The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

UPDATE: NSO just hired former Trump ambassador to Israel. They're trying to push Pegasus spyware to 🇺🇸America. Your rights and freedoms are in danger. NSO Group is no friend to the US & has spent years undermining our security & values 1/

If they end this on a promise from the GOP, they have done *all* of this for nothing. A child knows this.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.

🎁 link www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

A whole of government approach to punching down.

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

I wonder if someone on Fox Business did a breakdown of how poorly it went for him, and it broke through the bubble his sycophants and courtesans had put up for him.

Damn, I hate it when things that happen mean nothing :-(

Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs

Man, this is good.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Sen. Ron Wyden is calling out the GOP for pushing to slip a nationwide backdoor abortion ban into the government funding bill. This is dangerous for women’s health care. We’ve already seen the consequences in states like TX, but I guess the GOP is intent on The Handmaid’s Tale.

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Trump’s plan is for people to pay his banker friends hundreds of thousands more in interest on mortgages while they own a piece of your home until you die.

Is this one of the women who ruined the workplace

And the Admin is handing you Bovino on a silver platter to be the face of this You absolutely want to be shifting the messaging to how BP are the ones tear gassing suburban streets for fun and that at an absolute bare minimum Bovino needs to be in a jail cell come 2029

So intrigued, definitely going to sign up for this in 2026. www.californiasurvivaltraining.com/apothecary-c...

““I heard a term tonight by several folks that got up and spoke, and that term was ‘unprecedented,’ she said. “I can’t think of a better word to explain and describe what we are going through, not only in Elgin but across our country. I wish we could do more. I wish we could be even more effective.”

The Heritage Foundation/Trump Era will forever be prefaced by the staggering grifting of public money.

This made me snort with delight.

Pluribus is about Musk Mindset

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

To be clear, my health insurance premium is going to double. To cover the difference, I need about 100 new subscribers. Since Labor Day, 62 wonderful people have joined the Board. THANK YOU! I need 38 more. I hope you will join us today! www.editorialboard.com/i-want-to-ea...

The feds raided an East Chicago home, arrested a mother and her 26-year-old schizophrenic daughter. She's been here since she's 2. In ICE custody, she had no meds and chose to leave the country. Now she's in Mexico, barely speaks Spanish, and her family can't find her.

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

A+ as usual by @wendyorent.bsky.social www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/kq0...

The feds have declared "no more prayer" and are banning religious gatherings outside the ICE detention center near Chicago. The fake Christians keep getting more fake.

“ If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.”

any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino said his agents' operations were "going very violent" the same day this photo was taken. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/b...

Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control. But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept. 🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu

“But while no filings on the docket for his appeal indicate how or why his release was ordered, he has not been there since at least July.” open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

The purge begins. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Throwing away all your political capital after a historic off year election for a 1 year continuation of ACA funding is absolutely pathetic.

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West" Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

The @apnews.com confirms: the "boat strikes" are the equivalent of straight-up massacring 16-year-old drug dealers on US street corners. It satisfies some people's anger or bloodlust, but hitting the poorest and most replaceable links in the trafficking chain does nothing to affect drug supplies.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Exchanges in Washington, D.C., and Virginia have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider, allowing his family’s business to earn revenue from sales on federal property.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...