Dear Democratic Senators @democrats.senate.gov & @schumer.senate.gov - It looks like you have much to learn from the American people at tonight's Commanders-Lions Football Game about how to respond to wannabe dictators and their sycophantic followers:

Exactly the response of millions of Americans who just voted last Tuesday - to the disgracing sight of 8 @democrats.senate.gov sycophantically caving to GOP - with @schumer.senate.gov willing to to allow it all to happen... When will the @democrats.org stop pulling failure out of jaws of victory?!

Nice cover @kenmartin.bsky.social for this fiasco of the @democrats.senate.gov - but if you really want to work toward a blue wave in 2026, its time for you and the @democrats.org / DNC leadership to deal with the failing Senate Leadership issue. Otherwise you've got a LOSING team for 2026!

Booo @cornelluniversity.bsky.social - what a disgrace for a once great University! Sad, sad, and shameful...

Nice cover @kenmartin.bsky.social for this fiasco of the @democrats.senate.gov - but if you really want to work toward a blue wave in 2026, its time for you and the @democrats.org / DNC leadership to deal with the failing Senate Leadership issue. Otherwise you've got a LOSING team for 2026!

Either this will be done with Schumer’s blessing or Schumer can’t keep control of Senate Democrats. Either way, it’s clear he cannot lead and should retire. And retire immediately if the Dems cave in and only get a “promise” of a vote on the ACA credits sometime in. December.

#firechuck we need 23 senate dems to vote for a new leader

If Schumer thinks a no vote will absolve him of responsibility, he’s dead wrong. He’s the minority leader. It‘s his job to keep Senate Dems in line — or to hand over the job to someone who can.

I begrudge Trump and his regime, the air they breathe. For the Democrats to capitulate on the same eve as Trump being mercilessly boo’d at the Commanders game, emphasizes the need to change the leadership and old ways of the party. The public is literally screaming for new ways in place of tradition

Brian Tyler Cohen Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game. 😎💙😎🤬🍊💩

Did Tim Kaine not watch the Commanders game today? Because i think he may not have the correct temperature of his constituents.

Exactly the response of millions of Americans who just voted last Tuesday - to the disgracing sight of 8 @democrats.senate.gov sycophantically caving to GOP - with @schumer.senate.gov willing to to allow it all to happen... When will the @democrats.org stop pulling failure out of jaws of victory?!

Mike Johnson took time off from his extended House vacation to get booed alongside Trump and Hegseth at the Commanders game. #ProudBlue

Dear Democratic Senators @democrats.senate.gov & @schumer.senate.gov - It looks like you have much to learn from the American people at tonight's Commanders-Lions Football Game about how to respond to wannabe dictators and their sycophantic followers:

Question for @anneapplebaum.bsky.social and most other political commentators: Why are you so afraid of using more specific terminology for dictatorial leaders intent on claiming absolute power for themselves? Applebaum in particular needs to re-read Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism as reminder.

Once again @democrats.senate.gov have voted with GOP to pull DEFEAT out of the jaws of election victory that voters just gave them last week! 8 Dems - shamefully out of touch - have decided to cave to the GOP and their puppet master without even acknowledging significance of last week's elections!

And time for feckless Senator @schumer.senate.gov to be pushed out of leadership NOW, since he clearly can't lead his own caucus! The Dem. Senate risks losing Dems the momentum they just gained in last week's elections because of this feckless betrayal by 8, with Schumer's consent! Schumer, resign!

Apparently Senators Shaheen, Hassan, Kaine, Cortez Masto, King, Fetterman, Rosen - along w/Schumer who just allowed these 8 to break with the Caucus - did not understand the message a majority of Americans are sending to those who bow down to wannabe dictators! @democrats.senate.gov WAKE UP!

Apparently @schumer.senate.gov and these 8 Dem Senators have not yet heard the message from last week's elections!: Wake up or RESIGN now, and allow those who want to fight to step into your place! * Cortez Masto—NV * Durbin—IL * Fetterman—PA * Hassan—NH * Kaine—VA * King—MA * Rosen—NV * Shaheen—NH

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.

