A graphic with a white and gray gradient background contains bold red text that reads: “BELIEVING THE REPUBLICANS WHEN THEY ‘PROMISE’ A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE IS LIKE BELIEVING TRUMP WHEN HE SAID PROJECT 2025 WASN’T THE PLAN OF HIS ADMINISTRATION.” At the bottom, it credits @kdnerak33.bsky.social, and in the corner is the logo BRIAN TYLER COHEN.

To the 8 senators who voted to give up the only leverage they had and trust the GOP:

There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.

*If all goes by the regular schedule

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Collected on my walk today.

SEN. @schatz.bsky.social : "This is not about money. There is enough💰to bail out Argentina with ($40 BILLION). Enough to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173 MILLION for Noem. Enough to renovate the ballroom. What there isn't enough💰for under this Republican government is YOU."

Beyer: I don’t like to do ad hominem attacks, but I’ve served with four different speakers. This is the fifth one—by far the weakest speaker, I think, in American history.

See the difference? 👀

#NoKings

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Linus is right. Release the Epstein files!

💔😢

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

YouTube video by Netflix A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall | Famous Last Words | Netflix

"Every single day you live, you make a difference in the world, and you get to choose the difference that you make...
Even today, where the planet is dark, there still is hope." -
Dr. Jane Goodall, March 2025
Choose well, my friends.

WATCH: CA Gov. Gavin Newsom calls BS on Republican healthcare promises by pointing out the recent damage they’ve done to our healthcare 🎯

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens.

They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

His own words.
He is a weak man.

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Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

How does that lower the cost of groceries or create jobs?

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

Another city I won’t visit.

That’s what I thought also.

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.

Whenever I hear the word “Hoax” while Trump is speaking…I immediately think of the biggest hoax of my lifetime: the “assassination attempt” in Butler, PA.

ILLINOIS - @govpritzker.illinois.gov : “Trump doesn’t seem to understand it’s actually Republican states that have the crime problem.”

‘His inexperience shines through’: Steve Witkoff struggles to manage Russia as Trump peace envoy Witkoff’s solo approach has led to repeated miscues with Russia, leaving Trump’s pledge to quickly end the war between Russia and Ukraine adrift.

‘His inexperience shines through’: Steve Witkoff struggles to manage Russia as Trump peace envoy

Witkoff’s solo approach has led to repeated miscues with Russia, leaving Trump’s pledge to quickly end the war between Russia and Ukraine adrift.

I am a mental health professional. Americans do not have more mental illness capable of leading to violence than people in other modern civilized countries and societies. What they DO have, is far easier and unfettered access to guns - of all shapes, sizes, and capacities.