MA House Democrats want to vote for a MAGA energy bill that abandons our clean energy commitments. Poll after poll, voters show that they care about fighting climate change, but MA House Democrats apparently care more about utility profits. commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/house...

It would be a lovely irony if Elon Musk started pouring millions into endowing libraries or some shit just to show Joyce Carol Oates that he actually cares about books.

Hello @support.bsky.team why has @sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Bari Weiss is putting Dave Portnoy on the CBS Sunday Morning Shows and not focusing on his history of sexual misconduct

about that...

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Earthquake Prediction Flowchart xkcd.com/3165/

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement my out of pocket cost: $473 what my insurance paid: $4258 what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692

I've said it before, and I will say it again. We need courageous leaders that put working families at the center of all they do. 8 democrats caving to empty promises is an indefensible leadership failure For the sake of our country, Schumer needs to resign.

Good job Senate Dems. This is who you helped.

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

Also "vote blue no matter who" is not real voting. Party lines aren't voting. Voting means we have a real choice. Not a defensive harm reduction activity. We actually have to use our brains for this one activity. That's why they have websites with bullet points.

This man is unfit to be a Senator

Please note that our reps are not more informed or savvy or masterfully strategic than we are. They’re just people, often extremely ill-informed, compromised, and arrogant. Never take this kind of guff from these clowns.

Good morning

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

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

I will not be watching or reading any "analyses" about the Democratic party in D.C. I know all about them & their complicity. I'm not interested and I choose to reclaim my time and attention. There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

America gave Biden the "off button" in 2020 and he had it for 4 years. He put Merrick Garland in charge of using it. People want the Democratic Party to use the buttons they have. If they're going to cede everything anyways, what was the point of shutting it down at all?

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Are you kidding me?! @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social blocked me for this?! after complaining that someone else blocked him for discussing the same topic?! If you see him around #mapoli be sure not to ever question him. Hypocrite.

What evidence is there that the GOP is acting in good faith and won't just break any deal they make? They've already shown they'll illegally stop funding things arbitrarily hoping SCOTUS will let them. And how many people will need SNAP now that there's basically no chance of an ACA extension?

Except the courts had already rescued the hostage. They said SNAP must be paid. SCOTUS delayed the ruling, but it's still there. We know the GOP wants SNAP gone. They've taken this hostage repeatedly, and they'll do it in the next fight too. So this still doesn't make any sense.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Like Mikie Sherrill didn’t have to say anything, she’s not in office yet, she has four years and you’d figure everyone will have moved on and this would be completely irrelevant to her political future but she looked at it and decided “no I should probably say they’re fucking stupid”

I guess the silver lining is how many people who just won elections or are hoping to win elections shortly have decided to put out statements about their colleagues going “well so first off they’re fucking stupid”

Exactly right.

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