As do big donors & the CEO-types in Dems’ ears.

Welp, Shaheen not interested in being a total sacrificial lamb.

You really shouldn’t be allowed to pardon people who helped you with your crime

This is part of what’s so infuriating. It doesn’t have to be like this! Better ways of running a country are possible! We don’t even have to come up with our own system, we can just steal a framework from another country! Why do we put up with this shit?

All of this, plus, SNAP IS A MATTER FOR THE COURTS right now, THEY CAN’T LEGISLATE TRUMP INTO DOING FULL SNAP COMPLIANCE! And the courts just tonight again ruled that Trump has to fully pay out SNAP! Mere hours after the dumb Ds caved! They could’ve waited for this ruling! bsky.app/profile/klas...

LITERALLY HOURS. THEY COULD HAVE WAITED HOURS.

We couldn’t even have a full week of good election vibes & positive political energy. These craven, selfish politicians are why we can’t have nice things.

This is the division we’re really seeing amongst Dems/the left. We want people who will fight for us as much as we fight to put them in office.

Kind of wild that the guy who was supposed to be Hillary health care Clinton’s VP was among those to sell out the ACA.

there is nothing “moderate” about siding with MAGA to impose crushing health insurance price hikes on tens of millions.

It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare

You can have a second plate after everyone has a first, should be applied to housing and healthcare

Meanwhile, back in a country that still prosecutes leaders who abuse them...

I found myself holding my breath til the climax moment for the lil guy.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

More specifically: a failure to fund the government is called a lack or failure of "supply" in most parliamentary systems and is always treated as a matter of confidence in the government. If supply fails—as it did here Sept 30—the govt would have to resign, & there'd be new elections

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

There ya go! That’s definitely something. (And kind of embarrassing, for other, better Dems, that it’s coming from Ro Khanna, of all people.)

Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

No Kings includes Angus

This is the same problem that we see when law firms and universities strike “deals” w Trump to stop Trump from doing ILLEGAL things!! That’s not a contract or even a good faith agreement. That’s a shakedown.

Thinking of this quote from Mamdani’s victory speech.

Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.

looking at my posts from tuesday

Let’s be perfectly clear on this: Schumer himself is not up for reelection until 2028. The vote to replace him as caucus leader can happen tomorrow morning. Every day Democrats are not calling for it, they need to explain why. Every. Fucking. Day.

I said this in the summer and it’s still true.

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

is it good when the dems in the house of representatives start calling for the senate to be abolished

The guy’s pathetic thirst for public attention cannot ever be quenched. He is literally inescapable if you turn on the tv or radio, open a newspaper, or go online. And still he craves being in our faces more-more-more. He’s got no concept of how he’s making everyone utterly sick of him.

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

"The planes also don't have engines, which would need to be purchased separately."

He could afford SNAP then by his own admission

PHANTOM WIFE is my favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie

🎶 thank you for being a thread 🎶

Pulp dafoection

Corporations don’t pay enough to feed you and your family, so you use SNAP. Then he punishes you for using SNAP instead of taking on the companies that don’t pay you what you’re worth. We sometimes forget Trump is just an asshole boss. He always finds a way to blame workers.

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

“appearing to close his eyes” ….. “APPEARING” “TO CLOSE” “HIS EYES” ….. “APPEARING TO CLOSE HIS EYES!!” ….. “APPEARINGTOCLOSEHISEYES!!!!!!!!”

Incredible minds at the highest levels of power.

"Silence, for me, is now intolerable."

It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown

Art.

It’s unfair that Trump gets to sleep through his presidency and the rest of us have to be awake for it

The Democratic caucus trying to stop Chuck Schumer from agreeing to a CR with a nationwide abortion ban attached

menswear writer here 👋 camo will not hide you inside a gym

Trump will be wearing these from now on:

his license is like “bro…”

ruby rhod’s Controversies wiki page gotta be long as hell