Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.
β¦getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.
β¦betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.
The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.
13.10.2025 15:06 β π 10212 π 3354 π¬ 342 π 132
As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.
And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.
Cashing in on cruelty.
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Sick
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Everything we are suffering from is volitional.
Our entire population could be housed, fed, & have health care.
We could be meaningfully combating the climate crisis.
Instead we are zip-tying children, immolating our vaccine system, & doing everything to protect a child rapist.
#NoKings 10/18
13.10.2025 15:37 β π 394 π 162 π¬ 8 π 7
BTIG: Trump tariffs were βthe match that lit the selloff, but .. kindling for a fire was set over the last few weeks .. private equity and credit names were really selling off,β discretionary was weak. βThere is enough damage below the surface .. to suggest this is the start of a deeper pullback ..β
13.10.2025 00:44 β π 531 π 136 π¬ 15 π 7
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13.10.2025 07:38 β π 8904 π 2786 π¬ 644 π 0
Have you noticed how Mike Johnson (et al) never knows a fucking thing that the rest of the world is aware of? Is there, like, an award for The Biggest Asshole who Feigns the Most Ignorance? Does he enjoy coming across as an obtuse, ignorant, lying, cowardly scumbag, which he of course is?
13.10.2025 20:06 β π 283 π 73 π¬ 19 π 1
TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?
JEFFRIES: No
TUR: Why not?
JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.
13.10.2025 19:39 β π 4712 π 1261 π¬ 131 π 64
Where's FEMA?
Where's the National Weather Service?
Trump and elected Republicans do not give one π© about conservative voters in Alaska, apparently. Mike Johnson and his GOP House reps are still on EXTENDED vacation (NOT working, obviously).
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
13.10.2025 20:14 β π 263 π 134 π¬ 20 π 11
MIKE JOHNSON IS ABETTING AUTHORITARIANISM
THE SPEAKER REFUSES TO NEGOTIATE OR EVEN ALLOW CONGRESS TO RECONVENE!
MIKE JOHNSON IS HOLDING OUR GOVERNMENT HOSTAGE!
bsky.app/profile/theb...
13.10.2025 20:10 β π 334 π 164 π¬ 27 π 5
Trumpβs ice goons pull guns on an unarmed guy on a bike in Rogers Park. Terrorizing neighborhoods
13.10.2025 02:06 β π 1882 π 900 π¬ 126 π 53
Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.
13.10.2025 00:55 β π 4705 π 1238 π¬ 84 π 36
"Maria" is rolling up raisins under the hot Madera sun. To earn $70, she has to roll 1,000 sheets! Each row has around 250 sheet. It's hard grueling work walking on the burning sand for hours rolling one sheet after another. #WeFeedYou
13.10.2025 14:02 β π 1923 π 685 π¬ 66 π 43
π¨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2
13.10.2025 13:41 β π 2619 π 2165 π¬ 95 π 148
Not once has the side sending the military into cities to brutalize its own people been the good guys.
Not one time.
Not once has the side sending troops against its own people been the good guys.
Hitler did it.
Stalin did it.
Mussolini did it.
Every dictator claims itβs about βlaw and order.β
Itβs always about power and fear. ποΈ
13.10.2025 16:23 β π 79 π 34 π¬ 3 π 1
Outdated and Dangerous
Antiquated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home to quash protests and order mass arrests in times of war and domestic upheaval.
Outdated laws from the 1700s and 1800s give the president tremendous power to use the military at home. Itβs past time for Congress to repeal the Alien Enemies Act, close loopholes in the Posse Comitatus Act, and reform the Insurrection Act. bit.ly/4oxXJLN
13.10.2025 16:24 β π 109 π 46 π¬ 4 π 4
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#Voices4Victory
13.10.2025 03:57 β π 854 π 336 π¬ 26 π 10
The Debt of Delusion: Americaβs Reckoning with Its Own Myths
Heather Cox Richardsonβs take on Trumpβs Columbus Day decree shows how white Christian nationalism turns history into fantasy and why truth will demand its price.
Trumpβs Columbus Day proclamation turns conquest into divine mission, but as Heather Cox Richardson shows, mythmaking has a cost. Drawing on Emersonβs Law of Compensation, this commentary warns that a nation built on fantasy cannot endure. The truth, long denied, is coming due.
13.10.2025 14:14 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Bernie and AOC
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders are doing a Town Hall on CNN this Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 9:00 PM (Eastern Time)
13.10.2025 00:24 β π 2429 π 905 π¬ 28 π 30
HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY
TODAY
We celebrate and honor the first people of North America
Their history, culture, and resilience
Trump cannot sweep history away
Honor and Respect
13.10.2025 13:27 β π 929 π 360 π¬ 12 π 11
This summer, DOJ instructed its attorneys to prioritize denaturalization cases that would strip Americans of citizenship.
We sent requests to the Department of Homeland Security for communications, legal analyses, and policies on denaturalization.
13.10.2025 14:15 β π 24 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0
They are SO scared of the mass display of opposition that theyβll see on Saturday that theyβre claiming the protesters will all be paid.
Flop sweat, folks.
If they were a truly strong majority, they wouldnβt care.
Theyβre not.
13.10.2025 13:51 β π 1096 π 255 π¬ 35 π 14
Russ Vought is now officially using the government shutdown as a pretext for his continued attempts to permanently gut the civil service.
The executive branch cannot unilaterally reduce agency funding that Congress has allocated: This is a serious separation of powers issue.
13.10.2025 13:46 β π 1552 π 598 π¬ 81 π 22
Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has indicated that he wants to do something about [ACA subsidies], and he wants the government open. Well, we want this fixed and we want the government open. So why is there a problem here?"
12.10.2025 16:40 β π 2424 π 661 π¬ 81 π 12
βIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
~ James Baldwin
13.10.2025 12:49 β π 90 π 24 π¬ 1 π 1
Sen. Mark Kelly: "The president has previously said...that government shutdowns are on the president and all you need to do is get everyone in a room and have a serious conversation. And they're refusing to do that. They are holding people's healthcare hostage."
12.10.2025 15:54 β π 5097 π 1630 π¬ 109 π 35
When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.
13.10.2025 02:04 β π 14991 π 7039 π¬ 1139 π 481
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
Border Patrol βattempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.
The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.β
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