I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis. And make health insurance affordable. The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too. I'm voting no.

Were these Dem senators in a coma last Tuesday?

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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.

@smith.senate.gov and @amyklobuchar.com No healthcare, no deal.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

The government is shut down, but it’s 1986 in the White House (or whatever year Strawberry was on The Apprentice). Imagine being worried that Joe Biden was the senile one. Sweet Jesus, we’re fucked.

Are we invading Poland

An absolutely brutal read. AI companies have speed run America’s regulatory dysfunction and have already arrived at gun-manufacturer levels of immunity. We are in grave danger. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.

If you're reading this now, the odds that you'll one day in the future find yourself explaining what libraries *were* to a child are getting better by the minute. www.statenews.org/government-p...

Ohio, until recent memory, had some of the most consistently funded libraries in the country. Republicans seem determined to destroy them at all costs.

Any future America worth a damn will insist ICE be taught extensively in schools. Old people will tell kids how close we came to a societal precipice when we tolerated masked secret police invading schools to detain teachers. We'll remember what we saw—or else. 19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...

Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Think of this story when you read that Dems are somehow out of touch and too focused on gender and LGBTQIA+ issues and thus they lose elections. In truth, the GOP is so obsessed with these issues that they're harming straight, cis men in their zeal to torment queer folks.

Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn partnered with Greenlight Bookstore to host Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (r.) to celebrate the launch of her YA book, We Can Be Brave: How We Learn to Be Brave in Life’s Decisive Moments, adapted by Rev. Bryan Bliss. Joining Budde was Cornelius Minor.

We are so honored to host Bishop Budde at People's Book this Saturday at 4pm in conversation with @robertpjones.bsky.social - we could all use some guidance on bravery in the face of bullies and how to navigate this period of injustice. RSVP at peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/be-bra...

I'm so honored and excited to be a part of this event on Saturday! If you're in the DC area, hope you'll come join us at @peoplesbooktakoma.com.

This is a four-alarm fire for democracy. It is plainly illegal. I do not support troops who accept payment from an unnamed “friend” of the president. At that moment, it seems to me, they cease to be part of the US military and become something quite different.

There is basically no limit to the money we'll spend and the trauma we'll inflict on children in our determination to preserve the utter ubiquity of guns.

A priest, a rabbi & a former federal prosecutor walk into a...podcast to talk about their books. It's great listening! I'm 3rd up & so glad I had the opportunity to learn about great books by Episcopal Prelate Mariann Edgar Budde & Rabbi Angela Buchdahl penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/this-is-the-...

The headline is too credulous. There’s no reason to believe he’s even striking cartel targets.

Somebody recut this with "The Ballroom Blitz" (any version).

Democrats can just run this clip as an ad

This whole thread!!! "This isn't about enrollment or fiscal responsibility. This is about a private university caving to political pressure while refusing to be transparent with its own faculty. And it's happening through a deliberate violation of shared governance principles."

I heard a podcast ad this morning for a product companies can buy to manage the risk of their AI agents going rogue. I hate it here.

It's bribery and corruption, a protection racket. But another way to describe money given to the government under threat of punishment is taxation, here imposed unilaterally and arbitrarily by the executive without the legislature. Ship money is the analogy, if you're up on 17th C. English history.

🧵I want more electeds to push back hard on the idea that funding the ballroom with "donations" somehow makes it OK. Funding an addition to the White House with private donations is WORSE than taxpayer funding. We should be MORE angry because of this, not less. 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago More than 210 mostly Chicago-area clergy, representing a range of liberal and conservative traditions, have signed a letter criticizing ICE titled ‘Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview.’ #ImmigrationJustice

Why do they keep saying shit like this? What is it about AI that makes CEOs lose their minds. There are so many of these outrageous claims—from Musk to the Anthropic jackass to this guy. They are NEVER right.

So the economy is terrible except for spending on AI, a technology whose merits are entirely unproven and whose loudest advocates include a man on a lecture tour about the Antichrist and a president who uses AI to make memes of himself shitting on Americans. At least Tulip Mania had flowers.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

If you need a shot of righteous adrenaline on a Monday, I highly recommend @malindalo.bsky.social's acceptance speech from the Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards. The whole ceremony is now online, but here's Malinda's speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5aD...

If you're in Alabama and can, the state library discrimination services are holding a public hearing tomorrow about banning all "trans" books from those under 18 in libraries state-wide. gulfcoastmedia.com/stories/apls...

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

Episcopal Bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde joins Morning Joe to discuss her book for young readers 'We Can Be Brave: How We Learn to Be Brave in Life's Decisive Moments'.

Backstage at #NoKings DC with Bishop Budde, one of the most courageous leaders in our country to confront the would-be king to his face. ❌👑

The leak of vile text messages from a Young Republicans group chat is just one example of the hatred festering within the party. Despite their contempt, Bishop Mariann Budde reminds us that we must hold onto dignity, respect, and love. Her full interview is now on Substack.

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

There are no good people in the engineering department at Tesla.

Bishop Mariann Budde talks about her new book for kids 😍❤️💙😍❤️😍 www.instagram.com/reel/DPuWjlV...

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

A brutal attack on a pastor outside an ICE processing center tells us all we need to know about the administration's regard for religious freedom and protection. My new @msnbc.com column >> www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Listen to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social as he welcomes back Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, author of #HowWeLearnToBeBrave, to the show for a fruitful conversation.

This is amazing news and a win for the freedom to read. And I want to add that it was students who first told me of my book being pulled and who led the effort to petition the board. What a testament to the power of young people and collective action. And thanks @heykellyjensen.bsky.social!

They restored all the titles & I want to point out that the reasoning was (stars are mine lol): "... and in light of the *****overwhelming feedback from our community****** the Georgia HRRB State Steering Committee has voted to reinstate all 20..." so, BE LOUD AS HELL & PROTECT THE RIGHT TO READ

EVERY BOOK BANNED FROM THE READING BOWL HAS BEEN RESTORED!!!!! The kids will be able to read and compete over all 20 books. Raising the issue made a difference. Teen advocates made a difference. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

White conservative men in their 20s and beyond are ALWAYS "kids." Meanwhile actual Black children are always dangerous and fit to be shot on sight by police.

“This is also why we’re trying to fire anyone who made fun of Charlie Kirk or posted his own words verbatim.”