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Sen. Ruben Gallego says the impacts of the shutdown pale in comparison to the calamity that would ensue if the Obamacare subsidies expire: “If we don’t get ACA tax credit extensions, over 100,000 Arizonans are going to double their premiums on their health insurance. That’s painful and permanent.”

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.

“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

a shutdown, but with morons and grifters and crackpots, too, oh my!

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Wesley Bell Used $35,000 in Campaign Cash to Buy His Friend’s Dodge Durango The congressman from St. Louis put some of AIPAC's money to an unusual use. He now faces a rematch with Cori Bush.

Very odd SCOOP:

Just weeks before the 2024 primary election between Cori Bush and Wesley Bell, Bell used over $35,000 in campaign funds to buy his friend's Dodge Durango, which the friend had failed to sell two years earlier.

He then hired the friend, who now drives the car.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet.

If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S.

Read this in @bloomberg.com👇

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Supreme Court denies Ghislaine Maxwell appeal

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge to her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it”

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A Word About the Most Important Voting Bloc in America Meet the self-interested majority (who know "a man is not a piece of fruit")

The fact that a vast majority of Americans agree on a wide array of issues and yet our political leaders advance none of them illustrates just how broken our system is. Power has shifted from the majority to a monied-few. How do we win it back? I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Our government leaders aren’t giving Americans what they want. And there’s actually lots of consensus on what we want.

If we get a day to remember the 1,200 Israelis who were killed on October 7th.

We would need every day of the year and then another half a year to remember the 600,000+ Palestinians who Israel have murdered.

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. This is bigger than politics. It’s about putting the health of Americans first."

- Six former U.S. surgeons general, who have served under both Republican and Democratic administrations

WE MOURN ALL VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE, AND DEMAND JUSTICE AND PEACE. Today, on the second anniversary of the horrific attacks of October 7th, we grieve for the victims and for all who lost loved ones. We continue to call for the immediate release of all remaining hostages. Violence against civilians is not and can never be justified. Two years later, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government has weaponized that tragedy to carry out a campaign of collective punishment -a genocide -against the people of Gaza. The ongoing siege of Gaza City has trapped civilians in rubble and dire hunger. Roads have been blocked, hospitals destroyed, and food and medicine restricted to a trickle. This is not defense. It is annihilation. The deliberate destruction of Gaza is a moral catastrophe - one happening on our dime. The United States continues to supply weapons and political cover to Netanyahu's government. That complicity must end. We refuse the false choice between condemning an horrific attack and condemning genocide. We can - and must - do both. True justice means no double standards. It recognizes the equal value of every life. It is a commitment to protecting every civilian, rejecting collective punishment, and demanding accountability for every crime committed. On this anniversary, we remember every innocent life lost - Israeli and Palestinian alike. We mourn all victims of violence, and demand justice and peace. Real safety will never come from mass killing or collective punishment. It comes from equality, accountability, and humanity.

Our statement on the anniversary of October 7 and the ongoing genocide in Gaza: indivisible.org/statements/i...

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Scientists win Nobel Prize for groundbreaking immune system work The prize-winning discovery explains how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells.

Positive news for #autoimmune #chronicillness. Also possible #cancer treatments and reduction of organ transplant rejections. MedSky

Scientists win Nobel Prize for discovering why immune system does not destroy the body

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

A Fan Of Charlie Kirk And Andrew Tate Killed Two Teenage Girls Last Week He had been stalking one of them for months.

A Fan Of Charlie Kirk And Andrew Tate Killed Two Teenage Girls Last Week
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White "Conservative" males have been and continue to be a major source of violence in our communities, especially against anyone that doesn't think or look like them.

No international body should ever again schedule anything in America.

...so where do you think we should move the United Nations?

BONDI: The National Guard is on the way right now as we speak. You're sitting here grilling me and they're on their way to Chicago to keep your state safe.

DURBIN: It's my job to grill you

Portland isn’t on fire but Judge Goodstein’s home is.

A child rapist has the nuke codes while children are zip-tied in Chicago.

The we need guns to fight tyranny guys are doing the tyranny.

The freedom of speech guys are stomping on free speech.

The pro-life party is only aroused by death.

#GOP

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In case you missed it, here’s what happened.

ICE kept most offices open in shutdown — but not the one inspecting detention centers www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse asked Pam Bondi about DOJ's decision to drop the investigation into Tom Homan.

MSNBC first reported that Homan was recorded in Sept. 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI sting.

Bondi refused to answer, then attacked Whitehouse.