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THE RESISTANCE The House hasn't shown up for work in weeks. They all would have lost their health coverage by now if they were subject to the same bureaucratic work reporting requirements Republicans put in place for folks on Medicaid. @SenatorWarnock

I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018 - 2019 — for 35 days — before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed.

Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.

"listen, you can either have free healthcare, free child care, good wages, social safety nets, and the filthy rich make a small percent less,

OR

you can all starve, work backbreaking low paying jobs and die so the filthy rich can get even richer"

Voters: "both sides are the same!"

SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.

Trump is shaking up the critical Office of Naval Research.

OUT: A rear admiral.

IN: A 33-year-old DOGE staffer with no naval experience.

Scoop from @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

They sent it all to Argentina.

2/3 Knox has no medical or public health qualifications; he’s a former firefighter and anti-vaccine activist with no formal experience running a federal health agency.

Nothing to see here. No conflicts. No oversight hearing needed. Comer is still too busy with Biden stuff.

The current homepage of USDA. This is deeply and profoundly fucked up. And illegal. People need to go to jail.

“You’re doing fine, Oklahoma …!”
You don’t need no stinking environmental laws — or an EPA.

The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended

Yesterday, I took to the House Floor to ask for Unanimous Consent to swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva.

Speaker Johnson isn’t just silencing one Representative. He’s silencing 800,000 people in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District.

SWEAR HER IN.

China bought 27 million metric tons of soybeans from US farmers in 2024. But somehow this “deal” to buy significantly less is a huge victory.

And the list doesn’t include the est, 200,000+ federal workers who lost employment.

If this isn’t definitive evidence of advanced dementia I don’t know what it would be

Mike Johnson allowing Jeffrey Epstein to keep Arizona’s 7th congressional district without representation for now nearly 8 months.

700,000 more Epstein victims thanks to enabler Mike Johnson, who has weaponized the files against them.

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

Animal Testing and Alternatives Championing Methods To Replace Animal Testing

Another reason to support proven alternatives to animal testing. www.pcrm.org/ethical-scie...

Needs “I don’t know anything about it.”

Andrew Desiderio V @AndrewDesiderio X.com Funny moment just now in the Senate: Lindsey Graham whispered something into his phone and then Siri responded with full volume: "Calling Sean Hannity mobile" 8:57 AM • 10/28/25 • 276K Views

We live in an episode of Veep

The president should be meeting with congressional leaders on both sides every single day until government is open.
 
Instead, Trump is in Asia pining to meet dictator Kim Jong Un and he's focused on building himself a $300 million ballroom.

This is disgusting. Blatant corruption at the highest level in plain sight and Oversight Chair Comer Pyle morphs into a combination of Mr. Magoo and Sgt. Schultz.

How can a United States Senator say the word “But” right after that first sentence?

Tweet from the Democrats’ official account saying “weird.” Below are two screenshots labeled “Mike Johnson last week” and “Mike Johnson now.” In the first, Johnson says Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House. In the second, he says Republicans aren’t in charge of government.

Which is it, Mike?

PLEASE DO NOT put bleach on your jack o'lanterns. The beta carotene and other nutrients can help a wild animal survive the winter and bear young.

What are his staffers doing?

House Republicans talking health care during their six-week-long paid vacation: