Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early - emptywheel With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.

You can say those 20M are fucked, and they are. Which is precisely where they were after Big Ugly passed.

But please don't forget that 40M people were going to go hungry.

Worse comes to worse govt shuts down on Jan30 and SNAP can't be used as hostages.

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“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...

Do not cave! the GOP will not keep its promises. 40 days for nothing.

It is not worth the paper it's written on. You cannot trust them. They have shown their lack of respect for the American people repeatedly. Do not agree to cave in.

UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits.

Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families.

It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.

"President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Dept of Justice and on the bench."

This is so deeply cruel and unjust.

This weekend we’re finding out which American governors will fight to feed their people and which won’t.

The answer tells us everything we need to know about the two parties, and y’all? The difference is stark.

#SNAP #GOP #trump #foodstamps

Infant Botulism Outbreak Linked to Infant Formula, November 2025 Details on an outbreak of infant botulism linked to infant formula, November 2025.

ALERT: Baby Formula
13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more.

Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.

Yesterday, @repmcgovern.bsky.social and I spoke with the North Central Chamber of Commerce about the issues that matter most to small businesses across the region, including their efforts to overcome higher prices caused by costly tariffs.

Wall Street gutted Steward Health Care. Patients paid the price. One of America's biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.

One of America’s biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.

Today I joined @trahan.house.gov & the United Way of North Central Massachusetts to hear directly from local food pantries and service providers about how Trump is making hunger worse in North Central MA. 

Food should be a fundamental right this country!

Yes

Raise a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight and honor her memory and scientific contributions

Is this an award from FIFA

As a whole, maga was duped by a criminal conman, falling for his demonization of "others" not realizing we are all others to this corrupt administration.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Full shame on the Fitchburg, Massachusetts Police Department for helping an ICE kidnapping.

Fitchburg police officers called to ICE apprehension after scene becomes 'hostile' Situation unfolds early Thursday on Kimball Street.

The #Fitchburg Police Department is collaborating with ICE, using the familiar excuse that police officers are only doing crowd control and not actively assisting in arrests.

#Massachusetts

Is it tomorrow yet?

During the hearing on the challenges of ACA, Brian Blase and Ron Johnson are clutching pearls that so many people have insurance and never need it(!) acting like they don't understand how insurance works.

The administration is now APPEALING the court decision requiring it to provide full food assistance to Americans.

There’s no other way to put it: They are doing everything they can to take food away from Americans in need. Shameful.

when a dementia patient experiences an emergency, they often look just like this.

A year since Donald Trump was elected, and the average American family is paying $208 more every month for the exact same goods and services – the same housing, the same groceries, the same utilities.

We deserve better.

ICE agents detain teacher at Chicago daycare Rayito del Sol in North Center ICE agents detaining a female teacher inside a North Center daycare Wednesday morning, in front of children.

Armed agents are chasing teachers through preschools. Toddlers are watching in horror.
 
This doesn't do a damn thing to make us safer.
 
Trump is going after people with work permits, not the "worst of the worst."
 
And he's traumatizing our kids for life.

Delivering less for more

Beyond the sandwich jokes, the thing i really love most about this is that he did it for LGBTQ+ community 🏳️‍🌈

Massive health care cuts. Catastrophic tariffs raising the prices of everything.

A weaker economy and tougher job market for American workers.

This is unleashing the Golden Age?

Nancy Pelosi won't seek reelection, ending her storied career in the US House Powerful Democratic former speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t seek reelection to the U.S. House. Pelosi’s announcement Thursday brings to a close her storied career as not only the first woman in the speaker’...

This woman made herstory.
She’s the reason the ACA got passed.
She led us through Trump 1.0, the insurrection & COVID
She never lost a single vote she called up.
I didn’t always agree w her but this woman showed us what a gifted leader looks like.
TY Nancy for all of it.
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🦬 Meanwhile the oil & gas bros puppeteering the DOI gutted our entire renewable energy program because solar is “unreliable.”

In the words of Doug Burgum: “It doesn’t work at night!”