This is honestly the bare minimum of what constitutes our democracy. We’re quite literally back to taxation (and appropriation) without representation.

Project 2025 explicitly called for cutting SNAP - estimates showed 21 million children alone would lose benefits under their proposal. None of this was secret. Americans voted for it.

Here's our first test run for the official end of democracy.

If my math is right, a 1% tax on 200 people is enough to cover a full year of the Medicaid cuts for all of California. It's immoral for so few people to have so much money.

Listen, people joining ICE don't want to learn about the law and stuff. Based on the actions of current agents, I'm not sure its doing them any good to even pass this test.

I have a feeling Nazism will be normalized very soon anyway.

Once you realize the NYT is trying to help him you can’t stop seeing it

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

Not a peep from Musk about this government spending. Was the chainsaw from him worth it, Elon?

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M flood protection grant for the area in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.”

Murphy: "If we want to win the argument nationally on the economy, then we've got to break our addiction to incremental economic change. And we've got to talk about big, bold ideas that reorder power in this country."

They're months behind on producing a budget, but damn did Republicans get back in office quick to gerrymander another district.

I'm trying to figure out how sending $7 billion to Africa to save 20 million lives from HIV (many of whom are kids) is an outrage (America First! We can't afford it) ... yet somehow sending $20 billion to Argentina is affordable, wise, and responsible.

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

This is how I feel about corporations like Target as well. Maybe it's time to stop assuming that any organization is behaving morally and not just in the interest of their bottom line.

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

7/ Democrats need to stand for something right now. And what need, to vote for this budget, is pretty simple and reasonable: Don't cut people's health care just to pay for a billionaire tax cut. Don't fund Trump's growing authoritarianism without checks on his corruption.

2/ Democrats aren't going to vote for a budget that throws millions off health care and funds Trump's growing totalitarianism. At least I'm not. Why work so hard to get to the Senate if you don't use your power to fight for what you believe in? Especially at a time like this.

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages www.propublica.org/article/trum... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Problematic, to say the least. Hard to believe that there isn't someone more deserving than a person calling for war.

America First voters, where you at?

It's truly baffling to me that someone can give hours of lectures about authoritarian power and then conclude that Bill Gates and nonprofits are the problem.

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

Truly inspiring to see individuals and a society standing up against a brutal authoritarian regime who refuses to concede power. I hope we learn some lessons from Venezuela and other countries that truly value their freedom.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

I'm a firm believer in rewarding people who speak the truth and say the right things, even if I think they're otherwise horrible. Credit to MTG for getting it mostly right on the shutdown, the Epstein files, and who has the power to resolve both of these issues today.

They are not Trump's enemies. They are critics and opponents. He sees them as enemies, because that's how autocrats perceive their critics. NYT should not repeat and normalize authoritarian discourse. How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

EXTRY EXTRY

If you automatically assume that anything any media outlet reports is a lie if a cop is the source you’re likely to be far better informed than someone who automatically assumes it’s all true.

This barely qualifies as a "study" and has so many problems that it can safely be ignored. www.perplexity.ai/search/ameri...

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Stephen Miller declares Trump-appointed Judge Immergut an insurrectionist for upholding the constitution — keeping him from mobilizing Oregon’s national guard without them

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

I'm not sure why (I am sure why) the media keeps framing it as "hurting Democrats" when Trump kills government programs and fires people. It hurts Americans, his constituents, the people who depend on government to provide stable services. Democrats are fighting for our services.

The worst thing is that Trump and his allies call you a traitor, after which you lose your job and your family is threatened. We live under authoritarian rule.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

There's the real endgame for tariffs - favoring certain businesses over others for political gain. And Americans pay for it.

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

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.

The problem with this is that an increasing number of companies are paying these bribes and that puts their money against Dems.

Let Republicans shut it down if they can't do their jobs. Republicans run the entire government, let them figure out how to do the basic job of governing. Democrats should use this to wake up the Americans who are not paying attention.

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

Another generation of corruption, this time wrapped in an ugly shirt.

Sensitive billionaire and most powerful man in the world feels he's being treated unfairly again.

Friday: a prosecutor is forced to resign bc he concludes there's not enough evidence to go after Trump's perceived enemies Saturday: Trump makes public post asking Attorney General why she hasn't gone after his enemies Wednesday: DOJ says enemy indictment coming right up sir do I have that right?