I think if Platner is capable of beating Collins, he can beat Mills. This idea that "oh our bold progressive ideas can't survive the tribulations of a senate primary" is kind of lame, imho.

I think its important context, the Peace Plan called for Hamas leaving Gaza, instead they're clearly seeking to expand and strengthen their control and are being armed and violent in the streets, which offers a lot of context to why Israelis are enforcing the ceasefire line with force.

Hamas fighters tighten grip in Gaza, executing people in the street - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The Biden Administration got a ceasefire deal done within 5 weeks of October 7th that led to the release of 105 hostages 👇, but everyone ignores that. That ceasefire hostage release was the largest hostage release of the entire conflict. 👇

The issue with Biden is he’s not president right now, Bibi’s still an asshole, Hamas is still an asshole, and Trump is still the biggest asshole of all.

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

The GOP is anti-vax in the streets, but pro-vax in the sheets.

What an absolute mess. If this was happening under Biden or a Democrat they would be getting CRUCIFIED in the press for their inability to run a country. But, because it’s Trump & the press is either scared of him, or their bosses are, Trump gets barely a shoulder shrug with these constant fuckups

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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RIFed: Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas. You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.) Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone. Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

Just a reminder that the Constitution gives Congress the power to set tariffs. It could end this madness any day they chose to discover their power.

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I want to applaud the Nobel committee which, unlike the US voting public, decided not to go with the least deserving person in the world.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize trib.al/w7AXxUl

Imagine telling the guy who wrote the Wire that he needs an idiot machine to help him transition scenes. That thing was TRAINED on his writing.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

Whooping cough cases in #Florida have increased by 81% in 2025 as pediatricians worry about FL Surgeon General's proposed vaccine rollback www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Up next? Requiring parents to have at least one child named after Charlie Kirk.

Actually, Mike, if you're a young, pregnant American citizen woman who shows up in an ER in TEXAS or some other GOP-run states, THEY WON'T TREAT YOU AT ALL. They'll wait until you're dying of sepsis. Then, when you're brain dead, they'll hook you up to tubes and treat your corpse as an incubator.

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization. We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

New in PN: Dems are winning the shutdown "If Republicans are on board with Trump’s effort to become a dictator, there’s not much point in negotiating. You might as well force them to own their priorities, including hugely increasing healthcare costs, then use it against them on the campaign trail."

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

In other words, Republicans are willing to spend $2 of taxpayer money in order limit $1 of healthcare. Talk about waste and abuse.

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Yeah cool. Pull even more federal agents off counterterrorism, child porn, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and fraud investigations to do absolutely nothing.

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

I borrowed this from threads but I promise to return it

Democrats have to understand that avoiding blame is no longer an option, because they'll be blamed no matter what. May as well get blamed for doing the right thing.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Republicans can end this shutdown any time they want by funding health care.

And again, shout out to everyone that will misinterpret me saying, "Maybe we should have invested in renewables instead of monkey jpegs?" as me stanning China.🤡 This has nothing to do with China. We can't wet ourselves, and then get angry at China because their pants are dry. This is on us.

Couple that with his derision for Black voters, and dismissing anyone outside of his beloved white working class as just talking about "identity politics"

You'll be shocked to learn New College of Florida is on the brink of implosion just a couple of years after DeSantis engineered an extreme right-wing takeover Fun fact: NCF's new overlords spend $134K per student (!!...the average at other FL publics is $10K) www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

“A lot of times, you know, babies don’t cough; they just stop breathing,” warned Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney as he discussed Mississippi's first infant death from whooping cough in 13 years.

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

This is a hugely frustrating aspect of the Tylenol discussion. Pregnant women are some of the only people who should be taking it at all. For the rest of us, the threat of liver damage is rarely worth it, especially since it's not very effective for pain. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY. RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

SCOTUS's reasoning on why Trump can fire the boards of every other agency but not the Fed's is going to be something to behold. It will be studied in law schools for centuries when analyzing this SCOTUS's complete estrangement from any semblance of principle.

What happens if Dems not only say no to the ACA/Medicaid cuts but no to the tariffs, clean energy cuts and everything else that was passed without their votes in reconciliation? I don't think people understand what an incredible shitshow Trump, Thune and Johnson have created, how weak they are. 4/

"I shouldn't have to sell the Democrats, that's their job" is a fundamental abdication of your role as a citizen and as a partisan. "But I don't agree with the Dems 100%" fuck off, neither do I, neither will anyone. But that doesn't mean that your carefully studied pose of cynical ennui isn't toxic.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.