A congress and senate where power is accrued by seniority in a system without term limits or retirement age limits insures an endlessly entrenched old and in the way gerontocracy that blocks democratic renewal and change that reflects the will of the electorate.

I’ll just set this down here…

Healthcare is a necessity, not a bargaining chip. #WePersist

Here’s a first: NYT reporting that both Sherrill and Spanberger won 7% of Trump supporters. Yes, he is that bad this time, that he is at long last losing his base! #hope

Trump‘s approval is falling off a cliff! This is Emerson, which was one of the most favorable pollsters for him. Look at that one month drop!

Speaker Mike Johnson says our House of Representatives will be closed again next week. They have been out of session for almost 2 months! And unlike federal workers, they are still getting paid! 

The House of Representatives has had 20 days of work in the last 19 weeks! Johnson and all the Republicans should repay their salaries to the American people

Enjoy Trump getting loudly booed by Commanders fans. This while he wants their new stadium named for him. 😂🤣

8 Democrats capitulated, in exchange for NOTHING! You’d think we had just LOST the election on Tuesday, rather than winning a landslide! Spineless cowards! Here they are: Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Hassan Kaine King Rosen Shaheen

It still has to go through the House of Representatives. EVERY single one of them is up for reelection next year. They all should be hearing from you tomorrow morning! ☎️☎️ Hold the line and vote NO!

Trump is now promising to send us all 2k--IF we get that money (hahahahah, no we won't) that would cover only one month of the price increase for this person's healthcare.

This is predatory capitalism. They gave tax breaks to billionaires so that folks could get bills like this for healthcare.

-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together. -Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places. -Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."

Didn't Tuesday's election results show that it actually WAS working???

Maybe you should have banded together with your colleagues to oust Schumer, then

People are very aware of how the Senate “works,” and that’s exactly why they are so angry

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

In other words:

FWIW a lot of people are now taking on the Trump position that the Tuesday elections were about the shutdown specifically, as opposed to a more general repudiation of Trump. I'm skeptical.

By blaming GOP election losses on the shutdown (as opposed to his unpopular policies), Trump gave Dems an opening to declare victory and go home. Doesn't sound like this changes the fundamentals that motivated the shutdown.

It’s almost like Senate Democrats *want* Dems in disarray stories

Dick Durbin can room with Merrick Garland in the Neville Chamberlain Retirement Home.

Apparently they got the votes Here are the 8 (Voting still ongoing)

They’re hoping that if this happens everyone will forget what happened today

WH schedule for Monday - ALL CLOSED PRESS (means no press) Interestingly, Al-Sharaa was already yesterday in DC, playing basketball with the head of CENTCOM

The people are demanding Democrats who are fighters. The folders must step aside.

Good to see two of our stand-up governors standing together on this one. (As they have on many other issues.) @governor.ca.gov just weighed in to similar effect.

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

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate. Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

It's certainly not what her neighbors are telling her. I grew up in the town she raised her kids in. I went to school with her daughter. I guarantee you that if this is the advice she's hearing, she hasn't spoken to a Durham resident in 10 years.

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

This is infuriating.

Earth to Democrats: Do NOT compromise on your shutdown demand. robertreich.substack.com/p/earth-to-d...

This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.

Just thinking about how pissed off Republicans were at their own party and its leadership in 2010 That year they got a net gain of 6 seats in the Senate and 63, that's right, 63 seats in the House. Anger is powerful.

They’re not cowardly. They’re complicit. Assuming they’re cowardly gives them the benefit of the doubt of being in opposition.

The Washington Post Editorial Board, owned by the third-richest man in the world, taking the brave positions that trillion dollar payout to the richest man in the world is "a fair deal for everyone" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I just want to say to left of center Americans: it doesn't have to feel like this. There really is another way. Replace Schumer with a movement leader – someone who sees a bigger gameboard and brings mass politics to bear. This is insane, pathetic, unforced. Look to movements for a roadmap.

I think the quick negative statements by normie centrist Dems outside of the Senate reflects their read that the vote is very unpopular with the base, at least in the short run.

Movements run on momentum. Little wins turn into an ethos and shared purpose, then bigger wins and suddenly empires fall or lives improve. If this week showed how quickly a few wins can puncture Trump's "invincibility," this is a reminder of how fast "compromise" can plunge us back into despair.

Sanders: Tonight was a very bad night. youtube.com/shorts/5GAUf...

This is Schumer's fault. He is supposed to control his caucus. He is a weakling.

The Senate was voting Sunday on whether to move forward on compromise legislation that would end the 40-day government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without an extension of health care subsidies — angering many in their caucus who wanted to continue the fight.

Three CFPB probes into companies backed by billionaire Marc Andreessen have been halted as bureau investigations have ground to a halt, including inquiries into the popular cash advance app EarnIn and Point Digital Finance, a provider of so-called alternative mortgages.