Piping in again with a reminder of our show this Wednesday. Nuclear Daisies are rad. Show Bar is a great venue. And it will be over by 10 so it won’t wreck your day at work!

playing @dkfm.bsky.social on the living room stereo via the Roku? it's more likely than you think!

no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Katie Wilson, who is good, is currently 4,500 votes behind Bruce Harrell, who is evil. There are 45,000 ballots outstanding. 10% of those ballots could change the fate of Seattle. Check your ballot.

Piping in again with a reminder of our show this Wednesday. Nuclear Daisies are rad. Show Bar is a great venue. And it will be over by 10 so it won’t wreck your day at work!

We’re not gonna die for you

Not a great sign when you feel compelled to explain the difference between a hold and a confirmation to the talent buyer/booker at a venue.

you could call your democratic senators and ask them to replace schumer as minority leader

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

i think it's true that republicans suck shit and are totally responsible for this *and* we need a better opposition party

This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame: Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

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.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Blame *all* Democratic incumbents for this surrender. Not just the ones voting for it. The others could have voted to remove Schumer long ago and install a leader capable of formulating a strategy and holding his people together. They were content to stay with a proven loser.

please help a disabled Mom with kids

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

This. Every dem senator up for re-election this cycle needs to be primaried if they aren’t publicly calling for Schumer to go. Yes, even ones who have generally fought the good fight like @merkley.senate.gov

reminder to any ambitious Dems waiting in the wings: announcing a primary challenge right now to a squishy Democrat who’s up in 2026, whether they voted tonight to shine Trump’s shoes or not, will almost instantaneously be awash in cash. fortune—and a primary challenge—favors the bold.

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!

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.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

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.

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

If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored. That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.

Have R senators? (Like me?) Call Schumer’s office to tell him you will never donate to another D senate campaign again as long as he’s Senate leader. Tell him this deal is a shameful joke and a betrayal. (202) 224-6542

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

Why would voters reward a political party with power when it refuses to wield it? That’s a question Democrats are going to have to answer if they surrender on this shutdown. Every day until the midterms

Call, call, call. Always be calling.

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Make art. Make art. Make art.

goddamn, @clppng.bsky.social is so fucking cool. youtu.be/h0-k7vW9Xek

It would be good if more non-musicians started to understand this shitty company.

Cornell has become the latest "elite" university to agree to the DOJ memo banning trans students from bathrooms and sports and adopting a definition of sex that defines trans people of out of existence. statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...

Today’s obnoxious promo bit for next week’s show. Nuclear Daisies are soooo incredibly good, and this show will be over before 10pm!

It's hard not to love #StarTrekLowerDecks, but these little nods to things in #StarTrek fandom make it so much fun. Check these Trek inside jokes in this video from @RoddenberryPod.bsky.social BEAM! #nerdlyfe

Sarah McBride should have the same kind of security detail House leadership has. J0seph Phi1lip Danie1 belongs in a cage. That the U.S. Capitol police don't have a TAS on his ass every time he's within 10 blocks of the campus is a disagrace.

Y'all know my gripes with Rep. McBride, with her unwillingness to stand up for herself & us against her bigoted colleagues. Even so, she doesn't deserve to be targeted & dehumanized like that. Spineless as she's been, she still deserves dignity. DON'T share the video. DO speak out against hate ✊️🏳️‍⚧️

McBride has politics that repel many people on her, for pretty good reason, but I had better not see anyone refuse her 100% solidarity on this at least.

As the judicial system continues to create incredibly specific carve-outs for trans people where laws and civil rights and common decency no longer apply, I want you to think very quickly and concisely about what the regime's endgame is here. Yeah, it's that. That thought you don't want to say.

We are in mid S3 of our Buffy rewatch CB and gotta say that I love that Buffy and Faith’s dance scene on Bad Girls is to Curve’s Chinese Burn.

abundantly clear that the six monsters currently running the Supreme Court do not think trans people are real and want them to go away they know what will happen to someone presenting as the other sex when their passport doesn’t match and they want it to happen their power must be broken

Today’s obnoxious promo bit for next week’s show. Nuclear Daisies are soooo incredibly good, and this show will be over before 10pm!

Today’s reply guy: “Yes, but it's lesbians 🙄 🙄 🙄 at the end” I feel like I should just make that the band tagline.

Trans folks reading this: don't panic too much, the supreme court thing is about injunctions pending a larger court case Cis folks reading this: Try to understand how terrifying it is to be a minority the government openly hates, and they start fucking with your ability to *leave the country*

Mistake 6: Reading more replies and realizing the ‘blue no matter who’s don’t know what the word tacit means