Now today’s HCR LETTER 8/8 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

While senators say they will stay in Washington and work to end the shutdown, Trump is following House speaker Johnson’s lead and getting out of town, heading to Florida for the weekend. 7/8

The rejection put the Republicans in the awkward position of rejecting the reopening of the government because they are determined to kill a measure that is popular with three-quarters of the American people. 6/8

This would have answered the short-term problems of the increasingly painful government shutdown and skyrocketing premiums and left the question of extending the premium tax credits to voters next year. Republicans rejected the offer outright. 5/8

and the establishment of a bipartisan committee to figure out how to revise the tax credits so they could continue past next year’s open enrollment period. 4/8

Friday, on the floor of the Senate, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the Democrats would vote to end the government shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of the expiring premium tax credits… 3/8

The democrats continue their fight to extend the healthcare tax credits. Without those credits, millions of Americans will lose healthcare coverage, and healthcare premiums for millions more will skyrocket. About three quarters of Americans want those premium tax credits extended. 2/8

Tell me more about ‘Sleepy Joe.’

Brian Krassenstein Gavin Newsom just went into Houston, Texas of all places and brought the house down. This part of his speech gives me chills. STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY!!

Mamdani is already cleaning up the NYPD!

Every single evangelical church would talk about this on Sunday if a Dem president did it. Every single one.

The Hallmark Channel has risen from the ninth to the fourth most-watched cable channel in prime time in the last three weeks.

With another 56,000 votes counted in the Seattle mayor's race, Katie Wilson has narrowed the gap with incumbent Bruce Harrell to just 4,300 votes, and received just under 55 percent of the vote in the latest count, with perhaps 50,000 votes remaining to be counted. That's a solid turnaround.

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for. @wsj.com

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This morning, I spoke at the SOMOS Labor Breakfast. "We are not looking to remake New York City in my image. We are looking to remake it in the image of struggling workers across the five boroughs."

‘You’re a Nazi Promoter’ Mark Levin Skewers Tucker Carlson in Fiery Text Exchange Over Turning Point USA Debate

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Zooming into the center of our galaxy! 🌌 Hubble's infrared vision pierced the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy to reveal more than half a million stars at its core Credit: NASA, ESA, Greg T. Bacon (STScI)

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.

AI is raising your electric bill, even if you never use it. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

“There is increasing deployment of AI technologies behind the scenes, and that is definitely driving up these energy costs,” said U Penn professor Benjamin Lee, on why your utility costs are getting more expensive – even if you aren't using artificial intelligence. #Velshi