This shutdown is no accident. It’s Project 2025 in action. Trump & Vought slashing 150,000 federal jobs, scheming to spike healthcare costs by 75%, and using chaos to break workers. It’s illegal. It’s cruel. It’s a war on us all. Time to fight back.

We're in the middle of a GOP government shutdown and millions are about to see their health insurance skyrocket, but I guess Trump has his priorities in order...

It's not hyperbole to say that the United States doing this to its own citizens is Nazi-like.

Not Protecting American Sovereignty While Accepting Money From The Highest Bidder….

*Democrats politicians are trying to keep the government shut down,* Republicans said minutes before they guaranteed that the government would remain shut down.

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy. Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports. grist.org/internationa... #Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries

Democrats are fighting to prevent our health care system from falling off a cliff. 4 million Americans are in danger of losing their health care. 24 million Americans are in danger of seeing their health care costs spiral out of control.

Oh, sure, let's have Qatar set up its military bases on American soil--because we're all about America First, amirite?

A citizenry no longer primarily responsive to real-world inputs. Constitutional mechanisms that no longer function as designed. Does that sound familiar? Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-wh...

I’m reminded of the Trump apologists of the horseshoe left scoffing at the Twitter exodus because in real fascism people flee the country, but in America’s not-a-problem people fled a website. Anyway, this falsely accused professor has successfully fled the country.

"[on Wednesday] President Trump convened a meeting in the White House that was presented as a 'roundtable on Antifa.' It was, in fact, a gathering of extreme right-wing political maniacs: neo-Nazis, Christian nationalists, racists, and Hitler lovers." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Mike Johnson: Democrats have a “hate rally” planned on October 18th… Ummm YEAH. Because we HATE fascism & authoritarian dictators. WHY DON’T YOU???

Colorado families soon will see huge increases in their health insurance premiums. If folks can't afford care, that's life and death. Congress must act NOW.

Credit: @kendallyb.bsky.social "kendallybrown: Mike Johnson WANTS your healthcare to be more expensive. He just admitted it." #Healthcare #WomensRights #Pregnancy #Americans

Of all the bad Nobel Peace Prize selections, Machado is extra ridiculous and alarming. She’s been head of the violent golpista, antidemocratic, ultra right movement in Venezuela for decades, tied closely to US imperialism, Israel, Europe. Will only justify coup, invasion attempts now. Don’t applaud

Trump called Russ Vought the “Grim Reaper.” Now, he’s firing thousands of federal workers who help Americans get the services they need. Remember: this isn’t about the shutdown—they don’t have to do this. First they took away your health care, now they’re taking away even more.

Is there any precedence in the history of the United States for having a foreign airbase on American soil?

Trump’s building a golf course in Qatar. He accepted a $400M luxury jet as a gift from Qatar. His son-in-law got a $1.5B investment from Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries. His top officials like Kash Patel and Pam Bondi worked for Qatar. And now this.

ICE agents are interfering in Emergency Room ethics, for privacy and not allowing them to contact family. We need to stand up against this, it's so wrong. youtu.be/Rr-BonBA-DE?...

Report: Bodies of seven people recovered from Gaza’s Netzarim area - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-bodies-seven-people-recovered-gazas-netzarim

Later this afternoon, @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social will be here for their weekly chat. Our co-founders will cover the ongoing Trump Shutdown, the upcoming No Kings Day, the Trump regime’s smears of our movement, and much more.

Women and children represent 80 percent of those forcibly displaced in countries including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.

Our top story: Groups like Texas Majority PAC are meant to provide the scaffolding for a Democratic transformation of the state. But critics say TMP commandeers local power for its own agenda.

This isn’t The Real World: FAA Edition. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Attorney General Pam Bondi snapped at a reporter Friday after being asked if she would encourage President Donald Trump to tone down his inflammatory rhetoric amid recent incidents of political violence.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump officials say mass federal layoffs have begun

It is a monumental day in California’s housing history. For once, the Dems showed the courage to do the progressive thing by allowing denser housing near transit

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Let reiterate this … the answer to the question of the photographs in Epstein’s safe was NOT no.

New York Times Bestselling Author, Don Winslow

Lately there’s been a lot of chatter that economists were wrong about Trump’s tariffs. Didn’t the economists predict that we would be stuck in a recession with runaway inflation by now? So maybe Tr...

A military attack on some other European country could lead to the first general European war since 1945, and perhaps to a third world war. It is in everyone’s interest here in the West to forestall such an attack. @crof.bsky.social writes.

That day has arrived. The paycheck workers receive today will be several hundred dollars lighter than usual, and it will be the last one they receive until a fractured Congress agrees on a spending package for the current fiscal year. https://cnn.it/3KJ8b40

“Authoritarianism is as American as slavery, as internment camps, as police brutality, as voter suppression. To fight it, white people have to stop pretending government oppression arrived overnight and start dismantling the systems that have been incubating it all along.”

BREAKING: The U.N. will begin delivering scaled-up humanitarian aid into Gaza on Sunday as ceasefire takes effect, U.N. official says.

JUST IN: President Trump threatens China with a 'massive' increase in tariffs and other economic measures after it announced new trade limits on crucial rare earths.

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

Earlier this year, the DHS handed a massive aviation contract to a relatively new company. The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival’s lawsuit alleges.

A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals.

The government shutdown is giving farmers across the country financial heartburn as it stalls farm loans, critical market reports and the Trump admin’s plans for cash bailouts. “Every day that the government isn’t open, there’s slightly more anxiety in farm country," said one farmer.

“It should have been that the world put sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide, rather than forcing Palestinians to negotiate an end to it.”

María Corina Machado, a U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition figure, has received the Nobel Peace Prize. “They didn't give it to Donald Trump, but they seem to have given it to the next best thing," says historian Greg Grandin.

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

NEW: A $915 million contract to fly immigrants out of the country was awarded to a brand new firm with DHS ties. A rival say it’s “unlawful.”

Trump fails in bid to win Nobel Peace Prize as Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 honour

Israeli forces have begun a pull-back of troops from Gaza Friday after Israel's cabinet approved a plan for a ceasefire aimed at ending the devastating two-year-old war.

The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda. www.wired.com/story/trump-...