This will get quietly passed over but it's an incredibly significant moment. They do not consider Democratic representatives or their voters to be legitimate participants in our politics. They want a single-party state in place of democracy and are making it so, piece by piece.

reposting this oldie-but-goodie from (checks notes) 2017:

Update: the DOJ has now pulled this sentencing memo from the docket. Please judge for yourself whether this fits the definition of Orwellian.

Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million. In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million. A massive percentage came from foreigners. It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics. But few even care. https://t.co/LOycrcd3Ha

I see we’ve entered the “don’t worry, we have a magical Obamacare alternative” stage of the debate

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Dear reporters: GOP cut $200 Billion from SNAP to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest just a mere months ago. Begging you guys not to memory hole OBBBA which almost every Republican voted for.

Sixteen million of them are children and 17 million of them are adults who already work full-time.

The costs of insurance plans are now visible at https://t.co/XYLEFQGkdg, and I scooped last week that the benchmark premium is spiking 30%. I'm looking for Americans facing soaring insurance costs. You can share your experiences here:

Local immigration court ousts reporters from hearings, citing shutdown – Capital News Service Maryland

The Senate’s hearing (amidst a government shutdown!) for and likely confirmation of Casey Means as Surgeon General -an individual who never completed medical training- would mark a disastrous precedent for the Senate, and nation’s top public health role.

Coincidentally the same admin that enacted the largest SNAP cuts in history a few months ago. The same admin that under a month ago released guidance saying they could use money from the contingency fund but then deleted that guidance and now say they can’t.

News: House staffers, who are paid once a month, just got an email saying their paycheck due on Oct. 31, will not come. Their first missed paycheck.

good catch from an ole pro

Oh no!

Can someone from the WH call me an extremely childish thing so I can get a NYT profile and a badass Doug Mills pic pls Man did this backfire on them https://t.co/nuNglAXI6k

BREAKING: The full bench of the 9th circuit has agreed to take up the Portland National Guard case and vacated the panel decision that had blessed Trump’s deployment.

Susan Collins, the top Senate appropriator, said of this: “In my judgment, based on analysis that the attorneys on my staff have done. It is a novel interpretation for the department to claim that it cannot use that $5 billion in contingency money to help with SNAP benefits.”

BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new “interpretive rule” says that only the federal government has the authority to restrict medical debts from credit reports — not states. @NoamLevey reports⤵️

Five Senate Rs join Ds to rebuke Trump on his Brazil tariffs. Rand Paul Thom Tillis Susan Collins Lisa Murkowski Mitch McConnell Measure passes, 52-48 But it won’t be taken up in House after Johnson inserted provision in a rule denying a vote from being forced by rank-and-file

Breaking WaPo: The White House just fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of Trump's construction projects, including his planned arch in Washington.