Allies are pulling the plug. 🇨🇦🇳🇱🇲🇽🇬🇧. Canada, Netherlands, Mexico, and the UK have curbed or stopped sharing intel with Trump’s America. When your friends stop trusting you with secrets, you’re not leading the free world anymore you are the risk. #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Yeah, let this fucking lunatic out of prison.

Authoritarianism can only succeed when democracy fails to deliver for working people. Authoritarian parties can only succeed when the pro-democracy parties fail to fight for working people. We need a new democracy and a new party system which can represent working people.

So who is Aftyn Behn? This is one of the next big congressional races.

The rest of us feel the same way about Republican congressmen.

WATCH — @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social : “My amendment would redirect that $40 BILLION from Argentina to fund the ACA subsidies for two years… a far better use of taxpayer dollars.” Why do we have money for Argentina while our own people lose their health care? How does this make us great?

Soft secession Legislation creates a Federal Tax Escrow Account in the state treasury. Instead of employers forwarding collected federal taxes to Washington, they send them to the state. The state holds the money in escrow. A legislative panel reviews federal spending for constitutional compliance.

The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

Republican hacks are scheming to revoke NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's citizenship with zero evidence of lies on his 2018 app, experts confirm: it's a rare tool for Nazis and terrorists, not Muslim leaders. #Islamophobia

"It may not be much comfort for those bitter about what they see as a needless surrender. But there’s at least a chance that we’ll look back at this moment as a key turning point, one that produced a Democratic Party less willing to live on its knees." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Sean Duffy: "I can't guarantee safety"

No one is really talking about this Pardon abuse. Child-Rapist Trump has let it be known by these Pardons that anyone involved in Criminal activity can receive one if they donate money and swear fealty to him. It's as immoral an act as I've ever seen. It's revolting, Trump is revolting. VOTE people

🚨 NEW: ADP report: U.S. LOST an average of 11,000 jobs per week in October 2025. Let’s compare, shall we: In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000. From steady climb to sudden slide.

👉 What kind of people do others follow? People who they admire. 👉 What kind of people do others admire? People whom they want to be like. To admire someone is to want to be like them. @democrats.senate.gov Do people want to be like someone who caves all of them time? Do they want to be weak?

Agreed. They are also why the Dems' approval rating is at am all-time low. People want leaders who fight to the mat for them instead of compromising. And they admire strength, not weakness. No one admires folders; no one wants to be weak.

"A South Korean solar company says it will temporarily reduce pay and working hours for about 1,000 of its 3,000 employees in Georgia because U.S. customs officials have been detaining imported components needed to make solar panels."

Queen @crockett.house.gov @jasmineforus.bsky.social and king @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social ♥️😍🔄

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK. Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop. I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

1980: If Libs warn that Trickle-Down will ruin the Middle Class in 45 years, call them Commies. 2025: If your Middle-Class has been ruined, blame Libs.

Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.

Ketanji's smart play is another reason why those eight Democrats didn't have to cave to Republicans who were already under pressure from Trump to kill the filibuster.

New in PN: Marjorie Taylor Greene flees Trump's sinking ship "Whatever her motivation, it's clear MTG believes it's to her advantage to defy Trump in ways it was not before. Trump once seemed invincible; now being associated with him seems like a one-way ticket to electoral Siberia."

A lot of people who would rather be broke or have their businesses fail than an illegal immigrant get health care, to the point where they’ll accept the former when the latter isn’t even on the table www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

@shaheen.senate.gov Well played. This is why the Dems need new blood--people who fight instead of folding.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Some good news.

First of all, when has caving in worked?

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Well done, dipshits. You've managed to take an absolute blue wave of elections, a mandate, and piss it away in less than a week. AND, in ANOTHER win for donald trump: since eight Dems voting for it ends the shutdown it helps him "prove" that Dems were the ones controlling the shutdown. Well done.👍

The list of things being sacrificed for shareholder profit is endless. It’s literally everything that makes life worth living. And, of course, it’s life itself. Heartbreak & rage are the only rational responses.

Key questions that Dem primary voters have to ask candidates going forward: 👉 Do you believe that the GOP is a right-wing authoritarian movement? Why or why not? 👉 If yes, will you fight them to the mat or instead try to work with those same would-be authoritarians?

Respectfully, it’s not “centrists vs progressives.” That’s the old way of thinking. It’s “institutionalists/establishment” vs “populists/fighters.”

"By codifying key provisions of the Voting Rights Act into state law, strengthening protections against voter suppression and dilution, and modernizing election infrastructure, California can safeguard the inclusive democracy that other states are working to erode."

thehill.com/opinion/whit... Trump is not done. As unpopular as he is, he and his party are well aware that a fair election next year will herald the end of his reign of terror. No one builds a gilded palace with the intention of relinquishing it to their foes.

I called this one:

The Trump regime is looking for new ways to kill people.

GOP office holders fear the GOP base, and so do Dem office holders. No one fears the Democratic base. That needs to change.

Yet, dem leadership capitulates to the republicans

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

I am still livid about Shaheen's clueless statement. These are not normal times. This is not the time for business as usual. The GOP is a right-wing authoritarian movement. Explain that to your clueless, tuned-out constituents. @shaheen.senate.gov

#uspoli Ultimately my takeaway from the shutdown experience is this: Republicans are willing to kill a lot of people to maintain power. It is observably true and it is the only message the Dems should be making from now until the GOP crumbles.

We need to re-build the Democratic party so that it's filled with fighters, not folders!

Do not vote into office people who literally do not understand how negotiations work What an utter embarrassment Shaheen is to the entire state of New Hampshire

'Just before the Senate voted, Democratic congressman Ro Khanna called for Schumer to “be replaced”, saying he was “no longer effective”. “If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?”' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective,” according to a poll that finds considerable pessimism within Democratic ranks.

imagine being a democratic party leader and thinking, ‘we really should side with the guy they’re booing’ simply masterful

Democratic party: we must spend billions to find out what the people want. The people: (loudly and clearly, through the very process the Democratic Party set up) We want this. Democratic party: we must spend billions to fight this.

primary every democrat