Today is a day. I has had teh #coffee and teh #MoreCoffee and teh #EvenMoreCoffee and I needs teh 4:20.

Response to @fetterman.senate.gov saying Dems shouldn't wait for Trump to show up with a dozen roses (though that is such nonsense, it almost answers itself).

I understand what the roll call vote totals are going to be but if the other Democrats had a problem with this deal they would be withholding unanimous consent on advancing it and loudly naming their colleagues as traitors.

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.

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

Cowardly fools. Damned us all for nothing. Didn’t get naught but a cheap song. If they were gonna cave they could’ve just done it at the start and saved folks some pain. But now they did nothing and got nothing and wasted time.

tbh I think part of why all this shit is so upsetting is that it feels way too similar to the sick terror of being held at gunpoint

These are the men who determine if you have healthcare.

Feeling a bit spiritually dry of late. Going back to my old friend Evelyn Underhill, who in 1926 gave a retreat to clergy in the C of E (first laywoman to do so) which was then punished as “Concerning the Inner Life”. I return to it every so often and it never fails to rekindle a bit of holy fire.

THAT'S MY SENATOR!!! #MARYLAND!!!

Just want to gently throw it out there that if you are feeling overwhelmed right now it’s ok to log off. Everyone is emoting deeply onto the timeline and you’re not obligated to witness it in an endless scroll. Take a break if you need to. Protect your heart. ❤️

I'm sorry, @kaine.senate.gov, but constituents also expect lawmakers to hold the line at times like this. And if they don't, they too could be replaced at the ballot box. This deal guarantees a vote we will lose, nothing more. That's not compromise, that's capitulation.

As Democrats get their votes lined up and talking points ready, it’s important to remember they’re working together to lessen the fallout from their angry base. In March (see below), Schumer voted to advance the bill but didn’t *technically* vote for final passage. It’s dishonest bullshit.

I just have to think the senators knew how much hot water this was going to be because we all had, what, an hour? to figure out what they were up to and call in, if we weren’t online on a Sunday evening we would have missed the whole thing

there is literally a thunderstorm heading towards dc right now.

We were going hungry and feeling anger and crying tears of fear so that people wouldn’t lose their healthcare. @schumer.senate.gov are you listening?

Please @vanhollen.senate.gov do not concede to this "deal". Please vote, "No."

Please @alsobrooks.senate.gov do not concede to this deal. Please vote, "No."

what is happening? i don't understand how we're supposed to pretend that we don't see what's happening right before our eyes. or how we're supposed to ignore the onslaught of reality show gimmicks performed as governance in this country. this isn't 'doing politics' this is 'doing reality tv'

okay leaving a voicemail for Schumer was cathartic actually I used my best “Middle Aged White Lady Demanding to Speak to the Manager” voice

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

I’m only posting this to make it clear this is real

Keep up the pressure folks. The folders are getting screamed at and realizing there won't be a shred of cover.

Schiff DC voicemail is full. Left a message at the Fresno office at 1-559-485-7430 and at Padilla's Fresno number at 1-559-497-5109.

And some states, relying on the USDA's assurance, it was fully funding SNAP for November, went ahead and started paying out benefits. Then the USDA filed for and got a stay. So now the states are stuck with empty SNAP accounts.

NEW: The Plaintiffs (26 states) in the Boston SNAP case have filed a brief and a letter as amici curiae in the RI SNAP case, advising the 1st Circuit that the USDA left pertinent facts out of its Emergency Petition to SCOTUS. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71783...

Oh for the love of Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542 Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451

Call and tell them how you feel:

I absolutely don't want Senate Dems to cave, but some key things: 1. If they do, this gets kicked back over to the House, which has to vote on it again since it would differ from their own version...which I think only runs thru 11/21? 2. That presumably means having to swear in Grjalva.

Folks, we need to have a little Civics #101 chat, because apparently the media no longer seems fit to explain to you whats happening. So quick review: The House passed a clean CR. The senate has not passed anything.

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

oh my gawd, these corrupt assholes are so epically bad at representing the people of their state. this is exactly how we got here in the first place. dem establishment allowed this shit to get so out of control by being epically bad at doing the job they were elected to do. & corrupt af.

Americans can’t afford this deal. Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan. A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.

oh shit. what did i do?

Who wants to read a first draft of a letter to my job's HR? I'm trying to get a damn chair and they're pushing back ("getting more information") despite getting a note from my doctor?

That’s the fault of the people running this shit. If you’re looking to cook, gpt will give you a recipe. If you’re looking to cut it will give you a razor These guys went ahead and pushed this shit with zero thought and no ecosystem- skipped the Jurassic Park part and just airdropped velociraptors

Homemade noodles for beef stroganoff tonight ✨

Thank fuck they're not gonna nuke the filibuster. This kind of money will need to go through Congress.

This has nothing to do with anything, but Samsung appliances absolutely suck.

This is a parody account. This is not a real quote. Stop sharing it. And if you say, "well, it's ok because it might as well be real," I will block you.

How a 15-day hunger strike foreshadowed his campaign.

A few weeks ago I zoomed with a group of high school students and their adult mentor to discuss taking social action. I am thrilled to report that this group of 10 students raised $10,000 in two weeks to support their local food pantry. They sent me a photo and it has them all jumping and I tear up.

What's this Bullshit @support.bsky.team ?

Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.

In books: Born in 1897 in Louisiana to a mother from a free Black community and a father born into slavery, Audley “Queen Mother” Moore bore witness to the dying breaths of Reconstruction in the South. Then she became a vital part of the Black liberation movement.

The FAA has just issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive for MD-11 aircraft requiring aircraft inspections and any applicable corrective actions before further flight.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro: “They think life is a bad Hollywood movie where they’re always the heroic Rambo-style winners and the rest of us—Latinos, Mexicans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Caribbeans, Africans—are the villains. “Let them keep their fading empire and their ugly story.”