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Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

It’s Getting Worse. The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.

"Such behavior, said the Young Republicans chair, 'has no place within our organization or the broader conservative movement.' But reading over the chats, what I was struck by is just how self-evidently wrong his claim was."

Susan Collins has won against every candidate who didn't have any experience winning elections.

Why would people want to put someone into high elected office who has no experience after we've seen the job Trump has done?

🤔 Maine Gov. Janet Mills is running for the U.S. Senate against Susan Collins. Janet stood up against TrumpIsAFelon. She's another fighter for Democracy. Maine voters do the right thing and elect her.

I dont disagree with you.
I do disagree with people who think running a Blackwater mercenary with absolutely no record is better than running a popular 2 term governor who has won statewide twice against Susan Collins who has impossibly beaten everyone who has run against her.

I just announced my campaign for U.S. Senate to defeat Susan Collins because Maine families deserve a senator who fights back and stands up for us. So please, can you donate 5 or 10 dollars right now to help me flip this Senate seat blue?

Janet Mills's campaign account just posted this video of her saying that she just announced her campaign against Susan Collins. #MESen. Mills, 77, is expected to jump in the race against Collins. She would face Graham Platner, Jordan Wood and Dan Kleban.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

Maine governor Janet Mills announced today she is running to dethrown Republican Susan Collins in the Senate.

First, she will need to run against progressive Graham Platner in the Democratic primary

This race is ranked Lean Republican by Cook Political Report.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Meiselas: How do you see yourself in that race versus Graham Platner?

Mills: We’ve run people against Susan Collins before, and she won because we ran people who were untested… I’m the only one in the race who’s actually won an election

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

Janet Mills has jumped into the Maine Senate race against Susan Collins.

Recent polling we did with @ZenithPolls shows that Graham Platner is best positioned to beat Susan Collins, out-performing Mills by 6 points.

substack.perfectunion.us/p/poll-platn...

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

Most states planning to withdraw National Guard troops from DC this fall
#Trump

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

This will be a long and difficult winter for Ukraine. However, Ukraine will finally be able to retaliate properly and make Russia pay for its ongoing war crimes.

Europe needs to commit to more air‑defense aid for Ukraine now!

Big deal for Finland

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

i know grand juries have a relatively low bar for bringing indictments but i find myself wondering WTF is up with some of these grand jurors

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

You know who takes a cognitive test? People whose family members suspect their loved one is suffering from dementia. If he kept getting “perfect” scores…they wouldn’t keep administering them. My take? He blew the first one he ever took. Now, they’re tracking the decline. I’d bet my hot coffee on it.

Republicans won’t show up to vote on paying our troops during the shutdown because avoiding a vote on the Epstein files to protect Trump and his friends is more important.