The beatings will continue until morale improves...or until this country has no air traffic controllers and all airlines are shuttered.

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

Do we have Tail number or Hex ID on this Aircraft.

Thanks to Gavin Newsom for deciding to fight in time.

My theory is that economic decline combined with rising inequality creates pressure on middle and lower classes resulting in anger--which leads to rise in extremes, both right and left, depending on who is the loudest. In UK and US the rightwing is louder and more extreme.

Republican internal talks: How about it boys! We finally killed Obamacare! We shot John McCain’s ghost! (Clinks glasses).

How about a $2000 check every month?

My piano tuner’s ACA plan increase (with one kid and one on the way): $900/month to $2,100.

I'm self-employed. My premium will go from $266 to $1,066.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

Typical

Spanberger, Sherrill & Mamdani all saw Trump’s contempt for his own voters. My column: Trumpism began in anger, alienation, frustration and division. The antidote is empathy, solidarity, mutual respect and hope. Tuesday’s elections delivered a starter dose. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

AND FURTHERMORE - (Hi, this is your county chair, Sasha) I have my calendar cleared from March 1-April 11 which is when the C&A cycle runs, and I would truly love to be absolutely wrecked at the end because we had to process so much data because SO MANY DEMS SHOWED UP STATEWIDE. Please show up.

These people don't have the first fucking clue how to deal with a bully

Negotiating 101: Be willing to walk away. It increasingly seems like the Democratic defectors came to a resolution just because they felt like they should come up with something after having worked at it for a while. In terms of classic blunders, this is land war in Asia-level.

You dishonor all of us that wore the eagle, globe, and anchor. Resign so that Virginia can elect a Democratic Senator.

One word: discovery

This

This is a disaster. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

This.

wow had not seen that chart- thanks for sharing

AS I WAS SAYING

Because this is a brand-destroying action by Senate Dems.

Jeffries is whipping NO votes in the House on the shutdown deal. From Jake Sherman at Punchbowl:

The leader of our country appears to not understand that inflation and prices have risen since he was elected. This is a sky is blue or sky is red test and he’s failing.

Now is the time to fight, not surrender. 🗣️ Schumer must step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.

I'm not complicit, I'm incompetent!

Republicans have "won" the right to uninsure millions of Americans, nearly all of them self-employed, farmers, and business owners, the exact people they pretend they want us to be.

While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.

Raise taxes on the wealthy--including a wealth tax, and fund universal childcare. Get rid of the cap on the social security payroll tax to get rid of any shortfalls in benefits.

It started with Bush v Gore and ended with the immunity ruling.

The Trump-Vance admin is unlawfully facilitating the bulk sharing of taxpayer information with ICE, including personal information of over a million taxpayers, like names, addresses, dates of birth, and even fingerprint identification numbers. We’re fighting back in court.

As I said last night on MSNBC as the news broke that eight Senate Democrats were joining the GOP: This must be the end for Chuck Schumer as Senate Democratic leader.

They were chosen because they are not up for reelection so they can safely piss off voters. The only answer is you have to hold the entire caucus accountable for the surrender. Every Dem who isn't calling for new leadership ought to be primaried. That, or accept continued failure.

This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.

What a disgrace! Once again, the Democrats cave, & put millions at risk of death, knowing there is no way Repubs will ever pass legislation to save Obamacare/subsidies. Being able to fly to a Thanksgiving dinner is worth deaths? If subsidies are not reinstated before Jan 15 it's too late.

Front page of the NY Times says it all. Trump hands out hundreds of billions in tax cuts to corporations and wealthy investors and tells states to stop providing full food stamp benefits to low-income families. Plutocracy in action. Thanks, Trump voters.

Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.

Even if they weren’t on board with it to begin with they have infinitely more reason to be pissed now

Good luck with that.

Complete capitulation by the collaborationist caucus of spineless old fools.

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

We don't file a claim. That's house/car insurance. We go to a dr, walk-in or hospital, etc. This is idiotic

Schumer and Durbin have to go. Now. The fact that they had no exit strategy for the shutdown other than near complete capitulation says they cannot be trusted with this battle when it comes up again in January.

Schumer---my Senator---must step down. He's a total failure as a leader. He's incapable of reading the room & reflecting the outrage, horror & urgency felt by his base. Republicans were more outraged by Obama's tan suit than Schumer has been of flagrant abuse of presidential power & looming fascism.

Let’s see…,had hope from Tuesday night to Monday AM. Now devastated bewildered furious. The Democratic Leadership has betrayed their base in the worst way.

These are the people who forged Electoral College vote certificates and tried to pass them off as real, right in front of the whole country. Maybe the most insane crime of them all.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.