Durbin's not accepting voicemails in either Chicago or DC. Ridiculous. Whoever is monitoring @durbin.senate.gov: Please tell the Senator that his constituents do NOT want him to cave. Not without an ACA fix.

My understanding is that Chuck Schumer and leadership aren’t caving but these senators are: call them!

IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO, WHAT THE HELL WAS THE POINT OF THE SHUTDOWN @schumer.senate.gov A "PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE" MEANS THAT PEOPLE WILL LOSE THEIR HEALTHCARE

Just sent a message to Ossoff's office. I'm proud of how I closed it out: "Democrats just won a huge victory last week and are winning the polling wars. Now is not the time to cave for fractions of a penny on the dollar. Make the shutdown mean something. Have a spine."

This group. Ahh, this group warms my heart, because they MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. In the many places where their youth volunteers are working under VoT leadership, We see huge gains in the numbers of people 18 to 29 voting (vs previous elections in the same area). Donate what you can!

12 months until the midterms 🫡

The strongest nation in the world can’t protect their children from gun violence so we are teaching them how to hide and fight armed assailants. This is tragic and terrifying for our children and their parents. We must pass common sense gun legislation. op: laci__bean via IG

I just received my food delivery that I was able to purchase because I RECEIVED my SNAP benefits today. I sobbed. I didn't expect that reaction. I cried for the relief of having access to food but it was ALSO for the 42M under so much stress and for the MILLIONS who have NOT received their benefits.

@schumer.senate.gov Don’t trust them!

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

One thing I like about Mamdani (speaking as a rando from the West Coast): he makes cities sound like good places to live, and suggests we should make living-in-cities better for everyone and more accessible. (I'm hoping we get informed of a Katie Wilson win here in Seattle on Monday)

@housedemocrats.bsky.social NO DEAL!’ You know you can’t trust a word they say!

NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I spoke to sources at FBI and DOJ that reviewed the Epstein files. It’s worse than the photos. I’ll let you know what they said today at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @meidastouch.com. Link to show: www.youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...

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@ritchietorres.bsky.social and @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social : Hold your ground! You absolutely cannot trust the Republicans, especially Mike Johnson. No deal that does not have our healthcare IN THE BILL!

This morning, the president ordered states to not distribute full SNAP benefits for November, and demanded that states “undo” any benefits payments that have already been sent to working families for food. Read our statement in response.

It can't be repeated enough - in an attempt to stay in office against the will of the voters, Donald Trump incited a deadly insurrection against our own government in which hundreds of police officers were beaten for hours and our Capitol was ransacked. #TrumpCoupAttempt

I 💙💙💙 Nancy Pelosi!!!

With AI centers around the state sucking up more than their fair share of electricity, I would think that power companies and municipalities would welcome a little less consumption by the citizenry.

Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."

This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.

Schiff: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard to cut food from people who need it right now? The cruelty is part of the policy."

I disagree with Kyle here. The GOP's goal is to get all TSA and Air Traffic Controllers to quit, and then privatize and de-unionize them. Simply getting them to pay TSA and Air Traffic Controllers isn't a cave. youtu.be/MFejM5qHa5M?...

This is good, and should actually make us feel better. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily blocked a ruling that required Trump to fully fund SNAP because she’s playing chess, not checkers. She sent it back to the lower courts for a reason. 👀

From Manhattan to Manhattan Beach, we won’t stand for a mad king.

The @nytimes.com fails again. This headline completely misrepresents Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s temporary order which is saving SNAP from the Trump regime completely obliterating it in the future. No wonder Americans stopped watching/reading the news. Trust independent journalists.

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.

Meanwhile 🥵

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask. Cowards

Kristi Noem ordered ICE to purchase ten Spirit Airlines jets for deportations. Two problems: Spirit doesn’t own the planes, and they don’t have engines. Has there ever been a more incompetent administration? www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Socialism doesn’t believe the government can do a better job than private industry. Socialism believes that a government given a mandate can do the job with equity to all, and without a view toward making a profit. Profiteering in healthcare, education, and the prison system is killing all of us.

A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices

ICE stormtroopers are in my county today. It’s depressing AF. My hate for GOP is incandescent.

Before anyone gets mad at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, listen to Kate. Justice Jackson didn’t side with Trump: she issued a temporary stay to prevent a rushed ruling that could let presidents exploit shutdowns to bypass Congress. Her move protects SNAP recipients & constitutional checks & balances

One more interesting race that has flown under the radar: Naren Briar will likely defeat Conrad Lee in Bellevue Council Position 2. Lee is a former Bellevue Mayor and has been on the Council since '94 & BEFORE Briar was born. She would be first Kurdish-American to win office.

Donald Trump claims to be "Pro-Life." Indeed, he was the first sitting president to attend the annual March for Life. But this didn't stop him from conspiring with Elon Musk to kill 600,000 (so far) people, 2/3 of them children. You see, when Elon says we need more children he means *white* ones.

A copy or did he steal the real one?

42 million Americans, including children and the elderly, are in dire need of SNAP benefits and Trump is in court arguing that he has the right to starve Americans. All the while, he is actively extorting the Washington Commanders to name their $3.7 billion stadium after him. 👇