BERNIE ON THE *DEAL* with Centrist Dems: “That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.”

Trump Administration Live Updates: Democratic Defectors Relent on Shutdown, Backing Bill to Reopen

A group of Senate Democrats give in and agree to a deal with Republicans that would reopen the government without a guarantee that ACA subsidies would be extended. Catie Edmondson @migold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Call them. Tell them not to surrender.

Just left a message for Schumer - do not cave!

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542

Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224

King (ME) 202 224-5344

Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324

Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451

Masto (NV) 202 224-3542

Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

A future vote on the ACA tax credits is not enough.

The American people about to lose their health care need results, not votes.

Caving on the shutdown won’t make you “moderate.” It makes you WEAK! Giving Republicans what they want for NOTHING more than a “promise” of a vote and risking millions of Americans’ healthcare isn’t compromise—it’s surrender and it’s the most RADICAL thing you could do in this moment. 1/

Did you know: Congressmen and women have been paid twice (they’re paid monthly) since the govt shut down. $30,000 gross each. Meanwhile Trump trying to stop food stamp payments while he has parties. And @SpeakerJohnson still has everyone on vacay

UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits.

Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families.

It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.

To be “great” can’t be causing others to suffer and then blaming them for their suffering.

Cruelty isn’t greatness.

Indifference isn’t greatness.

Greed isn’t greatness.

“Government tells states to ‘immediately undo’ steps to fund November SNAP benefits”

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.

For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago

For Americans: Bread lines

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GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DAY 39 SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER D-New York • Minority Leader

Schumer responded on the Senate floor today:“For this administration to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to get out of having to pay SNAP benefits for hungry kids is pathological levels of vindictiveness. This crisis is in the administration’s hands. It’s all them, not anyone else.” C-SPAN

More broadly, officials across ICE say Noem and Lewandowski have directed them to use a $170 billion infusion of cash from Congress to launch splashy ideas that have proven ineffective or impractical. Among the examples some ICE officials have cited: A few weeks ago, the pair ordered ICE officials to buy 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights—and for their own travel, according to people familiar with the matter. Some officials warned the pair that the effort would be prohibitively expensive compared with hiring more flight contractors, the people said. Once the officials looked into the proposal, they learned that Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn’t own the planes. The planes also don’t have engines, which would need to be purchased separately. The project has since been put on pause, though DHS recently purchased two Gulfstream jets for $200 million, according to Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, who were notified by the department. A spokesperson for Spirit didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski were going to buy 10 jets without engines from Spririt Airlines that Spirit didn't own.

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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Americans are finally starting to receive their SNAP benefits.

Trump is rushing to the Supreme Court to try to ensure those people starve.

Terror Returns to Darfur Only American pressure can stop the killing in Sudan.

"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse"

From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone

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Breaking: A federal appeals court just denied a last-minute bid by the Trump admin to temporarily halt some SNAP funding during the shutdown.

The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.

Beautiful story.

My Father’s Flag and the Idea of America Over decades, across continents, and through harrowing experiences, my family held on to this bit of cloth as a reminder of everything they believed in—and were running toward.

"Even now, I can’t look at that flag without thinking of the bravery it took for my father to hide it from his armed, anti-American guards, and of the faith it took for my mother to risk losing her husband over an idea, the idea of America." www.thebulwark.com/p/my-fathers...

Let them eat tiny turkeys.

TGIF! *slams government shut*

Trump Media Lost $54.8 Million Last Quarter As Bitcoin Bet Backfires The parent company of Truth Social reported $973,000 in revenue over three months, about what Taylor Swift took in 15 minutes during an Eras Tour concert.

New: "Trump Media Lost $54.8 Million Last Quarter—And Is On Track To Lose Far More"

Revenue was $972,900—about what Taylor Swift brought in over 15 minutes on her Eras Tour.

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Gavin Newsom Hilariously Trolls Trump's Bizarre New Golden Sign Spotted Outside The Oval Office

Troll level: master.

White House budget director Russ Vought joins the calls for Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster. Vought has argued that the government funding process should be less bipartisan; this would achieve that.

But: Republicans still don’t have the votes.