I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”

THERE'S ALWAYS SOME FUCKFACE QUISLING DEMOCRAT WILLING TO COLLUDE WITH REPUBLICANS. LAST NIGHT THERE WERE SEVEN. THANK YOU FOR READING MY VERY POWERFUL POST IN WHICH I "RIP" THEM SEVERAL "NEW ONES" LIKE NO ONE THOUGHT POSSIBLE. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/47Ns2GZ

> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

💯. It wasn't about just the ACA subsides—it was about those and … everything else.

Why did they accept this to begin with?

Wow. War crimes alert.

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"Since Hurricane Helene devastated the community in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, the county government has spent nearly $50 million on cleanup and recovery — while getting reimbursed only $4 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency..." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Joel sure knows how to twist the truth

Uh, the idea of having air traffic controllers "quickly replaced" is not very reassuring.

Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

This and the airline industry lobbyists are what did it. Not Americans starving and paying twice as much for healthcare. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

Gatsby parties for the wealthy! Bankruptcy for the rest of us... It is an appalling cave by the Dems who voted to support massive increases in health care premiums.

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.

I know a number of Republicans who fully believe that any prosecution of the people who were involved in 1/6/21 was a political persecution, not legally justified. They will be thrilled with this decision. Propaganda works.

The corruption never ends

"Even those passengers who successfully reach their destination are encountering long departure delays, extended tarmac times and highly unpredictable arrival times; many flight crews are timing out...or missing connections." - Airlines for America www.airlines.org/news-update/...

Heartbreaking to see millions in the Philippines forced to evacuate as another super typhoon hits. These storms are stronger and more frequent because of the climate crisis. We need global solidarity and real action for climate resiliency and recovery.

Republicans could help small business owners and individuals on ACA but they prefer funding an Argentina bailout, cutting funded research for cancer and building a ballroom on the wreckage of the East Wing.

Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off. So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose? Seriously?

It's impossible to build any more housing in America, but luckily we have the politically easy and physically effortless alternative of just removing a third of the population. This clown is the GOP chair in Tarrant County, Texas, the third largest county in the state.

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

Why not?

This is a really remarkable piece of writing and in its particulars it describes so, so many people

They're treating Trump illegally firing federal employees like it's leverage, not a criminal act.

Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

The real choice, no matter how much Senators wish it weren't: "Unfortunately, making things better for the American people coming out of this shutdown is probably not an option. Either Trump makes things worse with Democratic affirmation, or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic opposition."

Yesterday at the farmer’s market I saw a vendor quietly give food to someone whose EBT (SNAP) card didn’t have enough money on it. People helping people because the president and his administration refuse to. Even when court-ordered.

State of the world is very bad for men, apparently, according to @newyorker.com. Blame women, says Ross Douthat and his peers over at @nytimes.com.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

The president posts batshit insane, self-contradictory, harmful crap online daily, and the media is incentivized to not cover it like a scandal. When all this is over we’ve got to restructure media/reporting/journalism entirely.

Pretty hard for Republicans to argue that Democrats are to blame for no food stamps when they are doing stuff like this www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

America does not have 100 million migrants here. There is about 14 million (before ICE started disappearing people.) So who else to these anti-patriots want to get rid of?

"For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about." @caitlindickerson.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com ⬇️ www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump has done what he's wanted with government funding - slashing contracts, halting grant funding. With one word, he could issue an EO to pay air traffic controllers. But he's not doing that.

The whole GOP shutdown strategy is hoping that sheer force of propaganda can convince the public that things getting worse does not reflect badly on the people in charge of the government, and that hurting America more will get Democrats to acquiesce to the Trump admin hurting America in other ways.

We are so screwed.

Why are Ice Agents getting paid during the shutdown, and where is the money coming from??

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

The more we learn about Zohran Mamdani's upbringing, the clearer it becomes that he owes everything to his connected, well-to-do parents. by A.G. Sulzberger, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Ackman, and Donald Trump, Jr.

This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.

I’ve had two conferences—one in the US and one international—change titles of panels or the entire gathering to avoid being targeted or make people’s lives more difficult. It’s the exact kind of thing the US used to label totalitarian when foreign countries did this to their scholars.

Schiff: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard to cut food from people who need it right now? The cruelty is part of the policy."

We are already at a standstill. We need every Bar Association in the country to speak up against the political vendettas that use our tax dollars to punish people for the “crime” of opposing Trump.