Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

Republicans shut down the government to gut healthcare and bankroll Trump’s illegal power grab. We must hold the GOP accountable for causing chaos just to appease a wannabe king. app.sosha.ai/s/4L2yyn0E

Republicans have shut down the government to take healthcare away from millions of Americans and give Trump a blank check for his illegal power grab.

Trump hosted a dinner this week for donors to his White House ballroom project.

Now he's heading to Mar-a-Lago to host a $1 million-per-person dinner for his super PAC.

Meanwhile, 700,000 federal employees are furloughed, with nearly as many working without pay due to his government shutdown.

Appearing today in The Week:

🚨 Mass VA layoffs with zero transparency.

1,000 VA workers just got fired—no warning, no answers. Trump & Musk’s purge is already hurting Veterans, and they don’t care.

Democrats are demanding answers. This is a betrayal.

MORE: www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

Here’s where I’m at this morning:

If I see someone complaining that they “don’t see the Democrats fighting,” I’m immediately going to go look through their following list to see if they’re following any Democrats. Because the few times I’ve done this, they aren’t following any.

What did Trump accomplish by firing two highly decorated military leaders?

He now has a fully white male Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Still think we’re over-reacting about white nationalism?

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Reminder:

DOGE, which the White House has claimed is run and also not run by Elon Musk, has produced no record of saving the US any money at all.

Was there this past June. Beautiful pic.