleptocracy.

I genuinely don't understand how Democrats can negotiate to fund the government under these conditions and it is why they should have made addressing recision and unconstitutional withholding of funds the key issue of the shutdown even if not as sexy or popular as subsidies.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

meanwhile i think many libs have huge blind spots when it comes to how obviously correct the progressive package is. yes, i think it's better than the republican package... but also *seriously* flawed in ways we have long been blind to www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...

Nothing has ever convinced me the Democrats are controlled opposition than the fact that they aren't fighting to seat Adelita Grijalva This seems like the most basic thing a party that wants any amount of power would do

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

Have a good time? What a f*cking psycho.

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

Say it louder for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov

After a nine-day trial, a federal court ruled that Noem and Rubio misused their power to target international students for their protected political speech. When a government retaliates against individuals based on their words, we must ring the alarm bells loudly.

Great news! Peace between Alderaan and Narnia at last!

Trump sounds simultaneously like a fascist dictator and a very old man in a nursing home just before the carer gently says “I think it’s time we leave him alone to get some rest”

I’m riding the 10 tram, which connects Central to the airport, in Zürich. For much of its route, it runs along a green corridor. Check it out, there’s even grass *between* the rails… 🚉🧵

I really do hate this mother fucker

"[P]rice increases for 688 medications—310 brand-name drugs and 378 generic ones—during Trump's second term, with a median increase of 5.5% and 25 treatments more than doubling in cost." Trump "has threatened to increase tariffs on pharmaceuticals to up to 250%." #USA #Drugs #Healthcare

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

He couldn't quit drinking for one day?

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I bet he's going to bring back whale fat next.

Will Bush II and Condoleezza Rice be on the Peace Council too?