Tim Smith (Insert any of my various titles here.)

Great - but once the shutdown is over, please STOP voting for Republican legislation. Some of the stuff you've voted for has been seriously awful, and absolutely ZERO Republicans are going to carefully examine your voting record looking for bipartisanship and then decide to support you. Z E R O ...

Or ... OR ... just hear me out here , CRAZY IDEA - I KNOW ... but they could always just ... pull out of Ukraine?

Drew Cline. That's all I needed to see.

Lost me at "market aligned", but this is about what I expect from an op-ed on NH Journal.

Stop voting for Republican legislation.
That needs to be step one.

I can't even read the news anymore.

Every hour is a fresh new constitutional crisis that in any other circumstance would lead to mass resignations in the administration, from POTUS on down.

But in 2025? Just another day.

I don't know how we save the Republic.

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

If you live in California, now’s your chance to fight back against Trump’s attack on free and fair elections. Vote YES on Proposition 50.

Early voting starts today. Let’s make sure Republicans know that we won’t let them rig our elections.

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.

Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
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NYT Issues Correction After Bari Weiss Uses ‘Antifa’ Account Run By Alt-Right Trolls to Prove Left is Intolerant New York Times writer Bari Weiss has been duped (again).

I had to look that up. Thanks for that!

He could’ve fought, but he faked bone spurs. So someone else had to go in his place - most likely a working class kid whose daddy couldn’t afford to bribe a doctor. Now he’s talking shit about how it should’ve been fought.

Photo of a happy looking blonde dog labeled "Portland" next to a scary monster labeled "Portland in the News"

Lolz. Truth! 😹

People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger.

The answer is empathy and compassion.

Gov. Gavin Newsom says “sell-out” universities will not receive funding from the state: nbcbay.com/rOT9YcG

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

Thugs.

We must pass a billionaire minimum tax that establishes a baseline tax rate that the super-rich cannot go under.

It's time to tax the rich.

Have fun:

If you ever think English is not a weird language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme.

But read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.

Kamala Harris warned us that Trump would turn the military against civilians. She warned us that he would pursue Project 2025. The media mocked her, but she was dead right about both.

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls — People

Taking small children, half clothed, away from their Moms & Dads & handcuffing American citizens. As a father, JD Vance have you no shame? Is this the Trump Vance America?⁦

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Sweeping Ban on Drone Flights Across Chicago Looks Suspiciously Like an Attempt to Ban Press Coverage | ACLU We can’t let government block drone photography of newsworthy events simply by claiming a need to fly their own aircraft in an area or claiming the existence of vague “security threats”

The Trump administration's unusual 10-day ban on drone flights across Chicago could have serious consequences for our ability to monitor law enforcement activity.

We can't let the government weaken our First Amendment rights by claiming vague “security threats.”

The President gets no special new powers during a shutdown. He can't eliminate agencies. He can't use federal funds to punish his political opponents.

As Trump's illegality grows during the shutdown, Democrats' spines should stiffen to oppose his corruption.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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Live updates: Democrats stand firm on healthcare demands as Trump says shutdown can 'clear out dead wood' The US president says he will look to cut 'Democrat agencies' in what he calls an 'unprecedented opportunity'.

Donald Trump wanted a shutdown.

Republicans gave it to him because they don’t care about doing what they were elected to do. They don’t want to serve the people, lower health costs, or do *anything* to make life easier for everyday Americans.

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

Great, but stop voting for Republican legislation.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Didn't you know? These days, you're supposed to thank the abusers and congratulate the trolls on how witty and insightful they are. [Insert generous quantities of eyeroll memes here]

Truly, we're living in the stupidest possible timeline. :-\