The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious. Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.” “That sounds terrible.” “What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸 #FuckICE

Innocent people wouldn't do everything in their power to hide the Epstein files.

Cruel and stupid is really the chocolate and peanut butter of authoritarian regimes.

Page One in Boston. @bostonglobe.com

Eric Swallwell (D-CA) says it’s coming to an end and House Republicans are privately breaking, that a “jailbreak” is brewing the moment the Epstein files hit the floor, and that Trump’s aura of fear is finally cracking. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

There is no left-wing violence in Chicago or Portland. It simply is not happening. It's so not happening, in fact, that Republicans in Oregon took footage from two South American countries to create a hoax photo about Portland. They have no actual violent footage to put forward.

The corruption is mind blowing.

unquestionably hits the bat first

It’s really great to be able to drop your ballot in a mailbox and 24 hours later get both an email and a text confirming it was received. The sort of voting efficiency the GOP loathes.

Imagine being a dying WW2 veteran and the last thing you see on earth is your great-grandson invading Portland for fascism and losing to a frog wizard.

Three cheers for MIT. When the White House tried to buy obedience with funding strings...MIT said, “Hell No!” Merit over mandates. Freedom over control. Finally...an institution with the guts to tell power where to shove its politics.

Can’t avoid the Epstein files forever, they have to open the government eventually and legislate… and stuff right? 🙃

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood. I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Where is that $50k ?

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs

Breaking the law so he can endanger the nation, Russ Vought arches an eyebrow as he strokes a white Persian cat on his lap.

You know the assignment 👍

The thing abt Krasnov gifting Qatar a military airbase on US soil is: Krasnov is at Walter Reed not getting his yearly check up. Krasnov did not win the Nobel Peace 🏆 as compelling as zip-tying kids & shooting a pastor in the head w pepper balls is. AND KRASNOV IS ALL OVER THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Tom Homan won't say if he took $50,000 cash in a bag from the FBI. Pam Bondi also wouldn't answer. If he didn't take the money, why not just release the tape?

I think the administration will try to agitate, but it’s important that we make these protests 1. HUGE and 2. Peaceful

Mike won’t open the government because… Epstein, Epstein Epstein, Epstein, Epstein Epstein, Epstein, Epstein Epstein, Epstein, Epstein Epstein, Epstein, Epstein Epstein, Epstein, Epstein Epstein, Epstein, Epstein Epstein

The Frog Costume has gone from $25 to almost $40 on amazon over the last week. There's an army brewing.

To all the Americans losing their jobs and farmers losing their farms, take comfort in the fact that the people in Argentina are doing great.

Are American citizens being disappeared? Yes. Are American citizens who are veterans of the US Armed Forces being disappeared? Yes. Without warrant or probable cause—solely based on skin color—Trump goons captured and caged a citizen veteran for days. This is a fascist regime.

Meiselas: Trump says he’s focusing right now on laying off the Democratic agencies and government employees, whatever that means. Again, completely pathetic behavior, and in normal times, this would be impeachable and/or 25th Amendment territory.

I was in Portland last Spring. Yup. Just plywood as far as the eye can see. Fucking moron.

Release the Epstein Files.

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection. Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

Klobuchar: "I remember Bondi saying, 'the president is the most transparent president in history.' I wish I said, Well then why doesn't he just release the Epstein files?"

That's right. Laugh right at these sweaty losers and double down on the peaceful protests against them.

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing? JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

These aren't random lies—they're part of the relatively short runway the Trump administration will use to illegally invoke the Insurrection Act and soon after declare martial law and end our democracy I'm unsure if we have days or weeks left, but I suspect it's one of those two rather than months

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law. They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast. But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

Meanwhile in #Portland

Oh yeah. Almost forgot… Release the #EpsteinFiles!