WTH @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team ? Please reinstate author and historian Sarah Kendzior. #booksky #authors

True, sometimes pwning rich jerks leads to them owning the instrument of political discourse And them doing some light treason

My guess is both of them traded their votes to help their progeny with their political careers somehow. Too bad for them, voters are in an anti-incumbent, anti-nepo baby mood.

Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court. The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used. The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Ode to MapQuest, which frequently got the last few directions wrong. Not a problem in big cities with grids, disastrous in the middle of nowhere. The time I was waiting for it to load on my Motorola Razr and only realized I was lost in Twin Cities bc I started seeing the signs for Wisconsin 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

At this point, I can't tell if this is real or satire [cue distress loop]

We followed a court order and worked quickly to make sure that nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites who rely on FoodShare, including about 270,000 kids, had food to eat. Now, President Trump wants to yank that money away from hungry kids, families, and seniors in Wisconsin? Hell no.

Donald Trump just said he'll ask the Supreme Court to freeze SNAP payments AGAIN. His message to the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP? Eat dirt.

Meet one of the dark money campaigns trying to stop the momentum of People Not Politicians, Missouri's anti-redistricting initiative www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The anti-DEI people want to replace experienced air traffic controllers with people loyal to Trump. 🙃😵🫠🤬 www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

So Stefany Shaheen (yes, daughter of the Senator) is running for Congress and has come out against her mother's terrible capitulation, lol. NH has like 400 state reps, surely more than 1 of them wants to run for Congress? (Political dynasties haven't been popular in NE as of late...)

Apparently there was a 🥬 recall last week because of course, and does anyone know if the remaining USDA food inspectors were furloughed?

Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."

Does McDonald's think we're all gremlins?

I have to hand it to Democrats. I'm one of the feds working and not getting paid and they manage to make reopening the government feel worse than the alternative. Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?

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.

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

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-...

Caving will be their legacy.

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

This is also why NYS Dems chair Jay Jacobs has been in his role for almost TWO DECADES despite him being the worst at it.

I'm also saying this because you should treat your voter registration strategically, and not as a form of identity.

In the past few years, Durbin has become increasingly contemptuous of people, and insistent that he is right. The DC echo chamber is a helluva drug.

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.

I hope the cavers and collaborators step on Legos in the middle of the night

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.

Too sad/ mad to even binge watch a show. Just going to hug my dog and go to sleep.

Mitch McConnel's singular political insight is that Presidents get punished for Congressional obstinancy and he used that insight to get the Right an unbreakable majority on the Supreme Court, so of course Chuck Schumer's iteration on it is to proactively let democrats take blame after tangible harm

Senator Dick Durbin used to be a fighter for the little guy, in the mold of the late Paul Simon. Not sure when that changed, but his last few years of votes are odiferous.

what are those of us without FSAs or HSAs or whatever the fuck supposed to do with this. i have a debit card and i need to go to the dentist you assholes

The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to, not because the voters want them to, not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to… they are caving because their DONORS want them to. And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt

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...

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

Can I interest anyone into a coordinated outdoors scream?

I can’t support this bill. It doesn’t meet the urgency of the moment and deliver actual relief that can pass both chambers of Congress. I’ve been clear that we need real action to stop the devastating health care cost increases that are hurting millions of families. 1/2

My deep concern about this approach is that it’s teaching the Trump administration that the path to get Democrats to cave is to inflict maximum pain. It means if we do this again in January, he’s going to try and find new and creative ways to hurt more people faster to get Democrats to cave

At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time. Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.

All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win

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

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.

Chuck Schumer remains a complete sentence.

Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats: in 2001: 32 in 2003: 34 in 2005: 40 in 2007: 44 in 2009: 39 in 2011: 32 in 2013: 33 in 2015: 34 in 2017: 49 in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999) in 2021: 48 in 2023: 51 2025, i.e. this week: 64

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons. "ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

The dramatic repudiation of Trump this week wrecks a number of absurd narratives the media has pushed lately. In the runup to the election, NYT pieces kept telling us Dems were overly obsessed with attacking Trump. That dumb idea now lies in ruins. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2027...