www.axios.com/2025/03/24/d... 🚨Dems' dark, deep hole - worst numbers in 50 years…Rahm calls for emergency meeting of mayors, govs…youth conservative spike alarms liberals….⬇️

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

BREAKING | US to draw down troop levels in Romania, NATO ally’s defense ministry says

Anti-Trump protesters gathered in Gyeongju, South Korea, to criticize US President Donald Trump’s visit.

MeidasTouch ad censored by Fox News! #cdnpoli It would be a shame if people kept reposting it over and over.

The UFC fighter who said he’d take a bullet for Trump won’t even take a Band-Aid for him now. He claims Trump is the Antichrist.

South Korea to award Trump its highest medal, gift him a golden crown reut.rs/4hxKWpL

Lofgren: Now, instead of the president weighing in, we’ve got him doing weird little dances as he lands in Asia, and he’s missing in action. The Senate is refusing to negotiate across party lines, and the House of Representatives isn’t even meeting. I mean, I’ve never seen anything like this.

Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.

The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Checking in on the “ceasefire”

Maddow went there: she called out her own parent company, Comcast, for funding the destruction of the East Wing. Bravo. @maddow.msnbc.com

Right now, a potential peril is at hand: the end of truth.

Synagogue tragedy averted. He did not intend to be taken alive: www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...

BREAKING Trump says 'not allowed' to run for third term, 'too bad'

I’ve been clear from the very beginning: Trump’s attempt to deploy the military against American citizens is unlawful. We are pleased by the Ninth Circuit’s decision to reconsider Oregon’s case. As in our case, the President must answer for his abuse of power.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Bill Essayli, a Trump-appointed Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, has been serving unlawfully in the nation’s largest federal district — the third such finding against a prosecutor installed by President Donald Trump.

BREAKING: The full bench of the 9th circuit has agreed to take up the Portland National Guard case and vacated the panel decision that had blessed Trump’s deployment.

"China could cite a continued pattern of so-called illegal behavior by Taiwanese vessels as an organized illegal campaign… "building on the U.S. precedent, China could declare an armed conflict against the government of Taiwan." — "Anonymous DOD employee":

Lawyers for the government tell Ellis it would be “frankly, dangerous” for her to ban agents from using tear gas. Lawyers for the plaintiffs scoff at the notion that it would be dangerous to prevent agents from tear gassing residents of Chicago.

The commission of fine arts was set to review Trump’s ballroom. Instead, he fired them. Because when the rules get in his way, he rewrites them.

Seems to me they are going into neighborhoods with overwhelming force to arrest 1 person, expect there to be a riot, then incite one, then attack people right outside their own homes for daring to come outside a see what's going on in their own neighborhood. Fucking tyrannical.

Yet another Kavanaugh stop. I’m sure the ICE goons released him within 15 minutes after confirming his legal status. The broken ribs should be thought of as a minor inconvenience. slate.com/news-and-pol...

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

You probably missed this key point in the initial news coverage since most headlines treated the DOJ announcement like it was no big deal. Read this to find out what’s really going on.

Border Patrol slammed the burbs this morning while Bovino was in court. Now they're patrolling the city. Multiple people detained in Humboldt Park. A Blackhawk has been circling the north side. Just watched a FB live from Berwyn end as an agent backed into someone behind him, then detained them.

It is painfully clear Republicans are not listening to folks back home.   What families nationwide are saying is: "Please stop my premiums from doubling."   And what are Republican leaders saying? "Not our problem, we never wanted to lower health care costs in the first place."

New alarming headlines don't mean the old alarming stories went away: thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-s...

I've cut all ties with friends and family who support Trump. It's not about my politics, it's about morality. There's no empathy within the MAGA cult; they're all morally bankrupt. I knew I had to protect my inner peace and being around MAGA was toxic, so I cut all ties and I have zero regrets.

MAGA = RACIST, NAZI CULT!

MAGA = RACIST, FASCIST, VIOLENT CULT!

The new HHS directive literally lists “Faithful Support of the President’s Policies” as the most critical element of an employee’s annual review. Workers now have to essentially prove their loyalty to Trump’s policies.

Not just HHS: this is in response to an executive order to make loyalty to Trump a key performance evaluation metric for all of the Senior Executive Service

🚨 The Senate votes 52-48 to overturn President Trump's 50 percent tariffs on Brazil. 5 GOP Senators break ranks to vote against Trump: Collins ME, McConnell KY, Murkowski AK, Paul KY, and Tillis NC.

Wow. "Months after law firms made deals with President Trump to ward off punitive executive orders, the ethics committee of the District of Columbia Bar is warning that such arrangements may require firms to drop or obtain waivers from all clients who have interests at odds with the government."

Andy Harris of Maryland Chairs the Subcommittee for USDA that controls SNAP funding. He can bring a vote. Call his office.

If she changes her position (so to speak) on having sex before prayer breakfasts I absolutely, positively do not want to hear about it

NEW: A right-wing campaign based on a conspiracy theory aims to eliminate the algorithmic process that keeps everyone's identity private in US census data. If successful, it would likely discourage marginalized people from participating. @telliotter.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/republ...

Read @telliotter.bsky.social's latest on the census and "differential privacy," a little-known algorithmic process that keeps census data from being used to identify individual respondents. Huge implications for our congressional districts and the electoral college: www.wired.com/story/republ...

US census data is carefully anonymized for good reason. Now Republicans want to change that -- and their plan could put the data of every person living in the US at risk. Important reporting from @telliotter.bsky.social

NEW: Republicans are targeting the census -- again. This time, they're going after a little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” that helps keep census data anonymous. This would impact a number of vulnerable people, immigrants included. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

"We've seen almost every single inning of every World Series game since he was eight. And I just had all these feelings about how things have beginnings and ends that we don't really quite realize. Maybe like America and democracy." @jvl.bsky.social with heavy thoughts in today's Triad:

Sheer buffoonery.

Anne Applebaum: Americans Aren't Angry Enough. Yet. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Thugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Donald Trump is abusing the pardon power as a means of rewarding his family, his allies & his wealthy donors. I'm headed to the floor with @warren.senate.gov to attempt to pass a resolution condemning his pardon of crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao—the latest in a long string of corrupt clemencies.

Brooke Rollins suggests ranchers aren't so innocent: "There's a lot of frustration on both sides. This president has made clear his promise to bring the cost of living, cost of good down - beef continues to go up...there's been no one who has been passionate about supporting our ranchers than Trump"

so much love and admiration for the people of chicago telling fascists to fuck off on the daily