We are being led by absolute cowards

This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?

I just called my reps to Demand a Strong Deal to End the Government Shutdown (UPDATED 11/9) - DEAL ADVANCED BY SENATE — you should too: 5calls.org/issue/federa...

Trump will claim he alone SAVED healthcare SUBSIDIES and slam the Democrats. @democrats.senate.gov you screwed millions of people 😠

@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social YOU HAVE THREE CHOICES: LEAD, FOLLOW,OR GET OUT OF THE WAY. IT'S TIME FOR SCHUMER AND HIS SPINELESS TRAITOROUS CAPITULATING MEMBERS TO GET OUT OF THE WAY.

“This was a very very bad vote”

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

Seems like I've seen this movie before. Republicans won't budge and enough Democrats cave. All the suffering for nothing in my book!🤨

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

@democrats.senate.gov WE THE DEMOCRATIC BASE WANT A LEADERSHIP CHANGE. FIRE CHUCK AND GET SOMEONE IN THERE THAT WILL HAVE OUR BACKS. Schumer 👇👇👇

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate. Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

Tonight was a very bad night.

Make No Mistake...

40 days. Just to unconditionally surrender. Pathetic!

CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.

NEW: The Senate reportedly has the votes to extend funding and move toward the end of the longest government shutdown in American history. "Depending on who you ask, it's a cave or a compromise," @cheetah.bsky.social says. He talks through the details with @samsteindc.bsky.social.

@democrats.senate.gov THOSE OF YOU THAT BETRAYED YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND THE PARTY WILL PAY THE PRICE IN YOUR NEXT ELECTION CYCLE. YOU 🖕 OVER AMERICANS IN BOTH PARTIES THAT WERE COUNTING ON YOU.

Thanks @markey.senate.gov Too bad these pp don’t know when to stick with their group. I understand the likely reasoning but you missed your chance to bring everyone together and finally doing what the PEOPLE WANT. Shame on you for bending a knee to lying fascists. I hope you ALL get primaried out

getting two pinky swears from Republicans, including one that they will merely follow the law, is laughably thin gruel

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

When this is all over, we should probably send this entire administration to El Salvadoran prisons.

Votes are done late on the weekend for a reason. It's so you have to go back to work and won't have time to seethe! Old employers trick of timing! Only they fire people on a Friday afternoon, so there's no chance of retribution during the work week and no trouble seeing the employees out the door.

Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

Centrists and moderates, what have you done for America lately? Reminds me of the white moderates MLK warned about so many years ago. Just useless.

As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state. I’m urging my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand up for Americans who are counting on us to lower their costs, and address…

The politics of the shutdown: *GOP had a strong opening position *Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP *Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change *Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

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

Senator Jon Ossoff, who is vulnerable in his re-election bid next year, just voted no on ending the filibuster to reopen the government.

Two words: PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES

I was wondering this week whether the airlines were lobbying behind the scenes.

We’re all disappointed!

Not that it matters I guess but here’s what my AI has to say about the loss tonight.

They sold us out.

BERNIE: “This senate is about to make a horrific situation even worse… health insurance premiums will double/triple/quadruple… some will pay 50% of their income… 15 million will lose insurance… 50,000 will die unnecessarily…” #MedicareForAllNOW

Fight don’t fold.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen