Vote Republican 2026: “We starved children & blocked air travel in order to double your insurance premiums”

Schumer responded on the Senate floor today:“For this administration to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to get out of having to pay SNAP benefits for hungry kids is pathological levels of vindictiveness. This crisis is in the administration’s hands. It’s all them, not anyone else.” C-SPAN

Mamdani wasn’t running in Mississippi, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia or Jersey…Progressives win where there are progressives…Moderates win where there are moderates…folks who represent their constituents win races…one size doesn’t fit all…and all that matters is if that 70yr old can win! Geez…🙄

What we're not going to do is ignore the Black Women's excellence from Tuesday's elections.

The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...

Republicans shut down the government 39 days ago. The last time Mike Johnson held a vote in the House was September 19—50 days ago. Republicans refuse to come to work and reopen the government.

Whoa whoa whoa. Let's never call the medics too quickly.

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Trump had an incident and just danced around to YMCA for half an hour and the press covered it as “that zany Trump, he’s at it again!”

My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free

Doesn't really work that way but even if it did, no

"From where I’m sitting, that’s why Justice Jackson [...] ruled herself here—rather than allowing the full Court to overrule her. It drastically increases the odds of the full Supreme Court resolving this issue by the end of next week—one way or the other."

We’ve been talking about needing to reinstate shame among the elites. This is part of the work: associate them with the concept of shame, and then kick their asses in the public square, so acting shamefully looks like loserdom. Also, the Obamaspeak is so weird.

Hell yeah Developing a fall back option of camping on Senator Foghorn Leghorn's front lawn when I get foreclosed on, I am a constituent after all

I understand what he's saying, some people are exaggerating by saying "we're already living under a totalitarian regime". That is ridiculous. But our executive branch is led by fascists who want to make us more fascist, and it's far from clear the other two branches will effectively resist.

Of course the Roberts et al could choose to extend the admin stay or, more likely, will just straight up stay McConnell’s order before KBJ’s deadline passes. But she did what she could to control the process tonight and let CA1 put its reasoning on the record before Roberts et al disregard it.

Get fucked, fascists.

This isn't Trump, he's checked out mentally. This is Stephen Miller unable to accept reality, not to mention decency or appearances.

Matt do you think it’s possible that Schumer made the same offer that Johnson rejected before knowing full well that Johnson would reject it yet again, thereby drawing attention to Johnson’s deliberate choice to jack up healthcare costs.

It's already been rejected but it's genuinely wild to see people calling a proposed deal that consisted of DEMOCRATS GETTING THE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DEMANDING a cave.

And we're good fiscal stewards while taking care of people. Republicans run states into the ground, then blame the Democrats.

Palestinians have absolutely the worst "allies" in the world.

This is just stupid. They just used healthcare and affordability issues to absolutely blow the R's out of the water and the point is "Oh we don't trust that they can use them in a campaign?"

This has not gotten much attention, but it should. Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE. Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

The best argument for replacing Schumer is that he's lost the confidence of the caucus, and I thought that might have been true in March, but surprisingly, that doesn't appear to be the case

I don't think people fully realize how brutal a vise Republicans are in now. If they cave tomorrow Democrats get all the credit for giving people healthcare. If they somehow bypass the filibuster they get a year plus of headlines about ripping people's healthcare away.

republicans rejected this offer almost *immediately*, schumer knew that's what they would do, and now schumer can go back to fed unions, governors, and the caucus and say, in all honesty and good faith, "look, we're trying everything we can here, the republicans are completely unreasonable"

schumer's audience for this isn't bluesky, it's caucus moderates, state governors, and federal worker unions who might be getting shaky about holding the line, and it worked, at least with the caucus mods, who showed up for this in solidarity.

New guidance from USDA says they will administer full SNAP benefits. However, less than 45 minutes ago, the Attorney General tweeted about asking for a stay on the order forcing full benefits. Seems weird to send this guidance if they’re hoping for a stay by 4pm.

There is no purpose to doomerism. We have one path forward to abolishing ICE: electing enough Democrats who support that platform to make it a political reality. There is no revolution coming, no one is going to firebomb all the ICE offices, and third parties don't work in FPTP.

This is demonstrably wrong because ICE wasn't doing this under the Biden Administration! Like, one year ago there were no mobs of masked federal thugs disappearing people off the streets. You do not have to think that Biden was perfect to understand the difference between his policy and Trump's!

If we had a functioning Congress and executive branch not run by criminals and ghouls, we could probably use that power to ensure that every datacenter buildout had to have a corresponding *and preexisting* buildout of green energy to power it! But we don't! Because people wanted to punish Dems!

I find it interesting that with all the shit this administration does we have people on this site, specificially attacking Hakeem Jeffries, and ONLY Hakeem Jeffies. He doesn't have a majority, and can't command the House Agenda like Mike Johnson can. But he might. Is that what scares you?

Amazing. Just last night, I told my wife I felt isolated. And she said, “Honey, it’s lonely when you are close to the edge of imagination— when you have a deep belief in your own power to create new realities. This is *exactly* where real change begins.”

Shutdowns hurt people and it will be good news when the government reopens. But it is vital that Congress also address both the looming massive spike in health care costs for 20M *and* deliver a funding deal that the President can’t undo the parts he just doesn’t like. 🧵

My nana hat won't let me say what I'm really thinking, but here's what you miserable crooks need to hear: Get serious. Negotiate with Democrats. Reopen the government. Pay federal workers. Save health care.

Posting this for no reason.

I loved this observation/conversation between the Davids on this week’s @the-downballot.com podcast. Whereas so many elite institutions have caved to Trump in the face of his threats this year, it is the PEOPLE who have consistently stood up to him, whether as voters, protesters, or even jurors.

We have a couple open question slots on our November Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll. If anyone has a question they've been wanting to ask, thread it here!

institutional investors really need to start planning to divest from this company, if the consumer rubes want to pay him a trillion dollars to keep driving the company into the ground, let them drown

Sen. Jacky Rosen: "Donald Trump is in charge of the White House. He's actually Speaker of the House these days, as he alleges himself. And he's pretty much in control of the Senate. He could stop this shutdown right now...But he's choosing to inflict the most pain possible."

When the shakedowns just start happening in public. $NVO

It’s been 45 days since @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social won her election. She would be the necessary tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files. Mike Johnson needs to stop hiding and swear her in.

Trump and far-right Republicans are unlawfully denying SNAP benefits to millions of children and veterans. The American people have had enough. And Democrats continue to fight back. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Instead of Bernie Moreno creepily following us to the cars we use to get to work in the Capitol and writing down their VIN numbers, I'd suggest he use his time in more productive ways …

In a major victory, a court has ordered the Trump administration to send full November SNAP benefits by tomorrow.   I'm relieved that people will get the food they need, but it's outrageous that it took a lawsuit to make the federal government feed its own people.

Kamala wouldn't have done this.

What is the process for that?! An election. The line of succession has no Democrats. They will run through his administration that is how it goes and eventually we land on Stephen Miller. There is no scenario where he and everyone is removed by Congress and a Dem put in place. Let's be realistic.