again, this actually *is* almost certainly a donor ask thing. i’m not defending it, but Slotkin is probably voting against hemp THC specifically at the request of the NY legal cannabis industry, which is a competitor to the synthetic hemp THC market

The Republican Party is not prepared for what comes next

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

What's demoralizing is watching people be like "I will take a thousand Ls before I let Chuck Schumer take a W" and then let Trump take Ws routinely, and then also being like "I'm a leftist btw"

A real-time clock

A quit button!

This is like the third "I Win Button" that was "buried in the deal" - why aren't senators and the media reading the shit they pass???

Shaheen's own daughter disavows the deal her mom struck lol

After our 7th failed round of IVF, I decided that I didn't want kids. Didn't want to upset my wife so kept my mouth shut and paid another round expecting it to fail. Daughters just turned one and is the absolute love of my life. Thank god I'm a conflict avoider

"When it comes to the issue of Palestinian rights going forward, I will say that the younger generation, of both Jews and non-Jews, take seriously the idea that we should have a principled, rights-based foreign policy— something I've long believed in" Senator Chris Van Hollen on Zohran & Palestine.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

welp

This. White people think democracy is instacart.

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

if I'm an ATC who took one measly sick day since it was fucking October and my kid had a cold I am *incandescent* over this.

Surprisingly good take by Jacobin

Just a reminder that even if/when SNAP benefits start flowing again, the crisis for food banks will not be over. They'll still have low inventory and many SNAP recipients will also be stocking up on items. And then you add on the typical holiday rush. The need will continue to be great.

Crowding more proteins per cytoplasm unit volume would hamper processes such as diffusion, which is already about ten fold slower inside the cell than in pure water. Source: book.bionumbers.org/what-is-the-...

Also Sanders's response to "hey are you going to withdraw your endorsement" was _really_ bad. He basically as much said the left is desperate for "real" working class candidates, so much so that they should tolerate a Nazi tattoo.

Yup. Primaries are fine, I have no problem with primaries, as long as everyone agrees to back the nominee in the end, even if it's one you don't want. Part of that is making sure potential nominees aren't maybe a Nazi maybe.

I think there's a balance between understanding that there are a lot of people who are hurt a lot the longer this goes on, and also 20 million odd people who are going to be kicked off their insurance, many of whom are going to just die. It is as if the Republicans are forcing an impossible choice.

The number of people responding to this with arguments that can be boiled down to, "they're fucked anyway, and should take one for the team*" pretty aptly demonstrates why I felt the need to say it in the first place. *even though I did not, and do no not, condone the current deal

Thank goodness some folks are being reasonable.

he really wants to pull a Reagan

I don't think anyone has to like Lin Manuel Miranda but hating him in such a conspicuous way is definitely a culturally-4chan shibboleth

And, importantly, learning from it instead of doing the electoral equivalent of blaming the controller (i.e.: the system is rigged, voting is pointless, etc.)

They think putting out a press statement, doing one little press conference today, and having pundits talk about it for a few hours this morning constitutes all the politics they need to do in order to win this situation. But they don’t get that they already lost it by being perceived as caving.

As much as I want to go "haha good riddance" I feel like we don't observe enough that he hasn't taken office yet, hasn't done anything, and that these billionaires all have ZDS and only independent media is challenging how unhinged it sounds. www.dailymail.co.uk/real-estate/...

Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly. Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer. Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.

This is why you treat splitters as radioactive.

Even foxtrot is dunking on the Dems

i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

I just gave $25 to @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social. My first Senate contribution of the cycle. Schumer wants Stevens to win because she'll go along with his cowardice. Mallory is a fighter. We need fighters.

The most Democrat consultant-brained piece of this was making it a procedural fight about ACA subsidies — that, if extended for a year, would help the GOP in the 2026 midterms anyway — instead of making it stand against Trump’s lawlessness and corruption. But that would require believing in things.

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.

Teaching the Trump administration that disrupting air travel gets them what they want would be a bad idea. They’d pull that lever again.

i obviously support the “primary them all” school of thought but, for the record, it’s going to require a more than that to *get* to the next primary for these people—who i assume took a hit for 2026 cycle dems anyways. primary them, yes, but these people really shouldn’t be able to eat in public.

People with the urge to respond “but that’s not true!” are 1) obviously wrong, 2) missing the point in either case

It's well past time to abolish the racist institution that is the United States Senate. The land could be better put to use expanding the House of Representatives. Or as a garbage dump.

Trump take beef

Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez joins The Weekend to discuss a recent arrest by ICE officers outside a Chicago daycare center. ICE is a terrorist organization.

doesn't make sense to me to cave on the shutdown over flight delays when the people cancelling flights are on TV saying "this is gonna hurt" and are republicans

Affordability and palatability are not bad things actually

please, my vibes…they’re shifting