Day 13 of making a thread everyday until Republicans remember that they have a duty to their constituents and not their bank accounts.

Day 13 Updates:
- Pressure growing on Johnson to call House back amid shutdown fight https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5550435-pressure-mike-johnson-house-shutdown/
- Republican leaders clash on emergency troop pay vote https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/07/congress/republican-leaders-clash-troop-pay-00596522
- Johnson says he had 'thoughtful' conversation with MTG about bucking Republicans on healthcare https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/12/johnson-marjorie-taylor-greene-healthcare-00605351

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Day 13 of making a thread every day until Democrats allow the US government to re-open

Day 13 Updates:
- No funding vote on Columbus Day https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/government-shutdown-news-today-101325
- US Barreling towards longest Democrat shutdown in US history https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/13/federal-government-shutdown-day-13-trump-live-updates/86626926007/
- Next vote to break the Democrat Shutdown is Tuesday night https://abcnews.go.com/US/impacts-government-shutdown-continue-vote-scheduled-tuesday-night/story?id=126474128


At the heart of the standoff is Democratic Party demands that Republicans agree to an additional $700bn in spending by restoring cuts to healthcare that were enacted over the summer and make permanent the expiring temporary COVID emergency health care credits enacted in 2023 that are due to expire Jan 1, 2026.

https://scdailygazette.com/2025/09/29/former-rep-rj-may-pleads-guilty-to-sending-disgusting-and-depraved-child-sex-abuse-videos/

COLUMBIA — Former Rep. RJ May told a federal judge Monday that he used an account under the name joebidennnn69 to send videos of children being sexually abused.

May, acting as his own attorney, signed a plea agreement last week, more than three months after his arrest on charges of sending child sexual abuse videos. Monday’s hearing formally changed his plea from not guilty to guilty, waiving his right to a jury trial.

The West Columbia Republican will remain in the Edgefield County jail until his sentencing hearing, which is scheduled for Jan. 14.

The 38-year-old’s plea agreement applied to five of the 10 videos with which he was charged. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss the remaining five counts. Each count could bring a sentence of five to 20 years, along with a fine of up to $250,000, plus more than $40,000 in other fees. Federal inmates can’t receive parole.


A portion of the fine will go to children depicted in the more than 220 videos identified on the Kik account May said he operated. Through other cases, investigators have identified 21 of the 62 children in the videos, said U.S. Attorney Bryan Stirling.

Many of the same videos appear in multiple cases as people trade them around, Stirling said.

“Every download revictimizes these children and fuels this evil industry,” he said.

U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie will determine how much will go to the identified victims, who live worldwide.

A federal probation officer will prepare a report recommending a sentence, but Currie will have the ultimate decision over how much prison time May serves and how much money he owes. Currie will consider the plea agreement, as well as the dismissed charges, when deciding the sentence, she said Monday.

Day 12 of making a thread every day until Democrats allow the US government to re-open

Day 12 Updates:
- Painful job cuts to come, if the Democrat shutdown wears on https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3d554053lo
- The pain from the Democrat Shutdown is about to hit the US economy https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/12/government-shutdown-economy-pain/
- National Museum, Smithsonian close down due to Democrat shutdown https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/government-shutdown-live-updates-as-military-poised-to-miss-first-paychecks-next-week/
- Partisan Democrat shutdown standoff ignores key risk to US stability: rising national debt https://www.reuters.com/world/us/partisan-shutdown-standoff-ignores-key-risk-us-stability-rising-national-debt-2025-10-12/

At the heart of the standoff is Democratic Party demands that Republicans agree to an additional $700bn in spending by restoring cuts to healthcare that were enacted over the summer and make permanent the expiring temporary COVID emergency health care credits enacted in 2023 that are due to expire Jan 1, 2026.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/fbi-agents-reassigned-ice-immigration

Nearly half of the FBI agents working in the US’s major field offices have been reassigned to aid immigration enforcement, according to newly released data, a stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns.

Personnel data obtained by Mark Warner, a Democratic senator, and shared with the Guardian, suggests the Trump administration has moved 45% of FBI agents in the country’s 25 largest field offices to support the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration crackdown. Across all of the FBI’s offices, 23% of the roughly 13,000 total agents at the bureau are now working on immigration, according to Warner, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee.

Warner’s office said the FBI agents now deployed alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agent have been taken away from their work tackling cybercrimes, drug trafficking, terrorism, espionage, violent crimes, counterintelligence and other efforts that are part of the bureau’s mission – some areas that Trump has claimed are White House priorities.

The data, first reported by the Washington Post, suggests the FBI is dramatically shifting its objectives in an effort to back Trump’s increasingly aggressive immigration raids, with the administration targeting 3,000 daily arrests and seeking to expand its detention capacity to detain more than 100,000 immigrants.

The data is understating the scale of the reorganization, as the FBI only provided counts for agents who are now spending more than half of their job doing immigration enforcement, according to Warner. The senator’s office said it was likely that more than a quarter of FBI agents’ total hours were now dedicated to immigration, and that in some field offices, more than half of the agents had been redirected to DHS.

Day 12 of making a thread everyday until trump TACOs and your poor Grandma doesn't die in the street like a dog.

Day 12 Updates:
- Panicked Republicans Beg Trump to Ditch His Shutdown Plot https://www.thedailybeast.com/panicked-republicans-beg-taco-donald-trump-to-ditch-his-shutdown-plot/
- Why some Republicans are getting cold feet about Trump’s shutdown layoff threats https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/politics/republicans-trump-shutdown-layoffs-analysis
- Republicans in disarray over how to end their shutdown https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/8/2347555/-Republicans-in-disarray-over-how-to-end-their-shutdown
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Having failed to successfully threaten the lives and families of enough representatives to force them to withdraw support from a bill that would compel the DOJ to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has elected to prevent the House of Representatives from reopening for another week.
Informed readers will note that there is nothing preventing Speaker Johnson from reconvening the House during the shutdown, and that as Speaker he would be capable of blocking any bills put forth by lawmakers attempting to negotiate and end the shutdown.
They will also note that keeping the House from reconvening allows Speaker Johnson to delay swearing in newly elected representative Adelita Grijalva, who has pledged to be the final signatory of a petition that would compel Speaker Johnson to bring Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's Epstein transparency bill to a vote.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5549384-johnson-house-closed-government-shutdown/

>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday that he won’t call House lawmakers back to Washington until the government shutdown ends.

>“We will come back, and get back to legislative session, as soon as the Senate Democrats turn the lights back on,” Johnson told reporters in the Capitol, as the lapse in funding stretched into a 10th day. “That’s the fact. That’s where we are.”

>Johnson had canceled previously scheduled House votes on Sept. 29 and 30 — the last two days before the shutdown — and then again for the entirety of this week. The move was designed to maximize the pressure on Senate Democrats to support the GOP-led stopgap spending bill, which passed through the House last month.

Day 11 of making a thread every day until Democrats allow the US government to re-open

Day 11 Updates:
- Democrats refuse to fold over shutdown as Republican outrage builds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/republicans-democrats-us-government-shutdown
- Americans are feeling the impact of the Democrat Shutdown https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/government-shutdown-effects.html
- Trump: Funds have been identified to pay troops https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-government-shutdown-news-10-11-25

At the heart of the standoff is Democratic Party demands that Republicans agree to an additional $700bn in spending by restoring cuts to healthcare that were enacted over the summer and make permanent the expiring temporary COVID emergency health care credits enacted in 2023 that are due to expire Jan 1, 2026.