This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.

But consider this...

Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.

Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

Here’s a gift link to my New York Times piece on what Dems can learn from bad bunny

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

If we are to deprive political violence of its power, we must reject anyone who commits or promotes it - and also reject any move to exploit it.

The demographics of this crowd are so notable.

One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.

How many more warning do American elites and masses need?

Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

J.B. Pritzker is 100% right.

Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.

Communist regimes:

Own companies
Control their central banks
Use tariffs to insulate their economies
Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition
Idolize their leaders with posters & praise

Sound familiar?

Jon Stewart digs into Trump's perverse take on presidential power

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.

Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

From @pkrugman.bsky.social

✋ DC resident here.

This characterization of the District is of course absurd.

Miller is essentially declaring "Mission Accomplished" after the troop deployment to DC, but the Trump administration's militarized authoritarian theater has nothing to do with public safety.

As a survivor of SA, this is a gentle reminder that The Epstein Files are about the under age children who were bought and sold and repeatedly r@ped by old, rich, white men, all supplied by Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump’s friend.

They are not, in fact, about Donald Trump.

If Trump wants to throw the book at people who commit “violent crime” while desecrating the American flag, why did he pardon people who on Jan. 6, 2021 violently assaulted our cops with American flags-on-poles, calling them heroes and rewarding their bloody flag desecration?

“Violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people,” President Trump said of D.C.

Post reporters retraced some of the president’s routes with the goal of seeing his view of Washington firsthand. wapo.st/4fPz3dV

We're putting the maps on the ballot and we're giving the power to the people.

i’m a believer in something @therickwilson.bsky.social said recently, which was basically “if they take 5 seats of ours, we take 10 of theirs.” there needs to be pain when they pull this shit.

The problem in D.C. is in the White House

At this point, Nixon comparisons don’t do Trump’s level of corruption justice. Donald Trump makes Richard Nixon look like Mr. Rogers

If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized.

If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.

How Close Is America’s Fascist Moment? Maybe things aren’t as bad as they seem.

"Donald Trump is spending $200 million to create a presidential ballroom at the White House to rival the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago. Does this strike you as something a man would do if he intended to leave office in four years?"

Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/how-close-...

Here @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social, we're speaking up and telling the stories of how Donald Trump is hurting you and your community.

Join the fight! Follow us and tell your story!

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

Why Gutting USAID Will Hurt America

We investigated why dismantling USAID could have major consequences, not just abroad, but for Americans too.

This times a million