People really should talk more about how consistently dishonest Johnson is. He bears false witness constantly.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

There are quite a few who consider it rude to mention someone's antisemitism if they support Netanyahu.

This is a straightforward lie from @govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social, and confirmation that all of his tough talk is empty posturing. He's not standing up for anyone; he's hoping to trick presidential primary voters. It's long past time to call him out for what he is.

Senate Dems are quiet because Schumer controls a lot of campaign money, and none of them want to see a well-funded primary challenger. They all need to be persuaded that failing to remove him as Minority Leader is the bigger risk to their careers.

"Getting back to fighting united" implies that the Senate Dem leadership and caucus were fighting and not surrendering, which is obviously not true. Whitehouse is asking voters to "get past internal recriminations" so that he and his friends can go back to surrendering without facing their anger.

Duverger's law is a real thing. A presidential system with single seat constituencies and FPTP voting can't sustain more than two parties. It's never happened, anywhere in the world. Occasionally a third party will emerge, but it will immediately either fail or replace one of the other two.

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

Another liar. Senate Dems just gave up fighting for better healthcare. If the deal makes it through the House, the Dems will have given up every ounce of leverage they have on the issue. The only hope Senate Dems have of holding on to any credibility is to replace @schumer.senate.gov immediately.

Absolutely this. My guess is that the best next step would be for @ezralevin.bsky.social and @leahgreenberg.bsky.social to launch a national campaign via @indivisible.org to make this happen. (h/t @jenzunleashed.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/cgKbe...

And another liar.

Another liar.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

So, @kaine.senate.gov is just lying here. The deal absolutely does not guarantee a vote. If there is a Senate vote it almost certainly won't pass. If it did Johnson would almost certainly never allow a House vote. Kaine knows all of this, but hopes his constituents won't realize that he's lying.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Schumer won't be up until the 2028 election, and I suspect he'll be facing @aoc.bsky.social then. In the meantime, though, we can start demanding that senators commit to vote against him as Dem Senate Leader at the beginning of the next congress in 2027.

I'd make an adjustment to this. If you like an individual Dem senator or candidate, feel free to donate directly to them. But nothing to the DSCC or the DNC as long as Schumer is caucus leader. Nothing to Schumer or any of the cavers. Nothing to PACs of any sort.

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

Dealer: alright everyone ante up Chuck Schumer: I fold Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

If so, it could set up the funniest possible outcome: the spineless wing of the Senate Dem caucus takes the heat for caving while the House GOP kills the deal and maintains the shutdown.

A side issue at most, I know, but this really hammers home how much it sucks to be a DC (or Puerto Rico) resident that both parties feel free to completely ignore. I'd love to have some senators to call right now.

@fetterman.senate.gov rightly gets called out for being human garbage, but @hassan.senate.gov and @shaheen.senate.gov don't get nearly enough attention for being some of the worst the Democratic Party has to offer.

If @ossoff.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social caves, I will absolutely donate to anyone who seriously primaries him.

Such an upgrade over @peters.senate.gov.

If they cave, every single one of them face protests and public abuse every single time they show their face. They shouldn't be able to eat out at a restaurant, give a speech, go on vacation, or really anything other hide from the public in their home or office.

This misses a key point: The USDA instructed states on Friday to pay SNAP benefits in full. Yes, it later told them to "undo" that, but that second instruction is flatly illegal and there's no way for the USDA to enforce it. Hopefully most SNAP recipients have gotten their full payments already.

Power without accountability leads to abuse, always and everywhere. The greater the gap between power and accountability, the greater the abuse. The ability to kidnap and kill people is an enormous amount of power. The masks are, among other things, an obstacle to possible future accountability.

This is obviously absurd on its face, but it's actually kind of hard to understand just how absolutely preposterous it is if you haven't spent a good bit of time in Afghanistan. (No, sitting in Bagram or the US compound in Kabul doesn't count.)

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds. apnews.com/article/snap...

Any Dem senate candidates in 2026 who want money from me better be willing to commit to voting against @schumer.senate.gov as party leader. I also won't be giving to any orgs he controls or that support him.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

"A collection of murderers and torturers and rapists would have disapproved of Mamdani" is a pretty resounding endorsement of Mamdani.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

As I understand it, this hearing was limited to a potential preliminary injunction. As a practical matter, though, I would expect DHS to essentially ignore it unless and until there are consequences for violating it. Ellis pretty much accepts that they violated the TRO; why would they obey the PI?

So, will Greenblatt just ignore this, or will we get another round of congratulations to Heritage for having "zero tolerance" for antisemitism?

sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients link: mysnapmap.com

I'm 💯 convinced that he's been deep in a dementia bubble for years - definitely during his first term, if not earlier. People just kinda keep forgetting that because the @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com and others have been so diligently sanewashing him.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

The @nytimes.com is not a trustworthy or credible source of any political news, period. Let's just start saying that. The US has no paper of record.

Rights are a legal construct. As a matter of law, no state has a right to exist. A state exists if it meets a set of legal criteria. If it doesn't meet the criteria, it doesn't exist. There's a lot of disagreement over what the criteria are, but at no point does any "right to exist" enter into it.

The thing about @govpritzker.illinois.gov is that he talks a good game but doesn't seem willing to actually do anything about ICE or CBP. The state police under his command are assaulting peaceful protestors alongside ICE and CBP, and he's made no visible moves to rein them in.

Based on their public statements and behavior, I'd say @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is far more committed to fighting antisemitism than Greenblatt is.

This is not meant as a doompost, so please don't take it that way! It's a "let's be prepared" post: Yesterday was fantastic! Absolutely needed. But harder times are almost certainly coming. Trump/Miller can still prevent a peaceful transfer of power, and certainly seem inclined to do so.

Unlike @govpritzker.illinois.gov, I believe @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social genuinely means this.