how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

I'm laughing here over the level of cowardice shown by the most powerful people in the nation.

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...

Senate Dems are out here posting noise like "omg the Senate GOP just voted against healthcare subsidies and are trying to sneak a bunch of terrible shit into the funding bill" — and people are flooding their mentions with "bitch, please, GTFOH" Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum

they have never *not* betrayed everyone. using the word "if" here reveals just how either a) naive and unsuitable for office you are or b) complicit (and unsuitable for office) you are.

My insurance company revoked authorization for a surgery after I had it. I was on the hook for $60,000 I didn't have until they admitted they screwed up. Guess I should have negotiated better terms.

- the GOP in the Senate aren't getting to 60 votes on subsidies - if they somehow do Mike will just ignore it - if you try to message to this website that subsidy relief is still *actually* possible despite these two facts, you're just making (stupid) base voters more pissy at you for no reason

When one of your PTSD triggers is emergency lights and a cop parks right in front of the Starbucks you're sitting in with them on.

Can Aggies be allowed to enjoy anything at all for 48 hours without the school embarrassing us on a national level?

“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history. That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.

BREAKING: Elon offered Schumer a Grok AI chat sexbot of The Baileys so he could finally live out his fantasies and Chuck reopened the government

"We shall give up on the beaches, we give up on the landing grounds, we shall give up in the fields and in the streets, we shall give up in the hills; we shall never not surrender!"

This would have been a huge victory for the Democrats if they had only waited one more damn night.

Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care Trump: No Schumer: Okay

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

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.

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

Senator Schumer has failed to lead this party in one of its most critical moments, and Americans will pay the price. It’s time for him to step down from leadership and make way for a new generation willing to fight for the people instead of the powerful.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

That regular people continue to show up immediately, every time and place there has been a reason... not because they know it will work, but because they believe it matters to try... is a huge comfort

Them doing it right after a barnstorm of an election day (and very obviously as a result of being personally inconvenienced by flight problems) is spitting directly and unignorably in everyone's face

I said this in the summer and it’s still true.

I was a third party voter for most of my life. The Democrats lost me with DOMA and did not regain me until the threat of Trump necessitated voting for the Democrats. I no longer have a valid argument for supporting the Democrats given their unwillingness to fight him.

talk about disenfranchising your own voters i think the majority of us on here have all been working in some capacity to elect democrats believing they would represent us what's happening right now is a capitulation to not only the republicans but corporate interests truly...f*&k is all i can say

My red line has always been lowering health costs for Americans. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t want an agreement that meets that bar. I’m a no.

This moment demands fighters, not folders.

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

If Mitch McConnell could still understand things he'd be laughing so hard at what the Democrats are considering

This is all infuriating but we did still win all those elections, the *PEOPLE* are still furious and ready to act, and nothing the senate dems do can change that.

Watching everyone calling their senators but you're a Texan.

Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare. I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”

THE MARKET IS ALREADY OPEN AND DECEMBER 15 IS THE DEADLINE FOR JANUARY COVERAGE. What the hell is wrong with them?

With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”

We haven't had a regime this evil in charge of the United States in at least 125 years.

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

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

I saw someone on my timeline shaming someone else for posting about college football in a time like this. Folks, if we're going to survive a time like this, we're going to need to avoid burning out from an attitude of 24/7 vigilance and constant outrage. Let people find joy where they can, please.

FAKE PUNT YES

We can absolutely trick him into funding the ACA simply by lying to him about what it's called.

Say what you will about democratic socialists but at least they made the trans run on time.

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

I am so proud of this newsletter title. A summary of Trump's court losses this week and Democrats' election victories. buttondown.com/TrumpReport/...