Melinda Smith🌻

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.

You don’t go into a war or a shutdown without an exit strategy.

The replies are not great for Tim. bsky.app/profile/kain...

Email from Ghislaine Maxwell to family after Trump had her transferred to a Club Fed facility, obtained by Dems on House Judiciary Committee.

Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.

There is no Dem who thinks that Schumer voting No washes his hands of it. He is the captain of the ship and owns the process and end result. If he can’t run the team, then someone else needs to. Hopefully the other Dem senators understand the mood of the voters. If not, you will.

Please don’t 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 can’t be fooled by those games.

The only political accomplishment out of this for Dems is that when health insurance skyrockets for 22 million Americans in 42 days, it will be clear to even low information voters that Republicans are the ones responsible. Whether that makes all this worth it remains to be seen.

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.

Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.

Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.

The American people need more from their leaders.

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

His "concept" of a Healthcare Plan is finally revealed. It involves eliminating the Insurance Industry & people purchasing their OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE. Unrelated, note his obsessive envy of Obama, historically rated 1 of our finest presidents, who he still believes was born in Kenya.

#sad 🤣

The current GOP lie is that they’re going to replace Obamacare with something better.

Bullshit. In all of the majorities they’ve had since Obamacare passed, they’ve never once tried to replace it.

They’ve tried to repeal it a whole bunch, but never actually make it better.

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.

Cowards

This is acting like a pure money laundering operation. They reported losing another $54 million last quarter. It has never made money. Investor money is just flying out the back door faster than in comes in to enrich a lot of shysters and grifters.

NEW: Russian forces continue to advance in the Pokrovsk direction and are reportedly extending logistics to southern Pokrovsk. isw.pub/UkrWar110725

USA Photo of the year

Tonight, the evil, terrorist nation of Russia is launching ballistic missiles and drones at civilians again, like they do every night.

Putin will rot

#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.

The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.

I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.

Stefanik to Launch Campaign to Challenge Gov. Hochul in New York

She will lose.

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I love that the Subway Sandwich Case is a big embarrassment for obnoxious Jeanine Pirro (see video). She was an idiot for wasting the jury and court's time with such a frivolous case. The only thing that would have made it better is if the jury had pitched in to give the defendant a replacement sub.

I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.

Um, do federal prosecutors *really* want to take the position that it's not okay to receive something of value from … Qatar?

I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔

Cutting flights because of the govt shutdown is a stunt, plain and simple