Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

I think what I'm most disgusted by, aside from all the fascism, is the condescending way est. Dems keep acting like we don't know what's at stake or what capitulation means. We really do. They don't.

We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting. Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.

Every single person on this list needs to be ejected from the Democratic Party.

Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Every single one of them. Clean slate and only elect people who are actually willing to fight. Enough is enough.

notable that this is what the co-founder of Indivisible is saying this isn’t going to just be a handful of angry posters trying to organize primaries, you’re going to see real organizational muscle behind this I think

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

Exactly! Voters just handed the Democrats an unambiguous win and gave clear instructions. So clear that even Trump could see them. If they cave now, it's a betrayal of not only that but everything that was sacrificed to get that.

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.

Stomping all over the Senate Democratic caucus. I don’t expect the cavers to have any morals but anyone with soul in that entire caucus should be embarrassed and if they had a backbone call out their leadership for failing their constituents and the base. Embarrassing and disgraceful all around.

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Holy shit! That is both incredibly racist and incredibly stupid. The entire US population is just over 300 million. There is no rational definition where a third of the country are "foreigners" AND it is 100% not possible to remove a third of the economy without crashing it entirely.

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

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

Even if Trans Rights was a "Losing Issue" (it's not), I think Human Rights are actually something worth standing up for and if you start deciding whose dignity isn't popular enough to defend, you're playing the Fascist Game and are a piece of shit.

Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.

I just saw someone say that people back in the day (1800s) didn’t pay for healthcare and (1) y’all there was a lot of advertising for health products! It was just that without any real regulation, nobody knew what worked.

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.

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.

Also interesting how Sen candidates like McMorrow are reacting which is firmly against a deal

If these are your senators, CALL THEM and tell them how you feel. If these aren't your senators, call yours and tell them to give those senators the business.

DURBIN'S NOT EVEN RUNNING AGAIN, the gutless fuck.

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Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry. It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going! bsky.app/profile/cram...

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Fuck Trump, and everyone who enables or supports him.

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted should have known better

They went into this terrorized community to incite people. And pepper sprayed an infant. There is no level of depravity these people won’t sink to.

just a dead on example of how our flawed definition and conception of discrimination doesn’t stand up to scrutiny

I'd love to see a piece interviewing Republican voters who were promised the Republicans would enact a lot of conservative priorities and, as a bonus, also release the Epstein Files and now have a reality where Republicans shut down the whole House just to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

The most infuriating thing about freeze peach guys is the fact that they refuse to understand that treating the mere existence of minority groups as political speech is inherently unequal treatment from the majority, which doesn’t have to justify its own existence.

Fun fact: Musk's pay package would be equal to the cost of SNAP (i.e., helping 42 million people to buy food) for TEN YEARS.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

The Spanberger-Sherrill-Mamdani axis hints at the outlines of an emerging Democratic coalition for the Trump 2.0 era. It can and should be organized around both anti-Trump and affordability politics. Because they are often deeply complementary or even one and the same. trib.al/H2GGgET

undisclosed goings on. . until then 🤫

Schumer responded on the Senate floor today:“For this administration to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to get out of having to pay SNAP benefits for hungry kids is pathological levels of vindictiveness. This crisis is in the administration’s hands. It’s all them, not anyone else.” C-SPAN

Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50. “Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.

#いいおなかの日 👀👁‍🗨

Did not know that food banks don't pay sales tax, so their dollar can stretch more!! Cash donate to your local food bank!!

thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-... If this art was AI generated (which I suspect is based on some tells/lack of credit) than I think the headline just answered it's own statement. Sell out the illustrators, sell out everyone else.

Good! NYC has too many cops anyway, and crime drops in NYC every time they go on strike. No one will miss them.

I'm antsy, anxious, and pacing. Just can't focus on anything. Tried writing, on one of my campaigns or stories or anything, and just couldn't hold it. Started a game, immediately quit. Read a couple pages and put it down. Hate days like this.

Both parties actively endorsed Andrew Cuomo and he STILL couldn't beat a vocally pro-Palestine, pro-trans, socialist, Muslim immigrant. The vindication I feel IS a part of that obvs coz I'm a petty little cunt. But I mostly feel intense joy and relief that another way has been shown to be possible.

there's this thing i call "cop math" basically, when you catch someone abusing power to cause harm and they're being real confident or real casual about it, stop and ask yourself, "how much human misery is flowing out of this one person into the world, if this evil thing is just a *habit* to them?"

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