Trevor Toteve, MPP

This is all pretense. They know they're going to lose big in November. So, they're preemptively establishing (false) claims and manufacturing (false) evidence. Which they'll use to justify (illegally) invalidating state election results and refusing to give up power.

Two headlines.
Two economies.
Same day.

Poetic.

@nytimes.com @bloomberg.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps
Step 2: Stop measuring hunger
Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger
www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

My dad used to live in Eagle and we would hunt and fish the Eagle and Colorado River. Got a few banded geese along the Colorado River Rd growing up and caught some big trout out of the Eagle R. and Sylvan Lake. Beautiful area.

the degree to which these guys are just literal, straight up Nazis is both shocking and massively undercovered by the media

This should be a major story and it Isn’t even a blip. newrepublic.com/post/199027/...

I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history"

It is propaganda, pure and simple.

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Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

People have trouble interpreting this. Nobody’s saying Donald Trump or Pam Bondi are personally selecting Nazi iconography. They don’t read enough for that. The point is they hire and promote Nazis who ARE steeped in Nazi iconography, and they’re fine with it.

Winooski Superintendent Detained, Questioned by Border Officials Superintendent Wilmer Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was questioned for hours at a Houston airport as he returned from a visit to Nicaragua with his husband.

Wilmer Chavarria, a US citizen, Global Entry member, and Vermont school superintendent, was detained returning to the US from a trip abroad with his husband. CBP told him he had "no Constitutional rights," took his phone and laptop, and revoked his Global Entry.
m.sevendaysvt.com/news/winoosk...

Great thread on "doing" history.

Republicans have been calling Democrats “communists and Marxists and socialists” for nearly a century now.

In 1960, Ronald Reagan said of JFK: "Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx.”

Despite House Rs saying harsh #Medicaid work requirements only apply to young adults, they apply to older adults up to age 64 and parents of dependent children 14 and over. And work requirements have no effect on employment/hours worked. They are just about cutting enrollment among eligible people.

He has refused his Assent to Laws…

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world…

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury…

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences…

A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.

Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.

It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.

Senate Megabill Takes Cap Off Unprecedented Private School Voucher Tax Credit, Potentially Raising Cost by Tens of Billions Relative to House Version The tax and spending legislation approved by the U.S. Senate would create an unprecedented, dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit designed to support private school vouchers. This tax credit has the po...

New analysis from @itep.org: if only 25% of eligible tax filers were to claim the school voucher tax credit in the Senate's reconciliation bill, federal revenue would be reduced by over $25 billion per year - far more than previous versions. itep.org/trump-megabi...

With the Nays on the House rule that would allow a vote on Trump’s mega bill already at 216, abstaining is the same thing as voting Nay

And there are 4 Rs who have voted Nay and 9 Rs who are abstaining

Of those 13, Republican need to flip 10 to move the bill forward

(It could happen.)

HOUSE FLOOR LATEST: It's 206-216 right now.

All 212 Democrats have showed up and voted NO. So unless one of the 4 Republican NOs flips, this rule to advance Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" is toast.

The Senate reconciliation bill would reduce federal #Medicaid spending by $1 trillion over 10 years.

Provisions that only apply to ACA expansion states account for $526 billion of the federal spending reductions.

NEW @kff.org analysis looks at the impact across states: www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Two give two examples:

1) In the last 12 months, one of my friends in the expansion Medicaid population was on Medicaid, off Medicaid, on Medicaid, off Medicaid, & now back on Medicaid.

2) Luke Seaborn lost his Medicaid twice in under a year due to Georgia’s work requirements despite having a job.

tonight’s senate vote-a-rama has been postponed and is now expected tomorrow, per senate whip’s office.

vote-a-rama is normally an overnight affair, because exhaustion is a tactic used by the majority.

this is not something that happens when you’re all good to move forward.

NEWS — Senate R's refusing Dem request for a bipartisan meeting with the parliamentarian on using current policy baseline to pay for tax cuts. Budget Cmte GOP spox: "There is no need to have a parliamentarian meeting with respect to the current policy baseline because Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act gives Graham — as Chairman of the Budget Committee — the authority to set the baseline. "There is nothing to debate and we consider this matter settled."

I want to be very clear about what’s happening: Senate Republicans know the parliamentarian will say they can’t use 312 to pretend tax cuts are free (because two have two Byrd rule problems).

So they are refusing to meet with her so they can pretend they never ignored her when they do it anyway.

Excerpt from an Urban Institute Study on Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and New Hampshire

When Rs say they aren't taking healthcare away, they lie. The effects of their work requirements and more frequent determinations will be a defacto cut in coverage for millions. Heres what Urban found with their study on Arkansas and New Hampshire's work requirements.
www.urban.org/research/pub...

The Senate Republican bill would cut SNAP by $186 billion - 22% by the final year. This would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history and would rip food assistance away from millions of households, including families with kids and veterans.

Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025

CBO cost estimate of the Senate GOP bill is out! But this is the version where they pretend $3.76 trillion of tax cuts are actually free.

When you account for that CBO estimates that their bill will increase deficits by $3.3 trillion over the decade, much more expensive than the House.

Senate Republicans have just moved to proceed to the "big beautiful bill," which would cause the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history while simultaneously cutting taxes for the richest Americans.

Thread on the process to follow.