"It was not clear whether the White House was trying to take advantage of a possible shutdown to advance President Donald Trump's push to slash the federal workforce, or whether it was a negotiating tactic to force Democrats to agree to pass the Republicans' funding legislation."

1200 detainees missing in FL. Their families have no idea where they are. Where are these people?

I wonder what everyone is going to use instead of TikTok? I guess there's always YouTube. lol.

Here are my top 10 fall dogs!

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

There are just 4 states with statewide elections this fall. The one that's most under the radar? Georgia. Democrats have an opportunity to flip two seats on a statewide body that's crucial for environmental policies. Don't sleep on it — everyone else is: boltsmag.org/georgia-publ...

Criminal incompetence.

RFK, Jr is unqualified to run the agency he's heading. No training in any health field, and no understanding of public health. RFK Jr. says public health agencies are on the decline. Here are 5 ways they’ve improved your health. | CNN share.google/m82CjpKmWNPo...

getting at least mildly familiar with this info is smart. consider it part of home emergency preparedness

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.

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I just want to live a peaceful life and raise my daughter with less trauma than I survived. White 🇺🇸 men are making it very difficult.

DJT is taking revenge on the CDC because in his first term, they worked hard to protect the public, and they didn't work hard to protect him. It's never been about right or wrong with him. He wants blind loyalty. If you tried to help anyone but him, you must be punished. #AmericanCaligula

Feeling odd? Having nagging feelings of unease, like things seem normal, but you feel like you need to prepare? You're not crazy. It's because your government is at war with you. They want you to either die or be silent and never complain. Some Americans have always felt this way. Now you are.

Billionaire status is a moral failure. Trillionaire status for an individual would be on par with the most egregious acts of depravity our society has identified. As a species, we should not tolerate an individual hoarding enough resources to support entire nations.

“Even when the truth isn't hopeful, the telling of it is.” ― Andrea Gibson (may they rest in peace and power) Please keep telling the truth about fascism in the United States.

Listening to Jess Piper: She’s a survivor who knows how much victims need justice. But she warns—fascism isn’t a distraction from that fight. It’s the plan. Authoritarians silence survivors, erase rights, and protect predators. We have to fight both.

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

Pay attention to Senators in the Republican Party attempting to move into Governor seats. Tommy Tuberville, Marsha Blackburn. Alabama and Tennessee. Nancy Mace in S.C. There's a political restructuring in the south. Senators shifting to positions of Governors for control of state military forces.

How is any of this legal? There is no emergency. There has been no attack.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

This is the plan. Be so egregiously incompetent, cruel, indifferent, whatever...so the expert, experienced leaders quit.

"Abolish ICE" needs to be the centrist Democratic position going forward. The leftist position is "Charge everyone involved in this with war crimes." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This thread describes exactly why our institutions & social safety nets are being dismantled.

A nation founded on white supremacy.

ICE is kidnapping children in their homes, schools, churches, on playgrounds, & in foster care. There are NO 2-Sides to this issue. It is unconscionable. So, if you have a justification to evil, may your god's wrath spew you to the abyss of hell where you can wade in your falsehood of good deeds.

The EPA has eliminated its research division, which for decades has provided the science behind regulations on clean air, clean water, and toxic chemicals. The US can afford to monitor, research, and regulate the impacts of industries on human and environmental health. We are just choosing not to.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free..."

I can't imagine the regime would use threats of financial ruin to silence critics, activists, or anyone else who doesn't bend the knee. Right? www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Republican values: greed & corruption open.substack.com/pub/populari...

If we want to zoom out and find a root cause for this selfishness, I think it’s an attitude that’s pervasive among America’s affluent citizens that if they can afford to do something, nobody should be able to tell them they can’t do it. An entitlement mindset that doesn’t recognize public interest.

Sure, but on the other hand Stephen Miller did get one digit closer to his quota.

Video: Rep. Jennifer McClellan, Sen. Ghazala Hashmi Join Advocates in Highlighting How Recently-Passed Medicaid Cuts Threaten Rural Hospitals and Rural Health Care ("New KFF Analysis Shows Virginia’s Rural Health Care Will Suffer 3rd-Biggest Hit in the Nation") bluevirginia.us/2025/07/vide...

People using the unaccountable secret police to settle private scores. Happened in the Soviet Union, happened in Nazi Germany, happens under lots of dictatorships. Happening now in the United States of America. The lesson is, don't have an unaccountable secret police force.

These horrid little techbro assholes need a reality check. Unbelievable.

Um....yes they do. People still have rights. There are still Constitutional requirements for searches & detainment. Even if ICE doesn't respect the requirements. Homan needs to understand ICE is breaking the law every time they detain someone based on nothing more than bigotry or desire to bully.

Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."

People do in fact need people.

DOGE laid off the HHS grant staff in the Administration for Children and Families. Now there’s a $1 bil+ backlog Grants for migrant children, youth homelessness, and tribal communities are months behind Not v efficient... via @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/hhs-fac...

““The DHS report repeatedly conflates basic protest, organizing, and journalism with terroristic violence, thereby justifying ever more authoritarian measures by law enforcement,””

Justices’ reasoning in the recent US Supreme Court ruling upholding Tennessee’s ban on youth gender-affirming care could have much broader implications, perhaps opening the door to state restrictions on health care for other groups of people, experts say ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/many-...

#ProudBlue #Resist An important🧵by DW to be read w/ Sen. Whiteside’s on Justice Jackson’s dissent on nationwide injunctions He wrote “A future president can now act unlawfully & face no real-time legal check. Lower courts can’t stop it. Congress is paralyzed. & the public is left to suffer.”Read

DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...

What would our nation be like If we had done right In 1863 And given former slaves everything back that had been stolen Land, education, dignity, resources, love, acceptance. What if they have been given the best of everything, thanked & welcomed as builders of our nation, revered and respected?

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about. Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

Every accusation is a confession. Sears would have no problem with ICE flooding Virginia and snatching up anyone who opposes them.

ICE is tapping into a medical bill records database to find people to deport www.404media.co/ice-is-searc...

When this is all over, (and I probably won't be alive to see it), there will be no ICE. It will be dissolved and today's criminal leaders prosecuted. And in the fullness of time, history will rhyme, And we'll go through it again because humans never learn.

Concentration camp (noun): a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard. www.huffpost.com/entry/evergl...