I’ve been thinking a lot about the parallels to strikes. Strikes cause a lot of pain to striking employees, that is built in. The Dems have zero preparation, concept of their goals, understanding of their opponents’ pain points, credibility from their base

There will be some "Wow you can't make these people happy" sentiment but what's really happening is the Dems are beginning to reap the consequences of not really believing in anything. Choreographed maneuvers, too clever by half talking points. People have just had it

The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)

They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.

The Senate Democrats!

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.

Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

BIPARTISAN COMMITTEE TO NEGOTIATE ON HEALTHCARE is absolutely the cherry on top. This is why people loathe the democratic party

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

The Jews are a stateless people. I believe it is a core part of our identity. My family lived near Munkacs which bounced between being Hungarian, Czech, Ukrainian…

Loudoun County, in northern Virginia, was the sign of apocalypse twelve months ago for Democrats.

Most of the vote just came in. (AP estimates 79%.)

Spanberger up 26%. (And Jay Jones up 15%.)

Four years ago, McAuliffe won it by just 11% on his way to a 2% loss.

Caption: Border Patrol agents detain painter Krzysztof Klim while verifying his identification on Oct. 31, 2025, next to Halloween decorations outside a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood. Klim, originally from Poland and now a U.S. citizen, was briefly detained and then released. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

U.S. Border Patrol agents watch the street while others question and detain a man they found painting a house in Chicago’s Edison Park neighborhood on Oct. 31, 2025, during immigration enforcement operations. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

The photos in this Chicago Tribune piece… It's a quiet middle-class inner suburb, but these guys look like they're in Fallujah circa 2006.

The uniforms indicate Border Patrol and its BORTAC "special operations" unit.

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We will win.

The banality of evil.

Randall Gamboa in Nazi Noem custody for 8 months then died when deported back to Costa Rica.

🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US.

Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight.

He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.

Same with my family and yet I wasn’t familiar

No. If you gave me a group of skulls and told me to pick out the Nazi ones I would fail

How about lead paint?!

At Tufts around 2008 there was a conservative student paper that would just print straight up racist “parody” songs around the holidays

Catholicism practiced in the pursuit of social justice is extremely powerful

Absolutely incredible pivot

This is lunacy: they had a health care plan, and they implemented it in H.R.1.
It includes work requirements for Medicaid, and the cutting of ACA subsidies that will cause millions to lose health insurance. That was the plan!
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This is why I truly don’t believe in community input into these types of projects 🤪

THEY ARE WEARING MASKS TO BE ANONYMOUS!! They are snatching people off the streets as anonymously as they possibly can

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

As a white person in Baltimore city, this is comically stupid. White people *chose* to leave the city moron

This is spot on. A very important teaching from the Talmud (Jewish teachings) is that it is not your duty to finish the work, but you are not at liberty to neglect it. The work is long and you may not see the goal achieved in your lifetime but it is necessary.

The right's position on political violence has always been and will always be that it's wrong, unless it happens to people they don't like in which case it's hilarious and awesome

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

a lot of bad-faith grifters are taking my words out of context just because i told jeffrey dahmer to "stay hungry," in writing, at his birthday party, that i was at.