We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced... 👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...

I'm deeply sorry to everyone who is going to suffer for this. Truly, truly sorry.

Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.

BREAKING: Senate takes first step to end government shutdown after some moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies, angering many in their caucus who say Americans want them to continue the fight.

Your definition of "fighting" clearly differs from the rest of us.

After the 2016 election, I wrote this, about how Chuck Schumer was the worst possible Democratic leader at the worst possible time. He still is! theintercept.com/2016/11/14/c...

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

The Democratic establishment:

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Bonus points if the title card also has a copyright notice at the bottom of the screen.

Uh...huh! So it's not enough that Rambo is getting an origin story he really doesn't need (mainly because FIRST BLOOD *is* his origin story), but they're going to take the "kinder and lighter" approach to showing what happened to Rambo in Vietnam that left him deeply traumatized in the first place?

Illinois friends, do not let Dick Durbin know a moment’s peace. CALL AND EMAIL NOW.

I don't know maybe it's just me but it seems like kind of a stretch to reopen the government on the basis of a pinky swear from people who LIE ALL THE FUCKING TIME ABOUT EVERYTHING

If you divided up Elon's trillion dollar incentive and gave it to people in need, you could give: Every SNAP recipient $23,809 Everyone using the ACA marketplace $41,152 Every federal worker $333,333 People in need won't get it. Let's make sure Elon doesn't either. #NoTrillionaires #teslatakedown

For anyone too young to remember what it was like before ACA… IT WAS A FUCKING NIGHTMARE.

In order for the cycle of fascism to end, we have to operate on the belief that every human on this planet has a right to human dignity. Yes, even the most horrible ones you can think of. Because fascism takes root in the concept of the Other.

Rights have to be universal, even for the absolute worst person you know.

Y’all…it’s really very important to make sure you don’t believe that the humans you don’t like, or don’t know, deserve fewer human rights. I know you THINK you don’t believe that, but I’d check in and make sure. Sometimes, we surprise ourselves.

At the risk of sounding like a scold for posting about this too much: your call to a senator right now could be a key factor at a crucial moment. Please read this thread & call if you haven't.

Call now. You can use the @5calls.org app, they have a script for this. Unless you're repped by @padilla.senate.gov, whose turned off his voicemail bc he doesn't care about his constituents.

Said it once before, but it bears repeating: The bootlicking will not save you. The bootlicking will never save you. Which is why more people and more organizations need to say this to President Fuckmuppet when he says he wants something...

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.

Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line. Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding! Find them here: reps.fyi

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

Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats ready to make a deal:

I also just left voicemails for Schumer and Gillibrand, and I wasn't shy when telling them what they need to do, and that what they need to do does not involve bootlicking.

Oh for the love of Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542 Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451

What TV show grabbed your attention from episode one? #TVsky 📺 (For me, it was "24," a.k.a. "The Jack Bauer Power Hour" and "The Impossible White Man Show.")

When thee Jane Fonda herself calls you the great beauty of Hollywood… it’s levels to this 💅🏾 And we BEEN telling y’all about Tessa. Cc @kmjeezy.bsky.social you see our girl 👇🏾

In Lucas's defense, Hawkins, IN, doesn't strike me as a town with a lot of Black barbers, if any.

Exactly what a high top fade, in a small, all white town would look like.

NO NOTES #ellefanning #predatorbadlands #moviemarketing

Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.

The bootlicking will not save you, which is why more people and more organizations need to say this to President Fuckmuppet when he says he wants something:

"Employees must smile if less than 10 feet from a customer."

You are all a bunch of suckers with short memories you can all get fucked!!

You can all go fuck yourselves

You fucking people will let anyone off the hook for their violent hateful beliefs and all they have to do is say shiny words you like You’re all a bunch of Nazi tattoo forgiving, Jewish space lasers forgetting gullible marks getting played for fools As a Jew I suggest you all go fuck yourselves.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Republicans refusing to release the Epstein files: "It seems like very rich and powerful men are being protected...It's horrendous."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: “The worst thing that I just can't get over is we're not working right now. And I put that criticism directly on the Speaker of the House…It is an embarrassment to me that we're not in session.”

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

As a reminder, the guy who was in charge when all the DEI stuff got pulled didn't lose his position, he got PROMOTED to a higher position, in case you were wondering where these idiotic ideas keep coming from.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

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. 🧪🧬🧫

Walmart has a habit of not vetting products submitted by individual vendors very well. Please give this a search and report them down, they're still up.