So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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.

Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.

Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.

They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

PASS IT ON…!

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down.

Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

There goes the First Amendment.

BREAKING: I call on Fox News to fire Brian Kilmeade.
After Fox News host Brian Kilmeade called for executing mentally ill homeless people, two homeless encampments in Minneapolis were attacked — 13 people injured.
This seems even worse than people who the right are calling to be fired.
@msnbc.com

Perhaps this is more significant than charlie. I think so.

Good morning and happy Sunday to everyone. It's still the Department of Defense. Just like it's still the Gulf of Mexico. Just like the other place is still the Twitter. Just like he’s still in the Epstein files.

Ah yes, Zuckerberg, brimming with all that “masculine energy.” 🙄

“What should I say, boss?”

(p.s., read Careless People)

👏👏👏👏

“CBC, stop giving Pierre Poilievre unchecked airtime. Fact-check, demand answers—don’t be a microphone for propaganda. Journalism exists to hold leaders accountable and report facts.”

Do your job— 🇨🇦Canadians’ democracy depends on it
#CDNpoli

Denise Sevier-Fries (@denisesf5)

substack.com/@denisesf5/n...

“I was r*ped sometimes 3 times a day on that island… and I was not the only girl on that island… Ghislaine must die in prison, because I’ve been in hell and back for the last 17 years.”

Listen to the survivors.

Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship: A definitive timeline | CNN Politics A timeline of Trump’s interactions with Epstein and Maxwell reveals a long pattern of social proximity and one that stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s public downplaying of their friendship.

Lots of pictures and stories of Trump with renowned pedophile Epstein. Here’s a timeline to put it all in context: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-epstein-relationship-timeline-invs-vis

ATTN: If you're one of the Treasury employees that handled Epstein's Suspicious Activity Reports, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔

Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...

NEW ANGLE

Watch and decide, but I was never fully convinced he was shot in the first place. Never mind that his ear should’ve been blown off—now completely healed. Or that the Secret Service took their time getting him offstage.

But from this angle: you see the photographers guided into place…

There’s a concentration camp outside Miami.

Humans are kept in inhumane conditions, lacking proper food and hygiene.

Their crime? Existing.

What the fuck are we doing?

This is why they sent waivers home to let us watch Schindler’s List in high school.

Shut it down.

Andry José Hernández Romero, about ten years ago, goofy & hopeful.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 111 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Ah, the golden age.