EXCLUSIVE: This week’s LP Pod guest is Adelita Grijalva, the AZ Rep-elect whom Mike Johnson won’t seat because she promised to sign the Epstein discharge petition. Thread below for a timeline of Johnson’s pedophile protection, and watch Grijalva’s interview, dropping tomorrow. SEPTEMBER 23: Adelita Grijalva wins a special election to fill her father’s seat in congress, promising to sign the Epstein petition on her first day in Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson delays her swearing in.

Argentina gets $20 billion, Qatar gets an airbase in Iowa, while our soldiers are being fed by food banks. Orgs like Army Emergency Relief are stepping in amidst Trump’s shutdown, and you can make a donation at any of the links in this thread: Army Emergency Relief: armyemergencyrelief.org/giving/

THREAD: Donald Trump is threatening to sue the Lincoln Project again – this time because we’re telling the world about Trump’s close and personal relationship with the pedophile and convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Trump is panicking because he sees the MAGA base turning against him. The Lincoln Project’s TLDR response to the President of the United States: Go fuck yourself; We look forward to discovery and taking your deposition, as well as that of Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and the 1000 FBI agents they used to review the Epstein materials.

THREAD: Rep. Massie proposed a bipartisan resolution to release the Epstein files, and Republicans left DC early last week to kill it.

Here are their names and home office numbers. Ask them why they’re covering up for pedophiles. Rep. Nick Begich, R-Alaska
@RepNickBegich
DC: (202) 225-5765
Anchorage: (907) 921-6575 Fairbanks: (907) 251-4560

🧵: Trump’s bill would be a working class massacre. House Republicans know it will most hurt constituents in red districts who rely on Medicaid & SNAP benefits to make ends meet.

The GOP Reps below are still deciding their votes. Call them now and tell them to vote NO. Don Bacon NE-2: (202) 225-4155 @RepDonBacon

THREAD: Key questions today for every reporter and Congressman looking into #Signalgate:

1. How can anyone (aka Trump) trust Mike Waltz going forward since he's so dumb as to add a reporter to such a highly secretive group chat? 2. Why did Hegseth copy war planning information from the military computer systems onto a Signal chat?

3. Hegseth needs to explain why he thought all those people needed the war plans? On MSNBC Goldberg indicated the Sec of Treasury was in the chat…. Why?

THREAD: @Therickwilson was just kicked off X for 30 days b/c he talked about how to make Elon personally feel the same economic pain he's whacking the country with. And Elon didn't like that. Elon and his VP Trump spent the last week trying to silence dissenters - including the press and judges - all while pretending to be victimized. They will wreck the 1st Amendment if we don't continue to stand up.

THREAD: Elon & Trump’s NOAA layoffs means fewer weather balloons, meteorologists, tracking available to monitor level 5 tornadoes heading to the Midwest & Southeast. 100M ppl will be at risk w/ fewer resources to stay safe.
Please share this thread w/ anyone in the storm’s path: Weather readiness ready.gov
National Weather radar weather.gov
FEMA assistance fema.gov/assistance

THREAD: USDA has just cancelled $1 BILLION in funding for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farms and ranchers. Trump and Musk have launched an all out attack on schools, children, child care programs, agriculture industry and local farmers all at once. politico.com/news/2025/03/1… DOGE said they would cut wastage spending, which to them means supporting local farms and helping schools feed their students. Meanwhile Elon’s faulty rockets get all the government funding he wants. Shameful.

THREAD: Since stepping back into the Oval Office Trump's been purposefully flooding the zone w/ a constant stream of outrage porn to distract. Here's the stories that actually matter that you might've missed this week: Representative Milliotakis says Doge is making “rash decisions” and needs to act in a more responsible manner.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1894391544137798072

THREAD: Donald Trump and his boss Elon Musk have spent the last 34 days “streamlining” the government. As predicted, the result of two weirdos “streamlining” a government that has thrived for 250 years is complete chaos. We're fighting them every step of the way. Consider pitching in to help us stop their destruction: action.lincolnproject.us/donate They’ve blown up entire agencies, fired thousands of essential workers, sent dozens of mixed signals, and generally taken a flame thrower to the federal government. Now, they want to take the next big step: screwing with our budget.

