We ought to demand stronger Democratic leadership. It exists but the old guard is stuck maintaining a status quo with a regressively cruel Republican Party.

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.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

👇🎯 Unfortunately, this is true & probably the only way. Voters need to realize that hating government, & illegally defunding & dismantling it, & pretending that we can run a modern society/economy on Ronald Reagan's shabby talking point & worn copies of Atlas Shrugged & Mein Kampf is untenable.

Took me less than five minutes to send two emails and leave a voicemail. Super quick and just speak from the heart

Asking anyone who's got energy to do so to call their Dem Senators and urge them not to back down on healthcare. 🙏 Your friends who are too sick to work to access healthcare are going to be really fucked otherwise. Being too sick to work means no paycheck to cover now-exorbitant marketplace plans.

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

Thirty pages in and @lalouverouge.bsky.social's "Solidarity with Children" is excellent so far

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

Concepts of a plan of a scheme of a shakedown

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Being annoyed that someone else's health event is taking attention from you is the essence of Trump.

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

Breaking.

People are acting as if the GOP is salvagable. That there are reasonable Republicans waiting in the wings for MAGA to go away. No, this is who the Republican Party is: Nazi sympathizers, and quite a few that have started learning German

There isn’t really a gap between Fuentes and MAGA. It’s like the Klan and the White Citizen’s Councils. They are part of the same white supremacist movement and largely disagree over tactics.

The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me. He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits… …while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

The women married to fascists are usually also fascists. They weren't "tricked" into being with these people. They chose them.

Not all Republicans are Nazis but all Nazis are Republicans

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Here Trump takes his entire theory of governance to its logical conclusion by demanding Democrats improve the parts of government he keeps trying to destroy

i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

Avoiding topics will not prevent Republicans from saying the top Democratic priority is getting organic locally sourced vegan food for LGBTQ immigrant detainees. Avoidance is just a failure to do politics.

I think this is basically right, though I'd imagine it's not Trump himself, but rather Miller and other people behind the throne who are concerned about MAGA splintering into camps and fighting over who gets to wear the crown next. Trump legitimately thinks he's a Special Boy who deserves it.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

The GOP is using the shutdown to literally make people choose between starving and losing their healthcare. That’s how sadistic this is and what the age of fascism is going to look like unless we defeat it.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, including their own polls, media outlets still seem to believe that MAGA represents "real Americans," and Trump is way more popular than he is.

Right wing american christianity is an interesting religion. It grants privileges to its adherents, but obligations to everyone else. bsky.app/profile/razz...

"Instead of capitulating to reactionary narratives about parents’ rights, we need to start talking about the rights of young people themselves and underscoring their needs for bodily autonomy, dignity, liberty, justice, equality, and self-determination." www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...

"far too many who see themselves as progressive LGBTQ 'allies' have been far too fearful of further offending the perpetually offended 'parents’ rights' crowd to prove themselves proactive advocates for these vulnerable and oppressed young people." www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-ju...

the ballroom will never be built and he’ll just pocket whatever money he collects because he is a grifter first and foremost

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military. The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history. Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

If you want to pursue something, don't be discouraged by how long it may take. The time is going to go by anyway. You can either be moving toward something you want to see happen, or not.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Gentle reminder that polls don't gauge what is ethical or just. A poll about how "most Americans" feel about trans healthcare is simply a way to understand how effective media and religious campaigns have been in their transphobia.

Been wrong before but demolishing part of the White House while prices rise, the government is shut down, and health premiums are about to go through the roof? Might break through

While Republican lawmakers spent the days leading up to No Kings fearmongering about the protesters themselves, early reports show that only MAGA troublemakers were responsible for violence as an estimated 7M people peacefully demonstrated. trib.al/MZmc1Yx

I don’t know why some people struggle with the idea that other folks experience life differently. What you find tedious, someone else cherishes as ritual or routine. This is basic people stuff y’all.

It's finally here! I'm beyond excited to read it and better myself (and my school community) @ecpayne.bsky.social

Remember how conservative grifters started selling “anti woke” products at a premium to separate gullible conservatives from their money? Well under Trump that’s just the economy now, since we’re all paying more in the name of being “anti woke” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Okay, we need more conversations between @jamellebouie.net and @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I knew he wouldn't like the demonstrations, but I would not have predicted that Trump's reaction would be "I go poopy on you!"

He was so butthurt by millions protesting his authoritarian regime, he posted an AI clip of him in a fighter jet dumping crap on people exercising their constitutional rights. It’s the kind of reaction you would expect from a mentally unhinged lunatic or a petulant child. Not a President.

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

I gotta be honest, the association with monarchy is heretical and outrageous, but the thing that really sticks in my craw is how quickly and steadfastly they stood by "everyone I don't like is Mexican."

It's one thing to see strangers protest on the news or social media, but your neighbor? Local teacher? Elected official? Community leader? Showing up matters, if only to show that there is strength in numbers and that we're not alone.