“$170 BILLION for ICE. $40 BILLION for Argentina. $1 BILLION for Trump’s Qatari jet. $230 MILLION for Trump’s DOJ “compensation”. $200 MILLION for Noem’s jets… But nothing for health care? This isn’t a question about what 🇺🇸 can or can’t afford — it’s about priorities.”

For House Speaker Mike Johnson, the shutdown was the perfect scapegoat, and keeping it alive was the only way for Trump and the House GOP to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein Files — a vote Trump was nearly certain to lose. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/it-w...

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.

If the rest don’t oust Schumer immediately, then the entire U.S. Senate sold us out. They think we’re stupid. It’s insulting.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

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.

Not a dime to any incumbent Democrat Senator who does not call for Schumer to resign as leader. (Which will mean not a dime to practically all of them.)

I'm real real close to feeling like we can't ever know who these 8 took the fall for, so maybe we should just throw them all out and start from scratch.

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NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I spoke to sources at FBI and DOJ that reviewed the Epstein files. It’s worse than the photos. I’ll let you know what they said today at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @meidastouch.com. Link to show: www.youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...

This article explains how Musk’s ridiculous pay is tied to achieving various benchmarks for Tesla. So even more so than before, Musk’s money is tied to Tesla. If Tesla does badly, Musk is hurt. You know what to do, world. The shareholders brought this on themselves. #TeslaTakedown

America First my ass!!! Are we great yet?

The judge DENIES the government a stay. SNAP must be fully paid by TOMORROW.

Great. Now every Democrat officeholder over age 70 should be telling us their plan to do likewise. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Fuck House GOP for not extending ACA.

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

No paywall on this one. open.substack.com/pub/decoding...

It's been 40 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated. Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.

Preparations to suppress protests if a dictatorship is declared www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Worth remembering…

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

Also, the ad was not “fraudulent” in any way shape or form. Reagan said it. Trump thinks we are all morons.

Also, the ad was not “fraudulent” in any way shape or form. Reagan said it. Trump thinks we are all morons.

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The most corrupt administration in generations. Trump’s conflicts of interest and grifting off his offices is astounding, and deeply violative of our constitution and shared values.

The crowd at the #NoKings protest in Orlando is growing so large that the police just closed off the street!!!

The founders assumed a guy like Trump would come along. They never assumed a congress would so willingly give up their power This arch thing is bat shit loonery

“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.” If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.

Trump is playing golf and Republicans are on vacation while hard-working Americans are without pay.

Court reform is the only way out of this authoritarian trap. Expand, restructure jurisdiction, channel, new courts—the works.

It’s time to abandon the idea of chasing after “swing voters.” We gotta start targeting the angry. Those who have been failed by the system. Those who are being screwed every day despite giving it their all.

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

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No need to hunt all over for Antifa headquarters. It's located in Arlington National cemetery. There are 400,000 members there.

All. Of. This.

#ShutDown #GOP

Someone needs to ask, "how does it save money to lay off people who aren't receiving paychecks?"

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA. "We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends." newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Hormone replacement therapy helps restore immune function in menopausal women, reducing inflammaging and preserving monocyte function. open-access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Extends what I previously summarized from immune system clocks erictopol.substack.com/p/new-anti-a...

Let me be clear: It’s ILLEGAL to deny federal workers back pay after a shutdown. There’s a 2019 law that guarantees it, but Trump is once again trying to break the law. You don’t get to punish people for doing their jobs just because you’re failing at yours.