I will repost all Plato cave references. That is a promise that I almost certainly can’t keep but let’s just imagine it dancing on the wall nonetheless.

Random people in their pajamas risking tear gas, pepper spray, & beatings to protect their neighbors, organizers & volunteers turning out massive election results & these fuckers still trying to play politeness into gentlemen's aggreements with the other fuckers calling them terrorists on TV

reactions to this one are wild folks. members cave over personal inconvenience! it happens time and again. hope it doesn’t happen here! But it’s just contrary to history to say it doesn’t happen.

At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time. Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.

Yes. How do Dem electeds not understand this dynamic? After all these years?

My friend hates that that I fold pages in books to mark my place so he gave me these space-themed bookmarks 🥹

I suppose it’s something to imagine that in addition to being yelled at by us they are also being yelled at by House reps, some of whom probably have their real phone numbers

@pfrazee.com the new auto-mod feature that supposedly hides the bad replies missed this bigoted garbage and somehow only managed to hide replies that were critical of bluesky mods weird. almost as if auto-mod hiding replies is nonsense nobody asked for

First off, I think it's important that we establish that literally everything you said here is false. There's no such thing as 'being illegal,' if there was it wouldn't make anyone 'deserve' anything because laws aren't about what you deserve, and none of what you said is absolute, undeniable, etc.

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

i do not care about "the future of the democratic party" as discussed by professional-class bozos who cannot see beyond their next client. i care about not living under a military occupation that is disappearing my neighbors

They’re really gonna bail this guy out

if the Dems cave we are just going to have to do a whole uprising of a new political party whose whole message is FUCK Y'ALL and starts repairing the injustices and feeding people.

now PBS. congressional reporters using exact same language to jam the deal through on behalf of lawmakers, i guess? it’s the job of the press to count votes and say if a bill has enough yeas. weird to launder this support through before it’s clear with NO sourcing info. sloppy journalism.

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Because of the drama with the PM in Australia, I dug up this article from 10 years ago and learned A TON www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015-...

Why does chuck schumer still have a job?

Call them!! Please!!! If you are in New Hampshire call them and let them know that under NO circumstances will you EVER vote for them again if they sell out the ACA to appease Schumer and Trump!

Keep up the pressure folks. The folders are getting screamed at and realizing there won't be a shred of cover.

chuck schumer isn’t out of touch. he’s a collaborator.

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Dealer: alright everyone ante up Chuck Schumer: I fold Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏

cool, yet more health policy-related impacts of the airline industry (the other biggest one i'm thinking of is lobbying our government to declare the covid pandemic over, even though / resulting in the fact that now long covid is more common in kids than asthma... plus its impact on climate change).

Living above a Costco??? A better world is possible

Watching Matt Walsh get eaten alive by the Nazi wing of the Republican party is something else.

Universal health care would avoid so much of this bullshit

Trump has made clear that he will not spend money apportioned by congress if he doesn't like it, and he will spend money *not* apportioned by congress if he feels like it, SCOTUS has made clear that they'll let him, there is zero incentive to give *any* kind of deal to him!

imagine getting shown up by Hakeem fucking Jeffries

Something something shitty tweet about firebombing Walmart

Help a disabled trans lesbian afford food if you can. Anything helps.

Instead of lowering costs, this will send money to companies that manage Health Flex accounts. They’ll make it hard to use and then keep what you don’t spend, driving up private profits instead of using the money to pay for your health care.

This plan I’m reading about will jack up the cost of healthcare, and provide a limited amount of money that if not used correctly will turn into pure profit for the companies managing it. Insurance and HSA accounts get more $$$ and Americans get less healthcare. Disastrous capitulation by Dems.

John Fetterman’s memoir comes out on Tuesday, so if the phone calls don’t work you can always tell him how you feel while he’s on book tour.

we gotta make these book signings completely unprofitable for the hosts and publishers. (not that fetterman wasn't already looking for his chance to cave to the GOP, of course.)

This is pretty shitty comms work by whoever is distributing this as it's pretty clear a) it's from the same source and b) as of the talking point distribution, they don't have enough votes (yet).

Mitch McConnel's singular political insight is that Presidents get punished for Congressional obstinancy and he used that insight to get the Right an unbreakable majority on the Supreme Court, so of course Chuck Schumer's iteration on it is to proactively let democrats take blame after tangible harm

Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.

That's literally it.

For years, I’ve criticized the Democratic Party. This is why. Not due to hate, but out of love for the working class. This version of the Democratic Party at the federal level has enabled a genocide, refused to hold a robust primary in 2024, and is now caving on healthcare. 1/2

Take a fucking bus you cowards

How long will we be hijacked by centrists, cowards and Chuck Schumer?

I logged off to play video games and came back to the dumbest fucking idea I’ve ever heard

the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years

The curse of being a radical with an accurate sober analysis of the system is that you're always right too early and the moderates will never forgive that.

It's pretty clear some of them think they're going to cruise to reelection blaming the GOP for ACA issues and oh boy are the primaries gonna be rough for them.