Federal workers are about to have their livelihoods upended because of this shutdown. We'll hear talk about "sacrifices" that the American people need to make. Meanwhile, Trump is bailing out Argentina with $20 billion worth of taxpayer dollars.

If and when normal "rule of law" returns, any federal employee who follows this MAGA instruction would be vulnerable to prosecution under the Hatch Act. ("If and when" doing a lot of work here.) www.wired.com/story/govern...

Anytime, anywhere you hear anyone say that democrats have shut down the government, kindly correct them. The republicans shut down the government. The republicans shut down the government. The republicans shut down the government.

BASH: The argument Dems make is that insurance companies start to make plans soon, and so by the time they make that plan the ACA subsidies will expire. Isn't there something to that? JOHNSON: No. That's a December policy issue BASH: But insurance companies have to make decisions well before Dec.

BASH: You mentioned $1.5 trillion. $1 trillion of that is to reverse Medicaid cuts that you put in the big beautiful bill MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid reforms, not cuts. BASH: It's less spending. You can call it what you want.

MASH nailed the warrior ethics long ago… Oh. Ethos. Nevermind.

Pete Hegseth is the enemy within.

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

This is factually correct. Rhetorically correct, also.

They didn’t have MedBeds in Starfleet until well after warp drive was discovered.

It’s Wednesday, where’s the TikTok guy with his receipts on Mike Johnson for Grindr?

Mamdani’s got it. “Trump and republicans in congress shut down the federal government.”

“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, the president of the United States said.” “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.” “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

Some things never change.

That screams RACISM!!! Pseudofolliculitis is a skin disorder that is common among black men that causes facial bumps and makes shaving painful. May a pox beset Labubu Hegseth consisting of angry, weeping, painful pus-filled boils, and may his hands and soles not be spared.

Florida had most book bans in 2024-25 school year, free speech group says: www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Clearfield County, Pennsylvania wjactv.com/news/local/p...

🚨 ADP’s private employment report flashes big warning signs for Trump’s economy…

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for refusing to comply with our FOIA request for information about the agency's plans for expanding immigration detention in the D.C. region. We have a right to know how our taxpayer dollars are being used to fund ICE's abusive detention machine.

NOW: we have filed a lawsuit to stop Trump's abuse of the shutdown 👇 joining @anacabrera.bsky.social @msnbc.com to discuss 1120 am et!

Are we winning yet?

Trump is bankrupting farmers, raising prices on everything, and killing jobs with his tariff mania. Republicans in Congress own all of it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Mamdani: "Every day, Trump wakes up and makes another threat, a lot of the times about the city that he actually comes from. What is angering to me is not what Donald Trump does, because we've come to expect that from it. But it's the idea that we have to accept that as the law, as normal."

My favorite Biden post this year

Joe Biden didn't cause a government shutdown

This is the best elevator pitch I've seen from Dems on the shutdown.

NEWSMAX: How long does it take for drug prices to start coming down? DR OZ: Certainly early next year. It's not going to be much longer.

For MAGA, facts are pesky things

Let’s open our eyes. This isn’t a functioning democracy any longer when - in the middle of a high stakes funding fight - the President illegally suspends federal projects in states run by Democrats as a way to punish the political opposition.

In a decision issued October 1, 2025, Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge William Young includes a postcard sent to him saying “Trump has pardons and tanks ... what do you have?" He responds "Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People ... have our magnificent Constitution."

BREAKING: Supreme Court will allow Lisa Cook to remain on federal reserve board for now, ruling that the government’s application for a stay is deferred pending oral argument in January 2026

NY Attorney General Letitia James sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security late Tuesday after she alleges it illegally withheld millions of dollars in federal funding for mass transit counterterrorism security measures.

Number of days without a major distraction from the Epstein files: 0

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump posted another deepfake video overnight. How does that help the cause of getting a deal and opening the government? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, the president uses social media for humor. He makes jokes. He does lots of things.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is pretty unbelievable. Qatar giving Trump that jet is really paying off for them in a big way.

Schumer: "Here's what we hope -- now that the Republicans have seen they don't have the votes, they will sit down and negotiate in good faith."

He was just in the news a couple weeks ago again because he had another warrant issued for his arrest after he missed a court date for yet another driving incident.

Hakeem Jeffries: “Trump and Republicans have shut the government down because they don't want to provide healthcare to working-class Americans. Federal law prohibits the use of Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the ACA to provide health insurance in any way, shape or form to undocumented immigrants.”

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social. The enemy within.

So “America First” is a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, US economic development of Gaza, and NATO-equivalent security guarantees for Qatar. Got it.

Republicans lie (shocker): Dems can’t give “free healthcare” to undocumented immigrants - it’s already illegal. Trump once said presidents own shutdowns. And Ted Cruz? Wants to go easy on pedophiles.😬 RELEASE THE FULL EPSTEIN FILES.

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

BREAKING: U.S. private companies lost 32,000 jobs in September, far below expectations of a 51,000 gain, payrolls processor ADP reported Wednesday. This marks the biggest decline since March 2023. t.co/wSC5ra79e3

Looking for someone to blame for this government shutdown? See below #26in2026

His post last week feeding the QAnon conspiracy that there are magic healing beds keeping elites alive secretly like JFK was really hilarious until he deleted it. Quite the jokester our president. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Pope Leo: "Someone who says 'I'm against abortion', but is in favor of the death penalty, is not really pro-life. Someone who says 'I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States', I don't know if that's pro-life."

THE TRUMP ECONOMY: US private sector businesses LOST 32,000 jobs in September, far below the expected gain of 51,000, per payroll processor ADP. August has been revised DOWN by 57,000, to -3,000.

Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.