Whenever some sanctimonious Dem announces that America needs a functioning Republican Party, I always think “I’d settle for a functioning Democratic Party.”

Notebooks. Lots of notebooks. 🙄

My local rural school district is set to lose over $700,000 a year under the new school funding formula, while the Governor is funding private religious schools with taxpayer vouchers. What a scam…

The restaurant where I order my poke bowl changed their ingredients and upped the price. So I get less fresh food, more ultra processed crap, AND I have to pay more for that 🙄 So fine, I bought everything I need to make them now because fuck that shit Like $25 for a rice bowl like come on

Breaking MSNBC: The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.

The silver lining to the surrender by 8 Dems is that the House GOP must return to vote on it. Johnson must swear in Grijalva, and the discharge petition on the Epstein files must force a full floor vote. Stay tuned.

Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors. Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor. Reverse Robin Hood.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Everybody please participate. Let’s hold republicans accountable!

Exactly right. Why should we respect a president who doesn’t respect the constitution he swore an oath to uphold?

Trump calls Erika Kirk over for a kiss.

NEW: Looks like Thune got around the unanimous consent problem, and the senate could vote TONIGHT on the FINAL shutdown deal, meaning the House would open Wednesday to take it up. Tell me if I'm reading this wrong...

“You don’t just flip a switch…” —Mike Johnson It took them less than six months to pass a budget bill that gave billionaires permanent tax breaks and stripped away nearly $1T in Medicaid from Americans and ACA susbsidies. Also notable — Trump starting issuing tariffs 10 days after being sworn in.

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

She has to kiss his ass like this to save her job after the Sandwich Guy trial debacle. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Developers see profit. Politicians see tax revenue. Wildlife sees extinction. And rural communities see their entire identity erased.

To the 8 senators who voted to give up the only leverage they had and trust the GOP:

I don't know when I'll write it up, but among the things Rudy Giuliani got pardoned for is destroying the lives of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

Michigan senate candidate @abdulelsayed.bsky.social agrees this shutdown fight is more evidence of the need for Medicare for All 👇🏽

Making Minnesota the best state to raise a family means focusing on affordability and addressing barriers to owning a home. We’ve made the largest investment in housing in state history and today, we rank as the top state for young homebuyers.

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1969: “Sesame Street” debuts. Developer Joan Ganz Cooney wanted to create programming for preschoolers that was both entertaining and educational to help underprivileged 3- to 5-year-olds prepare for kindergarten. It became the most-watched children’s TV show. /1

“The worst view of current economic conditions since 1951… 61% blame Trump… 79% of independents have a negative view of Trump’s economic policies… if these numbers hold Republicans can wave adios to the house, and maybe the senate…”

Big Republican Lie in 2024: "The policies of the Trump administration will NOT be based on Project 2025." Big Republican Lie in 2025: "If you join us to end your only leverage over us, the shutdown, we *promise* [wink, wink] to bring ACA subsidies up for a vote."

"Hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses and investors... contributing hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal deficit, on top of the trillions that the legislation signed by Trump in July is already adding to the deficit..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Senator Murphy says there is no sugarcoating, no spin just honesty and resolve. He fears that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. He’s angry too but anger isn’t enough. We’ve got to keep fighting for democracy! 💪🇺🇸 #KeepFighting #ChrisMurphy #USDemocracy #Pinks

Stop drumpf voter suppression. Support folks like @marcelias.bsky.social & voting rights organizations like @brennancenter.org @CommonCause.org @aclu.org Help Register new Democratic Voters! Only Dems protect your constitutional freedoms! @FieldTeam6.org #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

There's one example of a successful hostile takeover of a major party - Donald Trump - and it didn't happen by playing nice with the party bigwigs. Trump went to war with them, humiliated them. And now "Little Marco" works for him.

This is Convicted Felon Donald Trump's legacy: killing people during Covid in his 1st term, and starving low income Americans in his 2nd term. All while he dines on expensive steaks and laughs at you. Even if you voted for him. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks#TrumpIsACriminal #FuckTrump

When Tucker Carlson platformed a white supremacist and the Heritage Foundation defended him, a MAGA civil war ensued that is eating the conservative movement alive.

WARNING! Turn your volume down. This insanity is from the Department of Homeland Security.

No agreement on healthcare but the government will temporarily reopen. Wish Dems would have stood their ground. Many millions will now shift to not purchasing any health insurance or signing for high deductible health plans that strain budgets without offering robust coverage.

I will be voting NO on the package coming from the Senate.

That old metaphor about the frog and the boiling water isn’t true: If you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will jump out before it gets boiled to death. The question now is whether American journalists are smarter than frogs. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

New York assemblyman Charles Lavine (D-NY) about bill to mandate school education on Jan 6: "People are entitled to their own political beliefs, but they are not entitled to change facts. Anyone of good faith who watched what happened on that day recognizes the threat to democracy"

"Oh, what a fool I've been, to come looking for courage in a lair of cowards." Ron Moore

Why are some people like this?

Second best time is now

There are two big problems with the “the Dem strategy wasn’t working argument.” One is that it was. The other is that changing the strategy did not require capitulation.

Since the start of the Trump administration, the Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys and filled only a fraction of the vacancies amid hiring freezes, delays, and a shortage of qualified candidates.

"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%... "The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

While flying remains one of the safest forms of travel, STOP telling us “It’s as safe as it’s ever been.” That’s a load of BS.

“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history. That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.