Marge says that Republicans can end the shutdown anytime they want without Democratic votes.

Keep in mind that Stephen Miller is speaking to people who've been uprooted from their day jobs and homes to serve as props.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Republicans control every branch in Washington. Now, Trump is openly giddy about using the shutdown to slash and burn federal resources that working Americans count on. His shutdown, and firings, will hurt people in every part of this country.

The White House has laid out a proposal to nine top U.S. colleges and universities, offering them preferential access to federal funds in exchange for agreeing to a set of demands, according to a memo.

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child, authorities said.

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query 'does trump show signs of dementia' as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents." www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

“Maximize pain” — that is what the White House literally told the GOP their strategy is. Imagine responding to the fight for human dignity with a strategy for maximizing pain. History will remember those who stood up, spoke out, and did what was right in this moment for the American people.

Just two friends having a great time. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

"You don’t need to be a mental-health professional to see that something’s very seriously off with Trump—particularly after nearly three years of watching his erratic and abnormal behavior in the White House." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS CAN NOT GET FEDERAL HEALTHCARE!!! donald AND ALL REPUBLICANS ARE FLAT OUT LYING!!! PROTECT HEALTHCARE AND OPEN THE GOVERNMENT REPUBLICANS!!!

“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.

Madeleine Dean is great.

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY. RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

The president's position appears to have shifted somewhat.

Priorities.

It’s still insane and disturbing to me that our troops went from being led by decorated 4-star Generals to a small disrespectful trashy idiotic Fox Propagandist rapist drunkard who installed a makeup area for himself at the Pentagon. Makes me sick every time I think about it.

This post is getting ratioed on X because all the Democrats are like "no they're not" and all the Republicans are like "no we're not"

We must pay billions to farmers Because we cut off their customers with tariffs And pay billions to Argentina Whose farmers are selling to the customers we forfeited Because that is America First

So Trump is defunding the police.

Neguse: "I would challenge anyone to make sense of the rantings and ravings you just heard from the president. These are not serious people tweeting out offensive videos last night on Truth Social ... I think it's important for all of us to acknowledge what we see with our own eyes"

NEWS: Earlier today, workers at the Department of Labor received an email blaming Congressional Democrats for “forcing” a government shutdown. An employee described it as, “definitely the most explicitly partisan email I've seen in my three years here.”

Trump: "When you shut it down, you have to do layoffs. So, we'd be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected, and they're gonna be Democrats."

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

The right spent the day platforming a story suggesting left wing violence is the problem. The data doesn’t support it. At the same time, they ignore the fact that the guy who drove up to the Mormon church in Michigan, killed five people and set it on fire was a Trump supporter.

Republicans would rather shut the government down than save health care for millions of Americans. I came to Washington today to lower health care costs and keep the government open, but Republican leadership literally locked us out.

This is insane. Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Erasing history.

The president posted an AI-altered video of two Democratic leaders who met with him at the White House earlier in the day.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Nothing suspicious about that

Tariff!

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

The rules from the Department of Housing and Urban Development would allow major changes to public housing and Section 8 vouchers: - full-time work requirements - 2-year time limits - stripping aid from whole families if one member is in the country illegally www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Wow. JUST BEFORE the announcement that Electronic Arts, $EA, was to go private on Friday, there was $EA 180 calls expiring this week on 10/03. They made millions. And today, $EA was announced to acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $210 per share Someone always knows.

via @lincolnsquare.media 🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence. Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.

Now we know that Republicans have finally caught on to the benefit of early in-person voting, and some of that has trickled down to mail voting despite Trump's efforts. Dems still dominate in mail voting but we shouldn't be getting 'out-returned' by Republicans. Return your mail ballots, NJ Dems!

Good and bad news in New Jersey mail voting. The good news: Ds are mail voting in far higher numbers, which is to be expected. The bad news: Rs are returning their ballots at a higher rate, which could signal GOP enthusiasm. NJ Dems need to return their mail ballots ASAP. Info via @votehub.com:

Trump on Mamdani: "He is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City. Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his FAKE Communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it, so what’s the point of voting for him?"

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were