by @jeetheer.bsky.social 1/2 “To be as fair as possible to Democratic leaders, they always had a weak hand on the shutdown. Republicans control the House of Representatives and need only eight Democrats in the Senate to override a filibuster and clinch a deal. Further, Trump is almost..

Sticker Shock by @andertoon.bsky.social

by Guillaume A. W. Attia 1/2 “In addition to the moderating effect of living among black people, Sumner’s religious upbringing taught him to cherish the equal worth and dignity of all people. In the antebellum years, he fought ferociously against the evils of slavery and frequently provoked..

by @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social “the memory of St. Martin has largely faded. And now, Armistice Day-Remembrance Day-Veterans Day is mostly a solemn commemoration of soldiers who served more modern empires at war, not to remember a soldier who rejected empire to serve the poor and outcast"

by @mikemendenhall.bsky.social 1/2 “the announcement Oct. 30 of Trump’s agreement with Xi to resume purchases of American soybeans received praise from Iowa farmers and industry. But there’s pressure on federal officials to take more market action and provide economic relief..

by @hcrichardson.bsky.social 1/2 “Trump did not want the shutdown to end this way. He was trying to use the pain he was inflicting on the American people to force Republican senators to end the filibuster and pass a series of measures that would essentially have made him a dictator..

by @streamlinedpmllc.bsky.social 1/2 "You don’t need to move off grid to be free. You just need to stop letting systems script your identity. "Freedom isn’t found in isolation, it’s built in awareness. You can live inside society and still think outside its code..

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by @jenrubin.bsky.social 1/2 “Mockery is critical to undermining fascism but that does not detract from the damage to the integrity, reputation, & effectiveness of federal law enforcement in this regime. Trump has turned their personnel, undertrained & poorly lead, into a national embarrassment..

by @cliffschecter.bsky.social 1/2 “Americans are going hungry, and a classless jack-in-the-box is gilding everything. A narcissistic dunce whose sociopathic shrug in the White House is the best single moment to explain everything that’s wrong with our rotting republic..

by @nberlat.bsky.social 1/2 “Greene is still most likely the same hateful liar she’s always been. She is now, however, a hateful liar who thinks her political fortunes depend to some degree on tacking away from Trump and towards the center. Whether she’s looking at reelection in her district..

Absolutely correct

by @zeblarson.bsky.social 1/2 “Authoritarianism can’t abide the concept of public health, for a few different reasons. It proposes limits on both government and individual activity, and the rationale for those limitations is grounded in the scientific process..”

Today's Must-Read by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social "Not all Democrats are on board this proposal. While the vote would have the effect of forcing each Republican to take a position in public on healthcare costs and access as we head into the midterms, some Democrats likened it to caving in"

by @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/2 "We are approaching November 11, which much of the world treats as a day of remembrance of the First World War and of those who gave their lives in war. Please have a thought for those who are defending their country in a war on the scale of 1918 and 1945..

by @terrymoranabc.bsky.social 1/2 “it’s something deeper than blunders or the hopeless unhipness of the old that’s driving politics and culture in societies during moments like this one. It’s the human demand for energy and optimism. By the time they reach their 60s and 70s and beyond..

by @eisendrath.net 1/2 “In the face of such a clarity, Speaker Johnson ordered the House to remain out of session for a record eighth straight week. Over in the Senate, that body refused to pass a Democratic bill that would have reopened the government if expiring health care subsidies

by @nberlat.bsky.social 1/2 “It is shameful that Americans elected this racist, fascist, nincompoop to the presidency twice. But we do not have to compound the error by convincing ourselves that he has some sort of unique, authentic rapport with Americanism, or by insisting that he is a savant..

by @shikhadalmia.bsky.social 1/2 "America is different. It has a deep cultural aversion to autocracy, reflected in the massive turnout for the No Kings protests on Oct. 18. Tuesday’s election was a referendum on Trump—which he failed miserably. "This shows that while Congress..

by @democracydocket.com 1/2 "After many victories on Tuesday, it was another win for the opposition movement. Because, remember: this was never just about a sandwich. Republicans wanted to make an example of Sandwich Guy — to prove that Washington, D.C., was a city riddled with crime..

by @jojofromjerz.bsky.social 1/2 “President Napoleon Bone-Apart-From-Reality, seated like a bloated Renaissance bishop awaiting confession, simply slipped into the void with the kind of ease that comes from decades of surviving on rage, ego, and whatever Gargamelian goo is leaking out of..

