A tweet from J.J. Abbott (@jjabbott) says: “Narrator: He did not fight.” It quotes a 2022 tweet from John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) that reads: “Health care is a basic, fundamental human right. I will fight for health care like the health care that saved my life. #PASenateDebate.”

In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.

In a normal political system that has strong parties, there would be a way for members to replace leaders like Schumer who disregard their preferences.

In the US, Democratic voters have essentially no mechanism to change the direction of the party leadership.

@schumer.senate.gov resign. Today.

Voters: primary these incompetents.

Tonight was a very bad night.

Border patrol agent who shot Chicago woman boasted about it in text messages A federal agent who shot a Chicago woman multiple times after he said she struck his vehicle with her own bragged about his shooting skills in text messages with other agents, according to records presented Wednesday at a hearing in the case against the woman.

"Read it. 5 shots, 7 holes." Border patrol agent who shot Chicago woman boasted about it in Signal text messages with colleagues, reports @reuters.com.

/shakes the tin furiously

Today is Day 38 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:

1. Republicans control the White House, Senate and House.

2. GOP making deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and ACA.

3. Democrats are fighting to lower costs, cancel the cuts and save healthcare for Americans.

600k people murdered by a Nazi as part of a eugenic program to horde resources for white people. I think it's reasonable to call that a genocide.

Musk believes his Mars colony will save the species, that he's on the verge of creating trillions of digital life forms, and he's vaguely into e/acc - longtermism. I don't see him having a problem sacrificing (other peoples, non-white) kids if he thinks that'll further his goals

lol Trump literally ran on fixing everything on day one and has spent the last few weeks telling us he ended 8 wars.

We must not only end this but prosecute everyone involved. The time will come.

ICE is now using facial recognition software— including on American citizens — to detain people its app concludes are in the country illegally.

This, as Trump says ICE raids "haven't gone far enough."

Connect the dots: No one is safe from Trump's tyranny.

Sub-machine gun

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."

YouTube video by Sen. Elissa Slotkin Trump is Following an Authoritarian Playbook

youtu.be/Hur3GFFOwhk?...

What he said: 💯 🎯

On Thursday (10/23), as I was walking back to the office with my lunch I stopped to heckle a crowd of National Guard and federal agents. I was then tackled to the ground, slammed against a squad car, arrested and held in a cell for several hours.

Hey folks. Remember Republicans have been saying repeal and replace ever since the ACA was passed and we all said don't repeal until you have a plan and they said, no repeal and we'll have a plan?

You're seeing their actual plan right now: die or go bankrupt

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Fully story on the verified 170 US citizens ICE has arrested and tortured www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar Earlier today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on yet another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Eastern Pacific. This vessel, like all the others, was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel—and killed—during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. No U.S. forces were harmed in this strike. The Western Hemisphere is no longer a safe haven for narco-terrorists bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans. The Department of War will continue to hunt them down and eliminate them wherever they operate.

On October 8, the Senate narrowly failed to pass a War Powers Resolution that could have stopped these lawless strikes.

Since then, the US Department of Defense has killed 40 more people (out of 61 total).

The longer this shutdown goes on, the more Americans get hurt.

Instead of finding a solution, Trump is focused on firing thousands of federal workers and destroying critical programs.

Americans want healthcare, not a shutdown.

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna is introducing legislation to ban the president, his family, members of Congress, and all elected officials from trading crypto or stocks.

U.S. Military Kills 14 More People Accused of Smuggling Drugs on Boats

More illegal boat strikes by the US, this time killing 14 (with one survivor) in four separate attacks off eastern Mexican coast. Once again, no evidence or legal justification provided. Bears repeating that these strikes are illegal, immoral, and ineffective

This administration is posting lies. Republicans can end this today without a single Democrat vote.

Republicans in Congress are taking an indefinite vacation & relinquishing their power to a wannabe king.

Without a Congress, we’re living in a dictatorship—not a democracy.

The US military murdered 14 more people overnight

*US CARRIED OUT THREE STRIKES ON FOUR VESSELS YESTERDAY
*US MILITARY STRUCK VESSELS IN EASTERN PACIFIC, HEGSETH SAYS
*VESSELS WERE TRANSITING ALONG NARCO-TRAFFICKING ROUTES: HEGSETH
*TOTAL OF 14 PEOPLE ON THE VESSELS WERE KILLED: HEGSETH