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Here we have the Treasury secretary saying explicitly that economic policy is being made based on who voted for Trump. So now all of us will be paying for a farm bailout caused by Trump's idiotic trade war. Congrats, America!

I wrote about this here: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-farm...

Shutdown guts U.S. cybersecurity agency at perilous time The lead U.S. agency for protecting the electric grid, water supply and other critical services from hacking has furloughed most of its staff.

The lead U.S. agency for protecting the electric grid, water supply and other critical services from hacking has furloughed most of its already trimmed-down staff in the government shutdown.

Furloughed SBA employees were sent similar email, suggesting they blame Dems in their out-of-office reply, per an email obtained by MSNBC

“I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill…” SBA advised employees to say

And children are dying from lack of access to medicine because he spent a weekend “feeding USAID into the woodchipper”

Greta Thunberg and other flotilla participants have been kidnapped by Israel again.

Yes President Trump was slurring and exhibiting disordered thinking in his appearance before the generals. But at least he didn’t have a hoarse voice like Biden in the first debate.

They are stealing taxpayer dollars from blue states because Democrats in Congress refuse to give Trump a blank check for his authoritarianism.

Corruption. Coercion. Blackmail. Lawlessness. 

I won’t bend the knee to a wannabe dictator and his cronies. We will prevail.

Congressional Republicans shut down the federal government - their third time under Donald Trump’s control.

Here’s what that means for you.

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

Speaker Mike Johnson: I am also working during the shutdown. Hiding from elected Democrats to ensure they cannot get sworn into office is work.

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
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The vice president, who previously asserted that undocumented immigrants were eating our cats and dogs, has now settled on the lie that undocumented immigrants are eating our health care.

All politicians lie, but he's really elevated it to an art form.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

It’s sort of impressive how a sizable portion of the country seems to have totally lost its spine in face of authoritarianism because Donald Trump barely won the popular vote.

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

If you read through the article what you'll learn is that these two locations were never licensed to perform abortions. What women are losing is STI testing, cancer screenings, and contraception.

The GOP is targeting every single one of those things.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

Vought's email to agency leaders also explicitly blamed Dems for the shutdown. The Hatch Act now only exists for federal employees you are trying to fire.

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign.

"If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

Yes. (And still getting "standoff" BS and "who will blink first" and "who will voters blame" from news.)

Trump and MAGA control the *entire* government. It's a simple fact:
- White House
- Senate
- House
- Scotus
- OMB (to the hilt)
- Every regulatory agency

They're in command. It's on them.

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

This is absolutely a lie. There is no reason shutdowns trigger layoffs. They never have before. Trump is simply using the shutdown as an excuse to take federal employees hostages and to further gut the government.
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Update: The Smithsonian is staying open "at least through Monday, October 6, 2025."

this guy has no idea what the american military is (the most sophisticated logistics operation ever assembled in human history)

BREAKING: Just hours before the fiscal year ended, a federal judge in R.I. has ordered the Trump administration to preserve $233 million in FEMA funds it attempted to abruptly steer away from 8 blue states.

Without that order, the states would've lost the money at midnight.

Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

Faux news re-aired footage from 2020. That's what he saw. It's peaceful there now.

if i were a would-be dictator whose only civilian check on power had been consumed by total-complete partisan loyalty, something i would definitely do is call an unprecedented in-person meeting of the only people who could stop me and then proceed to illustrate why they should stop me

The third rail of politics: Social Security and Medicare....