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Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

What's important is to understand the cumulative effect of it all. To not just see today's outrage.

See the silencing of Kimmel, the arrest of Comey, the harassment of Soros, the troops in our cities, the seizure of spending power, as all part of a plan to end our democracy.

Even if Ellis wasn’t a partisan stooge (which of course, he is), this would be a horrible idea. The person developing and implementing policy should not be the same person tasked with assessing its legality.

Treasury Defends Minting a $1 Trump Coin Despite 1866 Law The Treasury Department said that a 2020 collectible coinage law allows a living person to appear on U.S. currency.

Federal law says only the deceased can appear on U.S. currency. But on Monday, the Trump administration defended its plan to mint a $1 coin bearing the image of President Trump.

This was genuinely not-horrible from Jeffries.

No rescission. No impoundment.

But the tax cuts works.

APOLLO: “Bank of America data shows that the labor market continued to deteriorate in September.” 👀

Trump’s new IRS ‘CEO’: The head of Social Security The Trump administration on Monday found its seventh leader for the Internal Revenue Service since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term: the head of the Social Security Administration.

Frank Bisignano is already wreaking havoc at the Social Security Administration.

If he tries to run his same chaotic playbook at the IRS, it could spell disaster for American taxpayers.

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues.

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ICYMI: Senate Republicans just blocked Democrats' bill that would reopen the government AND save health care for millions of Americans.

This is now the FIFTH time we've voted on this bill.

The Republican shutdown continues.

Big shelf. Right next to the Epstein files.

McGovern was attempting to ask why Republicans refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva leaving her district without representation for 7 months, but Granny wasn’t having it.

🚨 Rep. Jim McGovern attempted to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep Elect AZ-07, but they would NOT recognize him in the House. He has a candid reason as to why he thinks this happened. 1/2

The image is an X post by Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation ) from 10 hours ago, reporting on Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a combat veteran and Army helicopter pilot wounded during the Iraq War, responding to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's argument for gender-neutral fitness standards in the military. Duckworth states that Hegseth is the "least qualified Secretary of Defense in our nation's history" and questions his ability to judge women who qualify for their jobs. She adds that Hegseth has long sought to push women out of the military and that, frankly, their military could not do its job of protecting America without women who serve. The post includes a link to the full segment (cbsn.ws/4pWtgl0) and a screenshot from the broadcast.

A stuffed suit like Pete Hegseth has nothing on a badass like Sen. Tammy Duckworth.

Jeffries: White House ‘radio silent’ since Monday meeting On day four of the government shutdown, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined Ali Velshi to discuss the state of negotiations around the government shutdown – notably that they are not happenin...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries dismissed the White House’s claim that the shutdown would force them to conduct mass layoffs across the federal government, saying it is “just pretext” for what they have already been doing”. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

Time is short for an ACA premium fix in the shutdown fight, says GOP insurance leader

While lawmakers debate the calendar, a top GOP insurance regulator is pulling the fire alarm on ACA subsidies. If Congress doesn't act before the Nov. 1 enrollment deadline, 24 million Americans will face sticker shock so severe it will crash the entire marketplace.

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

Americans have become so desensitized to violence that I'm not sure most get the gravity of this

Screenshot of court order, which reads in part: “A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion land a trial on the meries under Rule 65(al(2) is set for October 29, 2025l before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.”

While we were sleeping:

A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from deploying any federalized National Guard—Texas, California, the state’s own—in Oregon.

That’s big news. Even bigger: She’s decided to hold a trial on the merits. That is: She’s putting people under oath.

America needs to talk about how Trump’s deportation plan is really dictatorship | Will Bunch Team Trump isn't kidding about deporting millions if the ex-POTUS returns in 2025. It would destroy America, morally and economically.

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All headlines from today. It’s happening fast, folks. 🇺🇸

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If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement?

The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy.

At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

This is heavy.

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE] killed an unarmed person just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park...They killed somebody...They are just putting out their propaganda and then we've gotta later determine what actually happened."

TrumpRx isn’t healthcare reform

It’s Trump University all over again—a scam that doesn’t deliver

While he distracts w/ phony fixes, his shutdown is hiking costs & ripping away healthcare from millions

That’s the real crisis

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I don’t know much about intentional affairs but isn’t this an invitation to China and Russia and North Korea?