WHO CONTROLS THE PRESIDENCY REPUBLICANS! WHO CONTROLS THE SENATE REPUBLICANS! WHO CONTROLS THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS! SO WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A SHUTDOWN (NOT THE) DEMOCRATS!!

Don’t let Johnson and MAGA MOC control the narrative.
They own all of this.

Shut them down during the Trump shutdown.

#SNAP will run out in 2 days.

YES ON PROP 50

Pritzker Denounces Ramped Up Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Raids, Calls Federal Agents ‘Thugs’ “Our Chicagoland neighborhoods are being bombarded with tear gas, invaded by unidentified masked men in unmarked vehicles, thugs who are intimidating workers and children and grandparents, most of who...

"No child in America should have to go trick or treating in fear that they might be confronted with armed federal agents and have to inhale tear gas. I honestly can’t even believe that I have to make this plea. This is not the America that I know.” @wttw.bsky.social

Next year now.

Not day one like he promised.

Some time next year everything will be great for those of us not on Wall Street.

Can’t wait. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.

The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by. www.wired.com/story/federa...

Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.

NEW: Almost a month into the government shutdown, and some federal workers are barely making it through.

One fed, who spoke with @telliotter.bsky.social, is out tens of thousands of dollars waiting to be reimbursed for their husband's cancer care.

More here:

www.wired.com/story/federa...

Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.

NEW from me + @makenakelly.bsky.social: 30 days into the shutdown, federal workers talked to us about the toll it has taken on them—unpaid bills, anxiety, and even waiting to be reimbursed for emergency cancer treatment.

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/federa...

Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to ele...

A @wired.com milestone for me today, if you'll excuse a slightly sappy thread for a sec:

It's been one year since I asked @leahfeiger.bsky.social if she was sitting down when I relayed to her what I was hearing. Hours later, we published this story www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

If You Hated ‘A House of Dynamite,’ Watch This Classic Nuclear Thriller Instead At a time when nuclear threats feel more alarming than ever, Netflix’s doomsday film falls frustratingly flat. A 1964 masterpiece tells a much better cautionary tale.

Unlike A House of Dynamite, Fail Safe depicts the hubris and viciousness of certain individuals involved, as well as the ridiculousness of the complex systems and protocols that people put between one another. We risk losing ourselves in it all.

Review:

If You Hated ‘A House of Dynamite,’ Watch This Classic Nuclear Thriller Instead At a time when nuclear threats feel more alarming than ever, Netflix’s doomsday film falls frustratingly flat. A 1964 masterpiece tells a much better cautionary tale.

A House of Dynamite envisions a world where deterrence has, inexplicably, failed. Yes, this is arguably the fault of all those who have supported nuclear posturing.

But Fail Safe is much more successful at showing how and why the worst risks come from within, Chris Baraniuk
writes.

If You Hated ‘A House of Dynamite,’ Watch This Classic Nuclear Thriller Instead At a time when nuclear threats feel more alarming than ever, Netflix’s doomsday film falls frustratingly flat. A 1964 masterpiece tells a much better cautionary tale.

At a time when nuclear threats feel more alarming than ever, Netflix’s doomsday film falls frustratingly flat. A 1964 masterpiece tells a much better cautionary tale. www.wired.com/story/if-you...

Wired let me write about one of my favourite films!

Fail Safe is a masterpiece and, while pretty harrowing, it's a much better take on nuclear crisis than A House of Dynamite, IMO.

No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

With SNAP benefits set to run out on Saturday, far-right influencers and extremists have been spreading racist disinformation, including the claim that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. Fact check: not true!

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social for the necessary debunker:

No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

USDA data shows that almost 90 percent of SNAP recipients are American-born citizens.

The data also shows that deep red states like Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana are among the states with the highest percentage of those in receipt of food stamps.

No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

As roughly 42 million Americans face the loss of food stamps, far-right influencers and extremists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about who receives these benefits.

In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.

No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps. www.wired.com/story/disinf...

Episode 51 - Trump's 'Let Them Eat Cake!' Moment Catch up on the themes from Week 51's list in an easy listen!

This week was Trump's 'Let them eat cake!' moment! Has he lost touch with the electorate, including his supporters? Catch up on all you need to know!
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Graphic from: THE RESISTANCE Trump admin ads vs Nazi Germany ads What do you notice about the Department of Labor's new social media ad campaign when compared to Nazi Germany's ad campaigns?

MAGA Republicans:

“StOp CaLLiNg uS NaZiS‼️”

Also MAGA Republicans:
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

What a lying piece of shit the vice president of the United States is. Wow.

Katie Miller Threatens to Storm Off Show After Cenk Uygur Calls Her a Liar: ‘Sick and Tired of This Racist, Bigoted Rhetoric’ Former Trump White House official Katie Miller threatened to storm off Piers Morgan Uncensored on Wednesday after Cenk Uygur called her a liar and a "weirdo."

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Stephen Miller’s wife Katie loses her shit and comes complete unglued because she claims that when Cenk said “the Millers lie” that was an anti-Semitic comment. Totally unhinged wacko.

Scoop: Some NIH employees told they won't be paid during furlough after all.

Earlier today, some NIH employees received emails stating that they will not be paid during the shutdown. This was an unexpected, and likely unlawful, change in federal government policy.

🧵

ICE detain both father & kids on way to school—lock kids up at separate detention center.

ICE won't disclose where his 2 kids are being held—after sending father hundreds of miles away to Texas.

Local police tried to make a welfare check—but ICE agents blocked their entry.

Durango, Colorado

Flip the script on democracy's destroyers. It's Day One of the new phase of the fight for our democracy.

YouTube video by Amanda Litman Run for Something’s plan to expand the map

From last night: How @runforsomething.net's plan to expand the map will actually work, why Schumer doesn't get a say in where we invest, and why it matters to create many paths to victory in the next five years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D_d...

Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme.

Bill Maher Slams Mamdani And Endorses Cuomo But Admits 'Maybe He Was A Little Too Handsy' The "Real Time" host also said Zohran Mamdani was born in a country "where they kill homosexuals" and brought up the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Always told liberals Bill Maher was a racist piece of shit, especially against Muslims and Arabs, and we were ignored for years.

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Republicans scream about voter ID. Fine. So why aren’t Democrats launching a full-blown...nationwide effort to help every eligible voter GET one? If the GOP wants to make IDs the battleground...then Goddamnit...equip people for the fight. This should be a no-brainer.

"Donald Trump is coddling assassins."

-Miles Taylor, moments ago, with @nicollewallace.bsky.social

BREAKING NEWS: The Last Republican — the new documentary from Meidas Studios about former GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger — has debuted as the #1 documentary on Apple TV.

This is BIG!