Peter Laughter

Word.

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

@altnps.bsky.social @alt-irs.altgov.info @altssa.altgov.info @altspaceforce.altgov.info @altusda.altgov.info

This needs to be amplified. They are planning to not pay furloughed workers.

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

Yes please.

This is so ridiclously cool.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Thank you! I don't do Meta platforms but I found her on LinkedIn. I appiricate you posting this.

Democrats are rejecting a 7-week “band-aid” that delays the fight—because waiting means 20M face higher premiums ＆ 15M could lose Medicaid.

Better to fight now than abandon families later.

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

Who is this woman? What a wonderful talk and a briliant analogy.

www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...
Don’t let Trump Reign of Terror with his masked thugs evade accountability. They can shut down an app, but they can’t shut us down or shut us up. We’ll keep showing up. We’ll keep organizing and reorganizing.

I’ve never really viewed threatening my customers as a successful sales strategy myself

This is terrifying Aaron.

thank you for doing this labor of love. Wonderful story.

George Carlin would never have taken blood money to perform comedy for a Saudi Arabian tyrant.

More of this please.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

CONGRESS GOT ANOTHER PAID VACATION courtesy of Speaker Johnson

This is insanity. Our neighbors for crying out loud.

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Thanks @aaronsojourner.org following her now

US takes a stake in another company, this one is operating a massive lithium mine in Nevada The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines in northern Nevada.

Just wait until President @aoc.bsky.social does stuff like this.
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This is unbelievable.

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

Maryland House speaker says ‘now is the time’ to take up congressional redistricting “Now is the time to have conversations about redistricting in Maryland,” Adrienne A. Jones told The Banner. “He has a ready and an eager and a willing partner in me.”

SCOOP from @brendawintrode.bsky.social: In the national redistricting one-upsmanship, Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones says she’s ready to redraw the state’s Congressional map, currently 7D-1R.

The latest on the conversations in Annapolis:

www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

um... isn't that kinda what Fox News is?

Much more of this please. Thank you Madeleine Dean for going through the breach. Prey others follow.

so we loose our health care because we have a broken immigration system? I don't see how the two are connected...

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.”