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Saturday October 18th
SHOW UP AMERICA

If no one gets paid, that should include them as well. You'd never see another government shut down if their pay and benefits were on the line.

Trump wanted a trade deal. Xi opened a new front instead.

🚨Mentally ill Felon's tariffs keep backfiring in the worst possible ways. Also, where's the 17+ trillion dollars that Felon brags about, is this another one of his dementia delusions or a huge theft ? - EB

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Priceless use of "for just doing their jobs" as she decimates the DOJ of people who "just did their jobs" during the Biden administration. And brought charges against the NYAG for "just doing her job". JFC.

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most important redistricting and voting rights case of the term. Democracy Docket isn't just covering it for the day. It has been covering this case for years.

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Yup

8/ But Trump doesn't want to end the shutdown. Because he thinks he's a king and he doesn't believe the law applies to him. He thinks he has extra powers in a shutdown. He doesn't.

But the longer Republicans boycott talks, the more the shutdown will hurt. So it's their move.

7/ Democrats need to stand for something right now. And what need, to vote for this budget, is pretty simple and reasonable:

Don't cut people's health care just to pay for a billionaire tax cut.

Don't fund Trump's growing authoritarianism without checks on his corruption.

6/ Sure the House isn't here so Rs don't have to explain why they want premiums to go up and why they want to fund Trump's corruption.

But also because they don't want to swear in member-elect Adelita Grijalva. Since she would be the deciding vote to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

5/ But here's the even darker kicker.

The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess.

And why?

4/ Ok, so then the obvious next step is to negotiate a compromise. That's how we've always avoided shutdowns. And Republicans need to convene those talks, bc they're in charge.

But here's the kicker - Trump is telling them to BOYCOTT NEGOTIATING. And they are following orders.

3/ The Senate keeps voting on 2 bills to reopen.

1. The GOP bill - it raises premiums on 22m Americans and lets Trump keep acting illegally.

2. The Dem bill - it stops the premium increases and checks Trump's illegality.

Each time, neither bill gets the necessary 60 votes.

2/ Democrats aren't going to vote for a budget that throws millions off health care and funds Trump's growing totalitarianism. At least I'm not.

Why work so hard to get to the Senate if you don't use your power to fight for what you believe in? Especially at a time like this.

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

Fun little reminder that before Bari Weiss was destroying a large media outlet, she was just a random blogger arguing for subminimum wage for disabled people. 😉
(This post is about listening to disabled people.)

So First Amendment rights can now be snatched away if you [checks notes] celebrate?

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

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It’s time for Ds to use EVERY power they have.

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There's a lot of folks ICE is arresting & detaining who are not illegal and have committed no crimes. And they're doing so in incredibly brutal - unnecessarily so - fashion. Indiscriminate arrests simply dilutes our Rule of Law. Slippery slope we're on.

You're being charged with evading arrest because we didn't have anything else to justify the arrest.

So let me get this straight. They have nothing to arrest you for. You've committed no arrestable crimes, so the act of running away from unidentified masked kidnappers IS the crime? Really?

No Justice. Everyone else pays the price
Trump Foundation (Charity Fraud, $2M)
Taj Casino ($10M, Money Laundering)
Trump Org (Fraud/18counts, $450M)
Trump Org CFO Riker's Prison 2x
Trump University (Fraud, $25M)
Proven Rapist 2023 ($88.3M)
Convicted 34 Felonies 2024
91 Felonies Unprosecuted