David Pollak

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

New Democratic Party logo just dropped

fry from futurama is angry and says " i 'm literally angry with rage ! " ALT: fry from futurama is angry and says " i 'm literally angry with rage ! "

I woke up mad and everyone is going to hear about it.
Feds, and contractors in Virginia have been taking the hit for the greater good and @kaine.senate.gov just made it for nothing. The new Dem majority in Virginia better hold his feet in the fire, and support a robust primary challenge.

Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election

Congrats to the eight Democrats who gave this regime a huge win over the weekend. Here’s your reward.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Hey @reed.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov

I expect both of you to make a statement like this today

Sen Reed is up for reelection next year. Barring a full throated rebuke to Schumer and the caving dems, I will support anyone who runs against you in the primary

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.

Now it has. The Democratic Senators sold us out. 1/

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

Yes. This.

Thank you for voting no

But I expect a full throated condemnation of all the Dems that did from both you and Sen Reed

We are not marching and organizing and delivering votes like last Tuesday to cowards and wimps.

Please show spine and courage

who hates the democrats more, the people who vote against them or the people who vote for them?

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

has it come to this?

While senator Reed didn’t cave, I expect he will give a full throated rebuke to all the dems that did… or I’ll support his primary opponent

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

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.

"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Hey @whitehouse.senate.gov I’m a constituent. As a member of the judiciary committee, please read this blog post. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

What can you do to stop these unconstitutional horrors? What will you do when this happens in Rhode Island?

Seems beef if 50% more expensive now than 5 months ago. I was shocked when I went to Costco to buy steak.

RedMonk Beers

For anyone at KubeCon next week, we'll be hosting beers on the 11th. Find the details at redmonk.com/event/redmon..., and we hope to see you there!

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

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.

Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

Judge Mark Wolf resigns from the District Court of Massachusetts and writes why in a powerful piece in the Atlantic.

One thing he doesn’t mention in his list of reasons but I’m sure is a factor:

Erez Reuveni was one of his law clerks.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

Remind us again why the Democrats are to blame?

“The Trump administration told states on Saturday to ‘immediately undo’ any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if they do not comply.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...