Catherine Chase

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With Trump rolling out 50-year mortgages, his constant claim that the economy is great because Wall Street is doing well, his massive tax cuts for the rich, pardons of Chinese spies and wealthy con men, lies that prices are down, and the Epstein coverup, will MAGA ever wake up?

The White House keeps unilaterally taking entirely voluntary actions which it openly says are intended to inflict more pain and then they're I guess surprised - along with most of the DC media - about why they seem to be taking the blame for the shutdown.

So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.

Amazing.

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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DC federal judge blocks Trump administration from using furloughed employee email accounts to send partisan messages about government shutdown

Judge says administration “commandeered” email accounts of federal civil servants

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Clinton in the Oval Office, one painting on the wall

GW Bush in the Oval Office, one painting on the wall

Obama in the Oval Office, one painting on the wall

Trump in the Oval Office, with every goddamn inch covered in cheap gold shit and three dozen paintings. Imagine if Liberace was the dictator of a small island nation.

Look, it's not even in the top thousand offenses of this administration, but I can't get over how fucking tacky and gaudy the Oval Office has become under this clown.

I'm surprised he hasn't thrown up some LIVE LAUGH LOVE pictures to complete the look of "strip mall Italian restaurant"

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

fwiw i think one reason why Trump is avoiding negotiating with Dems or really meeting with Dems is that they're hiding his condition.

These galaxy brained MAGAnauts think that the pain they are inflicting on Americans needlessly is going to reflect badly on Dems despite fact this a Trump shutdown caused by Trump, the GOP controlled House and the GOP controlled Senate and polls show most Americans understand that.

When your "I'm not antisemitic, it's just that ..." defense is "if we push back too hard on antisemitism I might have to eat dinner with some Jews and that would contradict my faith" ...

You're not beating the rap guys

CNN POLL: TRUMP APPROVAL/DISAPPROVAL AT 37/63

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Release the Epstein files and have Jack Smith testifying

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Whenever people get despondent about how shit Silicon Valley tech is, I always point them to biotech. That whole field is notching incredible discoveries almost quarterly.

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

This is really important. Like, I'm pretty left, and very woke (different axis). But I am 100% here for the broad coalition, the popular front, against MAGA. Bulwark-Liberal Currents-Zeteo Alliance.

Al Capone with syphilis!

This is what national failure looks like. small children worried about secret police.

#Thugs

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

The shutdown is fun for Trump because he gets to throw lavish Gatsby-themed parties for his millionaire friends AND invent new and innovative ways to hurt poor people.

Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.

End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.

They’ve shut down our gov’t; they’re not paying essential workers; they’re withholding SNAP from our neediest neighbors; they’re arresting and deporting hard-working immigrants; and they’re destroying our economy. #Trump and his cronies are destroying our country.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.

12 days of work in 103 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Hegseth bars military officials from discussing drug boat strikes with Congress without prior approval | CNN Politics The Office of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has disemminated a broad list of topics that DoD personnel are now required to seek prior approval on before engaging with Congress, which includes any ...

It’s really quite simple… if you have to bar people from speaking to Congress about an operation, there’s a high likelihood that operation is not legal or morally defensible.

In the case of the boat bombings in Southcom, it appears to be straight up murder.

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