Like health care and groceries, working families can’t afford Chuck Schumer’s bullshit at this moment in time.

I hate poll-based arguments like this because shutdowns flat-out suck for anyone who needs federal services (i.e. all of us), and especially for the working poor. The polls were favorable, but even setting the political math aside, any deal that continues to fuck over workers isn’t worth making.

Over the past few months I’ve moved from “Schumer should retire at the end of his term” to “Schumer should step down from leadership at the end of this Congress” to “Schumer should step down from leadership immediately” to “Schumer should resign at the end of this Congress” to “Jesus fuck, man.”

I’m just saying, has anyone checked to make sure Tim Kaine didn’t place a prop bet on this?

Many fools have bought magic beans, but it takes a special sort of chump to buy them on layaway like this.

Yes, Mr. President: You’re right. We do have “the worst health care” of any major country. Despite spending twice as much per capita, we are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all as a human right. The solution: Medicare for All.

The thing is, no, we’re not. I’d like it if we could be “laser-focused on affordability,” but we’re not taking our eyes off of DHS terrorizing our people, and Trump’s rampant corruption, and the administration’s murderous foreign and military policy, etc. It all keeps us busy, cause it all matters.

The Heritage Foundation’s staff revolt over its leadership’s coddling of Nazis was fun to watch this week, but remember that this travesty didn’t threaten their team unity. Nobody said this was their dealbreaker. This was fine. This was normal. This was just Heritage doing its thing.

Okay, so here’s my problem: I can’t justify renewing my WaPo subscription given what Bezos has done to it. I have subscriptions to my two local/regional papers (Hearst CT and the Courant). I need an option with national/intl coverage and a not-shitty editorial page. Who’s still in the running?

Subway: Beat Fash!

•Elected in 2023 with 5,138 votes •Sued Trump and Musk •Budgeted for working families •Built new housing •Fought ICE •Defended abortion rights •Opened new parks •Re-elected on Tuesday with 7,761 votes, more than twice my closest opponent Stand up for folks, and they’ll stand with you.

He’s gone full Duke!

Not hanging on for the sake of power at the expense of progress, or waiting until just before a filing deadline to ensure an annointed successor, but accepting that this chapter of a storied career has reached a natural conclusion, and entering the next one with grace and dignity. This is the way.

So, how long until Cuomo and Anthony Weiner start the “Andy and Tony” podcast?

I don’t think I’ll be supporting candidates who won’t clearly call for abolishing ICE in 2026. That’s looking like it might be my litmus test.

Mamdani didn’t come to play school.

Arise! Commuters from your slumbers Arise! Ye riders of the bus For halal should now be 8 or under And the subways are free for us!

To the more than 7,300 people who gave me their support tonight, THANK YOU!! I am honored to continue serving Manchester on the Board of Directors for another two years. Forward Together!

It’s called “public policy,” which leads to bills called “public acts.” If you had a plan, you wouldn’t keep it private.

Remembering this today as we learn that Dick Cheney has finally finished his descent. www.c-span.org/video/?c4545...

That was a beautiful series

TFW you get a mailer from your Republican opponent railing against things he voted for.

He STILL hasn’t sworn in Grijalva!

As I was saying. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I was just thinking about which ADA was gonna have an uncomfortable conversation with their boss today. (My guess is it was all of them.)

The Guild fights back. ✊🏼

We don’t hear anything from Republicans about how Donald Trump makes more money in public office than in private life, and that sure seems telling.

It doesn’t make us safer, richer, freer, or holier. It just makes us assholes. Donald Trump’s vision for America right there.

I often wonder what the last book he read was, and I usually decide it was the first twenty pages of The Da Vinci Code.

If this really was a late decision to do a full demo after weeks of promising construction would have zero impact on the East Wing, then there’s no chance that routine asbestos checks were done, and those workers have potentially been exposed. www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org/newsroom/blo...

That time of day when I switch from PG Tips to Twinings.

He tore down the White House because he has bad ideas, shitty impulse control, a legendary narcissistic personality disorder, and the most pathetic staff imaginable. He also has control of a massive nuclear arsenal. Seems worth noting.

I’m a councilmember in a New England city of 60,000. If he stays on budget—which he won’t, but let’s pretend for a moment—Donald Trump will still spend more than our city’s entire annual budget on this illegal vanity project.

FWIW Platner hasn’t paused his fundraising ads on Meta yet.

“Well before”

I respect that people can change their minds and hearts. None of us is perfect and doing the work to get better is admirable. But I’m personally gonna stick with my “people who get Nazi tattoos shouldn’t write laws” philosophy.

I had thought for a few years before this last Conclave that Cupich was the most likely candidate to be the first American Pope, and this is why.

It’s just wild that, over only three weeks, the Republicans have shut down the federal government, started sham prosecutions of political opponents, and demolished the actual fucking White House.

Of all the kings to choose from, why are they so committed to Caligula?

No Kings Hartford is massive! We’re on both sides of the Capitol.

So is that better or worse than being “deplorable”?

The core ethos of MAGA is that, if the opposition isn’t perfect, that gives license to be outright wicked.

I’ve now tried to stop Janet Mills fundraising texts THREE TIMES today, and they just keep coming.

“We wanted to negligently kill him by not treating an entirely different life-threatening condition!” is not the defense they think it is.

It would be wildly irresponsible to vote for this $914 billion budget in any context. That’s ridiculously high by any objective standard.

I had someone tell me in utter earnestness yesterday that he believed our city spent $50 million a decade ago on renovating a building that’s been empty for 15 years. I thought that was the stupidest numerical miss I would see all week. I was wrong.

I know about this one Antifa girl—her dad was a mayor who didn’t like the administration—who totally trashed her college by flinging a bunch of radical literature all over the place. Bet Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi would like to have a chance to give her some Trump Justice.

I would love to have one of them!