People are in denial about how quickly they could become disabled, unhoused or food insecure It can happen to anyone & it can happen in an instant Folks act like those receiving assistance have failed That they should “try harder” The system is rigged. It’s failed us, not the other way around

Just saying.

I don't think legacy media is reading the room correctly on the Epstein Files. Many of us are asking why they have ignored this story for the last decade? Why did they dismiss all of us who were concerned that Trump might be compromised? And where is their fucking contrition and apology now?

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

Trump is desperately calling the Republicans who have signed on to the Epstein discharge petition. Complete panic mode now that Democrats have the votes.

Tonight I will be in NH to talk about what kind of leadership is necessary at this time of crisis for our nation - and what Democrats in the United States Senate need to do to save our democracy. This moment is urgent and we need to act like it.

I will make sure every single person remembers that the same Republicans who did everything in their power to make tax breaks for billionaires PERMANENT refused to even negotiate ONE YEAR of health care tax credits for working families, at a tiny fraction of that cost.

I dropped off Virginia Giuffre’s memoir for Speaker Johnson. If he actually reads it, maybe he’ll finally release the Epstein Files and stop covering for the powerful men who abused her. Justice for Virginia and the hundreds of other victims is long overdue.

🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.

Just to be clear, a Utah judge didn’t throw out the GOP’s biased new map because of a “partisan opinion.” Utah voters approved redistricting standards. The GOP ignored them. The map violated the voter-approved rules, that’s why it was rejected. Voters > politicians.

WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.” Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

💯Yes. Or Elizabeth Warren. Or Chris Murphy.

Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.

You ever call a senator's office and ask the staffer who picks up what it's like to work for someone without a spine? 10/10 recommend.

In a world where the incumbent president bowed to pressure and stepped aside, it doesn’t seem like such a monumental ask to switch minority leaders.

Are we still doing these?

Hello @support.bsky.team why has @sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????

It's weird to listen to my usual political podcasts today, knowing what we know right now. Last week was the *before times*. Last week is like another world. Everyone is overjoyed with Tuesday's shellacking, a blue wave, a rejection of trumpism, we have the momentum, blah blah blah. I can't.

Time for @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to replace @schumer.senate.gov

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party. They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word. Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.

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.

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.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.

Keep tagging them and commenting on their posts, it is having an impact!!!! And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

Things are fine.

I swear to god Chuck Schumer better not ruin the bolt of energy that Tuesday shot through Democrats by folding on the shutdown

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I'm running for U.S. Senate. Because in the state that built the American Dream, it shouldn't be this hard to get by. Join me: abdulforsenate.com/go

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

Neither Zohran Mamdani nor Abigail Spanberger are the future of the Democratic Party. We won’t win by imitating either campaign, but we’ll win by doing what they both did: running local-first campaigns, giving people a vision for the future, and rebuilding the American Dream for Gen Z.

Gilson Lavis, the drummer from Squeeze has died at age 74. I'm listening to Squeeze this morning and of course, paying attention to how his drumming launched the songs into greatness- as in this song. He was also an artist, a painter in his own right in later years. May he rest in peace. 🥁❤

My newsletter tomorrow is called “When Hate Masquerades As Christianity.” In it, I invite us to ponder some of the deeply unsettling supremacist mindsets that are being advocated in certain Christian circles and consider some practical ways forward. Join:https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/profile

Pope Leo:

😳They are going out of their way to starve hungry Americans.

❤️🥪💣💙😍

The Story of $4.3T

PLEASE DO THIS ON THE SENATE FLOOR RIGHT NOW. We need one Democratic Senator's aids to run to the store and get a bunch of cups and start stacking them to make this point for the American People. It will go viral. @booker.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov

RIP Gilson Lavis First came across him as I fell in love with Squeeze & he was their drummer but he played with Buddy Holly & Jerry Lee Lewis previously. Anyway, here’s a perfect kitchen sink pop song. youtu.be/RQciegmLPAo?...

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

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.

The Combat, 1939, by Leslie Gilbert Illingworth (1902–1979).

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

There are more of us than there are of them.

BREAKING: NY Board of Elections says more than 2 MILLION votes have been cast in the NYC election - the highest number since 1969.

lol. lmao.

Dems in ARRAY