I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate

It would be much easier to codify Bivens and allow everyone -- not just Republican senators -- to sue federal officials for alleged rights violations

This is obscene

These ghouls refuse to give ordinary people a cause of action against fed officials for legit constitutional violations, but go to bat with a *retroactive* cause of action for their insurrectionist colleagues crying for being caught conspiring to overturn an election. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Especially if your evidence is a progressive upstart winning as a Democrat lmao

Would love to be a fly on the wall at Thanksgiving 👀

The hard nut to swallow here is that the ACA was on the table during the 2024 elections, and enough people didn’t care or didn’t find that motivation enough. And now, here we are.

Honestly, I do think it’ll have to be a governor on the ticket in 2028 because earned or not, everyone in Congress will have loser energy vibes as an unavoidable side effect of being in the minority under Trump.

Oh, now it all suddenly becomes clear.

The shit-hole-ification of America continues apace

Here we go

The message for Democrats is, "Republicans held food for kids hostage so they could make sure your healthcare costs skyrocket."

Upside of the cave is that Johnson loses his excuse to block Grijalva’s swearing in. Which is vote 218. I don’t want the cave. But whatever is lurking in those Epstein Files gets closer to the light of day. Unless Johnson can’t pass the cave-in bill, given it seems House Dems seem unified here.

Obamacare was dead the second voters decided to stay home in November. There is absolutely nothing the Democrats can do to prevent those subsidies from going away. Voters made sure of that. The whole thing is about making REPUBLICANS responsible for them ending.

I don't read enough Congressional legislation to speak with any real authority here but this RIF language stood out to me

It will be very amusing in a morbid sort of way if the shutdown ends today and people scream bloody murder about a dem cave but in a year's time we're just like "oh yeah, which 40 day shutdown was that? The October one or the February one? The July one maybe?"

Pretty sure this is an effort to force the House to re-open by the senate crafting its own solution (the merits of the solution are a sep discussion). Which would be interesting given it hasn’t been in session since September and any new bill would have to go through the house as well.

*deep breath* Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 years ago is a welcome sign of progress. Young people’s ignorance of how homophobic American society was 30 y

The ONLY way this "deal" (taken with several grains of salt) ends the shutdown is if it's identical to the house version. The alleged "cave" by the GOP staff regurgitators at Axios is nowhere close to the house bill. Which means it forces Johnson to convene the house to vote on it.

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.

Trump called Biden “sleepy,” because Trump is an old man who struggles to stay awake. Trump called Hillary “crooked,” because Trump is incredibly crooked. Trump called Ted Cruz “lyin’” because Trump is a serial liar. We’re a decade into this. How do people still not get it?

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

Between this and people flipping out over an anonymously-sourced Axios blurb about the shutdown ending, everyone is doing great work today. Keep it up, I'm sure blood-pressure medication manufacturers will appreciate it.

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

Could someone please ask Ro Khanna how many homes in Cupertino, Fremont, Milpitas, Newark, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, where the median price is ~$1.5M, are purchased by private equity?

I do not believe that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, and I have consistently argued against those who say it is, but if you see the act of condemning anti-Diaspora antisemitism as inherently Zionist and pro-Israel, you are really telling on yourself.

This reminds me of a rumor I heard about how Sam Altman had one of his ribs surgically removed for... reasons

Sleepy Don!

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

You can tell he has no real friends because a big part of media enjoyment is sharing the experience with someone else. "Did you catch the latest season of my own bespoke AI slop?" No, why the hell would I want that 🤡

The father was a U.S. citizen. But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

It says something about the dismal state of Christianity in America that it's genuinely shocking when a public figure says something that's actually Christ-like.

I am not a lawyer but to me that absolutely does not sound like nullification. I think the jury was like me and no matter how it was explained they could not get to the idea of "injury" a thrown sandwich.

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

this is so deeply absurd it beggars belief

Carve it on your heart: when they say they hate "liberal feminists", they mean they hate women

Centrally planned economies with state ownership and control is good now I guess

Federal judges have for serious started to abandon giving the government any kind of presumption of correctness. Because this administration lies *even where there is indisputable evidence of its lies.*

Checking in on these dudes, brb.

The fact that a lot of leftists despise Parks and Rec - one of the best and most sympathetic depictions of non-cop government in modern media - is a symptom of the fact that a lot of the left has no idea how to actually implement the policy proposals they want to enact.

"[F]ind candidates suited to their constituencies and focus on cost of living issues and opposition to Donald Trump’s autocracy. Full stop. It’s not more complicated than that. That’s your opposition message." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

No one pays attention to actual campaigns anymore

Requiring ID to shop at a grocery store is the kind of Big Brother government surveillance that libertarians have long railed against

The only person who has been seizing private companies through the power of the state is Trump.

someone watched election results last night lol

THE MAJORITY of money spent by Winsome Earle-Sears and outside groups in Virginia went to anti-trans ads. The GOP needs a new playbook after tonight. Voters are tired of this song.

It was the *only* thing on the ballot statewide. Here in Alameda County, it was the only thing on the ballot *at all.* (Some municipalities may have have bond issues.) These voters turned out almost entirely for a single ballot proposition. People are *pissed.*