Marge says that Republicans can end the shutdown anytime they want without Democratic votes.

REPORTER: Do you commit to doing something to address the ACA subsidies so that insurance premiums don't spike for Americans? MIKE JOHNSON: Republicans commit to continuing the work we've already been doing (That's a no)

Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publications’ corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk’s death, after pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who had criticized the coverage.

Twenty years before MAGA came into existence, Umberto Eco captured it perfectly. He was able to do so because he had a deep understanding of so many elements of fascism. Draw the conclusion you want from that.

Trump Calls Gov’t Shutdown an “Unprecedented Opportunity” to Punish Political Opponents

🚨BREAKING: In a major blow to President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, the First Circuit Court of Appeals flatly rejected the administration’s attempt to enforce his executive order ending birthright citizenship. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump says the US is in "armed conflict" with drug cartels. Meanwhile, his DOJ is disbanding a task force that took on cartels. Trump doesn't care about stopping drug trafficking — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy. This is a power grab.

"The existence of the authoritarian playbook implies that one can be evil but sane. But what motivation would a 'sane' person have for destroying the world’s leading democracy in the first place?" www.thebulwark.com/p/crazy-or-c...

"We murdered four guys in international waters, but it's OK* because they definitely absolutely were 'narco-terrorists'" * Even then, it's not OK. It's a crime.

Disinformation thrives without data No jobs numbers = the economy isn't struggling! No food insecurity data = people are fed! No education research = defunding and threatening schools doesn't hurt kids! No public health studies = our policies aren't making people sick!

Democratic leaders: stop staying out of the news. We need leaders who speak up against this monster in the White House. It could be the difference between a free society or falling to a bloodthirsty dictator. Do what you were elected to do. Your voices are the keys to the continuance of democracy.

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans. U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties. Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed. This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda. It was always about cruelty.

Important to understand that many lies are not meant to be convincing. When a schoolyard bully steals your lunch money, he says "that's mine." The absurdity is the point. It's an assertion of dominance. It is to say "reality is whatever I say it is. You disagree? What are you gonna do about it?"

"Not a single Democrat has talked about wanting to fund care for people in the United States unlawfully. Instead, what Democrats have said is they want to undo Medicaid cuts projected to leave nearly 10 million Americans uninsured." A smidge different.

This is all an egregious violation of our norms and laws but also an incredible tell that they know this is a losing fight for them

This was always the plan…

Mike Johnson is doing everything in his power to stall progress in the #EpsteinFiles case. Now, he’s refusing to swear in Representative-Elect Adelita Grijalva—the 218th and FINAL signature we need to force a full release of the files.

Republicans: Biden was trying to buy votes with student loan forgiveness. Also Republicans: We need taxpayers to bail out farmers who vote for us since Trump put them out of business.

Jack Posobiec, of “Pizzagate” fame, has been voting in Pennsylvania for nearly a decade while living in Maryland. trib.al/myCdQpd

Donald Trump in 2024: "I know nothing about Project 2025. And I'm not interested in it." Donald Trump in 2025: "I'm going to meet with the guy who was the architect behind Project 2025 and let him do my job of deciding which parts of government to cut." Does this man tell the truth about ANYTHING?

Republicans are happy to collect taxes from blue states, then Budget Dictator Russ Vought cuts off their funding approved by Congress. No cuts yet from the Dictator to red states. Vote out Susan Collins since she is powerless as Appropriations Chair & every R in blue states.

JUST IN: A federal judge in Puerto Rico has *blocked* President Trump's attempt to fire members of P.R.'s Financial Oversight and Management Board. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For years we warned about this: The “Enabling Act of 1933”, which allowed Hitler to seize control of all branches of the German government, served as the template for “Project 2025” — and Trump’s DNA is all over it.

"On Monday, Google paid a $24.5 million bribe to President Trump. The bag of cash was euphemistically described as a 'legal settlement,' but in this dangerous political moment we do ourselves no favors with polite obfuscation."

"The commander-in-chief said that he had changed official policy that had previously required soldiers not to assault civilians who spit at them: 'They spit, we hit.' It is unclear whether these stories are real or apocryphal. But then, that’s the point."

Trump promised an infrastructure bill for 4 years in his first term. Said it was coming in 2 weeks many times. Never delivered one. Democrats then delivered critically needed funding for crumbling infrastructure. Now Russ Vought is taking that away. But only in blue states.

Damn. Liz ain't having it. 😮

Hegseth’s performance for the generals boils down to a couple points: “bullying and hazing” are good and “overbearing rules of engagement” are bad. ICE is already modeling this caricature of masculinity in America’s streets. From Harold Meyerson: trib.al/9Ce8FcZ

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you That is not, in fact, what ICE does He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

Same guy who declared bankruptcy 6 times shut down the U.S. government 4 times in 5 years of being President. They wanted him to run the government like his businesses and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

I'm asking YOU: What will a doubling of health care premiums mean for your family? What it will mean if you're one of the 15 million being thrown off their health care? Please comment below or submit a story here: tinyurl.com/3rbdfdmz

Trump is running everything into the ground while grifting billions for himself and his family.

Newsom is fighting fire with fire, all blue states need to be doing the same thing.

We’ve gotten several messages that the Trump administration has tampered with federal employees’ email systems, making some people’s automatic Out of Office replies blame the government shutdown on the “radical left.” This was done without the employees’ knowledge.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

"I don't use the word lie lightly. To me it's got to be something that's fundamentally wrong that you can check against actual facts, and the people making the claim either know better or should know better. And I think all of those apply here." @citizencohn.bsky.social:

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo says HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired her three weeks after she filed a whistleblower complaint saying the Trump administration was undermining vaccine research, violating court orders and endangering research subjects.

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza. Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military. They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

The national conversation should not be us reacting to his batshit crazy every day. The national conversation should be that we have a batshit crazy person in the White House.

Speaker Johnson is doing everything he can to prevent the release of the Epstein files. Should we really believe a word he says about the government shutdown?