Democrats passed a common-sense rule to provide passengers with compensation when their flights were cancelled. Trump just got rid of it. This Administration is always looking for new ways to take money out of your pocket. Despicable.

Let me make something very clear — Susan Collins is contributing to skyrocketing health care costs for families across Maine. It’s reckless and just plain wrong. We will vote her out in 2026.

Other examples exist but I do think Nuzzi is a prime candidate for the *media* figure who most exemplifies the total lack of shame in American elite culture circa 2025

I’m not saying that first-time candidates can’t make good U.S. Senators—it’s certainly possible—I’m just saying that IF you’re gonna use “I’m not the man I was a few years ago” as part of your campaign narrative, you have to at least show your work, and his Changed Man resume is pretty thin.

This is the part about Platner that pisses me off the most. Even if I bought all of his bullshit about the posts, the tattoo, etc. and believed that he really is a Changed Man yadda yadda yadda… …ok, fine: Run for city council or county commissioner or something first, not for the U.S. Senate.

In what way does "allowing folks to redeem themselves" mean that the path of redemption *begins* by leapfrogging into a US Senate seat? Why should those who have NOT done "abhorrent things," step aside from leadership, in order to make way for HIM to be one of the most powerful ppl in the world?

Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u... “The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’” These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!

Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

And yet, y’all ran front page articles on stuff with thinner evidence and hearsay regularly. And strangely, all of those stories were directed at Trump’s perceived enemies. I wonder why that is?

This is going to be very nuanced and very divisive. I hope you will do me the courtesy of reading the whole thing and digesting it before commenting. Okay? Good, here goes: I think many people in our party misunderstand what a congressional leader is. 1/

Everybody: just put your Merrick Garland stuff on hold. Y’all talk about message discipline, now’s the time. Do this shit like tomorrow or Friday.

I’m also not sure “documents that Dems managed to get and publish while in the minority” is the optimal cudgel against Dems

“Why didn’t Biden use documents produced as a result of an August 2025 House Oversight Committee subpoena” is the sort of thing that perhaps sounds savvier in your head than on the page

The top issue of the 2016 campaign was email server management and information security. That ushered in an admin that quickly compromised information security in much worse ways. It got much less attention. And Americans re-empowered them in 2024. Signal leak alone was orders of magnitude worse.

Every new revelation of the Epstein cover-up is more shocking. Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Mike Johnson, and MAGA enablers are out to protect one person—Donald Trump. NOT YOU.

The craziest thing about his revenge tour is the fact that HE WAS THE ONE TO ADMIT THAT HE HAD A NAZI TATTOO. HE KNEW IT WAS BAD FOR HIS BULLSHIT CANDIDACY ALONG WITH ALL OF THE OTHER SHIT COMING OUT AND HE ADMITTED IT HIMSELF! NOBODY "TOOK HIM DOWN" OTHER THAN HIMSELF! Lol.

I don't think we really need to have any more Platner discourse after this, it's clear he's not going to win and is just in this for his weird revenge tour against his perceived haters from here on out.

I should clarify my position a bit here since this is getting another round of reposts - the argument for supporting Platner was that only an outsider could oust Collins and if that's not the case, this is just another dead end race and he's Oyster Boat Amy McGrath. Nothing interesting there.

This administration is committed to pushing transgender people out of public life. A trans congresswoman, elected statewide, is important as a sign and a symbol that such a task should be impossible.

What’s more, it more or less follows from other stuff we know about him. He raped his first wife. He leered at underage girls at pageants he hosted. He bragged on tape about sexually assaulting women. We *know* these things about him. There’s no reason to doubt the thing they all add up to.

Jesus Fucking Christ. The only reason they were "designed to expire" is because JOE FUCKING MANCHIN REFUSED TO AGREE TO MAKE THEM PERMANENT. You know...the guy who is no longer a Democrat?

When people say the Schumer must have known, and that the Senate only do what he says is ok - I wonder what Senate have I been watching for 30 years where Senators are often petulant Lords. Fetterman has been attacking the shutdown for 3 weeks.

I swear, people honest to god need to grapple with the logical conclusions behind things like "GOPers are just evil and thus pointless to blame them"

I think part of the problem is that for all of the “even if it’s a fight you know you’ll lose I want to see you fight,” joining a fight implies in many (most?) minds the possibility of victory, and failure that was inevitable at the outset starts to look less noble than incompetent.

