While I disagree with @RepMTG on almost everything, I appreciate her stepping out on subsidies. I am an American who is self employed with preexisting conditions. I have health care because of ACA. Thank you Rep Greene for speaking up & protecting my ability to afford health care going forward.

Epstein Files are Trump’s kryptonite. He is terrified of releasing them. Should be in the news every single day.

Pam Bondi: Anti-Rule of Law. Pro-Corruption. That is all.

The "Art of the Deal" is a fraud (no new news here):
@Politico "President Trump is not talking to Democrats as the government shutdown grinds into its second workweek.
The president had spoken to Speaker Johnson & Senate Majority Leader Thune, but not to congressional Democrats."

Drives up the prices of homes in general and makes home-buying more difficult and expensive for traditional homebuyers.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

The phrase “I only believe what I see” isn’t true either. Most people believe what they want. No matter what they see.

HOLY SH*T.

There it is.

Trump says he will speak to the DOJ about giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

Portland And Beyond This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Total days of federal government shutdowns by President:
1- Carter: 18+12+11+8+8 = 47
2- Trump: 35+7+3+1 = 46
3- Clinton: 21+5 =26
4- Obama: 16
5- Reagan: 3+3+2+2+1/6+1/6 = 10.3
6- Ford: 10
7- HW Bush: 3

Fed govt shutdowns
1-Trump/2018-19: 35d
Clinton/'95-6: 21
Carter/'78: 18
Obama/2013: 16
Carter/'77: 12
Carter/'79: 11
Ford/'76: 10
Carter/'77&'78: 8 ea
=>8-DJT/2025: 7
Clinton/'95: 5
DJT, 2018; HW/'90; Reagan/'83&'82: 3
RR/'84&'81: 2
DJT, 2018; RR/'87&'82: 1
RR/'86&'84:~4 hrs ea

For the rich's tax cuts!
@wapo
The Trump admin is planning to make it harder for older ppl to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older & disabled people that could result in 100s of 1000s of ppl losing benefits.

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

In shutdown, no mercy for federal workers President Donald Trump's demolition of government is empowered by the maneuver.

www.seattletimes.com/opinion/in-s...

YouTube video by The Damage Report Trump's Shutdown Tantrum BACKFIRES As Polls Reveal Shattering Truth

I agree with the "leader" of the longest gov't shutdown in U.S. history + 3 others. He has a Republican Senate & a Republican House!
"I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States"--Donald J Trump:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc4O...

Fed govt shutdowns:
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1st-Trump/2018-19: 35d
Clinton/'95-6: 21
Carter/'78: 18
Obama/2013: 16
Carter/'77: 12
Carter/'79: 11
Ford/'76: 10
Carter/'77&'78: 8 ea
9th=>Trump/2025, Clinton/'95: 5d
11th-Trump/2018; HW/'90; Reagan/'83&'82: 3
RR/'84&'81: 2
17th-Trump/2018; RR/'87&'82: 1
RR/'86&'84:~4 hrs ea

The party that used to admonish bailouts, e.g., autos, banks, saying that the government shouldn't pick 'winners' and 'losers', that the market should decide, is teeing up a bailout, the situation of their own making:
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Idea for Trump's new theme song:
"You're So Vain," by Carly Simon.

Trump Tower, Trump golf course, Trump Bible, Trump coin, Trump R/X...

Tariff receipts are up sharply this year, but estimates show roughly $165 Bn by August (~$300 Bn on an annualized basis), far short of the trillion needed for paying down the debt.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

The President is clearly in love with himself more than anything. There was reportedly even a legislator who wants to glorify rename the “Pell” grants to “Trump” grants, while cuts to education are in their other hand.

When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.

Sounds familiar…

What this tells me: there is & has been a lot of pent-up hatred for other people, society in general, or whatever has been irritating them, & that these people love the unbridled power that comes with being an ICE agent, i.e., zero accountability, similar to that of the head of the proverbial fish.

Republicans have never been lacking in nerve.

It’s INTEGRITY where they fall short.

Imagine the sentences that might be doled out if and when the Epstein/Trump files are ever released. Talk about a true “alligator alley”! 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊 🐊

Release the jobs report. And while you’re at it, release the Epstein files.

Excellent analogy!

That’s the r only time Donald is brave: when he holds all the cards. Otherwise, bone spurs!