There are 1,700 ballots that need signature confirmation. That is enough to change the election. Go. Check. Your. Ballot. komonews.com/news/local/s...

This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

The “public charge” exclusion is inherently discriminatory, but of course Trump takes the hatefulness to a new level, denying visas to folks because they are obese or have diabetes. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period. My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point: newrepublic.com/article/2029...

Yes. Agreed. Thanks for clarifying. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com’s main point was that this was not just up to Schumer to keep those Dems 5 who flipped in line. This from @gregsargent.bsky.social & @brianbeutler.bsky.social is really on point. The best I’ve heard. Hopefully Democrats Listen to us.

"In losing, Dems have said: we will relinquish future opportunities to use deadlines to bend Trump to our will. That is a posture of weakness that voters will pick up on." On the pod, @brianbeutler.bsky.social has good ideas for Ds to salvage something from shutdown: newrepublic.com/article/2029...

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it. And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE? Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement. If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.

I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.

Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...

Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

To repeat: Maybe electing a life-long criminal to an office where he can pardon other criminals wasn't such a good idea.

Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Idea: Tell Durbin to retire early. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

Capitulating Democratic senators waited until after the election, indicating they know capitulation was a bad politics that bothers their voters and reduces their chances of retaking power.

If outside moderate factionalists really want to disclaim this outcome, they should seize the whip hand in demanding accountability. Immediate new leadership elections, mid-session resignation for all Dem capitulators who would be replaced by Dem governors. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

Key point

@govpritzker.illinois.gov tell @durbin.senate.gov to retire now. He’s worse than useless. It’s time he’s put out to pasture. Same goes for @duckworth.senate.gov if she doesn’t vote to remove Dick and Schumer from leadership.

“The failure isn’t presumptively just on Schumer and the seven-plus rank-and-file senators who voted to cave. Assuming there are no consequences for the leadership failure, it’s also on the rest of the caucus.”

All of this

“The failure isn’t presumptively just on Schumer and the seven-plus rank-and-file senators who voted to cave. Assuming there are no consequences for the leadership failure, it’s also on the rest of the caucus.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

Democratic leadership: YOU MUST VOTE HARDER. Democratic voters: VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY Democratic leadership: WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

It seems like this idea would simultaneously destroy the ACA while also giving people huge checks from the Trump administration?

Agree with this. About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.

Opening the government with no concessions from GOP merely to alleviate airline cancellations - when Congress has been dragging its feet for years on chronic FAA staffing issues - is a lame ass choice. Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.

If it's real, then the fact that their impulse when winning is to give up for nothing explains so much about the democratic party

Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

They’re not even gonna attempt anything along these lines, huh? bsky.app/profile/bria...

Insanity.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

This is why we subscribe to Off Message! www.offmessage.net/p/exploit-th...

“In all our discourse about male loneliness and alienation, we’ve given short shrift to the many ways political leaders have choked off healthy or neutral expressions of masculinity,” and that they’ve done so intentionally. www.offmessage.net/p/fascists-d...

whaaaaaaat - is ceding this position really the best way to fight corruption?

We took back the frog…

"overwhelming defeat" is when you lose by a point and a half (historically narrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

We've seen this with patriotic American symbols. American flag imagery has become shorthand for "conservative" or "right-wing" in popular culture. Right-wing militias appropriate a lot of Revolutionary War iconography.

“Symbols are fluid, their meaning is determined by who uses them and how. Concede a vest here, a pull-up challenge there, and eventually the visual language of fitness and discipline will be fully co-opted by people who understand neither.” www.offmessage.net/p/fascists-d...

incredible new trump photo

“In all our discourse about male loneliness and alienation, we’ve given short shrift to the many ways political leaders have choked off healthy or neutral expressions of masculinity,” and that they’ve done so intentionally. www.offmessage.net/p/fascists-d...

I admit that I find myself thinking this a lot. www.offmessage.net/p/fascists-d...

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

The purchasing power of lower deciles improved significantly under Biden. Even during the worst of inflation in 2022 when the affluent were taking a bath, that subgroup was coming out ahead. This was a reversal of the trend you are describing.

The Axios boys are giddy about the Ds offer, interpreting it as a big climb down. I'm not sure that interpretation is right. But this is an important moment to make clear to @schumer.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social et al, that anything less than this offer needs to be rejected out of hand.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.