THREAD: Donald Trump and his boss Elon Musk have spent the last 34 days “streamlining” the government. As predicted, the result of two narcotized freaks “streamlining” a government that has thrived for 250 years is complete chaos.
We're fighting them every step of the way. Consider pitching in to help us stop their destruction: action.lincolnproject.us/donate Trump and Musk have blown up entire agencies, fired thousands of essential workers, sent dozens of mixed signals, and generally taken a flame thrower to the federal government. Now, they want to take the next big step: screwing with our budget.

Look, there’s probably nobody more trustworthy than the idiot real estate “mogul” who’s gone bankrupt like 100 times and the billionaire whose stock price is down about 24% over the last month, but the people deserve to know a little bit more than what they’re telling us.

THREAD: House GOP wants to ram through a budget package tomorrow, gutting Medicaid to cut taxes for billionaires. Seniors in hospice, disabled children, and workers without employee insurance all get screwed.

These 15 RED districts will suffer the most: David Valadao (R), CA-22 (@RepDavidValadao)

THREAD: Trump's intentionally flooding the zone w/ a stream of outrage porn like calling himself "king" to distract you. Here's the stories that actually matter that you might've missed this week:

NIH funding cuts jeopardize ‘life-saving’ research in AL
aldailynews.com/nih-funding-cu… When DOGE Hits Red States: Republican Lawmakers Push Back on Trump’s NIH Cuts
notus.org/donald-trump/n…

THREAD: Trump's intentionally flooding the news cycle w/ a stream of outrage porn to distract, scare, & confuse. These are the stories that actually matter that you might've missed this week:

NIH funding cuts jeopardize ‘life-saving’ research in AL
aldailynews.com/nih-funding-cu… When DOGE Hits Red States: Republican Lawmakers Push Back on Trump’s NIH Cuts
notus.org/donald-trump/n…

THREAD: The quick shutdown of USAID abandoned patients with experimental devices and drugs in their bodies with no way to remove them in time. How many people are going to die because of the Trump/Musk mismanagement?

What’s the DOGE Death Toll?
nytimes.com/2025/02/06/hea… Reports say DOGE is targeting 50% in staff cuts at the National Weather Service that warns of hurricanes and blizzards and provides Tsunami warnings after earthquakes. With this critical agency hobbled, what will be the Doge Death Toll?
cbsnews.com/news/democrats…

🧵: Democracy demands elected leaders do not cave into threats, or fears, of violence. If you're in Congress afraid for your safety, you must tell the Capitol Police to get protection. Or it's time to quit the institution & let someone else do the job. rawstory.com/morning-joe-to… Violence has no place in the system, and they want you afraid so you will go along with whatever insane, undemocratic, or morally bankrupt program they are pushing through. It's the fear that kills democracy and destroys American values.

THREAD: The Lincoln Project accepts that America has voted to re-elect Donald Trump on his victory. We believe in this democracy and in the peaceful transfer of power when the voters have spoken. Four years ago when he lost by over seven million votes, Donald Trump’s Big Lie tore the country apart. For the first time in American history, there was no peaceful transition of power.

THREAD: Members of the iconic West Wing television show reunited to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for President in a new ad created in partnership with the Lincoln Project.
The group released this statement of endorsement:
“We had the good fortune to work together on a television show called The West Wing. Our White House was a make-believe world. We dealt with real-life issues, from reproductive rights to national security, but when we went home at the end of the day, no one’s life was changed based on what happened in our fictional world.

🧵: Happy Halloween 🎃 Reality is scarier than fiction sometimes, and the GOP proves that every day with their dark vision for America. This election, let's make sure these horror films full of monsters and criminals don't become a reality 👹😱

🧵: MAGA GOPers always put on a front for voters, but Trump’s Nazi rally yesterday took their masks off and revealed them as the real bigots, fascists and crooks they are. Thankfully, we have a strong chance to defeat many of them at the ballot box next week. It’s time to look behind all their empty words and unveil their true, ugly record to the voters.

@tedcruz (R, TX), our least favorite Cancun tourist, is a profile in cowardice, spending his entire career running away and betraying his own constituents when they need him the most. .@SenRickScott (R, FL) has only ever been in it for himself, not everyday Floridians. Look no further than him committing the biggest Medicare fraud in history.