The cave caucus is so horrible.

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Latest: there's a certified moron on the Fed's Board of Governors

Senators know that Schumer is responsible for the deal--the nominal 8 did NOT go rogue. Plugged in advocacy group leaders know Schumer is responsible for the cave. Hill journalists know it. Only trust voices who know that Schumer stage managed the cave.

Imagine being Gavin Newsom and thinking the way you win the Democratic nomination in 2028 is to get on stage and yuk it up with all these straight up fascists.

Proud to have @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social alum @merryvishmas.bsky.social making critical points on Bob Reich's podcast Saturday! youtu.be/azIm_JPnd9M?...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

HORRIFYING piece about Trump deploying the Treasury Department illegally to benefit crypto (no surprise!) and many other malevolent oligarchs. GIFT ARTICLE! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

HORRIFYING piece about Trump deploying the Treasury Department illegally to benefit crypto (no surprise!) and many other malevolent oligarchs. GIFT ARTICLE! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

The surrender caucus secured yes votes from Democrats who aren't facing re-election this cycle, but four of them have Democratic governors who can pick their replacement. If you live in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine or Virginia this is an easy and effective way to make your anger clear.

It seems noteworthy that not only is Schumer misreading the moment in how he handles Congress and the shutdown... he is so ham-handed and ill-timed in his efforts to mold Democratic candidates for office. From MI and TX to ME, the DSCC has lacked finesse or tactics suited to 2025.

When the moment came to blow apart a universal moment of energy, optimism, forward momentum for the anti-Trump, pro-democracy movement, say often: It wasn't progressives or DSA. It wasn't the young people running against the gerontocracy, or primarying those captured by the institution.

Even the dude who thinks we should try to win Elon back gets it. #SchumerGottaGo

The only Dem senators voting to cave on the shutdown fight are either retiring or not up for reelection this cycle. Might be Dems' most beautifully synchronized cave yet

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.

Seriously who is advising Dem Senators on this fucked up strategy? Just themselves and their savvy strategists? It's like they just do not care what the base thinks - even after last week's stunningly good elections. I know it's a bubble up there on the hill but this seems especially reckless

🚨 Finally. The WaPo does an in-depth analysis of Decomposing Dictator's inability to stay awake at that Oval Office meeting. Pics & vid. Watch the WH go ape sh*t after issuing a denial that Grandpa Chaos drooped over & passed out. Sunday shows better cover this. #25thA47 🧾 is.gd/nk08nU

SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates. In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.

CRAZY!! Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

Gingrich failed to get a conviction because Clinton did nothing wrong. If there was obvious evidence of 50-100 impeachable offenses like in the case of Trump he would have succeeded easily. Trump stayed POTUS because nobody ever went after him.

idk if schumer made the offer expecting it to be rejected but i am once again concerned that the lack of prioritizing defending the people from ICE signals intent to “moderate” on the american gestapo if dems ever get power again.

Starting today, Trump's FAA is cutting 10% of air traffic from the busiest airports across the country. They could cut private plane travel instead, but that would impact Trump's friends and donors.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

virtue signalling is good actually

Rich people are not entitled to a private audience with politicians just because they happen to be rich.

Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.

REPORT: Supreme Court justices have close financial ties to oil, even as they decide if cases against oil companies for their climate lies can proceed: 💰Justice Alito has stock in ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66, and up to $100,000 in a fund heavily invested in ExxonMobil; 🧵1/3

👀🚨 Yesterday lying liar Republican Senator from Texas Cornyn gaslighted reporters saying shutdown is hurting Democratic politically. NEW: Today fresh poll just came out 64% Latinos in Texas are blaming Republicans for the shutdown (vs just 21% blaming Dems). www.expressnews.com/politics/art...

CRIME PAYS -- when you're a corporate behemoth. Keep this in mind every time a neoliberal suggests that Democrats should "make nice" with Silicon Valley! www.reuters.com/investigatio...

No one should therefore be surprised that the Abundance movement is funded by a rogue's gallery of Big Tech, fossil fuel, and hyper wealthy billionaires.

This strategy manifests in Abundance's signature policy priority—"permitting reform"—where Abundance is aligned with extractive industries, namely the American Petroleum Institute, using distinct by complementary narrative messaging.

Keep in mind that the Abundance movement's attacks on progressives is a feature (not a bug) of its strategy: (1) Punch left; (2) Align right. Thus, e.g., Matt Yglesias embracing fossil fuels and never saying a negative word about them while relentlessly attacking progressives.

I will say, contrary to how progressives are often portrayed, they have made extraordinarily good faith efforts to engage with the critiques of them by the Abundance movement. For which, no doubt, they will receive no fucking credit whatsoever. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

The Abundance movement's portrayal of progressives is the product of an echo chamber of centrist think tanks with an axe to grind whose big win was persuading pundits to their side as the vehicle to persuade politicians. Abundance suffers from a poverty of good-faith engagement with the critiques.

A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong. open.substack.com/pub/dandiamo...

you look at Texas, they pay the state leg $7,200 a year and as a result like half of them are car dealership owning reactionaries

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

This whiny man-baby is big mad about the elections this week. He doesn't want to hear about "the affordability" anymore, cuz Trump solved that ok. So shut up just shut up stop talking about it.

On some level, the basic posture of some Dems (not all) is still fearful and tentative. Some seem afraid to say their big wins were driven even *partly* by Trump. Why? Say he's an unpopular and failing president who's wrecking the economy and that voters delivered him a resounding repudiation.

MISSING FROM HAGIOGRAPHY OF THE MOMENT: Nancy Pelosi Resisted Effort to Impeach Trump on Jan. 6: New Book. theintercept.com/2022/09/30/j...

according to Politico, it's "Decision day for Senate Dems" of course, that's Politico framing after the GOP got walloped in the election and even Trump says the shutdown hurt them It's Republicans who need to make some decisions but most DC media can't grasp that www.politico.com/live-updates...

things that arent the future of civilization - chatbots - crypto - robot butlers - cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people things that actually are the future of civilization - free clean energy

NEW in @prospect.org from @hannahstoryb.bsky.social: as Exxon once again seeks the help of the Supreme Court to avoid being held accountable for decades of climate deception, Alito isn't the only justice whose oily ties and inconsistent recusals raise serious ethics questions.

Worth noting just two days ago - the electorate sent a pretty clear message that they are tired of targeting of trans community (as their messaging felt flat). Once again the right-wing majority of this MAGA #SCOTUS issuing opinions not in step with majority of the country.

Alex is a mensch. Confrontations like this are really important because they both build solidarity and wear on the collective psyche of the fascists. Every act of resistance matters.

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

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