America’s government is in a complete shutdown, and House Republicans are refusing to come back to work. Is it because they don’t want to lower the healthcare costs of American families or because they don’t want to release the Epstein Files? www.politico.com/live-updates...

House Republicans announced they will be on an extended vacation next week, despite the government having been shut down since October 1st. They have been on vacation since September 19th and appear to have no interest in ending this shutdown for the American people.

First, Trump irresponsibly fired the people who protect US nuclear weapons. Then, he had to scramble to rehire them. Now, the MAGA Republican shutdown is threatening the safety of the arsenal. Simply put: Trump’s incompetence is making us less safe.

Signing off for the weekend? Thank a union.

Republicans refused to negotiate bipartisan legislation that protects the healthcare needs of millions of Americans and forced our government into a shutdown.

It's October 3rd. The third day of Republicans' dirty shutdown.   And I want to do a little Friday fact check because I hear that they are spreading misinformation... AKA... LIES about their shutdown.

Here’s what inaction on ACA tax credits means: A 60-year-old Western PA couple making $80,000/year seeing health insurance premiums go up $12,000 per year. It could be a crushing blow. That's what's coming, unless the Republicans work with Democrats to fix the healthcare crisis they've created.

Republicans shut down the government and then lied about why. Let’s be clear: undocumented immigrants don’t get ACA tax credits or Medicaid—and Democrats haven’t proposed changing that. I don’t want a shutdown. I want affordable health care for all Americans.

Yesterday, I asked Americans to tell me what a DOUBLING of health care premiums would mean for their families. Here are just a few of their responses:

If you think the right-wing meltdown over Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl halftime show isn’t racist—you might be racist.

This is fascism.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Four U.S. citizen children were detained in an ICE raid—zip-tied, separated, held for hours. Imagine if these were your precious little ones! Can you close your eyes to this depravity? Please don't. Remember If this could happen to these little kids, it can happen to yours. Speak out now!

CNN: “Republicans are strutting around — but who do Americans blame more for the shutdown? They blame Republicans.”

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In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.

During the middle of the night right in Chicago, with no warrants, presented, everyone in the building was taken outside and zip tied, including toddlers, after they were separated from their parents. This is vile and disgusting and if you think that this is acceptable, you need to seek help.

NEW: Tell Congress: Cancel GOP healthcare cuts and end Trump’s shutdown actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

No reason to believe this was anything but the premeditated murder of four fisherman in international waters: a war crime. Trump and his jackals destroy the evidence every time, and never release any intel, and have a history of committing and celebrating war crimes—so that must be the presumption.

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

Ousted director of Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library is a Kansas hero for refusing to surrender Ike’s sword to Trump administration.

After a mind-bending week like this one, this is the energy we need going into the weekend. Happy Friday, everyone! 🍹🍷🍸 #RepublicansProtectPedofiles #WhatAboutThoseEpsteinFiles #TrumpIsInTheEpsteinFiles #FDT Credit: actor, comedian, & singer Josh Wolf #JoshWolf

Right-wingers are currently flooding them with comments to pass it. Please stand up for the right to vote now by letting the EAC know that you're against more restrictions on our right to vote. 👇 www.regulations.gov/commenton/EA...

This would impact millions of Americans who don’t have a passport and the 69 million married women who changed their last names. Stand up for our democracy by telling the EAC you're against putting up more barriers to the ballot box. www.regulations.gov/commenton/EA...

Flaunting a holy cross like a cheap talisman is a dead giveaway as to this guys character.... 👇

BREAKING: A federal appeals court just blocked Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship No president can change the Constitution with the stroke of a pen. Here’s the ruling 👇 -TN democracydefendersfund.org/prs/10.03.25...

As the federal government stays partially shuttered, President Donald Trump is pushing ahead with talks about permanently slashing parts of the federal workforce. But a civil‑service statute dating...

BREAKING: Major victory for democracy and the rule of law. A federal court has blocked Trump’s illegal attempt to fire members of Puerto Rico’s Oversight Board. The judge ruled the firings violated the Constitution. This is a crucial check on executive overreach. Read HERE:

People are asking: Why is Trump screwing American farmers so badly when they’re his most loyal voting bloc? Maybe because it’s a cheap land grab. Run farmers out of business, then he and his billionaire buddies buy up millions of acres for pennies on the dollar. Are the farmers catching on yet?

The Trump administration’s projected strength during the government shutdown is belied by a nagging insecurity, reports The Wall Street Journal: that the Democratic health care concerns that set of...

Wow. It should get more attention that on most social media sites aside from X, the Trump White House is getting absolutely ripped to shreds over the shutdown. These Instagram comments are absolutely brutal for them.

Republicans control the House, Senate and White House - and so the government has been shut down because they chose to shut it down rather than pass a budget that protects our health care and keeps costs from rising. Tell Congress to cancel the GOP healthcare cuts here: https://bit.ly/3IDECjz

Translation: House Republicans are RULING OUT reopening the government. The American people can't afford your inaction, Mr. Speaker.

The Constitution is clear: Congress—not the President—controls the power of the purse. Trump’s OMB is ignoring that bedrock principle to illegally gut NASA. This is bigger than space—it’s a full-on assault on our democracy. #NASA www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/9/new-d...

The loudest voices supporting bigotry to ‘protect children’ are too often the ones harming them. Robert Morris demonized trans people while committing crimes against children himself. This is why religion has no business dictating morality or public policy.

Republicans: Biden was trying to buy votes with student loan forgiveness. Also Republicans: We need taxpayers to bail out farmers who vote for us since Trump put them out of business.

Would Trump be bailing out farmers with your tax dollars if they predominantly voted for Democrats?

OPINION: We have proof Trump is unfit for office. Will these key players use it to bring him down?

Only the weakest men are afraid of flags. Pettiest, cancel mob on the planet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

As Democrats and Republicans trade accusations over which party is responsible for the government shutdown, new polling suggests that President Donald Trump’s efforts to falsely claim—i...

The GOP health care for immigrants lie is an old one. Here’s me six years ago:

Total number of cases: 428 Blocked: 29 Temp Blocked: 83 Blocked Pending Appeal: 19 Temp Blocked in Part; Temp Block Denied in Part: 10 Temp Block Denied: 38 Not Blocked Pending Appeal: 33 Awaiting Court Ruling: 184 Case Closed: 23 Transferred: 2

First they shut down the government. Then they tampered with federal workers’ emails to shift the blame. This is corruption in broad daylight.

"Announcing plans to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal employees simply because Congress and the administration are at odds on funding the government past the end of the fiscal year is not only illegal – it’s immoral and unconscionable." federalnewsnetwork.com/government-s...

As Washington D.C. deals with a government shutdown, local businesses are promoting specials to support federal workers during this time. NBC News' Gary Grumbach talked to a general manager of a bar that is offering deals to furloughed workers.

A pop-up statue of President Donald Trump holding hands with late financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has gone back up on the National Mall, after the National Park Service took it down.

Democrats, both in and outside of Congress, actually have tried to resist and obstruct the Trump administration’s second-term agenda. But they haven’t been flashy or high-profile.