Vickie

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal".

But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.

*If all goes by the regular schedule

A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.

Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: It's a bad deal. Everyday life - making it better and more affordable - must always be our bottom line. For months, I’ve been hearing from people bracing for their health insurance bills to skyrocket - so much that some will lose coverage altogether. Some say they simply haven't even opened their letter yet, dreading the bad news. Any deal that fails to address this directly is a bad deal.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Is health insurance a matter of life and death? Scientists may have an answer.

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They want you to leave your phones at home so you can’t take video of them. If you leave your phone at home, take a go-pro with you. Cameras out, America!

So will the huge price hikes millions will be feeling by December. Also, if I’m understanding the deal right this continuing resolution goes through January. So there’s another bite of the apple in just a couple of months.

The upshot of the shutdown is that Democrats now own the affordability and they’ve focused it on health care coverage which Republicans want to make more expensive or take away altogether. That vote keeps it there.

The December vote is basically a fake one. But it will show yet again how absolutely determined Republicans are to make people’s health care costs go through the roof.

A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the...

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It should be that simple.

Opinion | Trump Is Pushing Us Toward a Crash. It Could Be 1929 All Over Again.

A warning from history. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race He also had strong opinions about people's "god-given" rights to eat a hotdog and flirt with someone who isn't their spouse.

Says the surveillance company CEO: gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...

SNAP benefits are under attack during this government shutdown and food banks are picking up the slack.

But they need your help. Here are the best ways to do that:

Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."

Bluesky Will Test a ‘Dislike’ Option. It Could Help Fix a Huge Problem The Bluesky Discover feed is an avalanche of meh posts. It could be a powerful and addictive feature instead.

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The SNAP contingency fund holds around $6 billion.

Trump refuses to spend it on the American people.

The same guy who just fast-tracked $40 billion to Argentina.

Trump thinks Argentina deserves our money while he lets Americans starve.

Now, It's a Party Before diving in, I should apologize for light posting over the past month or so. I'm in the home stretch for the book I'm writing on John Doar and the Civil Rights Division. The draft is due to my pr...

"Democrats were searching for a leader. They found something better: a coalition." campaign-trails.ghost.io/now-its-a-pa...

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I voted to fund the government on September 18. Here we are on November 6. And the House has not been in session since then. I truly believe that's an utter failure. You can't expect people to show up and be passionate about voting for you when you're not even going to work"

He could have someone shoot people on 5th Avenue...

You Probably Have a Better Password Than The Louvre Did: Learn From Its Mistake Following the infamous jewel heist, reports show the museum's security and password habits were atrocious.

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A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

Conflicting advice on Covid shots likely to ding already low vaccine rates, experts warn | CNN About 1 in 4 American adults got a covid vaccine shot during the 2024-25 virus season, a fraction health care experts warn could be smaller this year as millions wrestle with conflicting advice from t...

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The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]

—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them