You shouldn’t be charged higher costs because your grocery app is profiling you — but that’s exactly what Instacart is doing. Their use of surveillance pricing to rip you off is alarming, and with @deluzio.house.gov, Rep. Pat Ryan, & @repangiecraig.bsky.social, I’m demanding an investigation.

41 members have signed onto the Luna discharge petition to ban congressional stock trading in the last 72 hours...this is picking up steam. clerk.house.gov/DischargePet...

As Mike Johnson loses control of the House, there's a discharge petition to force a vote for a wildly popular congressional stock trading ban. It already has more than enough Republicans to pass, if all Dems sign on. Sources working on the bill say Hakeem Jeffries is squandering this opportunity.

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

Trump pardoned Henry Cuellar, the Texas Democrat who was indicted by the Biden DOJ on charges of bribery and money laundering. We have policy disagreements with the last anti-abortion Democrat in Congress. But that’s not what this is about. Cuellar is now compromised by Trump and can’t be trusted.

If deemed valid, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s discharge petition would force House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring a stock-ban bill to the floor for a vote. https://www.notus.org/money/congress-stock-ban-bill-vote-anna-paulina-luna-florida

Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide

"Anti-corruption politics builds coalitions across the ideological spectrum: progressives, centrists, disaffected conservatives, and most importantly, people who have checked out of politics because they think both parties are corrupt," says @adambonica.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2030...

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

NEW: We just sent a letter, along with 8 other groups, urging the House to swiftly move forward with the Restore Trust in Congress Act, a congressional stock trading ban with bipartisan support. There is no reason to delay this important reform.

Leader Thune should bring this legislation to the Senate Floor and it should be passed immediately. We should protect children, not abusers and their corruption. Transparency is the only path forward to expose the extent of the crimes committed and give survivors justice.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Now is the time to fight, not surrender. 🗣️ Schumer must step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.

PCCC calls for Schumer to step down as Dem leader. Scoop by AP: apnews.com/article/gove...

Bernie Sanders calls the promised vote on ACA - the main concession won by Senate Democrats who voted to end the shutdown - "an empty gesture"

I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year. Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck

Chuck Schumer has not met this moment and Senate Democrats would be wise to move on from his leadership.

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

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.

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.

I’m a no.

Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare. I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”

Afternoon reports that some Democratic Senators may yield completely to Republican demands in return for the mere scheduling of a December vote to keep premiums affordable for those relying upon the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This would represent trading something for nothing.

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up. I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

Trump declares that Republicans have lost the shutdown. Absolutely zero reason for Dems to cave at this point

The irony here is that these policies (banning congressional stock trading, expanding Rx drugs negotiations) that Yglesias is lifting up have been undermined by corporate Democrats every step of the way. I've been trying to ban congressional stock trading for four years and counting!

Even considering voting for the Trump candidate (who also happens to be a serial sexual harasser and virulent islamophobe) should be disqualifying for a leader of the Democratic Party, full stop.

The corporate wing of the party has shifted their argument from "we just need to run candidates who fit their districts" to "progressives running in progressive areas hurt our centrists running in centrist areas." Who's shrinking the tent?

The through-line that can connect Democrats from all regions is progressive economics. Progressive-populist economic policy looks to be the one line to which Democrats of all regions and persuasions would do well to cling. trib.al/Y92T8Gw

There's nothing "moderate" about surrendering in exchange for "strong assurances" from congressional Republicans. That's just stupid political malpractice. Republicans are losing this fight, and Dems should hold the line!

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

It’s also hard not to notice that Zohran is running the exact campaign they say they want and they are endorsing him through gritted teeth. Charisma and vision are the only things that break through in this media environment. You cant stand out if you’re ideological jello.

when a federal judge has to tell the federal govt's lawyers that federal agents should not tear gas or otherwise menace kids on halloween

is this a joke? this feels like a joke. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Moral of the story: If you don’t want Trump to send the military into the streets of your city, have a tech bro billionaire call him.

We are so lucky to have @merkley.senate.gov's leadership in the Senate.

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.  Looking forward to No Kings Day.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Why is it that the livelihoods of federal workers or the healthcare of millions of people always end up on the chopping block, but never the trillions in tax cuts handed out to billionaires and massive corporations?

Social Security and Medicare are your dollars. Trump threatening to cut them to "win" the shutdown will hurt Americans. Why is the American President threatening his own people?!

You don't pick a fight and then run away. If Schumer caves to Trump again, he will lose all credibility with the public. This short-term CR would be a massive betrayal of working people across America. We need fighters, not folders.

EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO TODAY. LIKE COME ON MAN.

Direct quote from Russ Vought: "I don't think anyone should be afraid of a government shutdown...It's actually what's necessary to...get moderates to vote for spending cuts." So let's be honest about who is shutting down the government (republicans) and why (to gut the ACA).

DC/DMV folks: When Jimmy Kimmel fails to air at 11:35 tonight because Sinclair Broadcasting wants to punish him, light up the station’s switchboard and tell them you will be contacting and boycotting their advertisers.

I continue to support a STOCK TRADING BAN because members of Congress should represent their constituents, not their own financial self-interests.

incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses

New York politics is run by a bunch of boomers who paid like 100k in 1980 for now-million dollar homes. The reporters & politicians laundering this stupid Cuomo attack got rich off their home equity and then pulled up the ladder behind them.