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Nothing compares to the suffering of a senator whose flight back from Napa was just canceled.

I'm cheering @julieroginsky.bsky.social right now, saying she is furious about the Senate's "unconscionable" cave-in and that it's time for @schumer.senate.gov to go. She calls herself an establishment Democrat but says she is more aligned now with @sanders.senate.gov. Ditto here.

A promised vote on the ACA? See, they can’t include the ACA without having to bring the House back into session - and they’d have to swear in Grijalva. That’s what this is all about. Protecting the Epstein files.

The Supreme Court was always going to swat away Kim Davis’ latest appeal, which did not even properly raise an attack on marriage equality. But pay close attention to what the Republican-appointed justices get away with after today’s positive headlines fade. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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.

Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"

we are cursed to live in a time of cowards

Just a reminder.

Dudes who get free healthcare vote yes on letting you die!

This right here.

What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?

Spoke with one of my best friends just now. Her insurance is now $1200/month. She has left the Democratic Party & is now registered as party-less or independent. A lot to consider.

Just a catastrophic self own.

Moderates are caving because the shutdown is uncomfortable, and the definition of being a moderate is not being willing to take a principled, uncomfortable stance on anything.

The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.” So I don’t know man.

NYT: F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It By Adam Goldman The head of MI5 asked the FBI for help. He asked Kash Patel to hold onto an FBI agent based in London who dealt with certain high-tech surveillance tools. OK says Patel! Nope. Gobsmacking! Gift link!

You didn't get a vote. You got a "promise" of a vote. From a party who is disappearing nannies & gardeners and zip-tying children. A party who has flushed Due Process in America down the toilet. Who has subjugated its Congressional duties to an autocrat. That's what everybody sees, Tim.

This is BRUTAL. Trump LOUDLY BOOED at the Commanders game. America lets him know exactly how they feel — to his face.

trump was solidly booed at the commanders game...proud of you, DMV...

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

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.

omg

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK. Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop. I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

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.

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

Schiff: "Ultimately, what's gonna protect the American people is what we saw on Tuesday -- the voters coming out and rejecting Republicans, rejecting increased healthcare costs, rejecting a president who is more focused on his personal enrichment than he is on trying to help people who are hungry."

I assume Schumer knows this is the end of his political career?

I don’t care if Schumer voted no. If he’s unable to wrangle the caucus, he’s not an effective leader. I’ll continue to push for the caucus to elect a new one.

Folks: The pardons are almost certainly focused on GA (they include a number of people implicated ONLY in GA), where the state will soon decide whether to appoint someone to take over the case. They should be meaningless, but Cleta Mitchell (a key ringleader in GA and still) wanted them anyway.

We finally get some momentum & feel some hope and then THIS is what you do to us? Read the room.

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. Horrible.

You just pissed on everyone who showed up at No Kings and everyone who voted blue last week. Don't get on here and tell us it's raining.

Dems have to find strong young people to primary these sellouts.

Then why’d you cave?

“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing

I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.

This is a terrible mistake and hands a victory to Trump right after Virginia voters handed him a massive defeat. You are doing nothing to protect health care, and as for Federal workers, why did put them through 40 days of hell to just surrender for nothing?

So you are caving with a promise? What happens when people have to sign up for insurance they can’t afford. It’s open enrollment. What happens when they don’t pay furloughed workers? Then what?

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

WELKER: Should the 300,000 Oklahomas who rely on ACA subsidies be prepared for their costs to skyrocket? LANKFORD: We're trying to find a way to be able to help (That's a yes!)

We are being led by absolute cowards

Right on cue.

Fight don’t fold.

Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.

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.

Newsom: "It's not about rule of law anymore. It's rule of Don. He's choosing which court decisions he agrees with. He's quite literally running an extortion racket. He's doing it with some of the most powerful corporate leaders. What does everything have in common? Tariffs. They're about leverage"