After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

Pre-ACA, ~45% of the price of individual insurance plans went to marketing, administration, and profits. (The ACA required that to be reduced to 20%.)

Just in case someone doesn’t know this: one reason individual health insurance was so expensive before was that it’s generally a lot cheaper to insure groups. (Not just bulk discounts but the fact that you don’t need to do individual underwriting.) The ACA turned individuals into a big group.

This is SO not my area of expertise, but I always assumed that one of the (many) points of logical positivism was to counter claims about the essence of the German people, and similar.

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.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Hearing from more people after this went out. "We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."

Good morning! 🪶

Cosign. Hard.

Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...

Gifting this article from The Atlantic by a judge appointed by Reagan, who is resigning so he can speak out about how Trump is destroying the rule of law. Must read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

We couldn’t even be happy for a whole week.

Sounds like a great idea. It would mess up the Senate, but right now that seems like no sacrifice at all.

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

The administration is deliberately starving poor people so that Dems will agree to radically slash the healthcare available to poor people. Do not let its familiarity dull your outrage. This is monstrous, unforgivable shit.

Cosign.

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.

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

Yep. My feelings exactly.

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

It’s time for Speaker Johnson to cut the ridiculous excuses and do his job. Adelita Grijalva won an election more than 6 weeks ago, and she still hasn’t been sworn in to represent more than 800,000 Arizonans. Read her op-ed:

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

It shows Schumer no longer has the caucus.

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

Yep.

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...

Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.

It’s so wonderful that these ducks are actually called Buffleheads.

Utterly dispiriting thread.

Any reason to think Trump will not just veto any healthcare bill the Democrats propose, even if enough Republicans vote for it?

Hakeem is against the deal

People need to understand that Chicago is a preview, not a culmination.

Why not say you won’t donate to the campaign of any Senator *who votes for this*?

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out. He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

Call your Senators.

You're probably wondering how I got here:

If Schumer actually does this insane deal, it’s fair to wonder if he’s making Republican bets on Fanduel. This is Terry Rozier-level politics.

Our leaders are rolling over for this asshole?

“The toad beneath the harrow knows Where every separate tooth-point goes ; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad.” Ever wonder what a harrow is? Or what harrowing means, literally?

I’ve said this before but I couldn’t get insurance when I was pregnant due to my pre existing condition…pregnancy.

One thing from our piece on Saturday: Sen. Shaheen is leading the Senate cave caucus. She's on the appropriations committee and wants whatever little goodies she got in her appropriations bill passed into law. As we wrote: prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

Hey just a reminder that it only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove and replace Chuck Schumer as minority leader. They don't do it because the majority of Senate Democrats approve of the way he does politics.

Thread.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

This, otoh …

Back in the nineteenth century no one paid for computers either. This is not a perfect analogy since there was SOME healthcare in the 1800s, if you count bloodletting and hospitals that made you more, not less, likely to die.

This is my default assumption about any story from Axios, Punchbowl, and the like.

Trump’s approval rating drops to a dismal 37%. Trump: Free $2,000 for everyone!!!

The Trump admin yesterday began the final push to have Kilmar Abrego Garcia deported to Liberia, in yet another effort to punish him for making them look bad after they illegally and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-adm...

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...