Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.

The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:

Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins:

Baldwin (WI)
Bennet (CO)
Booker (NJ)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gallego (AZ)
Hassan (NH)
Heinrich (NM)
Hickenlooper (CO)
Klobuchar (MN)
Ossoff (GA)
Peters (MI)
Rosen (NV)
Schiff (CA)
Shaheen (NH)
Slotkin (MI)
Warnock (GA)
Welch (VT)

Wait, what?

What a monster!

AFAIK the anti-tourist stuff has more to do with lack of housing due to airbnbs, etc than the tourists themselves

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

Somebody should tell him about the etymology of that word. I suspect he won’t like it after that

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

“Disney is run by human beings. Some of those human beings are cowards. Those cowards don’t want to be named and shamed, and if you do that effectively, they will shift their behavior.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social

Cancel fascism and reinstate Kimmel: indivisible.org/government-c...

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

Tools for resisting fascism—

Responding to Federal Occupation: bit.ly/resistancetoolkit

Protesting in 2025: bit.ly/protesting2025

Social Change Library: commonslibrary.org/

InfoSec for Activists: infosecforactivists.org

Add more in the comments. Let’s make this a resource thread.

Last week, the House voted for a bill the ACLU called "one of the most extreme federal sentencing expansions in recent history."

11 Democrats voted yes:
Cuellar
Davis (NC)
Gillen
Golden
Gonzalez, V.
Gray
McDonald Rivet
Mrvan
Perez
Suozzi
Vasquez

Comic strip reading "thoughts on trying not to give a F**K"

A short comic.

Maybe Rex Tillerson Was Right. Maybe Trump Really Is Just A Moron. His lying and temper tantrums aside, evidence abounds that the president's most important, and dangerous, feature is his ignorance.

"Author Fran Lebowitz said in 2018: “You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"To get out of this, our project will by necessity be one of remaking national life. We will have to present new and positive definitions of what it means to be American and to revive the commitments to pluralism, tolerance, decency, and service that enable liberal democracy to flourish."

I was ready to take PTO to dance on the streets.

A drawing of the character named Corinthian from the comic book series Sandman

It’s giving

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

Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

Scientists’ role in defending democracy The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gen X: The Only Generation of American Women to Live With Rights My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...

I will turn 50 this September. I was born in 1975, and I represent the only generation of American women born with full rights that have been lost in the same lifetime.

open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Tracking Senate Votes 2025

Democratic senators with the fewest votes with Trump this session so far:

Markey: 2
Murphy: 3
Warren: 4
Sanders: 5
Merkley: 7
Van Hollen: 9
Hirono: 10

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Tracking Senate Votes 2025

Democratic senators with the most votes with Trump this session so far:

Fetterman: 95
Hassan: 93
Shaheen: 90
Warner: 87
Rosen: 82
King: 78
Slotkin: 77

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...