This evening!

Every House Dem needs to join us in demanding @schumer.senate.gov be removed from leadership by Senate Dems. If they don't call for his removal, we know where they stand on tonight's disastrous vote.

Shutdown NOT Over: What Tonight’s Senate Vote Actually Means YouTube video by Eliza Orlins

Is the shutdown over? Not yet.
Tonight’s vote was only step 1 of 5.
There’s still another 60-vote hurdle, amendments, AND then the House.
Pressure matters right now—especially on Kaine, Rosen, Hassan, Shaheen.
Stay loud.
youtu.be/mdFRfeGRKfI

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A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there when the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers.

Get your flu shot! 💉

💪It may not prevent you from getting the flu but it will lessen the severity of the disease.

Several pharmacies and grocery stores will give you coupons and discounts for shopping - how this poster bought some of my Halloween candy stash last month! 🍭

Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

Unbelievable! Are they the only school that caved this time?

Rumeysa has a hearing Tuesday October 21st at the JFK Federal Building in Boston. This hearing is about restoring Rumeysa’s legal right to work in the US. Any and all allies are welcome! Please gather to show support at 8:30 am. #JusticeForWorkers #JusticeForRumeysa

Rumeysa has a hearing Tuesday October 21st at the JFK Federal Building in Boston. This hearing is about restoring Rumeysa’s legal right to work in the US. Any and all allies are welcome! Please gather to show support at 8:30 am.

#JusticeForWorkers #JusticeForRumeysa

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

As seen on my walk around the neighborhood today. Thankful for these friends and allies in our community.

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent." The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

"He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian. Pretty despicable."

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is “abhorrent.”

U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva won her election two weeks ago. Republicans refuse to seat her in Congress.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

Banned Books Week: Snacks & Social Justice Fri 10 Oct, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM [EDT]: Join us for an evening of family activism in celebration of Banned Books Week! This legislative session, two Freedom to Read bills are being voted on by the MA Hou...

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#freedomtoread
#firstamendment
#censorship

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

#bernie and #AOC today

Trump sent 20 billion to Argentina for a bailout.

China brokered a deal to quit buying American soybeans and buy beans from Argentina.

Trump bailed out the country that swept the knees of American farmers.

The Art of the Deal…

Repulsive. So glad I’m not getting my PH degree there.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

At the end of each day I think things couldn’t possibly get worse because I’m an optimist. But Trump always proves me wrong. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump signs proclamation imposing annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visas Move deals potentially major blow to US tech industry, which relies heavily on workers from India and China

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump is so vain that he wants to make it ILLEGAL to make fun of him. It really is the definition of pathetic.

@jamellebouie.net nails it, as always.

NIOSH is one of those agencies within public health that just quietly does its job without fanfare, but now that it’s been gutted the ripple effects to industry will have widespread consequences.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water.

These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested.

They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

The latest from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social: www.thecity.nyc/2025/09/18/d...

🚨 Big news: @markruffalo.bsky.social will also join us tonight! We hope to see you in an hour at the No Kings mass kickoff call as we look ahead to our next nationwide day of defiance: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Mock Time magazine cover with the headline “Person of the Year” in red and black. Below, it reads “USAID & its Public Servants.” The collage features photos of USAID workers and beneficiaries worldwide: a COVID-19 vaccination card, health workers, children, humanitarian aid, a rescue dog, an airplane, and people receiving support. The design highlights global impact, aid delivery, and public service.

If you follow any group make it Friends of USAID on BlueSky or Instagram. This brilliant push for TIME Person of the Year is their idea. From ending smallpox to saving 91M lives their record shows why USAID deserves the cover. What an amazing idea worth amplifying.
@altusaid.altgov.info

California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research

“Supporters of the proposal said it would effectively create a state version of the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, two of the nation’s largest institutional funders of scientific and public health research.”
🧪 #giftarticle

Pardoned insurrectionists are using Charlie Kirk’s death to call for civil war “Charlie Kirk's assassination pulled me out of retirement. More work must be done.”

NEW @motherjones.com: Pardoned J6ers are using Kirk's killing to call for civil war

Stewart Rhodes will rebuild Oath Keepers; Proud Boys call for "retribution"; & ex-insurrectionists are coming "out of retirement."

Experts fear they could incite others to violence. W/ @kieraevebutler.bsky.social: