Nah you need to show that you actually believe this shit isnt ok. You can call for the minority leader to step down for his incompetence or the whip for his back dealing contrary to leadership.

We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.

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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

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can't wait to see this inspiring messaging incorporated into the DSCC fundraising appeals

you're hearing about the wide awakes more and more

I don't understand the assumption that the administration will stop trying to defund SNAP, a program the USDA chief calls "corrupt," given how often the WH has ignored Congressional jurisdiction over funding. I don't know why the WH would stop pursuing something it's fighting in court right now...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Help me with this logic — we’ve given them everything so now they definitely will come talk to us about the thing they already said they definitely won’t vote for?? Senator, respectfully, y’all look crazy.

Tonight I’m thinking of the millions of parents going to bed wondering how they’re going to put food on the table, keep a roof over their heads, pay their utility bills and keep their health insurance without going broke.

in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

Fight don’t fold.

The DNC needs to end its aversion to primaries. Now is the time to

chuck schumer cannot be replaced as party leadership quickly enough

there is a world in which it would make sense for Dems to cave and help reopen the government, for example, if we just got crushed in VA/NJ and voters were blaming us for the shutdown we are not in that world. we are in the opposite world. trump is taking all the blame and flailing. jesus christ

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

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.

This right here.

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

lol she got his ass and he knows it

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Olivia Rodrigo blasts the White House and Department of Homeland Security for using her song ‘all american b*tch’ in an ICE-related post: “don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda”

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he won an absolute majority in a 3 person race. the 100k or so people in those neighborhoods don't all have substacks.

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area. “We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

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The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.

it’s cool how on NYT’s homepage in the app rn there is not any coverage of what appears to be the imminent lawless destruction of significant portions of goddard space flight center, but there IS a ross douthat feature about ‘Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?’ i have no words

Whoops

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

It was a rejection of the entire administration and Dems should see this as a signal to become an actual opposition party. On everything. You don't stop the shutdown. You don't approve another appointee. You do nothing at all. The voters saved you, not the other way around. LEARN TO LEAD.