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Trump gets: $5 billion in crypto deals, a $400 million plane, a $300 million ballroom, millions in deals from Facebook, Amazon, CBS. 

Everyone else gets: higher prices for health care, electricity, and groceries.  

Corruption, plain and simple.

This is important context from Julie K. Brown.

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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Not a single risotto recipe in the bunch

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

I was wondering about that but hoping someone smarter than me would figure that part out.

Sounds like an APA suit should be teed up

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Thank you Senator. Please press your colleagues on this — especially Schumer. He said he’d vote no, but as leader he should be more active in convincing his caucus. Pelosi would never let shit like this happen in the House.

Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him

And they should, given this is his fault.

Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

This right here.

Exactly! I’ve left messages with Schumer, my senators (MA), and my until recently Senator Kaine since I read he caved. Is there anything else I can do tonight to stop this travesty?

This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.

ICE has been seizing people in Allston. Boston area folks, spread the word about the LUCE hotline to report ICE sightings. And here's stickers you can print and put up anywhere:

Polling showing Dem position on health care subsidies is favored by Dems and Independents by large margins.

Exhibit #2625 on Dems winning the politics of the shutdown fight. Check out this polling from @groundwork.bsky.social:

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Exactly what I came here to ask!

This story keeps getting worse.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is a DC area food bank that has helped laid off and unpaid government workers. They need help. If you have a few bucks to spare consider this charity. www.capitalareafoodbank.org?utm_referrer...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Rally with Free DC. Meet at 11:00 AM @ John Marshall Park. Saturday, October 18.

In this country, we have no kings.

MEET US TODAY at 11 AM at John Marshall Park to rally as part of No Kings: DC Rising. Together we'll make it clear that the people of DC are joyful, powerful, and we have what it takes to win. See you there. #NoKings

just go to the protests

take whatever precautions you personally feel comfortable with but these are massive, joyful events, go and have fun

Federal judge demands answers from Trump admin on following order to avoid violent encounters with Chicago protesters | CNN A judge in Illinois said she has “serious concerns” over whether federal law enforcement agents are following her order to avoid violent encounters with protesters and journalists in Chicago.

CNN: Federal judge demands answers from Trump admin on following order to avoid violent encounters with Chicago protesters

“You can’t shoot ‘em in the head (with pepper balls),” Judge Ellis said. “You can’t deploy tear gas. You can’t use flash-bang grenades. You can’t drive a car through a crowd.”

'Startled' judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

It’s very sad that Gov. Stitt can say this obviously true thing but @GovBillLee wouldn’t in a million years.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...