Oh, so he totally stole the money

Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read. Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work. He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country

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.

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

On some level, you have to admire Chuck Schumer’s deep commitment to absolutely nothing.

Americans can’t afford this deal. Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan. A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.

The real choice, no matter how much Senators wish it weren't: "Unfortunately, making things better for the American people coming out of this shutdown is probably not an option. Either Trump makes things worse with Democratic affirmation, or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic opposition."

If the rumors are right, now's the time to call. If the rumors are wrong, well, you've just reminded them to hold the line. Call.

I did warn you the Takes™️ were coming Now, after months of incredible parochialism about how the NYC mayoral race tells us <everything> about The National Democrats, Mamdani tells us nothing & winning is bad for the left The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Someday maybe the press will note the difference between "taking" questions and "answering" them.

This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

Three questions: 1. Is who politicians follow online newsworthy? 2. Is the vice-president more important than a primary candidate to be junior Senator from Texas? 3. If the answer is yes to the first two, why isn’t Axios doing a fuck ton of stories about who JD Vance is following?

lol these dumb assholes are going to TRY to keep the government closed for the next 3 years

Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.

Greg Bovino, a prominent commander of the CBP/ICE responsible for leading kidnapping campaigns nationwide, is seen performing the Nazi “sieg heil” salute and engaging in “rock paper scissors” Waukegan Neighborhood of Chicago on November 7, 2025

The funny thing is that on the WaPo site, if you click on the comments section, it gives you an AI-generated summary of people's responses that is basically like "They all disagree with the paper's right-wing turn"

Feels like shutdown negotiations are moving in the wrong direction you guys

The people can buy their own……. policy? From who, Don?

They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.

The Trump regime is not only withdrawing the US from climate efforts, it's threatening other countries that try to make climate deals. This is one of the greatest crimes of the Trump administration:

the Fascism Knowers all fleeing the country to whine from foreign lands was just another type of elite capitulation. i hope they enjoy their employment elsewhere because i am disinclined to offer it back to them should they return.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

I agree that the WH won’t let Trump talk to Dems because they can’t trust him not to cave and they also don’t want Dems to have a good look as to how diminished he is.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero

My favorite comment on the FT story

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

lol

I know they pretend not to care about elections, but getting the hammer in the face last night has to have hurt. Gotta save Trump from himself.

Shutting the government down AND cutting off funds for food stamps, right before an election was a masturful move. Compliments to the chef.

Trump declares that Republicans have lost the shutdown. Absolutely zero reason for Dems to cave at this point

They’ve all gone mad. Texas Governor Greg Abbott: “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”

The authoritarian takeover of X was a harbinger of the regime’s strategy for America at large. Bluesky is a perfectly adequate refuge for X exiles. The biggest problem with Bluesky is that so many political and media elites are still on X. That’s not Bluesky’s fault—it reflects poorly on the elite.

why it's almost like there's a concerted assault on informed consensus by extraction class owned media conglomerates to replace what was left of U.S. political journalism with lazy controversy hounding infotainment and right wing and corporatist agitprop

Perfect question. I will give $500 to anyone that asks about tariffs on Wakanda.

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system. Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

If (knock on wood) Dems sweep Tuesday’s elections handily, can we ease discourse away from its obsession over whether Dems are too left wing to win, and take greater notice of the fact that Republicans are in a civil war over whether to be Nazis or merely lesser fascists?

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Adopting this warmed-over BTI perspective is kind of goofy at any time, but doing it today, in the year of our lord 2025 -- while clean energy represents the *only* way to accelerate economic growth without breaking the bank -- is so sad. Not just hackery but moldy, past-its-expiration-date hackery.

What we are going to have to do in the coming years is build out a whole lot of parallel institutions that can do the work previously assigned to the state, most especially civic education. Eventually I will find my way to excitement for that project but right now the prospect exhausts me

The New York Times likes to say Trump "has stretched the limits of his powers” and “tests the boundaries of the presidency.” But this is not a test or a stretching exercise. He’s a lawless politician building a dictatorship. Say it. 🧵 1/3

yup. if you want to win, you have to run up to non-voters on your side. for every "dale, 64, life-long republican who doesn't feel great about voting for trump anymore," there are maybe two "aaron, 24, has never voted but thinks trump sucks."

“Dems moved too far left” is more pundit-consultant industrial complex than empirically-supported analysis. It lives in euphemism and vibes. It wrongly assumes abandoning core values will yield a net increase in votes. And to the extent it’s really political strategy, it’s fighting the last war.

Good. Seriously. Please let Trump pick every SEC coach. Let him make every decision for the entire conference. The only way we'll ever break Trump fever in that part of America is to let him get involved with their college football decisions because they care deeply about that shit

The person who is currently running our country has lost his mind and it’s time we start talking about it.

DUDE. Like I know Greenblatt has folded on literally everything the ADL once stood for but you can make the argument he's actively helping the bad guys now instead of just ignoring what they're doing

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.