YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen What Trump officials and Laura Ingraham don't get about the shutdown

Trump officials and Laura Ingraham don’t get the difference between furloughing and firing federal workers.

Let me break it down for them: workers are furloughed because Trump shut down the government. His threats to FIRE them are illegal — and would devastate American families:

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

The US pays millions to Professional Bull Riders for advertising.

At PBR league events, bullfighters are branded with slick jerseys declaring the event 'Protected by US Border Patrol.'

At some, the Border Patrol makes a dramatic entrance, rappelling from the rafters as the national anthem plays.

Thus far, ICE and CBP in the Chicago region killed an immigrant

Shot a woman 5 times-after allegedly taunting her, saying “Do something, b****”

And shot a priest-who wasn’t remotely a threat-in the head

So when does Governor Pritzker deploy the National Guard to protect citizens from these thugs

I’m questioning it.

JB Pritzker is good at this.

Thank you.

This...did not happen

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Broadview police are investigating.

Report: Economic Populism Has Broad Appeal in the Rust Belt An exhaustive new survey from the Center for Working-Class Politics and its partners finds that strong economic populism resonates across Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and that indepen...

"The most popular economic policies are bold, tangible, and grounded in fairness — and can unite voters across class and partisan lines. Across twenty-five ranked proposals, policies that reduced costs, curbed corporate abuse, and held elites accountable consistently performed best."

McGovern: Republicans love to advocate for more work requirements for poor people… Let's have a work requirement for Republicans to show up to congress and do your god damn job.

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Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure | The Political Scene | The New Yorker | WNYC The Washington Roundtable discusses how, in the wake of the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, public resistance has a chance to turn the tide against autocratic impulses in today’...

I'm late to this -- came out a couple weeks ago -- sorry -- but this podcast episode is really worth listening to (despite the episode title, it's only incidentally about the Kimmel fiasco).

Highly recommended.

You can listen here for free, or on any podcast app:

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Does the camera person get his student loans forgiven the same as ICE officers do?

We’re at the “show me your papers” stage.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: Sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons.

@nlanard.bsky.social takes us inside the "legal black hole" in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

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."

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Surge in Executions? Activists believe that authorities are abusing the justice system to silence dissent and chill speech.

Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Bondi to Congress: 🖕 The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

"This is clearly the mask-off phase of Trump 2.0.

Trump is past triangulation. He’s past argumentation and persuasion. He’s in the raw-power business now. Pam Bondi went to Congress yesterday to let them know."

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