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

BIG COUGH WHILE SHOUTING BULLSHIT.

And Schumer, because none of this would have happened without his permission no matter how he voted. He’s the Minority Leader.

YUP.

But the way this works is they align on a plan, and then they assign members who are not up for reelection to take the heat. I wouldn't be fooled by the individual votes - that's not how these things work.

This looks awfully intentional.

Minority Whip Katherine Clark puts out a stinging statement on the senate deal. "A GOP budget that spikes health care premiums and everyday costs to fund tax cuts for billionaires is a grave betrayal of everyday Americans. That was true in July. It was true in September. And it remains true today."

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

The crisis at the BBC shows how embattled and defensive serious news organisations have become - and how close they are to yielding, pre-emptively, and being overwhelmed, by authoritarian populists.

The issue with “voter ID” isn’t the ID. It’s which IDs are allowed and who gets blocked. Gun licenses count but student IDs don’t. Tribal IDs don’t. Millions of eligible voters, seniors, students, low-income workers, get shut out. If it were about security, every gov-issued ID would count.

at least Ceausescu registered the boos.

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov: compromising with fascists is compliance. Read the room. Do your jobs. Protect your constituents.

Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations

They are caving in exchange for the pinky promise of doomed vote in 40 days. They have the political instincts of drywall. This is un-fucking-believable.

I am so weary of running around explaining contemporary politics to Democratic senators but Trump has taken the power of the purse from Congress and has made good on his promise to not fund anything he doesn't want to so "guaranteeing a vote in the Senate" is not a thing.

The Senate deal to end the shutdown includes a promise from Sen. John Thune to hold a Dec. vote on extending ACA premium subsidies before they expire and Democrats get to write the bill that’s voted on. I don’t trust promises and there’s no guarantee the extension bill passes.

Elon Musk and his promises In 2016, Musk said a “meaningful number of people” could reach Mars in 10 years (by 2026) More specifically he predicated SpaceX would be able to launch people in 2024 with arrival in 2025 Just sayin’

no mention of Dem senators who have caved. does he think people won't notice?

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

Whatever else is in the deal, agreeing to merely have a vote on ACA is a fig leaf. Even if it passes the Senate, it won't in the House, which also makes it an easy yes vote for the Senate Rs who might want to, defusing it as an attack on them. It is a stupid ask even on Team Schumer's own terms.

All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win

“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument

THIS.

So we are finally protesting the right people. This is outside of the Heritage Foundation.

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This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.

Useful background to the resignation of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness here. By others' friends shall you know your enemies. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Putting my hat in the ring for the BBC Director General job. Key pledges: 1. No more barefoot contempo waft on Strictly 2. A weekly new music show that has no threat of Jools playing boogie boogie piano 3. Open University programmes and arty French films to be shown during the night.

They lie all the time; one small edit and they howl. I saw that fucker whip up that crowd LIVE and for WEEKS BEFORE in speeches and posts, didn't you? Davie no loss: let's see if they put a proper DG in [not a former Pepsi marketer like Davie.] The BBC have to fight back against gaslighting.

His resignation email reads a bit like he was just getting massively fed up with it all, rather than resigning for this incident specifically, I thought

Oh yes I agree that it’s really bad editorially, and revealing it is exactly the thing Verify is doing (and doing very well in many instances). I could even understand one of them going but surely both resigning is OTT? It also leaves BBC leaderless at a crucial time

Can the Govt. now install someone who isn’t a friend of the Tories though ? There must be a silver lining…

This is absolutely nuts Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

This is quite a read. This Chicagoan especially appreciates the section on former AG Ed Levi who was appointed by Ford to "restore confidence in the integrity of the department" and said "our law is not an instrument of partisan purpose." What a concept.

excellent work.

“Let them eat cake” walked so that “don’t let them eat under any circumstances” could run I guess??? This is cartoonishly evil!!

And "The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin."

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

The appeals court now has less than 48 hours to weigh in. Meanwhile, deep uncertainty for SNAP beneficiaries—39 percent of whom are children—continues.

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Davie and Turness resign from the BBC, ironically after the Right whip up confected outrage about a Trump documentary. Now there’s a chance to get someone sympathetic to the BBC into the top job.

hmmm

UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits. Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families. It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.

You are right, SNAP cuts are written into Project 2025 — y’all this is not a coincidence. 📄 Check Chapter 10 (USDA & Federal Nutrition Programs) — it calls to “substantially cut and devolve SNAP/WIC to states.” It’s certainly the playbook being followed. #MAGTIPA #NoKings #Project2025 #SNAP

Don’t forget: gutting SNAP is literally written into Project 2025. This isn’t a mistake — it’s the plan. Every. Single. Bit.

keep reading that the charlatan Johnson is involved in this, hope to read a forensic account of this confected scandal. kowtowing to Trump and his b.s.

What’s the likelihood she decides to go back to Germany after her first interaction w the U.S. healthcare system?

It would be hilarious how Trump uses random quotation marks, signs posts “President DJT” like even he’s surprised he’s in office, and crashes out like a teenager who just got grounded….if he weren’t the actual President of the United States and ruining millions of lives.