The more war crimes the US commits, the less cooperation the US will get from allies.

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct. Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah. Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh. Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count. But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

On this Remembrance Day, I am more focused on WWII than WWI ... for some reason.

‘Vance is welcoming Nazis in all but name into the GOP. Their oft-stated goal is an ethnic cleansing of the United States and the vice president’s family. And Vance has moved to form a coalition with them, while the press cannot even attempt to explain to America what this means.’

the joy of blogging is not having an editor.

Senate Dems are out here posting noise like "omg the Senate GOP just voted against healthcare subsidies and are trying to sneak a bunch of terrible shit into the funding bill" — and people are flooding their mentions with "bitch, please, GTFOH" Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum

Stay and fight. From New York: if you register as an independent, you can't vote in the primary. And in a blue state like NY, primaries can be more decisive than general elections. And in general elections, you can vote on the Working Families Party line and signal the Dems you're a progressive.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

🚨 Have you listened to the latest episode of Sirens? Breaking Defense's Congress/Industry Reporter Valerie Insinna brings you an insider's look at the rift between Pete Hegseth's Pentagon and the press corps that has covered it for decades. Listen wherever you get podcasts. https://ow.ly/aE4750Xpyj9

I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly. A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here. U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

Don’t pretend it isn’t happening in Canada, and don’t let it get worse.

as much as i am miffed at the Senato Dems for getting very little for their votes, I am pretty sure this scene portrays the dynamics that will most most next November.

Supreme Court suggests that Kim Davis go fuck herself and/or one of her 37 ex-husbands.

Why can't we have nice things for even one week

> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Congrats to the eight Democrats who gave this regime a huge win over the weekend. Here’s your reward. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Who Pays Trump’s Tariffs? By October, 2025, Importers now bore only 27% of the tariff cost—less than half the estimate for June. A slightly higher 18% was now borne by exporters, and a much higher 55% was being passed on to consumers. www.cfr.org/article/who-...

The CPL Final is in the middle of a snowstorm in Canada, true North American soccer heritage...how could it get any better? HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.

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

Naive doesn’t begin to cover it. Sigh. Trusting these republicans 🙄🙄

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

Close votes are close for a reason--the party organizes who take the hit and who does not. Again, no accident no 2026 candidates voted yes. So, primary any Dem Senator that is not willing to fight this day and every damned day.

Interesting study from RAND arguing that AI increases jobs, rather than replacing them. The reason? Most jobs are complex. Microsoft, for example, says 'political scientists' will be easily replaced. Buddy, I do like six different jobs. www.rand.org/pubs/comment...

No 2026ers is absolutely not an accident. Elections do matter, and these assholes are expecting people to forget the betrayal in 2 years. Not a bad bet since way too many Americans forgot who was President during the worst part of the pandemic.

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

Any senate Democrat who supports keeping Schumer as leader should not get your vote. That needs to be the line you have to draw. Sorry, I realize that might seem hard; so is not being able to fucking afford healthcare.

One point worth emphasizing here: The punditry has been saying Sherrill (and Spanberger) represent the sane centrist wing of the party versus the left. Well, okay, but here Sherrill is urging more fight. Again, the results show that anti-Trump + affordability can *unite* the party. This shows how.

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.

It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not. If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.

I don't like the phrase "moderate Democrat" to describe people who folded. Caving to Trump is the extremist position.

First snow was not as much as predicted, but glad i don't have to be in the road until mid afternoon. Canadians always forget how to drive, walk, ride on the snow. Takes them a first snow to remember

THAT IS ALREADY A LAW. TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT WHO SIGNED THAT LAW. YOU ARE A FUCKING NEWS REPORTER

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

I would love to understand tactically and strategically why in a week of electoral victories senate Democrats are tempted to cave on the shutdown without anything to show for it.

Outrage upon outrage.

Remember all those Democrats who voted to give a George Bush blank check to go to war to Iraq paid political price during primaries - this cave is even more humiliating considering how deeply unpopular Trump is now compared to Bush in 03-04. There is just no spinning this one.

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.

Keep thinking about the words of wisdom from @bradlander.bsky.social that the divide in Democratic politics right now is between folders and fighters.

I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis. I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO. Full statement:

Elected officials make it really hard to maintain even the tiniest sliver of hope

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

Hahaha "a promise to vote on the ACA subsidies" in Dec. I mean.... Just.... Gullible shit

These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.