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Winter is coming, yet a $4 billion program that helps nearly 6 million low-income households with their energy bills is on hold due to the government shutdown. “Pipes will freeze, people will die” if the shutdown continues, said one expert.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Trump’s policies are causing economic pain throughout the country.

Heartbreaking: Under Trump's ICE terror, a 2-year-old Chicago girl was tear-gassed while walking with her mom-burning eyes, screams of 'Ouch! Mommy!' This isn't enforcement; it's state-sponsored child abuse.

Federal immigration officers are using chemical irritants to disperse protesters in ways that violate American policing norms and test the boundaries of use-of-force laws, video footage from Chicago shows.

SCOOP: Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict” “The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.” theintercept.com/2025/10/02/v...

Border czar Tom Homan was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in September 2024. Trump officials have shut down the bribery investigation.

In a series of social media posts, President Trump demanded AG Pam Bondi swiftly prosecute political opponents, one of his most direct attempts to influence the justice system after months of calling for charges against his critics.

Fifteen Democratic New York elected officials were arrested at a federal building in Manhattan while seeking access to an ICE holding facility — the latest clash between Democratic officials and immigration authorities.

Russian state-controlled media outlets and allied social media accounts have seized on the killing of Charlie Kirk to push narratives that favor the Kremlin and aim to divide Americans, researchers say.

“She’s been in this country 47 years, is married, with five kids and five grandkids, and you’re telling me she’s a flight risk?” he said. www.wowt.com/2025/09/08/g...

"A convicted New York drug dealer whose federal prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump has been found guilty of violating the terms of his release after being arrested and charged in connection with several recent crimes..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The Kennedy Center has dropped the family who made the Honors medallions for 47 years and who were the definition of a family business. @janaykingsberry.bsky.social spoke to them (and I offered some meager assistance). Take a look: washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

A man yelled for help as a group of men – one of whom said he was with ICE – picked him up and pushed him into a car outside a Los Angeles courthouse Wednesday, video shows.

"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Again, think about what would need to be in those files for this to be Republicans' least bad option.

🚨 Donald Trump: OK with criminals if you’re an American murderer! Trump Administration Frees American Convicted of Murder From Venezuela Prison www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

A siting U.S. senator is suggesting here that two Trump judges in Washington have been unjustifiably blocking a contempt proceeding into DOJ and Emil Bove until he can secure a lifetime appointment and become untouchable. Sounds very sinister when you put it that way, but he has a point.

WNBA players have suffered 141 injuries since opening day in May, according to kinesiologist Dr. Lucas Seehafer. This is not a woman’s league problem. It’s an officiating problem. When refs allow unusually rough play it doesn’t just cause direct injuries but indirect ones.

They’ve fallen in love, bought houses, raised kids and have been working legally in the U.S. since 1999. Now, more than 50,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans stand to abruptly lose their legal status as the Trump administration seeks to end their protections.

pretty incredible indictment of NYT’s news judgement that Wyden just comes out and says the real news, while the NYT story is framed all about the posturing and buries the lede

In the rush to open a detention camp in the Florida Everglades for “some of the most vicious” migrants illegally in the country, state and federal officers detained a 15-year-old boy with no criminal record and sent him in handcuffs to Alligator Alcatraz, the Miami Herald has learned.

this statement was made just yesterday

good thread to review if you're going out today including some places where proud boys have been spotted

holy shit

WATCH: “It's not normal, says Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Russel Honoré on Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines to the streets of Los Angeles. “As opposed to de-escalating, I think it may have escalated the events.”

My favorite line here is "applying for those jobs"

there was one vote, it was for trump, and he is king of america now and you will obey

Breaking news: Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference about the Los Angeles protests after he interrupted it.

Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not? Palmer: I strike those words

Horrifying. We are here.

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

January Trump approval on the economy: plus +8.24 points Today Trump approval on the economy: minus -15.75 January Trump approval on inflation: plus +1.99 Today Trump approval on inflation: minus -22.24 So clearly it's time to deploy the Marines in L.A.? www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump canceled: "a grant to Emory University and Georgia State University, where researchers had developed three potential drugs that showed promise against many RNA-based viruses, including coronaviruses, Ebola, avian influenza and measles.." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

www.reuters.com/business/env...

The Trump administration plans to target the largest blue state in the hopes of provoking a response to escalate federal control

Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.

Buried in the Republicans’ bill? A backdoor repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Millions stand to lose healthcare. We beat this before. With your voice, we can do it again.

“The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it’s ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.” Mon Mothma, future leader of the Rebel Alliance. #Andor #StarWars #DisneyPlus

Do those Democrats who argue that Dems need to “move away from woke” know that they are making common cause with these vicious, ignorant people? That they are participating in the weaponization of a racist trope that insults the party’s most loyal base? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

"In March, the Trump administration cut $1 billion from Department of Agriculture programs that provide food to schools and food banks and said there would be future cuts to other programs..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Exclusive: A series of internal government messages obtained by The Post reveal how U.S. embassies and the State Department have pushed nations to clear hurdles for U.S. satellite companies, often mentioning Starlink by name.