Ali Velshi comments on last week’s vote results: “Democracy doesn’t maintain itself, it depends on you. When the history of this moment is written, it will say that in the autumn of 2025, Americans refused to be spectators. They chose, instead, to be citizens. #Velshi

Apparently @schumer.senate.gov and these 8 Dem Senators have not yet heard the message from last week's elections!: Wake up or RESIGN now, and allow those who want to fight to step into your place! * Cortez Masto—NV * Durbin—IL * Fetterman—PA * Hassan—NH * Kaine—VA * King—MA * Rosen—NV * Shaheen—NH

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate. Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

Tonight was a very bad night.

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes Jonathan Chait. Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:

Perhaps our 8 feckless @democrats.senate.gov along w/Schumer felt that today's anniversary of the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall would be a great time for them to demonstrate their own cowardice in the face of authoritarian cruelty: Durbin, Shaheen, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, Rosen, King!

Apparently Senators Shaheen, Hassan, Kaine, Cortez Masto, King, Fetterman, Rosen - along w/Schumer who just allowed these 8 to break with the Caucus - did not understand the message a majority of Americans are sending to those who bow down to wannabe dictators! @democrats.senate.gov WAKE UP!

And time for feckless Senator @schumer.senate.gov to be pushed out of leadership NOW, since he clearly can't lead his own caucus! The Dem. Senate risks losing Dems the momentum they just gained in last week's elections because of this feckless betrayal by 8, with Schumer's consent! Schumer, resign!

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!

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:

Once again @democrats.senate.gov have voted with GOP to pull DEFEAT out of the jaws of election victory that voters just gave them last week! 8 Dems - shamefully out of touch - have decided to cave to the GOP and their puppet master without even acknowledging significance of last week's elections!

As @stevevladeck.bsky.social argues here, "especially in the broader context in which the Alien Enemy Act litigation, specifically, has unfolded, the justices in the majority got [to this cowardly decision last night] by burying their heads in the sand."

The PEOPLE of South Korea have shown the way a nation that VALUEs its constitutional democracy should ACT to remove a corrupt and lawless leader to protect both themselves and their country! So AMERICANS take notice: Will we follow this example, or shamefully FAIL to act?!

Direct and to the point question for all the middle-of-the-road Dems who still appear to be hedging their bets in the face of a totalitarian overthrow of our democracy, even on such a no-brainer as the disaster of these Tariffs! - Why won't the DNC call out and condemn this idiocy unequivocally?!

Last July the Roberts Supreme Court granted its permission before-the-fact for a dictatorial overthrow of the very Constitution the SC is supposed to be protecting. Now they have chance either to reverse that error, or to declare the SC's full surrender to totalitarianism. Which will it be @ SCOTUS?

New newsletter up! There's too much to cover. We're gonna have to talk more about all this on Thursday. ezralevin.substack.com/p/hands-off-...

This is the best take I've seen on the immediate political impact of Hands Off. A lot of people in power thought "roll over and play dead" was a smart safe strategy. They can either catch up or be left behind.

I know things are scary and the clouds are darkening, but if you want to feel good and even a little optimistic about the future I would highly recommend you watch @maddow.msnbc.com's opening from tonight. Massive, peaceful, boisterous, pro-democracy protests from sea to shining sea. 🇺🇸

We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?" This is our moment. This is our time. We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.

Want to catch up on all—yes, *all*—the #HandsOff protests this weekend? @donnermaps.bsky.social has collected Bluesky posts of photos from more than 1,100 cities great and small on this interactive map -->

Holy moly this is awesome. For any journalists looking to add interesting local anecdotes to your articles - check this out:

Eugene, OR on Saturday, a bald eagle circled over us thousands of protesters

When elected officials see mass protests and then immediately adjust their behavior in response, that is a good thing. That's how this should work! Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.

NO @theatlantic.com and A.Applebaum, you're grossly underestimating where we're headed! The future of the U.S. - IF the ongoing collapse into fascist totalitarianism continues, as facilitated by the GOP and everyone who bows down to kiss the dictator's ring - looks much more like 1934 Nazi Germany.

🚫MAGA🚫