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When you can’t afford health insurance just remember that Sen. Kaine is sleeping well

If only someone could have predicted this

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.

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Black and white picture of the freighter the Edmund Fitzgerald docked somewhere on Lake Superior.

Found the pic of the Edmund Fitzgerald my dad took at some point on Superior. He took a LOT of pictures of ships while working the Great Lakes. I stumbled on this one while digitizing boxes of family slides.

When my cartoons become reality. #chicago

There’s been a lot of ink spilled on QAnon and its effect on Trump’s base, and rightfully so. We need to have the same lens applied here, considering the broad buy-in to the idea that there is no organic support for the Palestinian people by our political, academic, and media elite.

5yo had a big meltdown at OT today. He was in a great mood all morning and then just refused to do anything when we got here 😫😫😫😫 30 min of the hour long appt was just dealing with that

A screenshot of a Simpsons episode where each political party has a convention. Republicans' banners say "we want what's worst for everyone" and "we're just plain evil." Democrats' say "we hate life and ourselves" and "we can't govern."

This is over 30 years old and truer than ever

79 is a hill my dad will die on. We had a silver maple in our yard at the old house and my dad brought it up every time he visited and anytime we talked about yard work.

This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

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.

Re-upping this:

www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-t...

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

and my friend ella has a gofundme for a down payment on a car: bsky.app/profile/gara...

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if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare

I thought the shutdown was the fight, did I get that wrong

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

Every single day that has passed recently makes me think we gotta torch the whole ass system. Shits broken. Plots been lost for some time.

When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza

Americans deserved a better deal than this one.

I’ll be the only publicly out LGBTQIA+ person on the Minneapolis City Council next year.

I need a congresswoman who unapologetically pro-LGBTQIA+ (@ilhanmn.bsky.social).

NOT this candidate below who will have you confused if they will vote with democrats or republicans.

I guess I’ll caucus now.

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. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Sorry but it’s very funny that Ken Martin is mad when those 8 are the types of dem he LOOOOOOVES to put into office. It would actually kill him to support someone who would stand up to this shit.

Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.

When Senate Republicans vote against healthcare subsidies in December that they “promised” a vote on Chuck Schumer is going to write the most strongly worded letter OF ALL TIME!

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Tonight was a very bad night.