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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.

More people will now blame Democrats than Republicans for the shutdown. Masterful gambit!

Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)

First snow of the season in IL!

Chicago Public libraries collection budget is proposed to be cut in half and the vacant positions could be eliminated (wild right? considering that new presidential branch Chicago is getting soon 📚📜) Talk to your alderperson and tell them what you think!! actionnetwork.org/letters/no-l...

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.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

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

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

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.

We haven't even lost yet. The House done forgot the passwords to their computers and everything. They ain't been to work in a minute.

i do think we're likely back here again in january after an standalone ACA bill fails to get 60

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

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

thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014

And the bigger problem is the worst kept secret in the world. TONS of countries have copied the US Constitution. States too. Bicameral legislatures, separation of powers. NONE included the "lets give all counties an equal voice regardless of population" structure of the Senate.

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.

FUCK TRUMP!

That means restrictions on abortion coverage for the uninitiated

Cal and fax anyway faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

This helps honestly

"Hyde language" would be a ban on anything related to abortion. So, any Senate Democrat that caves is agreeing to vote to implement a nationwide abortion ban in exchange for healthcare subsidies.

A milestone: the court order in Chicago today potentially checks America's slide to a secret police state. For the first time, ICE and CBP agents are ordered to wear clear identification: badge numbers or names. Either they comply or this becomes THE issue in which the battle for democracy.

A word of caution about the new Axios report that Dem Senators are caving. Remember the NYT ran articles for months claiming that Harvard was caving, which.. never happened. Turns out their anonymous sources were Trump staffers. Axios may be similar. But, it never hurts to call your Senator. 1/

just found out that if you listen to his whole spiel at his capitol office, press 4 to speak to someone, listen to his other spiel, and THEN press some other button, you can leave him a voicemail there. better than fucking nothing I guess

A Sunday Word.

The fact that slightly less convenience in air travel broke their resolve is foul.

CHUCK SCHUMER, I SWEATER GAWD!

I’m a firm believer in taxes funding a well-functioning govt. Paying taxes that are properly allocated is good. But it’s obviously time to organize to withhold federal taxes. Our money’s just being stolen or dangled in our faces by criminals holding govt hostage. Cut them out & give to the needy.

You can pull up 5calls.org enter your zipcode & get a walk through with phone numbers to call & a script! It took me less than FOUR MINUTES to call my Senators!

You can't leave a voicemail for Durbin unless it's during business hours but I left a voicemail for Duckworth and Rep. Budzinski. 5calls.org has a nice easy script 5calls.org/issue/federa...

If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks. So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.

While it is crucial for Congress to reopen the government, it must do so with strong legislative language that protects federal workers from illegal firings and blocks the Trump administration’s authoritarian takeover of the federal budget.

Just used @resist.bot to fax letters to @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov asking them not to cave and reopen the government without securing SUBSIDIES FOR THE ACA!

I called @warnock.senate.gov and asked him to hold the line AND tell his horrible colleagues to hold the line

“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing

Hot take: they’re right, but the secret to a happy life is to be a lil fruity about it. You should love your wife in a gay way.

The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.

“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument

Discrimination against people with disabilities is nothing new.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

The senate dems are about to embarrass themselves and us AGAIN! I hope these reports are not true.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

It's really quite something that the ongoing ICE monstrosities aren't part of the shutdown debate. I respect the Democratic messaging unity on healthcare costs but it's really not the only way Trump is destroying America. This isn't really a criticism, just marveling at how politics works.

Well… www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...

I HAVE CONQUERED THE LAUNDRY. I EVEN MATCHED ALL THE SOCKS THAT HAVE MATCHES!