I will personally primary @kaine.senate.gov if he does not hold the line to protect ACA subsidies. It is absolutely ridiculous to hold the line for 30+ days and then cave with zero gains. Grow a backbone. The GOP has owned this shutdown. LET THEM. All you have to do is keep fighting for ACA.
09.11.2025 22:58 β π 46 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
09.11.2025 23:37 β π 3820 π 1216 π¬ 29 π 53
LESS. THAN. A. WEEK.
Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop.
Iβm so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.
10.11.2025 02:59 β π 3332 π 688 π¬ 48 π 21
Please donβt think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and canβt be fooled by those games.
10.11.2025 01:15 β π 12468 π 3329 π¬ 443 π 162
They wonβt even listen to us, let alone fight.
10.11.2025 14:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Baby formula recalled after infant botulism outbreak
ByHeart recalled two batches of its baby formula following federal officialsβ report of 13 children contracting infant botulism after consuming its product.
Thirteen babies in 10 states have been hospitalized as a result of the outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. No deaths have been reported.
ByHeart baby formula has recalled 2 batches of one product.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
09.11.2025 19:54 β π 73 π 59 π¬ 2 π 2
They are taking food and healthcare away from poor people.
They want poor people to die.
They are willing to sacrifice poor whites if it means they get as many minorities as possible.
It is really that simple.
10.11.2025 13:52 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
10.11.2025 04:31 β π 6976 π 1315 π¬ 109 π 62
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. Theyβre caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you donβt agree with that, you donβt understand Politics,
10.11.2025 02:44 β π 10983 π 2432 π¬ 201 π 101
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. Itβs about peopleβs lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
10.11.2025 01:49 β π 59821 π 14594 π¬ 1998 π 605
The coordinated nature of thisβnone are facing voters in 2026βmeans 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.
10.11.2025 02:43 β π 11392 π 3965 π¬ 288 π 271
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
10.11.2025 02:20 β π 21984 π 6296 π¬ 357 π 235
This shit is why people donβt trust the Democratic Party.
10.11.2025 02:27 β π 6823 π 1153 π¬ 169 π 77
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly whatβs wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
10.11.2025 12:43 β π 29684 π 6878 π¬ 1071 π 318
BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*
Bring pots and pans, letβs make some noise about Chuck folding (again).
Not another #SchumerSurrender
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10.11.2025 00:55 β π 1868 π 612 π¬ 9 π 51
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
This is not a deal β it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
10.11.2025 00:50 β π 11973 π 3338 π¬ 533 π 286
It's actually not swindling to tell people what they want to hear if you actually intend on doing those things. Swindling would be something like, just for example, announcing a fake Hyperloop system solely to kill California's high speed rail initiative.
08.11.2025 11:57 β π 1677 π 246 π¬ 12 π 1
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
08.11.2025 21:05 β π 7628 π 3853 π¬ 337 π 409
Someone should go there and show them the clips of Trump's Great Gatsby party. I bet they'd be so happy to know he's having fun.
08.11.2025 22:52 β π 2538 π 1192 π¬ 79 π 35
The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.
09.11.2025 15:52 β π 966 π 352 π¬ 17 π 0
βwokeβ is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
08.11.2025 21:01 β π 12240 π 2845 π¬ 186 π 61
Theyβre wearing masks so they canβt be prosecuted later. As long as they think they canβt be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone whoβs covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
09.11.2025 14:36 β π 5740 π 1780 π¬ 93 π 36
Outbreak Investigation of Infant Botulism: Infant Formula
Do not use certain lots of ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula. FDAβs Investigation is ongoing.
NEWS β FDA announces 13 cases of infant botulism across 10 states after babies were given ByHeart powder formula from two specific lots.
08.11.2025 22:09 β π 532 π 392 π¬ 20 π 24
This is really what itβs all about. Theyβre not upset about socialism or whatever. Theyβre upset that Mamdani represents an upending of traditional influence and city politics. He wonβt take their calls because he cares more about people who traditionally canβt get the mayor on the phone.
07.11.2025 22:14 β π 283 π 46 π¬ 13 π 1
New York Times snippet: A Decade Later, Supreme Court is Asked to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision; Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk once jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, has asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion. 6 minute read
I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
07.11.2025 21:35 β π 6418 π 1606 π¬ 135 π 54
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
07.11.2025 15:27 β π 3636 π 660 π¬ 61 π 59
The same week that SNAP doesnβt go out for the first time in its history Elon gets a trillion dollar package.
And 600,000 people have died from the cuts he made to USAID.
None of this is at all ok.
07.11.2025 12:36 β π 156 π 39 π¬ 2 π 2
Remember DNC, it doesn't matter who you run, Fox news will call them a socialist. You could endorse the corpse of Ronald Reagan and their first segment would be "Extreme socialist Reagan picked by Soros to destroy America"
Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.
06.11.2025 11:32 β π 5657 π 1174 π¬ 142 π 73
I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.
06.11.2025 19:28 β π 20740 π 7636 π¬ 504 π 326
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