if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”

Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”

Opening the government with no concessions from GOP merely to alleviate airline cancellations - when Congress has been dragging its feet for years on chronic FAA staffing issues - is a lame ass choice.

Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.

Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means 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.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Aaron Blake & @AaronBlake Follow Pretty brutal numbers for RFK Jr. in this new WaPo-Ipsos poll. -Americans disapprove 55-42. -Independents disapprove 61-34. -Even 21% of Republicans disapprove. But what struck me most: Just 15% strongly approve, compared to 38% who strongly disapprove. Sept. 11-15, 2025, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 2,513 U.S.

I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government

his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration

MAGA Is Revising the Past to Create the Future They Want They are aiming to build the future they want by rewriting history.

Interesting @aselrod.bsky.social point about Trump's efforts to erase the history of slavery: It comes at a time when the American people's historical awareness has actually been on the rise, and it's *this* that must be rolled back at all costs:
www.liberalcurrents.com/maga-is-revi...

An image from the Little Mermaid of Ursula stealing Ariel's voice. Ariel is labeled 'comedians who offend the regime' and Ursula is labeled ABC/Disney

Out from the Disney Vault!

"Charlie Kirk staked out anti-democracy positions on all of those, but Ezra Klein pretends he didn’t. :

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Again, political violence has no place in this country.

I probably don’t agree with Charlie Kirk on a damn thing, but that doesn’t matter - he’s a husband and a father.

This is despicable and can’t become our new normal.

Was talking to someone from another state yesterday who couldn’t believe it but yes, Ohio law not only requires public school buses to transport kids to private schools, it actually *prioritizes* public bussing for private school students over public school students. Total insanity.

This happened during Trump's first term, but I believe under Pete Hegseth we are about to enter a new golden age of the SEALs being told "your mission, should you choose to accept it: take these amphetamines, fall out of a helicopter, and drown."

40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.

I wonder why Trump imposed secondary tariffs only on India for buying Russian oil while not caring about all the other countries who buy Russian oil?

A thing that will 100% happen next election are longform media pieces about struggling rural voters who feel abandoned by those elitist Democrats, wherein neither the reporter or any of the subjects mention the fact Trump ended all federal aid to their district and shut down their only hospital.

YouTube’s Deal With the Devil Google once declared OAN too toxic for its platform—now Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan are breathing new life into the conspiracy network as they negotiate a high-stakes agreement with Rupert Murdoch's ...

Back in 2020, YouTube suspended OAN's channel, demonetized it, and noted it was not an "authoritative" source.

Now, five years later, the Google-owned platform has inked a deal to put the MAGA propaganda network in millions of living rooms.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/youtube-oa...

A reminder that, among Republicans, only Mitch McConnell voted against RFK Jr.

Susan Collins voted to confirm.
Lisa Murkowski voted to confirm.
Former physician Bill Cassidy advanced him out of committee and voted to confirm and lied to defend him.

www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict

I actually agree that Democrats should refrain from using most of these. And they already do! When was the last time a Senator said 'heteronormative'?

The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not doing!

one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?

An Ohio City Faces a Future Without Haitian Workers: ‘It’s Not Going to Be Good’

i remember when jd vance blamed the haitian immigrants to springfield for rising home prices. well, the prices will come down, because a mass departure of haitian workers will crash the local economy.

Happening right in front of us

If your story about what they did to Robert Bork doesn't start with Robert Bork in Nixon's bunker for Watergate then your story is revisionist horseshit

if democrats just would have let republicans put one criminal hatchet man on the court, republicans nearly 40 years later would not have put this criminal hatchet man on a court

📉 GDP: lower than expected
📈 Inflation: higher than expected

The Trump effect in action