TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson? JEFFRIES: No TUR: Why not? JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

"To try to win the support of Senate Democrats, Republicans have suggested they’d promise to *hold a vote* on extending the ACA subsidies after the government reopens, which is very different from actually extending them." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Is Trump a paper tiger? The US markets are bearing the brunt as he quickly reverses his tariff threats (via Bloomberg Opinion)

"There is, however, one big difference between Trump’s trade policy and China’s. Namely, the Chinese appear to know what they’re doing."

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

"Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it..." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

My statement on today's profoundly moving scenes in Israel and Palestine.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

Want to read the Epstein files? Or important climate reports? You’ll probably need a FOIA office for that. Use FPF's new tool to help us tell Congress that Trump’s decimation of FOIA offices is unacceptable. Americans deserve access to all their records.

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

Is it good when the commander in chief is untethered to reality?

TAPPER: I don't understand why you're not calling the House back in session MIKE JOHNSON: Members are doing important work in their districts right now TAPPER: But the work legislating is also important work

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus? TRUMP: Suspending who? Q: Habeas corpus TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

I don’t understand the supposed legal basis for this. DOJ requested a summons—*not* an arrest warrant—under Rule 9 of the FRCrP. Are they going to go back to the magistrate and ask for a warrant, even though Comey hasn’t failed to appear? If not, what’s the exigency for a warrantless arrest?

The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.

Proud to partner with @theintercept.com on this article by Jeremy Busby of @joinjeremy.org. Jamming cell phones in prisons isn't about crime, it's about stopping incarcerated people from exposing abuses, like those shown in the upcoming @hbo.bsky.social documentary The Alabama Solution.

eventually ICE is going to kill a protester on camera and the federal government simply does not have enough thugs for what could happen after that

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Tens of thousands of people are marching in Barcelona as Spain, Italy and Portugal gear up for mass demonstrations to protest Israel's war in Gaza.

As soon as I read the words “ass clown factory” I had to double check it was the real FBI director’s account and not some parody. It’s real.

Trump’s White House can’t defend the shutdown — so it’s dehumanizing immigrants again. “Pro-life” administration officials say undocumented immigrants should be refused emergency room care.

AND, pay close attention to Justice KBJ’s dissent. She torches her colleagues for: • privileging unconstrained executive power over irreparable harms • ignoring the stability our Gov’t promised TPS families • #SCOTUS interference and misuse of the #ShadowDocket www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

From Friday's #SCOTUS ruling in the Venezuela TPS case: "Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties’ legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here." One problem: the May ruling didn't *analyze* those arguments/harms:

In many ways the Border Patrol can be thought of as the vestiges of an era of policing that had been stamped out in many major police departments nationwide - the era predating efforts to create a more “professional” police force.

The skeleton key to unlock the Trump administration is to understand that everything it does is for the sake of posting. It wants to get likes and shares. And it is specifically captured by a neo-Nazi, fascist audience that wants images of torture, violence, and murder, especially of minorities.

Take it from me: You do NOT negotiate with abusers. So if Trump wants to illegally take New Jersey’s funding, we have to fight back with everything we’ve got. My idea? Eminent domain Trump’s golf course for affordable housing. My debut in @nydailynews: www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/04/t...

Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key witness because of credibility issues. By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social and @jodiscohen.bsky.social

Democrats’ defiant approach to the current government shutdown reflects a party mood that has shifted dramatically as a growing number of Democrats inside and outside Washington are embracing all-out confrontation with President Trump.

The Trump administration has completely ended all pathways to seek asylum, a legal right for more than half a century. We took the government to court and won, and they're now appealing. We won't abandon our commitment to people fleeing danger.

There has to be actual, physical punishment for a lot of these people. They're not going to be shamed into doing better and without the specter of suffering they will simply do the same again at the earliest opportunity.

CoreCivic and GEO Group — the two biggest private prison companies in the U.S. — are poised to expand their roles, as well as their profits, thanks to the new influx of funding. bit.ly/48S3NcC

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Kat Abughazaleh: ICE lies. That's kind of their thing.

Pete Hegseth has history on his side against the free press. The problem is that the Supreme Court discredited it a century ago (via Bloomberg Opinion)

Agents went to almost every single door in the building, zip-tying people regardless of citizenship and ignoring requests to see a warrant. This attack on our communities is a fundamental threat to the freedom of each and every one of us.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

There are already signs that DHS once again is not telling the truth. bsky.app/profile/unra...

Using military lawyers as immigration judges further erodes the line between the military and civilian government. bit.ly/3Ipkr8Z

The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Stephen Miller again lashes out at the judiciary, suggesting federal judges are aiding and abetting domestic terrorism:

“why do all the Trump billionaires spent all their time buying media outlets” say rich liberals “oh well! probably nothing to see here, now to take a big sip of coffee and donate 50 million dollars to a Dem superPAC”

NEW: In Texas redistricting case, a leading political scientist testified that he saw “evidence of intentional discrimination” in the map, which “aggressively seeks to roll back minority power.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...