American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

This pretty much answers that question....

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

Welp not a conspiracy anymore

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

MoveOn, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and 6 Democrats have called on Chuck Schumer to step aside as leader. So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader. Here's what they said. @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social

I'm gonna keep bumping this because it's gonna take the kindness of strangers to get the support he needs

Surprised, but thrilled actually. Marriage equality is safe for now.

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

From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...

If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

This is, and I hate to say this, really good political strategy for MAGA. Because they were never going too win votes from anyone who cared about opening up SNAP, but you know what will be *incredibly* demotivating to Democratic voters? Caving not even helping with SNAP.

BREAKING: Trump admin once again asked the Supreme Court to freeze full SNAP payments. As Americans are struggling, this self-serving President is spending his time and resources trying to prevent people from getting food to feed their children.

OK, but the reason that it didn't work is because you quit, Senator. You see that, right? It was working, and then all of the sudden it didn't work *because you quit*.

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention. Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”

"Hyde language" would be a ban on anything related to abortion. So, any Senate Democrat that caves is agreeing to vote to implement a nationwide abortion ban in exchange for healthcare subsidies.

It says much about a society that is willing to profit from a group's labour, but unwilling provide them same dignity and support accorded to others.

In all seriousness, this is how fascism gets its foothold every single damn time. It's not that facism is actually popular. It's that the fuckers luck into opposition so limply feckless that even engaging with politics at all becomes a depressing and demotivating act for opposition constituents.

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.

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.

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...

i will repeat: this is psychological torture for SNAP recipients.

Not just the GOP...establishment DEMs and their megadonors are afraid of exactly the same thing. The people are finally starting to wake up and realize they LITERALLY have the power to take money back from corporations and billionaires to be able to afford food, shelter, clothing and healthcare.

The GOP is petrified of Zohran Mamdani because they know once democratic socialism works here, as it has in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, they will never be elected again.

This morning, I spoke at the SOMOS Labor Breakfast. "We are not looking to remake New York City in my image. We are looking to remake it in the image of struggling workers across the five boroughs."

Seriously. It's OUR money they're stealing. #fundservicesnotbroligarchs

Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old. He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...

I'm gonna be honest, I think liberals are absolutely fucking desperate to forgive and forget and would swallow whole any opportunity to do so (no matter how poisoned). The problem is that MAGAts don't want to be forgiven. The very idea makes them incandescent with rage.

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

I’m not saying this to look for validation but as a white person raised on the southwest side, this is my city they’re targeting at an intimate level. These children are never going to be the same. They’re witnessing this state violence constantly and it’s deeply unfair to every single one of them.

I was able to mostly hold it together out there to just witness and support but seeing a small boy who couldn’t be more than 4-5 standing on the block, blowing a whistle with his mom holding an infant. I just couldn’t bear it, and I then laid into CPD thoroughly how shameful their actions were.

A Waukegan councilman was briefly detained by U.S. immigration agents on Friday, and he says the agents drew their guns on him while he was sitting in his car with his hands raised. “My life flashed before my eyes,” said Ald. Juan Martinez.

As David Leonhardt calculated, whites have 0.35 Senators per million people, while Blacks have 0.26, Asian-Americans 0.25, and Latinos just 0.19. The Senate is affirmative action for white people"

He could theoretically get arrested for DUI at some point but beyond that it’s critical that our state leaders observe the unwritten “feds can freely commit all crimes” doctrine. The rule of law depends on it. James Madison is watching.

If you worship the cops, banish criticism of the cops from politics, give all the money to the cops, and operate on the assumption that the cops are what keeps society together, there’s nowhere to stand to oppose the fascist police state

"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper. They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer. If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help." 🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.

“individual employees asked to change behavior in response to catastrophic mistakes made by their high-level leadership over the past 3-7 years” really feels like the overarching story of the current times

Donald Trump has literally been permanently shutting down parts of the government ALL YEAR and as I said in spring this was a slow government shutdown and that should be directly connected to the way he is now shutting down SNAP and flights and is literally about to ruin Christmas

I'm a little bit confused (rhetorical, I'm not) about why we're not hearing more from the Democrats that Donald Trump fired a bunch of federal employees and a government shutdown where only ICE and the military get paid is completely in line with his plans and funding goals

For all the thunder and fury raised over this preliminary injuction, the actual relief feels so ... paltry, even if enforced. It's not that it doesn't matter but like... Can you imagine how the justice system would have responded by now to a civilian gang behaving as lawlessly as ICE?

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

This is chilling. "Ya’akub isn’t being accused of breaking immigration law — his DACA protection doesn’t expire until May 2026. In fact, Ya’akub’s lawyers say he hasn’t been accused of any crime. Rather, the Trump administration is alleging he’s 'glorifying terrorism' via social media posts."

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

@bsky.app This is not what you promised with community oriented moderation. This is not consistent with your statements denying your responsibility and resource limitations in moderating bigoted harassment campaigns.

Yeah, this was set to "Hide" in my settings. Fuck right off with that.

Ellis says she will *not* issue a stay on her injunction pending appeal. "I fail to see any irrreparable damage to defendants if I allow the preliminary injunction to go forward," she says.

"The fact that people can be courageous is irrelevant to the chilling effect" - Ellis

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win