How broken do you have to be inside to relish watching families violently ripped apart from each other or to fight quite this hard to deprive people of food.

Different roots. Same home. One spirit. #FreeDC @washingtonspirit.com for life.

Tearing food out of the hands of hungry children and giving it to the richest men in the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Is it good politics to ask the Supreme Court if you can continue starving people?

Well over a million federal workers have gone without pay for over a month, more than half while still working. 42 million Americans stand to lose food aid. 24 million could see their health care premiums double. This is more than cases or headlines or line items. These are people’s literal lives.

They’re going to amp up the rhetoric and lies about this shutdown as the air travel gets worse in particular. Be ready. People need paychecks, food, health care, and safe travel. We need a Congress that shows up to work—this isn’t the paid leave we meant, Mike.

First-in-class politician, For the People. Courageous, class act, who actually passed the torch. Punch-thrower and in stilettos. Hot dog consumer, as if she wasn’t cool enough. Savior of paid leave. Historymaker, trailblazer. I want to be like Nancy Pelosi when I grow up.

Fired, kidnapped, grounded, starved

Long lines and canceled flights reported in Cleveland, even though it’s not on the FAA’s list of airports impacted by federal funding. It’s almost as if things impacting a community seemingly far away to people who may not look or have much to do with you can have a ripple effect and impact you too.

Tempt the electorate with a good time. There’s no question that we have to beat this cruelty and lawlessness next year and in 2028, and again and again.

Hot guy stuff.

By refusing to end the shutdown, just in time for the holidays, Republicans are robbing people of paychecks, food, and health care, and completely disrupting air travel, not to mention terrorizing families and communities. It’s cruel and maybe they should have learned this week it’s not popular.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Breaking News: Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the only female House speaker, said she would retire in 2027, ending a run as one of the most powerful women in U.S. politics. nyti.ms/3XkTV49

“Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort.”

I’ve heard a few people make the comment, he might win but can he govern. I hear a dog whistle. All I know this morning is Mamdani is a phenomenal leader, he assembled a phenomenal team, he ran a phenomenal campaign and strategy, and we have a lot to learn from it and a lot to hope for thanks to it.

More people voted in New York City’s election this year than they have in 50 years. That’s a win for democracy, and a testament to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring campaign. Congratulations to the next mayor of the greatest city in the world. 🗽

worth noting that Mamdani did *not* take the bait

The current government shutdown is now officially the longest in U.S. history, surpassing the 35-day shutdown of President Trump’s first term. The impact of the shutdown, having lasted 35 full days, has already been felt across the country. nyti.ms/3Xaygvt

Hope. Joy. Care. Authenticity. Solidarity. Let’s make this a beginning of so many stories. Let’s turn this entire tide around. 26 billionaires could never.

Youth and authenticity won. Joy won. Real affordability and working family concerns won, from child care to housing. Solidarity—not division—WON. Take heart. Take note.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Thank you. Truly, thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for what you encouraged so many people to be, for the grace and leadership and alternative vision you showed in the darkest of times. For what this means for all of us.

Every. Single. County. In. Virginia. Shifted. BLUE

We won. We know what wins. What authenticity we believe in. We know who we don’t. We know what PACs are trying to end us all. Friends, we’re on the right track. Keep going.

Warmest of congratulations to @abigailspanberger.com

We’re going to pass paid leave in Virginia.

He will. They do.

The scariest costume of all. Comes with endless tax breaks and no paid leave for the people who make their profits possible. #PaidLeaveForAll

Men over the age of 50 who leave the workforce to provide care for a parent lose, on average, around $400,000 in earnings and retirement savings—and women, nearly $460,000. All working families need paid leave.

Costs are up. Burnout is up. Loneliness is up. Illness is rising, from flu to chronic disease. Paid leave would help.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

when all this is over we need to have a pretty serious conversation about the utter moral failure of the elite of this country

i think editors should occasionally entertain the idea that bannon is just full of shit www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...

Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."

This is Mohammad Salman Hamdani. His parents were Pakistani and Muslim immigrants and came to the U.S. when he was an infant. He was an EMT and NYPD cadet who rushed to the Twin Towers on 9/11 to help victims. He died there attempting to save lives. He was 23. (thread)

Next year, we'll welcome 125,000 new New Yorkers to our city. But many families don't have what they need to give their babies a healthy start. Building on @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social's pilot, we'll launch citywide Baby Baskets, providing new parents with essential items and resources.

Cuomo is spending his final days not selling an agenda or a record but pushing out abhorrent anti-Muslim hate. Leaders should all condemn it—and real leaders organize and bring people together, as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social does so powerfully.

Speaking of constitutional crises... Thanks to shutdown, US courts are running out of money to maintain normal operations. Some courts are furloughing staff for first time in three decades, requiring others to work without pay, or operating under a limited, 4-day/wk schedule

An extraordinary artist whose impact cannot be overstated. Can't wait to continue following her work. "In all honesty, I don’t feel that ABT has done enough with me in furthering the cause,” she says. “Where’s that legacy?” The answer, it seems, is that she’s carrying it forward herself."

Just a thought, what if we collectively spent less time organizing against people and instead spent that energy organizing with people and against fascism.

$250M for a ballroom $172M for private jets $230M raided from DOJ $40B to Argentina $18B in military aid to Israel in one year $117B in tax cuts to the uber wealthy Regular reminder that any federal official who says we don’t have money for something—food, healthcare, paid leave—can find a way.

In honor of Virginia Giuffre, who was an Epstein survivor and dehumanized as "property" by Trump, Republicans should swear-in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social and vote on releasing the Epstein Files.

I’m trying to hold onto the protests, I’m trying to channel polka dot dress energy, I’m trying to find hope but good god this week is bleak.

1. outrageous and offensive 2. speaking as someone who's spent eight years running an organization with a very clear rule that "when the primary's over we get behind the winner, no matter what", I do not think centrist Democrats understand the pandora's box they are unleashing with this bullshit

I’m not good with Nazi symbols or any kind of hate symbols. I’m also not good with people who allow, enable, fund or arm genocide, or who allow, enable, or fund the building of concentration camps and disappearing of human beings.

I’m less concerned about part of the White House being torn down, and more concerned about the fact that it’s being replaced with a $250m privately funded ballroom. I don’t think people who intend to leave office in 3 years typically spend a quarter of a billon on a 4 year construction project.

POTENTIAL?! He’s LITERALLY stealing from us.

“In a Reuters-Ipsos poll conducted October 15-20 Americans blamed congressional Republicans more than Democrats (for the shutdown), 50%-43%. A CNBC poll conducted October 8-12 showed Americans blamed Trump and Republicans over Democrats 53%-37%. (Independents blamed Trump by a 3-to-1 margin”