Sen. Tim Kaine Announces He Will Support Deal to Reopen Government; Sen. Mark Warner Says “We owe the American people more than a short-term fix that leaves working families staring down a health care crisis” bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...

🚨Republicans are attempting to impose a national abortion ban. Posted 3 hours ago. Republicans are the party of supremacism, division, detention and death.

I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis. I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO. Full statement:

But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.

He's goddamn right and he should say it

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing

bovino, border patrol, and other feds also used the fbi’s chicago field office to regroup after a busy morning of abductions and being chased through the streets by caravans of angry residents.

Cave bill text is out www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

I've been telling them how much the government shutdown costs my family as a spouse of an air traffic controller and how we are absolutely willing to stand with our reps during the shutdown if people don't lose their healthcare at the end. Hold the goddamn line.

Mitch McConnel's singular political insight is that Presidents get punished for Congressional obstinancy and he used that insight to get the Right an unbreakable majority on the Supreme Court, so of course Chuck Schumer's iteration on it is to proactively let democrats take blame after tangible harm

On May 14, RFK JR “directed the FDA to review the safety of the abortion drug. The order followed the publication…of a report titled ‘The Abortion Pill Harms Women,’ published… by the Ethics and Public Policy Center,” a “right-wing think tank and…adviser in the creation of Project 2025…” 11/4/25 …1/

Bessent: The $2,000 divided could come in in lots of forms. It could be just the tax decreases Translation: You’re never getting those $2,000 checks.

ICE sprays large canister of pepper spray directly into family car—hitting 1 year old baby. "They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said man who took video. "ICE agents drove by and sprayed pepper spray directly inside—where their baby and 16 year old sister sat." Cicero, Illinois

@chrismurphyct.bsky.socialUnder no circumstances should Senate Dems vote to reopen the government tonight You are less than a week removed from the strongest Democratic election result this century Caving for the promise of a future vote on healthcare would reveal the weakness of Senate leadership

If you do not already have a membership to Costco, I recommend a membership to Costco. (or Sam's Club or BJ's if that is a better alternative)

Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents. trib.al/ADixIUH

“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

New in PN: @donmoyn.bsky.social on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" “The visible presence of overwhelming numbers of troops in the streets has a psychological component. You display dominance & make examples of people who resist — except instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities.”

ICE is completely out of control

TAPPER: Do you have any numerical idea of how many Americans will not be able to be with their families for Thanksgiving because of this? DUFFY: I think the number is going to be substantial

Sean Duffy: "We have a number of people who want to get home for the holidays, they want to see their family. Listen, many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane."

Also if you're like, what what the heck is going on? I got you. I helped put together this timeline of the two dozen stories I've done about the work Trump has done to block funding to SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...

NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...

Kindly read this thread to learn something more about the roles that Black soldiers served in WWII, and something more about the people running our country at the moment.

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

Gerrymandering Virginia will be “one of the 1st orders of business” for the legislature in January, the state’s senate majority leader tells @boltsmag.org. That was only made possible by Tuesday’s results. This + other democracy-related election effects explained here: boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

Sad to see a mighty cultural institution reduced to this: “Audiences are staying away. Internal sales figures obtained by The New York Times showed ticket sales down by about 50 percent from same period last year…..Dozens of employees, many with decades of experience, have been fired or quit.”

Bari Weiss crossed the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picket line to falsely portray herself as a scrappy "Pittsburgh Girl". The move comes as Weiss has begun to fight unions at CBS News. paydayreport.com/bari-weiss-c...

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

CONFIRMED: FedEx follows UPS in grounding MD-11 fleet after Boeing safety recommendation. Western Global expected to follow. Boeing statement expected shortly. (Via ⁦‪@theaircurrent‬⁩.com)

The guy who booked this location is now the general counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Trump: "The reason I don't want to talk about affordability is because everybody knows it's far less expensive under Trump than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden and the prices are way down."

If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here

This account also feels in line with some of what other people that have been in Broadview have shared.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

@gettheflick.bsky.social @chasingray.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social @askores.bsky.social Not having ATC backgrounds, what they don't realize is that by not pre-planning a significant slowdown in advance & ensuring enough flights are cancelled... 1/

“He’s having a seizure and they’re trying to rip the baby out of her hands”

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

I supported getting rid of pennies but doing it without a plan or working with Congress on the day after was just perfectly Trumpian

United just published a list of every single flight cancelled through the weekend due to the ongoing government shutdown www.united.com/en/us/fly/co...

So Dems won all the Strong Dem (39), Leans Dem (9) and Competitive (10) VA House of Delegates seats; also 6 of the 14 seats that Lean Republican. Amazing. bluevirginia.us/2025/11/poli... h/t @vpapupdates

Looks like American air travel is already fucked and getting more so, in the wake of Duffy’s 10% reduction announcement. Hold onto your butts. nasstatus.faa.gov

Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."

"Also a backlash to @GlennYoungkin craven decision to cheerlead as Virginians lost their jobs by the thousands. I’ve never seen anything like it, and it will define his term as Governor." - Rep. @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social (D-VA11) bluevirginia.us/2025/11/thur... h/t @samshirazi.bsky.social

The grandma of the 1 yo USC baby who was taken by armed ICE agents after they detained her USC dad still has no idea what happened to her granddaughter while she was in their care. See what our director of communications had to say: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...