Digby

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

Been wholly happier the last two days than the last ten years. DT has spread misery over our land. Time to stop the maga misery.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.

He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

This is an excellent idea!!!

REMINDER: It's now 288 days since Trump was sworn in but he has still NOT released the complete Jeffrey Epstein file. What is Trump hiding?

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

I’m mad because millionaires and billionaires are get government welfare for the rich.

Only maga would take advice from a stupid salesman over medical experts and scientists.

ANY ARRESTS? Among the millions upon millions of "violent leftist radicals" that took to the streets today I cannot find word of a single arrest. Even when everything is peaceful there is usually an overzealous cop or something. This is unheard of. We need to beat the media over the head with it.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages.

They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.

They get pardoned when they commit crimes.

They ignore the laws.

There is zero congressional oversight.

Federal Court Deals Major Blow to Indiana GOP’s Student ID Ban Read more here.

NEW: A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Indiana’s student ID voting ban — a major procedural win for young voters and pro-voting advocates who say the GOP-backed law was designed to suppress student voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pennsylvania - Governor Polling:

🔵 Shapiro: 55%
🔴 Mastriano: 37%

Susquehanna / Sept 28, 2025

Boycott any business that serves ICE in any city.

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

Imagine being so weak the only city he’s willing to put US troops on the ground is the Charlie Brown of US cities, Portland.

Imagine being so weak the only city Trump’s willing to put US troops on the ground is the Charlie Brown of US cities, Portland.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Imagine being so weak the only city he’s willing to put US troops on the ground is the Charlie Brown of US cities, Portland.

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.