Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.

The Republican shutdown means that nonessential federal employees like soldiers and TSA agents aren't being paid anymore, but rest assured that the truly vital work of this administration -- building a Dancing with the Stars ballroom for the dementia-addled president -- still goes on.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

If the ballroom is ever actually finished it should be converted to a museum of presidential scandals. It will need that cavernous size to cover the Trump years.

Speaker Johnson, you say you’re a man of God and I believed you. You put your hand on the Bible, you swore an oath- now keep your word to God and country and swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social, the Democrat from my home state of Arizona!

This is amazing & inspiring. Then DC press corps should take note.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

The real choice Democrats face is not between a continuing resolution that allows the government to function normally or a government shutdown. Under the Trump regime, the government is not functioning normally. It is already shutting down. Why vote to legitimize Trump's coup?

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation. youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...

Trump has become incredibly unhinged. He is totally divorced from reality and facts — he is mentally and physically in decline.

Good point, except now it is *$40 billion* of our money Trump is planning to flush down the toilet in Argentina to help his pal Milei get re-elected Any MAGA who does not clearly call BS on this is an ideological fraud

Stop calling us Nazis or we’ll murder you over things you say

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing. Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

I hope reporters will ask all the Republicans in Congress for comment here. Be sure to have them take the ball gags out of their mouths first.

Save this graph for the next time @MarshaBlackburn @SpeakerJohnson @JDVance try to hold $50 Billion for rural hospitals out as a of win for the 🇺🇸 people We’re bad at math but $1.1 TRILLION in cuts (for tax cuts for the rich) > $50 BILLION They think we are all morons

Page One in Boston. @bostonglobe.com

Nice recap

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.   Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

No fingerprint or DNA tests were conducted in Jeffrey Epstein's cell after his death. Sus AF. Release the Epstein files. Now.

A budget is a statement of your values. Congressional Republicans chose to put money in the pockets of the wealthy, increase the debt, and cut health care. Those are their values. This is our moment to stand up for our values—to lower costs and expand access to health care.

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools. Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

These federal firings have nothing whatsoever to do with the government shutdown, and if that is not the lede of every report discussing them, and if you are the author of any such report, quit your job and learn to surf or something instead

Trump doesn’t like data. He wants investors, consumers, and everyone else to be in the dark, so he can lie without fear of factual contradiction. He can create even more of a fantasy world. He can pretend that he’s been wildly successful even when he’s been a terrible failure.

We are having foreign countries build bases on US soil? WTF!

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command. The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it. Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device. The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

In a democracy based on freedom and the rule of law, we don’t jail public officials—or anyone—because of policy disagreements. We need everyone to repudiate this nonsense because a president cannot act as a prosecutor, judge, jury and dictator.

Nazis gonna Nazis. Are you seeing this, John Fetterman? This is why we call them fascists and no, we don't want to negotiate with them, we don't want to compromise with them and the shit they are doing has nothing to do with Democracy, big D or, little d. This is called Bull Shit by Americans.

Scan and Streisand them.

This is getting wild. The states of Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and 14 others have just asked for permission to file THEIR amicus brief in IL v. Trump.

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

Trump to exercise monarchic whim and illegally re-direct appropriations is how the headline should read. Just again, spending and appropriations is a core power of Congress, not subject to the Executive's whims.

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The idea of Americans having to be forced to ID themselves and wait to see if they are wanted while everyone is cuffed, because of "Where they chose to live and by their skin color" Is FASCISM stop pretending it isn't

Rep. Ted Lieu is so good at this.