Democrats are considering a Republican deal to reopen government with a promise of a later vote on extending health-care tax credits—but no guarantee. One Democrat says it'd amount to "unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double."

Senator AOC is definitely going to be an improvement

This.

Figures that the first significant blow to the Democrats since Tuesday would be dealt by Chuck Schumer.

Absolutely ridiculous. Primary every single one of them.

If your senator is Ossof, please call.

This is a really good piece. Most of this we know, especially in respect to the blatant corruption. However, something I hadn’t considered was the oil & gas Oligarchs being held to account once we get ourselves out of this. I know the next part won’t come easy but collectively, we have power.

Fun fact. (Not a Prince) Andrew has a collection of 72 teddy bears & required former staff to place them in a very particular order every day. If not placed exactly as he wanted, he’d throw a fit like a petulant child. Trump definitely makes sense in the whole “company you keep” aspect.

This fucking administration. 😔

Today I learned Kavanaugh was 1 of the investigators on Ken Starr’s team. That team: *Threatened Lewinsky w/27 yrs in jail if she didn’t cooperate. *Threatened to prosecute Lewinsky’s mom unless she wore a wire. *Interrogated her for 12 hrs. *Denied her attempts to speak to her lawyer. She was 24.

🔗 Jeffrey Epstein and the Mossad: How The Sex-Trafficker Helped Israel Build a Backchannel to Russia Amid Syrian Civil War www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

This is not how you handle a gun. This is how a teenager from a 90’s movie holds a gun. Like a wanna be gangster. Had there been actual criminals (aside from ICE) they could have just swiped it from outside the window.

Min wage in is $7.25/hr, $2.13/hr if waiting tables. Our energy costs are insane as are property taxes & home ins which are both passed off to renters. My home ins is 2.75x what it was 4 yrs ago & housing in my town has doubled since 2015. 10% of Texans are on Snap.

Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.

It would cost $38 billion dollars to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for another year and ensure Americans don’t lose their healthcare. The republicans said no. Trump sent $40 billion to Argentina and they didn’t object. Argentina first, America last.

They took money out of our paycheck to fund SNAP and they are keeping that money for reasons our representatives (WE) didn’t approve.

Christians are being persecuted by fake Christians. Also, I’m not a lawyer but I’m struggling to understand why the word “possible” is being used when from my understanding this is clearly a violation of the 1st amendment.

Based on a new filing with the 1st Circuit by blue states describing operational chaos in the SNAP program caused by the extreme bad faith of the Trump Regime, you may want to spend SNAP money now (low confidence). If you are in Wisconsin, you should do so immediately (higher confidence)

Not just grocery stores but every step of supply/demand is impacted. Farm supplies, labor, trucking, food distributors, grocers, etc. & we ALL pay higher prices. Who wins? Private equity like Acre Trader, which was funded by Vance. “40% of US farmland is expected to change hands” w/in 10 yrs.🧵1/4

That game was insane.

Target makes a colossal mistake w/DEI. Customers boycott. Target CEO: What if our answer to DEI boycotts was a policy that says “Neurodiversity isn’t real!” kinda like a “lean in” on our DEI fuck up. Yup, that’s the ticket!

The Mandate of Heaven is really fitting here. How many people were convinced Trump was appointed by God? How many of those same people are now suffering b/c he, his administration, SCOTUS picks, etc. are ruling unjustly?

I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to think about a celebrity like this. Maybe it’s me. I’m drawn to intellect, wit, & ethics over just hotness. I can gage but it’s not what drives me. I’m also weirdly attracted to pale white men w/blue eyes but I think that’s b/c my 1st BF was Irish. ☘️

I love my city. Both of these are recent. We have 2 colleges & UNT isn’t extreme anything (obviously Paxton is a liar) however their music school is amazing. Yrs ago I was told 2nd to Juilliard for Jazz. Unsure of where they stand now but we have a lot of local musicians, old & new.

People are pissed & it’s only going to keep going. Trump is an Authoritarian but he’s not a smart Authoritarian. You can’t piss off everyone. Maga is a minority of approximately 25%, many of which have been negatively affected. Every day, more people are jolted into reality.

ICE & DHS lie like excessively spoiled children w/behavioral issues. They lie like they modeled their behavior on Joffrey Baratheon but lack the cognitive skills for deception. They lie like they don’t have the attention span to lie & SQUIRREL! They lie like if Pinocchio had no reflection.

Ellis: "It is difficult to see how an injunction ordering the government to comply with the Constitution can be harmful."

Ellis attacks the characterization of rapid responders as "agitators": "Describing rapid response networks - neighborhood moms - as professional agitators shows just how out of touch these agents are," Ellis says.

Did women ruin the workplace? Is the white race genetically superior? Was 9/11 a controlled demolition? Are my dental fillings receiving secret CIA broadcasts?

Did the New York Times ruin journalism?

Oh, to have the confidence of a mediocre MTG.

Lately I’ve been waking up in an avg mood but am feeling more & more angry through the day. Usually this means “time to disconnect” but this time its that the end stage capitalism shit show is breaking my husband & b/c I absorb emotion, the negativity is fucking w/my ability to be productive.

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I love Bluesky because it's often fun but I hate it because I had to read a post where someone called Leslie Knope a neocon shill and to you I say it is a television show and it absolutely does not matter you sound like a maniac

All Ins co’s, cost of living, climate change disasters, mass lay offs, mass unemployment, little quality of life, scam companies, online gambling, RENT, HOMES, COLLEGE LOANS, Daycare costs AND maternity/paternity leave, no basic income, inequality, insecurity, racism, systemic oppression, etc.

Spoke to 1 of my best friends last night. She lives in CA so we catch up in wks to mo’s depending on life. Anyways, she’s been trying to pull her brother over to the left. Decent income/no kids/has bought into Snap lies. We’ll see but I recommended class. Not those w/less (here) but those w/more.

I just remembered my absolute worst bully from growing up lives in NYC. She was REALLY Islamophobic. The worst part was I’m not even Muslim. JK. The actual worst part was that absolutely no one deserved her shit. She was then & continued to be a terrible human.

Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo

The full weight of western capitalism is about to laser focus on NYC. The robber barons failed to win and will panic. They will sabotage NYC because the system cannot allow Mamdani's term to be successful. They cannot allow people to believe things can be better. Your job now is to hold the line. 1/

How the hell did I just learn that Mamdani is an Arsenal fan? Like he needed another level of awesome. By far the greatest team the world has ever seen 🎶

one year and everyone is so sick of your boy that Virginia is starting to look like Massachusetts and a democratic socialist won a million votes in NYC, get fucked

This piece is every thought I’ve had this evening (& yr) communicated clearly, concisely (and yet somehow also poetically) by a fantastic writer who actually gets it. All of it. Deadweight leadership, purchased consultants, wealthy donors & a collective fear amongst them. What if Mamdani succeeds?

What a wonderful evening!

Democrat Ghazala Hashmi won the lieutenant governor’s race in Virginia on Tuesday, defeating Republican John Reid. She is the first Indian American and first Muslim to win statewide office in Virginia. https://to.pbs.org/4qJYi6n

Hell yeah.

Turnout in the NYC mayoral election: the highest since 1993. Give people something to vote for (or against) and apathy falls away.