I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

you could call your democratic senators and ask them to replace schumer as minority leader

That was it, wasn't it. Schumer and the other cowards think they'll blow up the filibuster, and got cold feet over that. What is the point of having a filibuster if you're too afraid to use it because you might lose it?!

It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.

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,

Schumer put the nail in his own coffin and the Democratic Leadership. It's done. Just a matter of time. Ditto Centrists. They have misread the moment and the rage of the people. Trump and MAGA will continue playing them because they know they are weak.

Didn't Tuesday's election results show that it actually WAS working???

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

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Lmao I have never seen a group of people on earth so addicted to LOSING

People want their members of Congress to fight for them with everything we've got. Senate Democrats should listen and reject this funding deal that does nothing to stop healthcare costs from skyrocketing.

Very plausible answer to my Q (I’m on vacation don’t yell that I didn’t think of this before asking)

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

Dick Durbin sucks ass. Why are retiring Senators like him and Shaheen voting for this?

Call your Senators and demand a vote to remove Schumer as minority leader. He has failed utterly. He must be removed.

Life as a Democrat:

I. Am. Enraged.

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.

Take a fucking bus you cowards

Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

Oh sure you think Chuck Schumer is “caving” and “wants to ruin all the momentum” and “is horrible at politics” but what if I was to tell you that this old crazy man ran the idea by an imaginary married Irish American couple that exists only in his mind and they think it’s great politics

I'm serious, we NEED to organize massive protests tomorrow at Schumer's offices, this man cannot be trusted to hold office, period. Not only is he not the right person for the moment, he is the WORST person for the moment. Riley, the old blind dog on my block, would have better political instincts.

if the Democrats are willing to accept this deal, in particular, i don't think a single Senator should make it through their primary. this just makes health inequity worse and lets Trump send out checks with his name on them!

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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

It's not about provoking riots. If anything, that's the opposite of what they want. As Heritage Foundation chief scumbag said this is their Second Revolution and it will be bloodless if the left allows it to be. They want us to sit quietly and take it.

Like I am not trying to pick on one particular person but you see what I mean. What are yall talking about. Look around. He doesnt need to provoke riots to do that.

Yes. This is why we had so many movies taped off of TV when I was a kid. I didn’t know the “we ain’t found shit” line from Spaceballs until I was an adult because of this, but I could recite many commercials by heart

Chuck Schumer is a complete sentence

It's amazing how using more than just paint actually prevents drivers from doing shit that endangers micro-mobility users

60%-70% of social media users browse from the bathroom. It's not stalking. You're just potty buddies.

Hey sorry I didn't like your reply right away I don't want you to think I am chronically online but yeah I saw it one second after you posted it

Earlier today, LinkedIn once again recommended I follow Bari Weiss. It is the 16th time this year LinkedIn has emailed me to recommend I follow her. This isn't tailored to me; my account is dormant with few connections. She's been a default recommendation all year—yet still only 33k followers.

If the Mamdani exit polls weren’t enough for you — young men aren’t conservative! 2024 was a turnout & policy failure. Young men simply aren’t going to vote for the neoliberal status quo that is robbing them blind. You want to win young men? Run with a vision of progressive change, like Mamdani

Which employees? Last time I went to Target (admittedly more than a year ago) there were only like three employees... 2 stocking shelves and 1 watching over 8 self-checkout lanes. And that's the thing, Target started sucking years before the boycott started... 🧵

Oh shit I see the vision and I’m here for it

do you remember the post a while back where someone suggested a sitcom where Cuomo and Dershowitz are roommates in new york city and every episode Cuomo loses an election and Dershowitz is refused a pierogi?

There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is. The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.

Lastly there’s Emmanuel Garcia, a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing a month ago. Houston PD had his mother’s missing persons report, but chose to call ICE. He’s been in federal custody ever since, and his mother has not been allowed to see him www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old. He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...

There’s also Quinn Harberl, a blind protester in Portland who they dragged by his feet. Multiple agents grabbed the 4 foot 6 man and dragged him, nearly smashing his head into the ground bsky.app/profile/broa...

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant” He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Not interested in arguing about the toxicology of caffeine so here are the ChatGPT numbers:

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.