Donald Trump isn’t innumerate or lying. He is completely unable to use numbers to articulate reality. Inflation, tariffs, Covid cases - they are all background noise. He puts forward what he wants you to accept, not things as they are measured by people who know what they mean.

IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO DO SOME CRIMES AND WANT TO GET AWAY WITH IT: *Become a Republican member of Congress *Donate money to President Trump or cronies *Marry a Republican member of Congress

“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”

The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

HBCU grad here! 👋 I had very few Asian classmates. Fewer still were Chinese. They provide negligible aggregate funding. The President of the United States remains an entire imbecile

With a load of iron ore, 26 thousand tonnes more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty. That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came early. Masterpiece.

Imagine how empty you have to be inside to voluntarily participate in this spectacle.

one time I pointed out that elon musk followed no women on twitter and he immediately followed caity weaver

I am interested in what this looks like in practice

And then he shoves all his chips into the pot.

When you can’t afford health insurance just remember that Sen. Kaine is sleeping well

Joyce Carol Oates said Elon lives an empty life and he's like, "Nuh uh. I watch movies AND read nonfiction." Like just taking a full mulligan on the friends and family stuff. Fatality

Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

literally every failing automaker tries this, and it never works

its especially humiliating for the Cave Caucus that he's not even trying to pretend that he might do this.

America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Vision, from The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1901, 📸 by Noah Graham

great point. as opposed to when the government wasn't shut down and Trump was scrupulously following the law to the letter bsky.app/profile/heid...

weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message

Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop

The administration went all the way to the Supreme Court on Friday night to halt food-stamp funding. 🤡

While going through the proofs for "The British General Election of 2024" (out very soon!) I came across this - Paul Johnson of the IFS's verdict on Labour's manifesto last year. Labour's current attempts to claim the need to break their tax pledges was impossible to forsee don't stack up

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

The arrogance of a Senator who is not even running again to take the lead in undermining the Caucus and the voters.

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Agree. Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them." This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.

Durbin is trash. Yes, lots of great stuff in the past. Sure he’s a decent guy. But he’s pure trash now. Important to see that the bulk of Team Cave is made up of people who are retiring.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

He has been uninspiring forever, but in the past several years it’s been clear that he’s absolutely the wrong leader for this moment.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

The politics of the shutdown: *GOP had a strong opening position *Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP *Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change *Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

the moment Chuck should have said no to ever having the vote without getting major concessions was when Trump's goons put up signs on all the government websites blaming democrats for the shutdown. Now their narrative of the blame will persist and the coward's causcus will deliver weak gruel.

watching my Obamacare premiums go from $422/month to $1455/month on the Senate floor right now.

Yep. My feelings exactly.

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...

They're treating Trump illegally firing federal employees like it's leverage, not a criminal act.

It's a pity that there was no way predict that Thanksgiving was coming. But sometimes it's these kind of unforeseeable contingencies that matter for politics.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.

Should be pretty clear that without House commitment on a vote on ACA extensions, it is purely symbolic as part of the Senate deal

No health care, no deal.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.