Ok, so Epstein wrote that Trump 1. “knew about the girls” and 2. “spent hours” with one of the victims. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

The guy who literally survived a stroke because of accessible healthcare now parrots GOP talking points that healthcare is extreme. Fuck off, Fetterman.

We’re getting on towards the end of the year. This will be one of my nominees for Post of the Year.

listen, with US journalism falling off a cliff i’ve seen multiple people touting the BBC for doing good “actual journalism” and I need you to know they’ve been horribly transphobic and damaging to trans people for YEARS and they’re about to get even worse they are not the answer!

When the Dean asks if you're "excited to deploy AI in the classroom."

Russia is currently attacking Odesa with drones, and reports say there have been strikes in the city.

“What is new is the confluence of three trends: The sheer scale of wealth for the richest. The untethering of compensation from performance. The amount of harm these figures are willing to inflict on society. All three are rising to a dangerously high tide. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Terrible news...I love this museum and found great joy in visiting at the end of long reporting trips this year in Syria. apnews.com/article/syri...

A truly splendid actor, with numerous great works to his name. So sad to hear of his passing.

Do you see now why resistance movements have to spend a considerable amount of time and effort rooting out traitors, informers, and those unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices for the movement?

OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars": ".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great." @variety.com $DIS variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

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A morning to re-read Lincoln’s letter to Meade…

New Hampshire: "Live free and spineless."

The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.

I’m sort of confused by the people asking if the airline lobby was pushing to end the shutdown. Isn’t the answer obviously yes? The Airline CEOs went to the White House weeks ago and demanded a clean CR. Isn’t it obvious that they would also take that line with their lobbyists?

You’re an experienced politician. How could you misread the situation this badly? Last week the country punched DJT authoritarianism in the gut. We wanted to force DJT to accept an extension of the ACA subsidies for a year. We gave you a very strong hand. Now you’ve given the initiative back to DJT!

Durbin is trash. Yes, lots of great stuff in the past. Sure he’s a decent guy. But he’s pure trash now. Important to see that the bulk of Team Cave is made up of people who are retiring.

This is absurd.

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

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

Do not wait. You’re not too young. You don’t need any more experience.

Fight don’t fold.

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.

the moment Chuck should have said no to ever having the vote without getting major concessions was when Trump's goons put up signs on all the government websites blaming democrats for the shutdown. Now their narrative of the blame will persist and the coward's causcus will deliver weak gruel.

He's already declaring victory. Elected Dems, you are so stupid.

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.

Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

If you want to call Senators right now but don’t know how to find their numbers, just tell me and I will find the number for you.

This moment demands fighters, not folders.

Keep calling. I called him tonight (and many other times). As this said, it’s potentially significant since he was long rumored to be with the cavers.

Mark Kelly a NO, notable as he was allegedly one of the cavers

Call them. Tell them not to surrender.

This isn’t very hard, folks.

Less than 1 wk since Rs lost control in VA, lost supermajority in MS, lost chance to control PA SC. VA Rs saying “They just smoked us. I mean, gosh, they wiped us off the map….It’s going to take 4 yr to rebuild what happened on Tuesday”& @chuckschumer.com caving? 🤷‍♀️ www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Senate Democrats: "Maybe it's time to cave to this guy."

Keep calling Senators!

DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATOR VAN HOLLEN SAYS I AM PREPARED TO WORK TOWARD A COMPROMISE, BUT LATEST FUNDING BILL DOES NOT COME CLOSE TO MEETING THOSE TERMS

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

The man who called out war dead "suckers and losers" is indeed pure trash, and the fact that pretends to support the military is the most disgraceful thing ever.

Exactly. Someone just asked me "but is political gain (vs Trump) worth seismic political risk?" Allowing Trump to function as a lawless dictator without any pushback from Congress IS the seismic political risk here.

Call now!!!

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

DO NOT CAVE!