Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

“I have no idea what Project 2025 is.” - Trump, October 31, 2024

Here you go.

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

Our president is an international punchline, and so are we.

Bingo

“.. What this administration is doing is unprecedented, illegal and flat-out wrong. .. I’ve been deeply engaged in our federal government for over 30 years and there is nothing that has come close.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Here are all the states Russ Vought announced just today he would be illegally stealing taxpayer dollars from. Have we ever had a President work so hard to hurt the people he represents? I'm not going to be intimidated by these crooks.

The Banality of EVIL Taking glee from firing thousands of American workers These MF’ing FASCISTS ought to be in prison Trump is NOT in charge he just does what Stephen Miller & Russ Vought tell him to Did YOU vote for them? www.rawstory.com/russ-vought-...

How you know this is a Republican shutdown. They’re loving it. That’s who they are.

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

Note: this is a 2024 post. The 2025 date is OCTOBER 6.

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective… You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

Priorities.

An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

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.

Who controls the house? Who controls the Senate? Who controls the WH and is illegally cutting what has already been approved via rescissions?

The legendary Jane Fonda “has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, the McCarthy-era initiative started by her father, Henry Fonda ...” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

He’s always been a weasel

The Epstein files have turned the entire GOP in Congress into a bunch of Gym Jordans. They know the truth about a pedophile but are actively covering it up.

The government is shut down. For those just tuning in, here’s what happened:   1) We said we needed to help Americans pay their health insurance bills.   2) Republicans hated the idea and stonewalled us.   3) They shut down the government (which they control all chambers of) without negotiating.

I really like the phrase "Kavanaugh stop." It's not a Terry stop, because a Terry stop is short and based on reasonable suspicion of a crime. A Kavanaugh stop, by contrast, is when masked goons kidnap a person for speaking Spanish.

ER patient here! The Trump/Vance/Miller agenda has clearly been about going after ALL immigrants. On my recent ER/hospital visit (bike accident) a huge part of my compassionate & competent care was provided by immigrants(especially from Africa).

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

Where are all the other blue state Governors to support @govpritzker.illinois.gov call for invoking the 25th??

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

I am very here for Pope v Crusade tattoo guy

It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

i don't understand conservative toughness, which involves being scared shitless of everything but also talking about how tough you are

The White House when Trump gets done with it:

New piece from @radiofreetom.bsky.social answers the question: What does “nothingburger” have to do with “utterly embarrassing” “not okay” “more confused” “lost in the halls of history” “usual grievances, lies, and misrepresentation” “obsessions” & “unhinged” It’s….sobering and also a great read

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

We are living the 2nd govt. shutdown under trump. In 2018, during his 1st term, came the 1st ; a 34-day shutdown, the longest in the modern era. Watch Sen. Chris Murphy tell us why this government shutdown happened. You might not be surprised about this, but appalled, most certainly !

So Trump is defunding the police.

Imagine under a Bernie Sanders admin, Congressional Rs and Ds agreed to give a 5% increase to DOD in exchange for big boosts to housing and nutrition. And then Bernie decided to just illegally ignore it and actually cut defense 10%. That’s what Trump is doing. How can you make a deal under that?

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

As long as I am a member of the United States Congress, I will NOT fund authoritarianism. I will NOT support Fascism. And I will NOT vote for a continuing resolution that steals from American families.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social reports from Chicago: "Nothing about this city feels like a war zone—to use this city and others like it as a "training ground" is dangerously deranged."

CHICAGO / SUBURBS If you want to know what it's looked like at the ICE facility in Broadview (Chicago), this brilliant photo essay from @almacampos.bsky.social & @pgoyette.bsky.social at @southsideweekly.bsky.social is a very good place to start.

I don’t care if it’s AOC or Cheney, get me someone who stands up to this madness.

"no more superficial individual expression"

Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard. www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...

Take it from Mr. Art of the Deal, if there’s a shutdown, the president is to blame.