Bonus points if the shutdown happens while they're here and they can't get travel orders to go back to their bases

Last night: Over a thousand Mainers got drenched in Portland. We’re building a movement, and nobody — not Susan Collins, not Chuck Schumer — is going to stop us.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski cast the deciding vote to keep the Epstein files sealed. We dug into why—and uncovered a tangled web linking her to Ghislaine Maxwell, her husband, a powerful donor, and big money in Alaska.

Playtime (1967 dir. Jacques Tati) (Cinematography by Jean Badal & Andréas Winding)

Even during the war, we never forget the tragedy of Babyn Yar, the tragedy of the Holocaust. This tragedy was so immense because the world was too slow and silently watched as the fascists carried out their aggression. The tragedy of Babyn Yar is an example of why today the world

Hegseth has had a lot of bad ideas, but this one is disruptive and even somewhat dangerous. All of these men and women have real jobs they should be doing. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

If you ever listened to me, listen now: Donald Trump has crashed the economy. This will be clear over the next months. He can't fix it. They've fucked it up that bad. So now we're in for a terror storm of fake emergencies, fake crisis, manufactured wars & chaos to hide it all.

If you need to tell 300 generals in a room that you’re in charge, you’re not.

Senator Murkowski was the deciding vote to block the release the Epstein files. Before casting that vote, she never declared her connections to Ghislaine Maxwell, her husband Scott Borgerson and a wealthy donor who owns an Alaska newspaper.

Quick reminder: Donald has the authority and ability to release the entire Epstein files right now

Russia is causing tremendous damage in Ukraine. It is not right that anybody else should pay for it. At today’s European Council, we will discuss a reparations loan, backed up by frozen Russian assets, to help Ukraine defend itself. My doorstep ↓

Is JD Vance a liar or just woefully ignorant when claiming that Democrats want to give health benefits to undocumented immigrants?

The Clooney Foundation for Justice announced their 2025 honorees -- this year’s includes Martin Baron, whose legacy as executive editor of The The Boston Globe and The Washington Post exemplifies the value of a free press. cfj.org/news/clooney-f…

Over the years Susan Collins has made it crystal clear that she does not care how many people lose access to healthcare, and this week she shut down the government instead of voting to let Mainers get the care they need. It’s despicable.

“The federal government is once again engaged in a coordinated campaign to silence critics in the government, the media, the judiciary, academia, and the entertainment industry,” said Jane Fonda, Spike Lee, Billie Eilish and more than 800 others. nytimes.com/2025/10/03/art…

Last night, Ukraine once again came under a combined Russian attack – more than 50 missiles and about 500 attack drones. The Russians struck with cruise missiles, “shaheds” and Kinzhals among other things. The Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv,

The government is shutdown, but the House refuses to go back in session. Why are we in recess? Because the day we go back into session, I have 218 votes for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t want that to be the news.

thanks to several people who recommended Stanley Lumet's "Running on Empty" (1988) as a complement to "One Battle..."--domestic drama of a family living "underground" in "safe houses" following a Weatherman-like bombing. River Phoenix is brilliant in the role of the activists'

Congratulations to John Martinis for winning a Nobel prize in physics today, along with Michel Devoret and John Clarke!  My entire PhD in quantum physics was based on Martinis' work on macroscopic quantum tunnelling in Josephson Junctions (a device like a "transistor", but for

Performance | Nadya Tolokonnikova: POLICE STATE Nov 25–30 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago | Tolokonnikova will transform the Edlis Neeson Theater into both a prison and a sanctuary. visit.mcachicago.org/events/perform…