Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

Based on the texts I am getting from my mom rn, yeah the Dems are massively underestimating how utterly enraged this is going to make um everybody.

I was just reading this to distract myself so this feels especially grimly apt

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

One (1) senator allowed to remain.

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

They are caving in exchange for the pinky promise of doomed vote in 40 days. They have the political instincts of drywall. This is un-fucking-believable.

So Democrats get: 1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays 2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail 3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts Those all seem like wins for the GOP.

Cannot even cope with thinking about the healthcare stuff (and can’t stop thinking about it) as someone with copious health conditions/disabilities. This is so EVIL

I told my Senators that the message Senate Dems are sending is that if we vote for Democrats resoundingly in an election, they’ll promptly fold. Is this what they want us to take from this?

However bad you think Schumer is, he is worse prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

Have R senators? (Like me?) Call Schumer’s office to tell him you will never donate to another D senate campaign again as long as he’s Senate leader. Tell him this deal is a shameful joke and a betrayal. (202) 224-6542

Voicemail got cut off while I was berating Schumer for his shameful behavior… enjoy I guess!!!!!

One of the first stories I ever wrote for money was for a trade magazine called Dermatology Business Management. It was a feature on FSA/HSA back when they were new. Every public health person I talked to was like "bad idea, also badly designed." That was like 20 years ago.

Claiming that getting a vote destined to fail as a win is an insult to everyone’s intelligence

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

I would not say the voicemails I just left for Wyden and Merkley were particularly charming or articulate but I do think my panic was clear, as a freelancer who only has access to healthcare at all because the ACA exists

Very pleased that @rollingstone.com is running an excerpt of WITHOUT CONSENT today, focusing on the making and impact of a 1980 television movie on the Rideout case featuring a young Linda Hamilton and Mickey Rourke.

Even the corporatist Hill reporters are gobsmacked by how complete @schumer.senate.gov's collapse is: "And this does absolutely zero on Obamacare. The most Democrats get is a Senate vote. After 40 days."

There is no mystery here. Social media gave a voice to people of colour to criticise white people's descriptions of them in literature, and the establishment tried to bully the critics into silence, and make them sorry for speaking up, so they can continue to write what they damn well like.

It shows that the criticial Goodreads review had gone largely unnoticed, that many couldn't stomach the book privately, but didn't feel able to speak up (how right they were), until Clanchy poured petrol on the review, set it alight for everyone to see, and then blamed everyone else for the fire.

Once again, the vast majority of Americans have no idea how much their government does for them daily (Not targeted at the OP- agreeing w/ their point)

Paging the ghost of M. R. James…

So many of you people who have read Moby-Dick are like “he goes on and on about whales interminably” and yet somehow everyone still manages to undersell the degree to which this book is just Melville’s obsessive collection of Whale Facts.

it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance

Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates: -100% Washington state -100% Michigan -100% California -Partial Illinois -Partial North Carolina -1/2 Vermont (Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

Here's all ten of the movies we reviewed on this ep, btw. Speaking of Ben Whishaw, Claire made a VERY strong case to watch Peter Hujar's Day as soon as it comes out. Sounds amazing!!!

Always wary of getting too invested in any political figure, but Mamdani does so many great things here. He crouches down so they're speaking face-to-face. He repeats every question back. Not because he doesn't understand (clearly he does) but to make sure he's actually answering their question.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

as someone estranged from her dad it genuinely moves me how close these two clearly are. the videos are so funny but he is so happy to just do whatever to entertain her. sincerely moves me

If I was working at the Times (would never happen lol) I would be talking to my women colleagues and perhaps outside counsel about whether this constitutes a Title VII violation.

It Happened To Me: my grocery order from Whole Foods is currently sitting on my mom's porch in Massachusetts

[Goose meme] Ruin the workplace for who RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????

yeah, take us back to the good old days when women could only be secretaries and assistants, were routinely sexually harassed by men, and left the workplace as soon as they got married/became pregnant, because the good Lord knows our job is COOKING AND MAKING BABIES, Ross!

I honestly have no words

Many wonderful recs here from my exact era of childhood reading… I’m sorry but things WERE better (I say with literally zero evidence)

What pernicious framing: makes some snake oil cures seem credible, does not quote one single autistic person. That a special ed teacher was so obsessed with “fixing” her kids says a lot about what a dire state we’re in on this subject: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

@cctranslates.bsky.social somehow missed that you did both The Lack of Light and Darkenbloom — two of my favorites this year! Bravo bravo, excited to read whatever is next (and go back and read The Eighth Life!)

Low-key the best part of this is that he is addressing the Illinois Federation of teachers

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

—NY Dems flip Onondaga County & Dutchess County legislature, first in decades —Dem mayors in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincy... —Seattle GOP city attorney trails big —MN Dems defend state Senate —Dems flip legislative seats in MS —Dems defend swing legislative seats in NY, WA

—Coloradoans fund free school meals —JD's half-brother loses —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, Bucks DA + sheriff —PA Dems oust all GOPers from Bucks school boards once ground 0 of conservative takeover —Charlotte approves transit tax —Dems flip CT towns like New Britain. (And that's not all!)