the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*

They do not have a plan, they’ve never had a plan. They’ve also never had the votes to repeal the ACA which is *OVERWHELMINGLY* popular, nor have they been able to get the Supreme Court to overturn it, so instead they’ve just shut down the entire government to try forcing Dems to stop funding it.

Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

glad to see jones getting back in the ring

People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

Money quote from Gov-Elect Spanberger (now please just do it).

Yeah these guys are born losers and are unable to even do basic spin for themselves

in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again

On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure

that's in part because costco feels so old fashioned. the approach generally seems to be, "will this provide additional value to our customers?"

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Sunday overnight is the new top of the news-cycle, with the 1st circuit refusing Trump the stay he thought from having to make SNAP payments & now, Justice Jackson ordering briefs in SCOTUS. Get up to speed on what it all means here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Sunday overnight is the new top of the news-cycle, with the 1st circuit refusing Trump the stay he thought from having to make SNAP payments & now, Justice Jackson ordering briefs in SCOTUS. Get up to speed on what it all means here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

He doesn’t care about approval ratings. He is seizing power. He won’t allow the democrats to win the midterms. This is the problem. Everyone continuing like it’s business as usual. IT’S NOT

I have lived in Virginia 33 years. I was never so happy than after the elections Tues night. And then I was plummeted into extreme disappointment last night. If you you two Senators can’t even vote together, how can we trust either of you? If Kaine was a “fall guy,” then I trust you both even less.

Senate Democrats walked away empty-handed, and don’t let anyone tell you different. Tim Kaine and the others bought the lie that Republicans would negotiate on extending the ACA subsidies. They won’t. Dems got played, Schumer failed to keep his caucus together, and the American people got nothing.

👇 youtu.be/ad5GfgrPkYo?...

Trump: "Nobody knows what a magnet is"

Welp not a conspiracy anymore

Ingraham: Why are people saying they are anxious about the economy? Trump: I don’t know that they are saying that. I think the polls are fake.

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

🎀🎀

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMn7C6Ft/ Things you need to know about how our financial system works

If I did this when I was on the job, I would have been fired and justifiably fired. This guy is a dangerous moron, and exactly what Trump and company wants.

U.S. President Donald Trump says that his government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group there is being violently persecuted. Those claims have been widely rejected. https://to.pbs.org/4nPnWEf

BREAKING: Despite Senate deal, Mike Johnson will not commit to a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies all while Trump is blasting Marjorie Taylor Greene in their intra-party rift. A major news update. I have the latest: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Americans deserve better than the eight Democratic Senators who voted on a promise, without a guarantee, to protect the Affordable Care Act.

They snuck it in the extension bill that the rogue Democrats just approved. This is insane.

Re-criminalizing all hemp products… 🥴 Just want throw more people in jail 😑

I voted NO on this funding bill. The last thing American families need right now is skyrocketing health care premiums as they struggle to keep up with rising costs — but that’s exactly what they’re facing because of Trump and Republicans.

There is no excuse for this. I’m old enough to remember when health care was not-for-profit. Damn the insurance companies, “managed care” & the politicians lacking the courage to make changes like universal health care.

That's 16 billion $...

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."

You should all resign now for the sake of the country!

“My work is not done — despite my best efforts, there are still children alive and well in the state of Texas.”

🥺🥺🥺

If they pass the funding bill I have lost all faith in the dems If they can’t take the best leverage they’ve ever had and make it a win, there is no hope

Not really surprised. And that’s sad. And if you and I know Trump can’t be trusted, what were the forever infamous Caving 8+Schumer thinking!

Translation: he has no idea how insurance works

The hero of the working class.