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.

OK here's the blog post. 1) Split Ticket's WAR model is biased in favor of moderates 2) We create our own WAR measure w/ stronger model; correlates w/ @gelliottmorris.com's 3) Correlation ≠ causation. Diff-in-diffs & RDDs show no moderation effects data4democracy.substack.com/p/do-moderat...

The redistricting power grab in Texas is igniting a national response. Join @doggett.house.gov, @gregcasar.bsky.social, TX State Rep Donna Howard, @agounardes.bsky.social & @angieforfl.bsky.social TONIGHT at 7PM ET to hear how Dems are fighting back. RSVP now: shorturl.at/dUoJt

Unironically very proud of this one. It's not an easy environment to make anything good happen. But we're one step closer today!

Again: for all the moaning about "the groups" and "online leftists," nobody does as much to undermine Dems as elected Dems. Dem voters are rightly suspicious they'll elect someone like @shaheen.senate.gov who leaps in to save the Trumper who disclosed combat operations via a dubious Signal rip-off.

According to the New Dems innovation agenda, Silicon Valley has taken a "historically enlightened self-interest in advocating for pro-immigration, -housing, and -climate policies." Because meta and palantir are so good on climate and immigration??? wtf newdemocratcoalition.house.gov/media-center...

If you ever wondered how people could condone or ignore the systematic dehumanization & cold calculated atrocities carried out by the Nazis, you’re currently seeing that happen with the vast majority of elected reps, cultural institutions, religious orgs, and regular folks in both Israel and the US.

Brad Lander's "The line in the Democratic Party right now is not between progressives and moderates — it's between fighters and folders" is truly *the* best diagnosis of what's needed right now. It also has the advantage of being backed up by public opinion.

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them

"Billionaire media oligarchs... many of them have clearly decided that multi-million dollar bribes and abandoning any form of journalistic integrity are a small price to pay for gutting regulatory oversight and lower taxes."

It's important Americans understand that Silicon Valley hates them and wants them to suffer. Hence this DOGE weasel, "CEO of an Andreessen Horowitz–backed health startup that has ties to SpaceX," nuking Direct File to make your life worse even though it'd save the government money.

It’s a terrible bill that basically endorses Trump’s massive crypto corruption scheme. Democrats will regret voting for it.

It's no coincidence that the Fairshake crypto super PAC has timed its press release announcing they have $140 million ready for the midterms as Congress is considering three crypto bills during "Crypto Week". Pass our bills, or we will spend millions against you in the midterms.

Postscript: THE AFL-CIO who knows a thing or two about long-term financial market stability and it's impact on pensions is out in opposition. aflcio.org/about/advoca...

The Clarity Act that the House is considering this week has a lot of flaws. One is that it will substantially weaken US equity markets by weakening investor protections and introducing significant market volatility. Really critical to call your MoC and push them to vote no this week. Thread:

just smashing the "Americans actually hate the realities of mass deportation and we should be hitting R's on it, not running away from it" button again and again

Senator Shaheen supported the Iraq war, undermined efforts to end US involvement in Yemen, and opposed ending the war in Afghanistan. Hawks like Shaheen believe they are the only adults in the room. But really they're just rubber-stamping imperial presidencies and endless wars.

no, it's not. it's a great time to stop buying shit from oligarchs and fascists though ✌️

TBH this could be a problem for them

there are good reasons why no interpretation of the constitution in history has ever claimed the president has anything close to this kind of power, but oh well I guess we're gonna let him do it anyway

If you are an elected New York Dem and you are not endorsing the ***WINNER OF THE DEM PRIMARY***, you are part of the problem. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Hard to think of anyone in the pundit class who has been more consistently wrong about everything than Jim Kessler. Everything that voters hate about the Democratic Party right now -- the risk aversion, the corporate coziness, the utter lack of vision -- is thanks to Third Way.

I think I've figured out the game that Dems bashing "The Groups" are playing. It creates a way for them to adopt cautious, risk-averse, extremely-poll-tested positions while simultaneously posing as daring and courageous. A clever move. It gets NYT to quote you! www.offmessage.net/p/the-wrong-...

If COINTELPRO was trying to discredit centrist technocrats they would say stuff like this

Thousands upon thousands of people will die due to lack of medical care. It is “the greatest pro-life bill in a decade,” if you believe the gaslighting bullshit of the so-called pro-life movement, which never bats an eye at people dying.

striking and telling that Zohran can do the "this is all a distraction from the horrible bill they're passing in Congress" bit better than any of the establishment Dems can.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

Those of us who warned—before the election—that a Trump regime would eventually come for everyone were called “cynics”, “alarmists”, “idiots”, or worse. Fast forward to not even 6 months in to his second term and he is now calling for expelling American citizens as he opens concentration camps.

join me and my fellow Retirement Respecters™️ to say thank you to Rep. Evans for stepping aside to create a pathway for a new generation of leadership

Poetry from @sanders.senate.gov. "You do not win elections, in my view, by begging billionaires for huge amounts of money. That’s what Cuomo did: put stupid ads on television that nobody pays attention to."

In a less imperfect world, Musk and Trump would be forever cast as killers of children, and this would be front-page news for months and the subject of Sunday sermons in every church.

A source tells me John Fetterman is still a No on the bill reining in Trump's warmaking authorities but he doesn't want to be the vote that kills the measure. So he's not entirely off the table yet. A few Rs are also in play. Odds are long but folks should push. newrepublic.com/article/1973...

I have serious, possibly irreconcilable differences with anyone who thinks Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral primary is a bigger threat to the Democratic Party than the shit being churned out by the Neo-Confederates on the Supreme Court

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

there’s been some genuinely heroic and legitimately life saving work done by senate Dem committee staff during the Byrd process, and they deserve significant credit for that

Every single Democratic elected who represents NYC should be proudly endorsing Zohran Mamdami, who won the primary fair & square. They should be helping him however he & his team ask. If they mealy-mouth it or, worse, stand with Cuomo, *they* will be why people hate the party.

The Democratic establishment (Gillibrand, Torres, Suozzi, etc) thought the best outcome was to anoint a creepy, corrupt, serial sexual harasser as mayor of New York City. Seriously, why is anyone listening to them?? www.axios.com/2025/06/26/d...

RIP Bill Moyers. I think about this particular segment often.

Kristen Gillibrand so perfectly exemplifies what is broken in our party. Between engineering a massive crypto giveaway to the Trump family, endorsing a predator and grandma-killer for mayor, and now this, why would anyone trust her judgment? She shouldn't have be allowed within a mile of the DSCC.

This is remarkable. New Quinnipiac poll finds support for path to legalization for most undocumented immigrants has risen to 64%. Only 31% want most of them deported. That's a 14 point net swing for legalization since Trump took office. On immigration generally, he's at 41-57!