It passed Now on to the House The infuriating 8 voted THEY GOT NOTHING THEY CAVED FOR NOTHING A deep pit in my heart and gut They caved For nothing Schumer must go

Maybe the Senate Spineless Caucus should have been more careful before voting for this bill

Language buried in this shutdown “deal” allows 8 GOP Senators who tried to throw a coup, sue to get millions in taxpayer money—because Jack Smith got their phone records. THEY TRIED TO THROW A COUP. There is no excuse for any Dem supporting this. This is absolutely wrong. Full stop—Period.

BREAKING: US Senate has officially voted to end the shutdown, sending it to the House of Representatives for a final vote to re-open the government.

Here's my latest edition of this.weekinsecurity.com, with all the cyber news you need to know from the week, including: SonicWall's firewall data breach, CBO gets hacked, Korea Telecom's very bad breach, hackers hijacking real-world cargo, Nevada's hack post-mortem, and more. Plus: a new cybercat!

China is reportedly behind the newly disclosed hack of the Congressional Budget Office, and it may still have access to some CBO systems: www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Breaking MSNBC: The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.

NEWS FLASH

No notes….nailed it 🎯

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The hemp farmers forgot to give Trump a piece of the action. Cut him in for 20% and this all goes away.

we will probably not know For Sure who won the mayoral race here in seattle until december unless wilson pulls ahead enough tomorrow to avoid triggering a recount, but her NINETY ONE VOTE LEAD seems pretty likely to hold given all available trends. i am guarding my hope but ohhhhhhh it's so close

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...

Soon we'll be having black market Italian pasta controlled by the mob....

The 1930s taught us what appeasement gets you: a stronger enemy and a weaker democracy. Some of today’s Dems still haven’t learned it. You don’t bargain with extremists holding people’s livelihoods hostage. You hold the damn line. #HistoryRepeats thehill.com/homenews/sen...

The NASA Technical Report Server is not being updated due to funding cuts. This is a disaster. 🧪 🔭

Probably the most effective lobbying effort by the US airline industry since COVID

Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"

Reading Romer v. Evans (1996) today & btwn LMAO and realizing how close minorities constantly are to not having ANY rights. Kennedy: Colorado's Amendment 2 makes a "general announcement that gays shall not have any particular protections from the law." The referendum passed with 53% YES. Stress.

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

As I’ve noted, Trump doesn’t have the power to pardon state crimes. But we’re awaiting a decision this week from the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, which must decide whether to appoint a new prosecutor to pursue charges related to the Coffee County breach.

News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot. But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

This is good news, but our fight continues. Extremist Republicans are attacking LGBTQ+ rights across the country. We will keep fighting until we achieve full equality for all LGBTQ+ people.

Louisvillians don't want "a vote on health care" — we want affordable health care. Now is not the time to cave, it's the time to stand up and fight.

22 million Americans will pay so much more for healthcare because of this, including 32,000 folks in my district in SW Ohio. All while the vast majority of Americans – in poll after poll – have made it clear what they want: reopen the government and extend our healthcare subsidies... (1/2)

Republicans in Congress extended tax breaks for billionaire corporations, but they refused to extend tax credits to lower health costs for working people. While Trump and Republicans inflict pain on people, Democrats’ most important job is to fight back. This deal is a mistake.

From @betsyphillips.bsky.social: www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.

You know democracy is going great when your senators turn off their voicemails so they don’t have to hear from voters.

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

🚨BREAKING: In a case with major implications for voting access, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether a mail-in ballot must be received by Election Day to count, or if it merely must be sent by then. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: A whistleblower tells House Judiciary Democrats that convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell is in the process of seeking a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence from Donald Trump. tinyurl.com/582addcc

I can't help but laugh at this. As a retired Controller and also an instructor at the FAA Air Traffic Academy, I can tell you that of everyone that applies for the job 1 in 900 actually make it through the training process. Finding a future ATC is finding a needle in a haystack.

1981. Reagan puts air traffic control strike leaders in chains.

SCOTUS today agreed to hear a case that could strike down what's known as a "grace period," the practice many states have of allowing mail-in ballots to count if they're postmarked by Election Day, even if they arrive in the following days. Bolts reported on the conservative push to end this:

Re: Kim Davis, worrying about Obergefell is one thing, or even that they'd take that particular case. But there's something very dishonest and grifter-y about prominent people who absolutely know better being substantively misleading about how cert petitions work. That was wrong and in bad faith.

Do you feel that? That lack of us celebrating? It's because we've learned not to trust *the most corrupt Surpreme Court in our history.* This will come back around; they'll be asked to challenge it again and we'll be ready. I don't like waking up to see which rights we get to keep. Fuck SCOTUS. 🖕🏻

Ooh, @lastweektonight.com did a whole thing on Felony Murder last night. Didn't mention my book chapter on the matter. :( But still, I happy to remind you that these laws are shitty and need to be repealed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93l...

Chuck Schumer has failed us.

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

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)_/¯

Tonight was a very bad night.

We just won on Tuesday… JFC

I know some folks like to show respect for veteran politicians, but I’m done with that. Dick Durbin has been useless in a job that could’ve been held by someone who actually understood the fascist threat. If you’re not built for the fight, get out of the fight. But don’t throw us to the dogs.

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

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.