This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems. My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.

Cornyn was abducted by ICE after being overheard saying "fajita" in the Senate cafeteria

It is rational for Republican senators wanting to nuke the filibuster only as a last resort -- it's a major net benefit to reactionary interests over the long run. For Dem senators to prefer near-total capitulation to a democratic voting rule is a lose-lose situation

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senator merkley would make a fantastic minority leader

I think it is notable that 'moderate-ness' does not appear meaningfully predictive of fight-ness.

Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that. It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.

people think this is kayfabe to protect other mods, but there are mod senators who have already announced retirement (gary peters, for example) who didn’t go for this, this was moderate wildcatting, and they’re gonna need to be primary purged

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

We literally can tell a bible story, it’s the Judgement of Solomon Republicans are ready to cut the baby in half

If Ossoff can vote no I don't want to hear Tim Kaine whine

New Journeys in Middle Earth game tonight

Sorry one more

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

So it's not so much a "deal" as a defection of members of his own caucus?

The RIFs language is actually great. Not only does it rehire the people RIFed during the shutdown, it makes it an unequivocal Antideficiency Act violation to do ANY MORE RIFs through the duration of the CR (Jan 30) Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now Would love to see this standardized

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

This seems tone deaf for the state that just elected Jay Jones in a blowout

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years

Why does the House, the larger of the two legislative bodies, not simply eat the Senate

So you wear a bag of body temperature beer that you drink from a straw like a skunky stillsuit?

Ugh fucking New Hampshire

If you have a job that gives you an FSA instead of an HSA it's because they either hate you or think you're too stupid to notice the difference.

finding myself agreeing with Matt Y has me questioning whether I am in fact right. i give up.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Tired of Pressing 3 to Share My Opinion with Chuck Schumer. Next Senate Dem leader needs a more creative and entertaining phone menu.

This seems significant

When you've lost *checks notes* Matthew Yglesias

“I know you can’t afford things but we also cannot afford things” will be, I predict, a losing message. The world’s first trillionaire is on the horizon. “We can’t afford transportation, healthcare, food and shelter” will no longer cut it for the “progressive” party.

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

A word of caution about the new Axios report that Dem Senators are caving. Remember the NYT ran articles for months claiming that Harvard was caving, which.. never happened. Turns out their anonymous sources were Trump staffers. Axios may be similar. But, it never hurts to call your Senator. 1/

NM folks please consider tagging them enough in reposts that their staffers’ phones don’t stop buzzing.

Oh god new Final Fantasy Tactics Fie on you Satan, get thee behind me until Summer Sale

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

my theory is that almost everyone in the administration assumes there's something damning to Trump in the unreleased Epstein files and is acting accordingly. like he's pardoning a bunch of indefensible randos and I doubt they're all paying him; Trump doesn't know he's being used as a sin eater.

"OK the $1B wire went through! Where are going to land the planes? Hello? Hello? [muffled conversation] What do you mean Spirit Airlines never flew 737s?"

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

Oh oh oh so now you come crawling back to LDL to solve your problems. Poor innocent Low Density Lipids, whom you have vilified and banished from your foods.

Lol. Die mad, Trumpy

They're afraid

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man, but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

"Soylent Green is billionaires!" - the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with