No, false. This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking. No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did. Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.

He truly is the worst of us.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Yeah, I think I've perfected my Manhattan recipe.

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help. We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party

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The NYT has a smaller audience than Ms Rachel and she reaches lots of normies who don't bother with the paper, this was probably not a good idea for them

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

"The payment of federal workers shouldn't be a political football" You're god damn right it shouldn't be! So make it so "if someone is required to work, it's required to pay them" you fuck nuts.

The GOP have used the Shutdown (or a threat of one) for decades to extract concessions from the Dems. This is the FIRST time that the Dems have shown enough spine to make the GOP worried about this tactic. And then the Dems gave concessions instead of REMOVING THE THREAT

@booker.senate.gov I appreciate you urging people to vote no. I hope that you use the next two months to make sure that the 8 people who didn't listen won't buckle in January.

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

Oh fuck off

she called it

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

Here's the thing about "Caving" it's not that people shouldn't be paid or get money for food. Of course they fucking should. But if this goes through, dems showed that the GOP actions worked and so the next time they want to do some shit, all they have to do is take more hostages.

gotta be some ambitious Dems in NV, NH and PA who would be happy to run in a presidential year at the end of a staggeringly unpopular second Trump term get your campaigns ready, folks

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 don't care if they're not up for election for 6 years. Every single person who votes for this CR needs to be primaried. And until that time, they should not know a moments peace

"I’m accepting the GOP following THE LAW as a hard won concession" is such an unserious position & explains so much of how we've gotten to our current predicament. and that applies to our electorate just as much as it does to our institutions & electeds TBC 😣

These are *not* concessions on the part of republicans. If you treat them as such, you’ve incentivized them to weaponize the federal workforce to the maximum degree in every single future fight. I feel like I’m losing my fucking mind.

Biden sank this country but Chuck just pulled it back underwater as it was trying to gasp for one last breath of air

Fuck the coward Dems in the Senate who are doing this. Every single one of them should be forced to stand alone

I'll never forgive Donald Trump for making me root for this stupid party

Called my senators. If they vote for this I'm going to find someone to primary my senators

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

Any Dem that voted on the promise of a discussion now should be run out of any town they try and rest in.

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

I do really think these folks are underestimating how bad the AI backlash can get if the industry needs a bailout people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago

Made a donation to local food bank today Put being entirely too online to good use and pulled up with a trunk of sanitary pads

So clair north, who wrote one of the best time loop books I've ever read, is coming out with a legit sci-fi book? *And* it looks like it will mess with relativity? (It's called Slow Gods)

The lengths Trump will go to keep Americans hungry knows no bounds. apnews.com/article/snap...

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Today, I was proud to witness an agreement between the New Jersey Department of Labor and the Consulate of Mexico – ensuring Mexican American workers in New Jersey have the protections and resources they deserve. 🇲🇽 🇺🇸

A trillionaire. We have a trillionaire. Yeah, liberalism is working out great. The market is truly the greatest arbiter.

Donald Trump is AGAIN suing to avoid sending food to hungry children and seniors.

It seems easy to misunderstand this phrase so let me be clear: "Nuremburg trials is the moderate position" was also the reading of the situation the first time.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

the great thing about Musk's comp package being heavily incentive-gated is that it guarantees a decade of systemic financial fraud at the heart of the market. good job everyone

People keep trying to tell me this is a serious organization.

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