I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass. youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

Senate is back in session today. 1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown. You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

I will never get over how perfect a name Twitter was for that platform; and how X sounds like a porn site launched by a cheesy algebra teacher.

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

If Jan 6 was all Antifa then why did you pardon them?

The 24-year-old talks about the spray, the viral video and why he’s protesting.

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50! #FightFireWithFire

😂Spirit Halloween is going to SHATTER all their sales records this season.🐰🐸🐤

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. www.nokings.org

T. Joseph Mattingly estimates that the 2025 measles outbreak in Texas will cost $90M. Measles is expensive. It's also preventable. Vaccination increases productivity & reduces costs. Vaccination is healthy for people & the economy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“ER Model” is very telling that MAGA has no plan for healthcare (which we already knew). An ER is really only set up to triage and keep patients from rapidly dying of something. They aren’t set up to treat the slower causes of dying or pain, which are much more common.

As someone who practiced Emergency Medicine for 20 years, it is clear this guy knows nothing about hospitals. The point of the ER is to decide whether someone needs inpatient care or can safely go home. People don't stay in the ER for days (and if they do, it is a major safety hazard).

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THIS IS 🔥🎯🔥 Thanks @chrismurphyct.bsky.social !!!

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean. If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

Seems like dividing the population, violating the Constitution, using the military to break laws and commit war crimes, wrecking foreign trade, dwindling the government to a handful of incompetent loyalists then shutting it all down, and trying to incite civil war isn’t working out great.

A federal judge in Chicago extended restrictions on ICE's warrantless arrests until February 2026, finding that the agency violated a settlement agreement by arresting 22 people without warrants.

Getting pretty tired of all the Ken’s Mojo Dojo Casa House all the time

A decade after it was written, I find myself pulling out the @cingraham.bsky.social's gerrymandering explanation to help people understand why California’s Prop. 50 is so important to pass. wapo.st/3WfcjeB

In a nutshell.

Neurology, Radiology, Dermatology

Thanks, New Yorker

The Human Right's Watch "About Us" page lists "Racial Discrimination in the US" as among the world's biggest crises. Not great.

Soybean farmer: The $20 billion for Argentina would be used to halt export taxes on soybeans. Basically they would use our taxpayer dollars in order to provide further competition with US soybeans to the Chinese market. I personally don't want to see us giving taxpayer dollars to aid a competitor

Everyone should listen to Chris Murphy's extraordinary warning about Trump on our pod. First, he says the logic must be that the more lawless he gets, the stiffer the resistance. "If I give in and consent to these kinds of tactics then it just normalizes it all." 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

'Judge April M. Perry of Federal District Court in Northern Illinois, a Biden appointee, pressed Trump administration lawyers for more information about National Guard assignments in the, describing herself as “very troubled by the lack of answers.”' { gift link } www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Maj. Gen. Steven Lepper (Ret.) & leading military justice expert Gene Fidell: “Every military leader… must understand that the law is still the law, even if the Court is willing to exempt the president from its consequences.” www.justsecurity.org/121919/milit... #JAG #MilitaryJustice

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.

Trump's Justice Department is firing the people who prosecute terrorists, Jake Tapper argues. The president's politically motivated personnel decisions make "the United States and the world less safe":

10000%. I was in despair that nobody was saying what @chrismurphyct.bsky.social finally says here. Senator Murphy and those of like mind NEED to be leading the @democrats.senate.gov. Cybersecurity for elections needs funding. Prevent ICE/MAGA from raiding polling places. We need that fight!

Two people very much worth listening to, in an important conversation. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

DJT 2016-2024: I have the concept of a plan for healthcare reform DJT 2025: I am Death. Death to America!

Signs of psychosis. No biggie

If Biden did this…

Dartmouth says no to Trump.

Hatch Act briefings once included the minutiae of what was allowable in terms of car bumper stickers in office parking garages. Now, absolutely, anything goes. The Hatch Act is on fire.

A right wing influencer was arrested after starting fights in Portland and blaming “antifa”. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

From Trump calling on the US Military to wage civil war against civilian American liberals, to liberals hearing this declaration of civil war, both sides are driving the USA toward civil war.

The American civilians he's talking about waging war on don't wear uniforms because they're civilians. Or is he talking about the American invasion by plain clothed ICE agents?

Gov is shutdown. Let’s see who picks it up this time 🤣

Priorities.

Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal. I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t. Watch all the way through.

An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is likely widespread. I have seen instructions from inside HHS for away messages to say “Democratic Senators are blocking its passage” re a continuing resolution, and that’s why the employee can’t respond.

What's it called when the government is practicing civil disobedience?