The administration is deliberately starving poor people so that Dems will agree to radically slash the healthcare available to poor people. Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

Seems pretty obvious that if you were going to accept a shutdown your only acceptable outcomes ought to be an actual concession in the bill that passes or forcing them to end the filibuster

Also only a partial list of the Senate Dems considering this deal. Looks like Senator Mark Warner of Virginia needs to be called. If true… dude is up in 2026, is he serious right now? bsky.app/profile/ezra...

I'm serious, we NEED to organize massive protests tomorrow at Schumer's offices, this man cannot be trusted to hold office, period. Not only is he not the right person for the moment, he is the WORST person for the moment. Riley, the old blind dog on my block, would have better political instincts.

Chuck Schumer is a bitch (derogatory)

Not enough of these guys fear angry mobs.

The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.

The emerging deal will be that Democrats get fuck all and then go on thanksgiving break while 41.7 million people slip into food insecurity. Fucking hell

I get that senators are scared. Many folks will be upset if air travel is fucked for thanksgiving. Their own family and friends might be stuck at home! But can we please consider than healthcare for everyone in ACA is more important than rich folk’s travel plans?

FFS. I’ve called the offices but PLEASE @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov PLEASE DON’T DO THIS

That means restrictions on abortion coverage for the uninitiated

i am still pretty skeptical they’ve actually got the votes for this, which is maybe the stupidest fucking possible way to break the shutdown

this is where I’m at it sounds like the mods are going to do this but they should walk the plank alone no cover from leadership, whatever deal goes through the House entirely on Republican votes, and they own the cave entirely

Marty Chalfie is a mensch

It really seems to be working quite well

This is beyond fucked

again, maybe there’s a cave coming, but “thune is scheduling a test vote for a package senate democrats haven’t even met to discuss yet” is tissue thin sourcing that paints thune in the most favorable light possible

202-224-3121

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Similar to the guy that repeatedly “caves” because he doesn’t actually disagree with the fucking fascist autocrat (Schumer. Schumer is a fuckwit)

The senate dems are about to embarrass themselves and us AGAIN! I hope these reports are not true.

ICE out of Target! The Target on Peterson Ave in Chicago allows CBP & ICE to park in its parking lot and arrest people.

He fucking better. Goddam coward

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Jeffries was on tv this morning saying there was nothing on the table, and the White House wasn’t even at the table, was he not?

Jeremy, I have followed your science advocacy on this platform with respect, but I find this thread deeply hurtful and sad and I am going to tell you why. While my wife did her postdoc at CSHL, she and our many dear friends had to endure the racist rhetoric of this man, which did constant harm

look, maybe 8 of them are willing to cave, no predictions here, but all of this reporting is what we have seen several times over the last several weeks. “privately senators (unspecified) think they have a deal (also unspecified)”

And I hope they all get food poisoning. WTF

Any Democrat voting for this should be primaried as quickly as possible because they're stupid, aren't capable of recognizing they're winning, are incapable of representing their constituents, and are cowards not up to this era's challenges.

Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.

makes too much sense so no, they won't do this.

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Anyway politeness politics sucks and people who prioritize politeness over doing the correct thing are ridiculous. I don't care if you swear, but if you're going to insist that you should be allowed to break the law because you were "nice" about it, you don't get to call people assholes!

This x100000000000000000000000000000. Jim Watson was a stain on science, nothing he “accomplished” erases the harm he did.

If you think it is necessary to provide “nuance” or “context” about the life of a horrible person who has passed they will not see it. But the people this horribleness hurt will wonder why you feel it necessary to continue that person’s malign impact on the world.

Customers didn’t leave because the employees didn’t smile enough, guys.

My God.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Happy Inuit day!

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

Student and faculty pressure compelled UNC and Chancellor Roberts to reject Trump's Compact

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social distilled this beautifully in her book, Thick: "Indeed, any system of oppression must allow exceptions to validate itself as meritorious. How else will those who are oppressed by the system internalize their own oppression?" 🤯

This kind of inconsistency is often used to lift up a few women without helping all, maintaining misogyny. How many other women, and non-white people, could have had a similar effect given the chance or opportunity? We will never know.

When I was an organizer talking with folks about forming a union, a common refrain was people wanted management to respect them and their work. I would explain that we can’t change the bosses heart, but we could build enough power to force them to pretend.

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Expand the Supreme Court. The water is warm here. It's been time. Force Democrats to run on this issue. It's a completely corrupt institution that serves to rubber-stamp Trump and MAGA's fascist agenda.

This is insane. Trump is jumping through hoops to block SNAP. Follow the law, fund SNAP, and feed American families.

Trump is worried that if he feeds the hungry and he didn’t have to, that he won’t be able to get the money back. Our money. Appropriated by Congress. To feed the hungry.