Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

New: The real story is the Democratic leadership collapse: presswatchers.org/2025/11/the-...

Here are the Senators who voted to criminalize hemp products: [with alt text included]

Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.

On this stormy November day in Ontario we remember another storm 50 years ago today that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Once again I am forced to consider whether I’m in a “Jacob’s ladder” type scenario

Every day, some new horror.

Now on the lake they called EVERY BEASTIE BOY: GITCHE GUMEE In November the sky turns EBB: GLOOMY Ship concluded terms with a couple EBB: STEEL FIRMS And set out to Cleveland, when the EBB: WEATHER TURNED The good ship and crew were in EBB: PERIL Thus sank the EBB: EDMUND FITZGERALD

Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz indicted for elaborate pitch-rigging scheme: defector.com/emmanuel-cla...

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

wouldnt surprise me if schumer negotiated this too

great point. as opposed to when the government wasn't shut down and Trump was scrupulously following the law to the letter bsky.app/profile/heid...

The filibuster is so fundamentally anti-democratic that forcing the authoritarian party to kill it so that they could keep taking health care and food away from Americans was probably the cleanest out from the damn thing, yet this Cones of Duneshire-ass opposition party loves rules more than wins.

Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”

This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

These people have exactly one strong impulse and it's to immediately throw cold water on any indication that their own base is getting angry or making demands. They fundamentally see their purpose as telling anyone thinking about standing up for themselves to knock it off and be quiet.

This is exactly the time for loyalty tests - every single Senate Democrat who doesn't vote to remove Schumer as Majority Leader is directly complicit and should face a ruthless primary. If you are interested in running for office, you will be AWASH with cash from apoplectic voters right now.

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

THIS. they were WINNING and they just took ownership of the whole fucking mess.

Kayfabe is fine in entertainment but it's corrosive in democratic politics.

This has Schumer personally written all over it. I’d bet a lot of money he asked for this to be added

Once again, Chuck Schumer losing leadership is not a thing you have to wait four years for. It can happen tomorrow. Every single day, every single hour, Democratic senators are not demanding. It is a capitulation to changing nothing. I can do nothing too. You have no idea how easy it is.

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

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

The ACA fucking *sucks*, is a national shame, is confoundingly cruel and ineffective and insufficient and, also, simultaneously is SO MUCH MORE PREFERABLE to pre-ACA American healthcare it's not even close.

I think it's actually good to share exchange premium data. And it's good to talk about which MA providers are better than others. Someone could use that information.

Reminder that Bernie has an actual fucking sword gifted to him by Ross Perot. He swore he would never take another life with it. But that was before darkness ruled the land.

I am thinking about how the cost of the PPO I was on through Covered California doubled this year, and that is just in a wealthy, huge blue state with the best laws and healthcare.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

this is senate dems’ second coordinated “just enough” vote to help republicans and betray house dems of the year, remember

Listening to these pathetic rationalizations from King, Hassan, Shaheen, whoever else they have queued up. Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.

Lucy promising Charlie Brown that she'll hold the football for him a couple months down the road in exchange for all of his hoes now.

At least the widows of the dead Democratic Reps. will get their cash. (priorities, sigh)

I see nothing in here that would require the White House to actually spend any available funds, prevent rescissions or withholding of payments, or do anything to change what has become an unsettling status quo in this calendar year.

The Dem leadership is all going to vote no because they are trying to "keep their hands clean." We told you how ridiculous this was yesterday. prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

Peters and Ossoff were two of the Gang of Eight, and now that they see the votes were gotten elsewhere and how bad it's playing with the base, they both voted no.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Ossoff is no

And by a totally predictable twist of fate, Democrats look 1000x worse tonight. Deeply humiliating to be represented by the limpest dicks the DNC could scrounge up 50 years ago.

If Torres and Yglesias are willing to say “are you fucking stupid, why support this bill,” how do you think your donors and primary voters will react.

Have R senators? (Like me?) Call Schumer’s office to tell him you will never donate to another D senate campaign again as long as he’s Senate leader. Tell him this deal is a shameful joke and a betrayal. (202) 224-6542

As recently as the late 1980s, tuition at @uwmadison.bsky.social was <$1000/semester. In current dollars, that's about $2500/semester. There is one central reason for that: the <massive decline in state funding>. This was a choice. Other choices remain readily available.

Agree with this. About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.