Patty Cole

Imagine being a kid in Chicago and having a Black Hawk helicopter land on your roof, then being zip tied and dragged from your home in the middle of the night.

Time for the DA and state AG to convene grand juries about this dangerous and illegal misconduct by federal agents.

During a shutdown, the federal government can deploy troops to invade US cities but can’t send WIC funds to states to feed infants and children. Speaks volumes about how the rules around shutdowns systematically serve GOP priorities while harming everyone else.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.

It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

GOP Falsely Ties Shutdown to Democrats’ Alleged Drive To Give All Immigrants Health Care - KFF Health News Immigrants living in the U.S. without legal status are generally ineligible for federally funded health care programs. Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable C...

Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplace for legal immigrants who will lose access once certain provisions of the Republicans’ tax and spending law take effect. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Mr. President, it’s not spin — it’s real life for millions of American families. If their health care premiums go up, they’re going to feel the pain and a lot of them won’t be able to afford it. Let’s sit down and fix this

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Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

Republicans to Spend Shutdown Playing Golf at Five-Star Resort Senate Republicans don’t seem too worried about the government shutting down.

Senate Republicans don’t seem too worried about the government shutting down....as they have a glorified resort vacation scheduled just days after the looming deadline. trib.al/j9UA4yF

This is it #trumpshutdown

🎥: @warnock.senate.gov

OMB Director Vought's move to terminate lawfully approved energy and infrastructure projects sends a clear message to Americans: You're On Your Own.

Team Maryland is working to maintain these investments and lower costs for working families across our state.

Oregon to lose an additional $400 million in federal climate grants Oregon and 15 other Democratic states are losing nearly $8 billion toward climate projects, after the Trump administration terminated multiple federal grants.

Families are struggling with high utility bills, but now the Trump Administration is illegally terminating hundreds of affordable energy projects across Oregon and the U.S. meant to lower costs and strengthen the grid.

Energy Bills Are Soaring in America’s Coal Capital

Trump is moving ratepayers to high-cost, polluting power units to pay off his big polluter contributors. Electric bills will go up.

Ahead of Shutdown, Most Americans Said They Wanted ACA Tax Credits Extended In KFF poll, even 57% of Trump voters said they supported an extension

Ahead of Shutdown, Most Americans Said They Wanted ACA Tax Credits Extended www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

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?

This is yet another attempt to mislead you— rates aren't set in December, they're going out NOW.

While Republicans pretend like it's no big deal, millions of our friends and neighbors are about to be priced out of their coverage.

A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli , 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto , 1d ago) to @drmistercody states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

History has many painful lessons.

The death of the premature baby born after their mother contracted measles highlights the danger of more and more people refusing vaccines.

An individual is contagious 4 days before the rash appears.

Imagine a child with measles at a daycare full of babies too young to be vaccinated.

With ACA tax credits, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 pays ~$7,000 for their annual premium.

Without ACA tax credits, the same couple could be forced to pay nearly $30,000.

I know Republicans only speak "billionaire"—but middle-class families can't afford this.

A week after her win in Arizona, @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social still has not been sworn in by Speaker Johnson

“You are unleashed.” What are they, Ramsay Bolton’s hounds?

The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.

He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.

Sure. Left wing terrorism is at an all time high, going from 3% of domestic terror fatalities to 4%. Right wing terrorism on the other hand has dipped to an all time low of 95%

So technically, yeah.

@RepFine: Democrats are willing to stop paying American soldiers in order to give free health care to foreign invaders. If that doesn’t violate their oath of office, I don’t know what does.

Undocumented immigrants aren’t even *allowed* to access Medicare, Medicaid or ACA credits.

Republicans like Randy are going to spike your health insurance premiums, but they REALLY want you to blame an immigrant instead.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

The GOP’s lies are a smokescreen to gut your health care The talking points are false, but the consequences are real.

The GOP’s lies are a smokescreen to gut your health care - excellent explainer
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