by @streamlinedpmllc.bsky.social 1/2 “We now know the chemical composition of stardust but forgot what it feels like to stare at it. We can calculate the frequency of love but can’t stay in a room long enough to experience it..

by Cheryl Tevis 1/2 “more significant than street repair in this 250th anniversary year of our nation is the erosion, potholes, and buckling of the foundations of our system of government. As citizens, we’re not holding up our part of this historic bargain. We need to work together..

by @laurarbelin.bsky.social 1/2 "Asked what she considers the most important factor for a candidate in a local election, where media coverage can be sparse, Shudak didn’t hesitate: 'It’s 100% door knocking.' She estimated that her vote total for the 2019 school board race was within about 150 of..

by @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social 1/2 "the season ebbs away. The tide goes out. And we find we are still afraid. "It is still Ordinary Time. For a while at least. With its quotidian unease. "God is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive. "Like the Sadducees, we..

Portraits of Hunger in Iowa--Cathy's Story by @robertleonard.bsky.social Jason Walsmith

by @hammerfornd.bsky.social 1/2 “Trump believes that the only two reasons Democrats won were because he was not on the ballot (of course) and because of the government shutdown. He’s a little bit right on the second point. People really don’t like how he has handled the shutdown. The shutdown..

everyone is worried about Trump running for a constitutionally-barred 3rd term? Let’s see if he makes it out of 2025 first.

Today's Must-Read by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social 1/2 "Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, and Sherrill will be governor of New Jersey. Both won their elections by huge margins, and they may herald other changes. I was writing about them last year as representatives of a specific group..

by @mattcrf.bsky.social 1/2 “Many American farmers and ranchers along with many farm organizations have mostly assumed they were part of a group of Trump supporters who would be favorably treated or at least immune from the costs and chaos. For months now, it’s becoming harder to..

by @jefftiedrich.bsky.social

by @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social 1/2 “The Hebrew prophets opposed empire. Jesus opposed empire. He opposed the amassing of imperial power, the concentration and worship of imperial overlords, the unspeakable wealth of the rich, and the oppression and murder of the poor in service..

by @rbasu1106.bsky.social 1/2 "Immigrants don’t just do jobs Iowans don’t want to do. They repopulate dying towns and add richness to the culture. Going to school with diverse nationalities enhances students’ understanding of the world in this global economy. It opens minds..

While Trump and his cronies party by @anntelnaes.bsky.social

by @garykroeger.bsky.social 1/2 “There is no guideline that says liberals or Democrats think one way exclusively and conservative or Republicans another, but the mental processes are inherited or taught, and so are, for the most part, political affiliations. The former (spectrum thinking) is the..

by @davidshuster.bsky.social 1/2 "The same Trump crowd that turns blind eyes to real abuses: corruption, perjury, the daily vandalism of reason — will leap from its golden MAGA chaise lounge the moment a protester hurls a hoagie. To these MAGA lunatics, a citizen’s right to dissent is conditional..

by @normeisen.bsky.social 1/2 "There’s so much more for you and all of us to do if we want to be celebrating in November 2026 like we did this week. That starts with blue states learning the lesson of California’s Prop 50 redistricting triumph: aggressively redistrict now to get out in front..

by @jojofromjerz.bsky.social 1/2 “This is who Donald Trump is. “He doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself. “He doesn’t care about the very people who worship him. The very people who put him in power. He doesn’t care that they wore the hat. He doesn’t care that they went to the rallies..

by @jimacosta.bsky.social 1/2 “Even the establishment wing of the Democratic Party appears to have gotten the message. One prominent Democrat, who has come under withering criticism from the progressive base, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just floated a proposal..

by @davidpakman.bsky.social 1/2 "A new Fox News poll shows a major problem for Donald Trump. 70% of Americans say groceries cost more than a year ago, and 60% blame him. Trump promised to fix inflation on day one, but prices keep rising, partly due to his tariffs and trade war rhetoric..

Portraits of Hunger in Iowa--Deb's Story by @robertleonard.bsky.social Jason Walsmith

by @hcrichardson.bsky.social 1/3 “If Republicans took the deal, the Democrats could claim they had negotiated an end to the shutdown that put into place the popular extensions of the premium tax credits and that called for next year’s midterm voters to decide if they wanted them extended further..

Today's Must-Read by @jillfilipovic.bsky.social 1/2 "She embodies many of the best aspects of the Democratic Party: its diversity, its feminism, its insistence on making life better for ordinary Americans. But her career has also been emblematic of the party’s worst impulses: its disconnect from..