📌Zip-tying children and separating them from their families is barbaric and subhuman. Grotesque cruelty. It is also Republicans’ most popular issue. The rot is deep in America.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Any federal judge can swear in a new member of congress. I favor doing it that way at one of the Speaker's utterly useless press conferences.

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH: djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey." Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it." djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret." And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children. #PedoPrez

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility. “Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

File state charges. This is a crime.

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent. Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Among the more obvious differences, this was about using the Alabama National Guard to enforce federal law *in Alabama*, where the state government was defying court orders. Note that even in that much more extreme context, Kennedy used the Alabama National Guard, not some other state's.

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

A summary of the current GOP plan on the shutdown: 1.) We are actually the stewards of healthcare (ignore your premiums, plez) 2.) If the democraps don't open government, we'll ruin our own voters lives. 3.) *vague heavy breathing sounds from Stephen Miller's office*

I hope John Fetterman watched the Pam Bondi hearing today and felt good about his vote to confirm her.

Your constant reminder that bribe for hire Pam Bondi isn’t an attorney general by any means, she’s a criminal who was installed by a criminal to cover up his crimes and the crimes of other powerful rich criminals. Any testimony she gives is a complete bullshit perjury rant.

people who believe criticizing democrats for being too right wing is why we have fascism are a big part of why we have fascism

Chicagoans are calling it "Operation Butterfingers."

Fuck Russell Vought and the KLAN.

Look, we've all had the occasional bad take. But at what point does a pundit with permanent employment in elite media get stripped of his status as a "political expert" who anyone should listen to about what's actually happening in America?

Update from the war zone in Portland.

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the Bronx and Harlem at our paper shredding events — we cleared out old junk mail, built community, danced, took family portraits and enjoyed frozen treats (it still felt a lot like summer). Thanks to everyone who joined.

Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant. No surprise at their coverage of today. Support independent, pro-democracy media today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Listen to people in Gaza speak: www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law It hasn’t been hung

I'll just leave this here...

Mike is doing pressers all day on the hill, so why doesn't Adelita show up with her own Bible and request to be sworn in IN FRONT OF THE PRESS!

Tomorrow the Epstein survivors will storm Capitol Hill to demand release of the files. I hope new Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is sworn in at their press conference by another judge or official who is authorized to do so (doesn’t have to be the Speaker).

thank you brett kavanaugh!

The condescension of two-bit Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi today underscores that the only thing this administration excels at is a complete lack of self-awareness.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

This strikes me as pretty bad

What are in the Epstein files that is worth keeping the government shutdown?

ICE = criminals and they are apparently unaccountable to anyone.

These are the "law enforcement" tactics federal agents are using in Chicago. Their car is obstructed by a moped so they tear gas the entire neighborhood. Unacceptable in America.

"As one of the few Jews on [the flotilla]...they asked me if I was Jewish...threw me in front of the Israeli flag... we were strip-searched & zip-tied & blindfolded, & sent to this detention camp." Horrifying testimony to Zeteo from freed activist David Adler: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

Air traffic controllers are working 60-hour weeks with no pay—conditions that led to a breaking point during the last shutdown.

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

Capt Tietjen has a long record of actions that diminish public confidence in SPD. We cannot afford that. I want to give the new chief the benefit of the doubt, but this decision reflects either bad judgment or a lack of due diligence, neither of which will be accepted when I’m Mayor.

We're now hearing threats about withholding post-shutdown pay. They first threatened widespread new firings? So why hasn't that happened. As I noted last week despite all the threats none of the firing machinery had actually been started up. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

SEN. HIRONO: “Did you approve shutting down the bribery investigation into Homan?” BONDI: “Are you Antifa?” 🤡 (That’s a yes)

At a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi hurled insults at Democrats in response to their questions about the stark politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) since she took office. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It's black letter, can't get more explicit, printed in US code you ignoramus. 31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2) *JOHNSON: SOME LEGAL ANAYLYSTS DON'T BELIEVE IN SHUTDOWN BACKPAY

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?” AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

So, the ICE guys, outfitted in battle gear, with automatic weapons, pepper spray and batons, battle unarmed protesters? They have to fight gray haired grandmas and sign carrying Democrats? Portland ICE is the biggest pussy I've ever seen, and Stephen Miller is frightened shitless.

Pam Bondi: Anti-Rule of Law. Pro-Corruption. That is all.

This whole thing is an example of degenerate Trump thinking. Vought had references to the law deleted from OMB shutdown guidance. It's still the law.

It was taxpayers’ money. Did Homan give it back? If he kept it, did he declare it on his taxes?

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

📌White, toxic masculinity is ruining America, and it’s about time white guys started speaking out about it. 📌This is a piece that has needed writing for years now, but I was finally spurred to action by a run-in with one of these dudes early this morning. 📌Man, I am sick and tired of these guys.

Look I think there is a limit to what mockery practically achieves but it fucking rules that the American Himmler had to go on TV to sputter about how he’s not actually under five feet tall