4X heath care cost increase in one year. This is why the Dems have not backed down — and should not back down.

It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated. By @bobbyallyn.bsky.social

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

History repeats.

This is insane. And illegal.

Portland is not war ravaged. Chicago doesn’t need to be “saved”. Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for Medicaid. People should not have to “prove they matter” to get healthcare. ICE should not be allowed to cover their faces. This shutdown is being done to save healthcare.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... The premeditated murder of now 21 people.

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight. But consider this... Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending. Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

So the only people who get government welfare because they lost money from Trump tariffs are people who sold soybeans to the Chinese because they overwhelmingly voted for Trump, but no other businesses or people get any relief. bsky.app/profile/atru...

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans forced a government shutdown tonight. Rather than address the health care crisis that they created just earlier this year, they refuse to come to the table and do their jobs. What happened to the art of the deal?

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

I've known @prchovanec.bsky.social since our days together in Beijing. And then our days in the piloting world. He's a GOP guy. I am not. He was raised Catholic. Not me. But—unlike today's elected GOP Sen/House/Govs—he has principles that predate the MAGA era.

If you voted for him, you've done this.

Yes. Time to get China-hand posse together, to cover US politics We're seeing in US now a PRC combo of (a) Cultural Revolution years (b) crony/state-capitalism yrs after that (c) one-man rule as under XJP If you've covered Zhongnanhai you get Trump-land. But w dumber+more corrupt people in US now

To be clear, Republicans actually do need Democrats to help pass the CR and keep the government open. It takes a 60-vote threshold, and they only have 53 without Democrats. Save healthcare: STAND STRONG, DEMOCRATS!

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.” Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Dismissal of the indictment and of this incompetent would be a fitting end to this debacle. Though dismissal based on selective prosecution or pretrial publicity would be even more fitting.

In Portland, there is a protester wearing a chicken suit in front of the ICE building. In North Carolina, someone shot up a waterfront restaurant and killed several people. Where is Trump sending the Navy SEALs?

The Trump regime hates facts. Everything has to bend to his will. Gabbard Ends Intelligence Report on Future Threats to US. Some issues in the document, which is issued every four years, had become politically inconvenient, former officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

State run Propaganda through Fox news stations. Propaganda that a handful of Broadcast owners plague their viewers with. Brainwashing, alternate reality, fear mongering, assigning blame to minorities. Past kkk propaganda, control of programming your mind. WTFU www.autostraddle.com/this-is-how-...

Gift. “They Cheated Like Dogs, but We Got Them Back’ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o... “At least two political science papers have reported that after Sinclair buys a television station and sets programming policy, the Republican share of the local vote rises by 3 to 5 percentage points.”

Ask yourself if this is the kind of country you want to live in

Two things can be true at the same time: 1. James Comey and his improper. last-minute 2016 statements about Hilary are as responsible as anything for the last ten years of hell we have had to endure. 2. Today's last-minute, trumped-up charges against Comey are most likely complete bull shit.

So Pam Bondi will soon be gunning for Trump and JD Vance? Can she also self-indict? "Bondi said on social media that “today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people.”"

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. has now cut her entire division.

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That was fast!

When you lay it all out like that...

MAGA DOJ New Standards: 50K cash in bag to Trumpster — not suspicious. Epstein “suspicious activity reports”— not suspicious. UAE backroom deals with Trumps — not suspicious. Democrats’ mortgages — totally suspicious.

www.independent.co.uk/news/charlie... Important warning to parents with kids who are online (almost all of them I bet).

“Caught red-handed: Sept 2024, Tom Homan, White House Border Czar, pocketed $50K from undercover FBI ‘contractors’—offering to rig government contracts if Trump won. DOJ buried it. Corruption thrives in silence. #TomHoman #Accountability” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. Corruption -- some relatively petty ($50k in cash here) and some HUGE (multi-billion dollar crypto deals): " he apparently took the money and agreed to help the agents — who were posing as businessmen — secure future government contracts. . ."

Our military has recently — on Trump’s orders on three separate occasions — now murdered 17 unindicted, unconvicted people on the high seas (for purported drug offenses that require due process and do not carry the death penalty). And now this. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

National parks axe signs about climate, slavery and Japanese internment But look. It seems to be just fine: “The content was taken down at the beginning of the year because this administration believes in only administering facts based on real science …not brainless fearmongering rhetoric ….”

Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Kill People He Deems Narco-Terrorists www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u... In a year of horrors, this is among the worst.

Look, folks, I don't make the rules.

California voters. Given recent events this is now more important than ever. This proposition is temporary but balances what Trump obtained in Texas redistricting. Please donate if possible -- and certainly make a plan now to vote YES on 50 in November. couragecalifornia.org/yes-on-calif...

yeah no one prominent on the right wanted this. now to take a sip of coffee and look at the post on the screen