So the ACA vote they were promised seems…redundant now? Feels like Dems who struck the deal are only gonna be able to make their secondary defense: that they believed the shutdown wasn't going to shift Republicans — despite the narrative for the GOP getting worse — and were worried about the harms.

At least everyone is united in thinking the Democrats made a dumb move.

www.thirdway.org/press/statem... when ya lose Third Way …

Talked to @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @monicapotts.bsky.social about the shutdown deal substack.com/@newrepublic...

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

Anti-Vax Facebook Groups Ushered in Our Current MAHA Nightmare  talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/anti-...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Also I would say very many Americans are already living in a chaotic country and some senators cannot stand for that chaos to remotely touch them.

It is weird to put so much importance on social media while simultaneously dismissing it.

Yes. This is how insurance works.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...

The whole time I was doing a substack live this morning my cat Eek was trying to walk across my desk in front of the camera. Now that it's over she's asleep on her cat tree like "My work here is done."

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.

Yes it will be the Republicans fault regardless. They passed the bills that failed to extend the enhanced subsidies

🚨The second #SchumerSurrender is now pretty much complete.

“Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani”

JUST IN: Katie Wilson cuts Bruce Harrell's lead by more than half with today's ballot drop, cutting her deficit from 9908 votes to 4300 votes. She won today's batch of 55,952 ballots by 10%; that's *more* than she needed to win the outstanding ballots by. Over 50K ballots left to count in Seattle.

That large numbers of people believe it isn’t possible to know what is actually happening in the world = a crisis for democracy

Over the past few months I traveled to Minneapolis and Seattle and relied on buses to some extent to get around and buses are amazing and I want more of them. I'm near a small city of about 60,000 that has a bus system and I desperately want a bus stop to come up near me.

“Why won’t the mayor of New York allow me to try and browbeat him into betraying his base?!”

Pure 🔥🔥🔥from Sen. Rosen: "This is a Republican shutdown...You are in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate. If you went home to a food bank instead of going to Mar-A-Lago...while people are starving, you might see and hear your constituents. You are blind to the suffering."

It's also almost the exact amount Republicans cut Medicaid by earlier this year

Tomorrow marks the first time the federal government has failed to release a jobs report two months in a row. Without these data, unemployment insurance claims provide the most up-to-date read on the labor market. As the shutdown drags on, continued UI claims by federal workers hits 30k. #EconSky

It appears that Donald Trump’s angry social media posts have once again landed him in hot water in the courts: The judge said the president and his allies had openly admitted they were withholding funding for SNAP benefits for “political reasons.” trib.al/MCRjhI1

The next president should campaign on demolishing the tacky changes made to the White House with their bare hands and documenting it all on social media so we can cheer.

Easy answer: no

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Apparently they are blaming Democrats for their math error: newrepublic.com/post/202805/...

Maybe if Democrats keep talking about affordability, they will gain voters' trust on economic issues. My latest @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2027...

We are not the frogs in the pot any longer open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

A year after the GOP dominated the elections, the victories of Spanberger, Sherrill, and Mamdani (to name only a few) are important indicators of the state of the Democratic Party. trib.al/ZMZ6imJ TNR's @alexshephard.bsky.social & @monicapotts.bsky.social on Right Now With @perrybaconjr.bsky.social

One thing I used to hear a lot from evangelicals is this idea that acknowledging or participating in other religious rituals, even as a guest, somehow conflicts with their own faith. Like they weren't sure about doing yoga. It's...extreme.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.

NEW: Judge Gettleman just ordered ICE to improve "serious conditions" inside its Broadview facility in Chicago. Yesterday, people testified in court that they were crammed into overcrowded and filthy cells for days, with little access to lawyers, and pressured into deportation.

help

Again a plea: turnout was much lower this year than last year across the board. Democrats were much more motivated to turn out. So Democrats won by bigger margins in part because they were a bigger part of a smaller total.

Just to note that many voters think this man is masculine because he is mean, which shows you how a certain set defines masculine.

Rochester, NY used to have a subway and truly I think of this all the time.

Please: You cannot compare an off-year like 2025 to a midterm or presidential election year. Turnout is much, much lower. Even when turnout sets records, those records are compared to similar off year elections, like 2021 and 2017.

So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways. econbrowser.com/archives/202...

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

WOW. A federal judge says he's going to issue a Temporary Restraining Order requiring ICE to make changes at the Broadview facility in Chicago, a facility that until January was only for stays under 12 hours "absent exceptional circumstances," but has become, in Judge Gettleman's words, "a prison."