putting chuck schumer where he belongs: thread

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

The day the mainstream media starts reporting for some reason that the president is a li'l sleepy, gosh who knows why, and the day he gets booed by a full football stadium, is the day Schumer and his braintrust cave. It's quite something!

Strength United is Stength Multiplied.

it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy

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.

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

This right here.

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

“Daniel Ek was a man, he was a big man,” sings an AI voice on a demonically shredding jazz-pop song called “Daniel Ek’s Bathroom Mirror.” “And he steals from musicians ’cause he knows that he’s shit at guitar.”

The @merrillcollege.bsky.social journalism students who have been showing up to immigration court in Hyattsville, Md., and who got asked to leave, then regained access, have another story, this one about the folks who also come to bear witness: cnsmaryland.org/2025/11/08/l...

It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom

Thread: part of an ongoing project to erase people of color from military history:

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Also worth noting, it also protects others, it should be normal to not want to risk making others sick and not wanting to be sick yourself. I wish people would get that masks arent just a personal choice, not using one can affect everyone you meet.

Because Marjorie Taylor Greene has been in the news (and on "The View"), just remember that she's deeply bigoted and any "changes" in her views are fraudulent because she wants to be president.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

The stories you're hearing about the disgusting conditions of these camps, and the cartoonishly evil cruelty of the guards there, the deaths and consistent theme of dehumanization? That's just the tip of the iceberg.

I keep saying: Tisch cooperated w ICE to arrest Leqaa Kordia. She shouldn’t be commissioner if @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wants to protect us from ICE. If there is to be an NYPD — & Zohran repudiated abolition — then its role must be to protect ppl from ICE. If that’s unrealistic whats the point?

What this order makes clear is that plaintiffs can collect a mountain of animus, the district court can write extensively about the record, and the Supreme Court will just go “nuh uh.”

Is there a way to see all the tags that can be applied to a pilot in @webeharebrained.bsky.social 's Battletech game?

The sheer incuriosity and disregard in this photo. What's *worse* is you know he's gonna be all "I dashed to the man and saved his life, and he looked up at me and said 'sir,' he said, 'God bless you Mister President, you saved my life, sir,'..."

Sandwich Guy is acquitted!

Good, ethical journalists don't treat sources the way she did - and they don't treat audiences the way she did either. The NYT has actively confused and misled their audience on trans youth healthcare, and they know it full well.

I want every single reporter at NYT to struggle to cover trans issues for a decade. I want them to feel forced into hiring a trans reporter just to have their stories adequately sourced, and then I want that trans reporter to struggle too.

Never talk to the nyt, y'all.

New York and California wins are amazing, but THIS Mississippi win is phenomenal! Democratic platforms can win outside the so called liberal center when there’s genuine platforms and community work that brings people together.

Hell yeah.

Amazing. No notes.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

David Weber, David Weber to the phone please.

as @bretdevereaux.bsky.social wrote immediately after j6, the very clear lesson from the ancient republics is that you have GOT to aggressively punish the LEADERS of coups and putsches... because otherwise those fuckers just come back and try again acoup.blog/2021/01/15/m...

let's fucking goooooo, this is an incredible lineup (and all female, and so many women of color!!)

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...??? Like....

ADL is madder about Mamdani than they ever were about the richest man alive doing a seig heil

okay so i spent way too much of my life hyperanalyzing policy and combing through words for objective political meaning and the thing here is ... this is 100% correct and i wasted a quarter of my life

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Zorhan +26 Black residents

"Not as classy as Curtis Sliwa" is quite a legacy.

LINA KHAN is on Mamdani’s transition team???????? LET’S GOOOOOO

“Fatalism around the grim state of the world is often presented as wisdom by Democratic veterans, but it’s just as often an unwillingness to try if it means potentially failing. Which to be clear, is cowardice.”

TPM's @allegrak.bsky.social worked at Teen Vogue for several years before returning to TPM earlier this year. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it