Since Thom Tillis is bring up this possibility once again in a segment on CNN: yet another reminder that House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn't have the power to "refuse to seat" members of Congress on January 3. He ceases to be speaker on January 3. Congress is dissolved before the new one is sworn in. The previously elected session of Congress doesn't have any role in seating the incoming session, let alone the previous House leadership. Republicans could maybe *try* some shenanigans to interfere in the seating of the new Congress, but the new Congress can pretty much just ignore whatever they do.

Translated: Trump wants to use taxpayer dollars to renovate his West Palm Beach golf club.

Dems will never benefit from this type of Pravda-like support b/c no news outlet, no matter how inclined they might be to support Dem policies, will lie this shamelessly and blatantly on a Dem's behalf.

He is STILL (!!!) telling this insane lie. Unbelievable.

A lawyer for ABC on Tuesday asked a federal judge to prevent the Trump administration from conducting an unusual, early review of its broadcast licenses, likening it to a looming execution by guillotine that was already chilling the network's editorial decisions just weeks before the U.S. midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4j99PuU

AGAIN! Jack Smith discovered Susie Wiles had been rewarding people who provided testimony favorable to Trump and Jack Smith learned it. So he got a PRTT. emptywheel.net/2026/10/06/jo…

Troy Jackson after Susan Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

NEWS: Trump personally ordered $10 million in Homeland Security money spent on TV ads promoting himself, and only offered to have his super PAC pay once he got caught. Treating the federal treasury like a personal slush fund isn't a mistake you fix with a refund — it's a crime you get prosecuted for.

Trump supporter: “Everything that he said back in the last election when Biden got elected, rigged election, everything he said happened, guess what’s happening right now? They’re proving it true” Davram Stiefler: “What are some of those things?”

TS: “Uhm. I can’t… remember right off hand. The things that I hear and see. There’s people that did not get re-elected from the Senate this go around because of some of the things they said and did to Donald Trump” DS: “What were those things just so we know what we’re talking about?” 
TS: “I can’t remember. I’m not, I’m not into it that deep. Kash Patel is and there’s others that are proving it for him. He don’t have to. His convictions of what he said was going on, most of them are being found out true by different people”

Trump has called 3 different agencies “fake news” today. He doesn’t answer questions any more he just shouts fake news. The fact that anyone can defend this senile old man is truly pathetic, it’s an embarrassment to this country and to the office.

Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/re…

Was just thinking how the media questioned Kamala Harris's qualifications for POTUS even though she'd spent 7 yrs as a District Attorney, 6 yrs as CA AG + 4 yrs as a US Senator b4 becoming VP while no one asks JD Vance whose only time in govt was 2 yrs as a Senator that question

Reminder - Trump took the ACA subsidies away.

NEW: This is the letter nearly 1 million Americans are receiving alongside their $500 Obamacare refund. The letter attacks Joe Biden, is signed by Trump, and says "I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability ..."

STATE DEPARTMENT TOLD CONGRESS TO GO TO HELL AND MOVED THE MONEY ANYWAY Fifty two million dollars. Approved by law for Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia, Iraq. A formal hold placed by Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Congressman Gregory Meeks Trump's State Department read that hold and did it anyway Quietly notified Congress Wednesday night they were defying it. Shipped the money to Panama, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia instead Shaheen and Meeks literally wrote in advance this would be treated as a statutory violation. Trump's people did it in broad daylight like the warning was a dare This is the power of the purse. Written into the Constitution so one man can't move federal money on a whim. Trump just proved the paper doesn't matter if nobody stops him And here's the pattern forming around it. Same week, the Wall Street Journal reports twenty million dollars pulled out of DHS funding to pay for ads boosting Trump before the midterms. Another twenty five hundred thousand burned on top of that elsewhere Congress appropriates. Trump redirects. Over and over, no consequence, no pushback that sticks Four allied nations lose funding they were promised. Four friendlier-to-Trump governments get a windfall instead. Homeland security money becomes a campaign commercial This isn't a budget disagreement. This is a president deciding Congress's vote is a suggestion he's allowed to ignore whenever it's inconvenient They told him no. He did it anyway. And nothing happened That's not governing. That's a man finding out there's no lock on the door

America is not prepared for what Donald Trump and his administration are going to do before and on election day. It will be massive and unprecedented and imo ILLEGAL.

Dennis Hastert just died. He was the former Republican Speaker of the House. The media is reporting that he went to prison for violating banking laws, but the banking laws he violated were about manipulating records so he could pay off teenage boys he had sexually abused. He was a pedophile, and we shouldn't be dancing around that.

Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of a massive online drug trafficking network

But if they kill police officers on 1/6 then they get a pardon.

Front page, today’s NYTs. For your viewing pleasure. One question. Is this legal?