Yes. Exactly. All this suffering is the fault of REPUBLICANS! Not Democrats. Also, I'd like to give a hearty fuck you to everyone who made it possible for Republicans to have this much power.

Even if you think those eight are wrong here -- I do! -- it is not "The Democrats" who did this, it is seven individual Democrats and one independent, not even a quarter of the Senate Democratic Caucus. If you're blaming all Democrats for that then you really just hate Democrats.

youtu.be/kFYZT4xgWgg?... HJ follow-up--and he's on point. Also criticizes SCOTUS's corruption, which catches News Santa off guard.

I think people should stop being so mad at each other when there's a Trump to be mad at

You can want Schumer removed from leadership. But have you looked at who’s next in line? And do you have some plausible description of who would replace him, why they would be better, & evidence they’d even want it?

A not-insubstantial number of people seem to be just *convinced* that The Democrats have a magic wand that they simply choose not to use at their disposal.

I just don't think people understand just how much their decision to smear the Democratic nominees in 2024 have negatively impacted Dems' ability to get *anything* positive done for the next 3 years. People are gassing themselves up with absolute nonsense.

Y'all do realize that even if Dems retake the House and the Senate *and* end the filibuster, they still won't have veto-proof majorities, right? And Trump will absolutely veto anything they pass. He probably would have also vetoed ACA extensions even if Republicans caved. Y'all know that, right?

Same, but also keep in mind that they could impeach but not convict! And the last time they failed to convict, everyone went around blaming Dems for Not Wanting It Enough and it being Worse Than Nothing! The trap must still be avoided!

People perceive the Republicans as having been extremely powerful in the minority because the Republicans were good at making them feel sad and they confused that for power. It's really that simple.

The fact that a lot of people on this website apparently feel very strongly that that being rude to the employees of people you don’t like is both necessary and virtuous has some explanatory power

Lawrence’s discussion last night was brilliant because he actually knows how the Senate works. Just do yourself a favor and don’t read the comments. www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

I'm sorry... what exactly are they supposed to DO here when Rs hold all 3 branches of govt? I'm sick to death of this magical thinking bullshit that there is some secret button Dems aren't pushing that lets them pass legislation or stall an R majority that doesn't NEED them to pass legislation.

Every time I ask the question "what are they supposed to do", I get a response of shit they are already doing. At what point do you axe grinders admit that you are talking out of your ass from a place of grievance and not fact? At what point do you decide to pay attention to the world around you?

This, this, fucking *this*. Thank god more people are starting to say these common sense things! Because a hell of a lot of supremely dishonest folks have decided falsely smearing Dems is more important than dealing with How Things Work.

Folks don't seem to remember this for some reason, but it's true!

And this, oddly. It's weird to frame Dem Senate leadership as lacking when Republicans keep breaking ranks to help Dems pass things.

Schumer led Senate Democrats in fighting Trump over healthcare, period. If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.

And it can also be done without *attacking Democrats as a Party*. Another important aspect of the Mamdani campaign that folks kinda wanna paper over for some reason!

This is only a contrarian view on a website that has full on lost its mind.

Democrats already lost, bud, they don't have control of the House, the Senate, SCOTUS, or the Presidency. You're literally living through what you claim to want, yet you're still unable to make your ideas come to pass! Why is that? Dems just didn't lose *enough*?

If all you're doing is bashing Democrats, I'm just going to unfollow you, because you're not a serious person, and you're not helping, and you're just mindlessly parroting tired Anti-Dem stereotypes and propaganda. Focus your venting and ire on the GOP where it belongs. THEY did all this. Not Dems.

Correct. But some are now using Schumer's March stance as evidence for *this* round. Because *reasons*.

It also relies on some really gross opinions about Senate Dems in general like "they all secretly love Republicans" and it's like "they did the longest shutdown in US history, if they loved the GOP that much they could have just voted for cloture then."

What's wild to me is that people are somehow saying that Schumer totally orchestrated everything despite Jeffries specifically *not naming Schumer as the target of his frustration*. This is significant because *Jeffries specifically blamed Schumer for folding, in public, back in March*.