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NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
11.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 3396 🔁 1222 💬 194 📌 138Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
To date, the Trump administration has acknowledged at least 19 strikes against boats suspected of transporting narcotics, killing more than 75 people.
https://to.pbs.org/4hCqmoj
The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.
11.11.2025 03:50 — 👍 299 🔁 113 💬 9 📌 4#Florida senator still trying to screw us over
11.11.2025 05:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Momentum builds for new leadership!
11.11.2025 03:21 — 👍 1685 🔁 375 💬 63 📌 12Former House speaker / Trump adviser newt Gingrich, saying on the record what we’d heard so much on background from those others:
“Look at the rage on the left. It doesn’t sound like a victory party to me. All you have to do is look at the reaction on the left to figure out who won this shutdown…”
"Some of the Border Patrol teams dispatched to Chicago could be diverted to Charlotte, North Carolina for an operation that is expected to start there this month, the U.S. officials said." www.cbsnews.com/news/gregory...
11.11.2025 03:50 — 👍 11 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 6UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
11.11.2025 00:38 — 👍 1158 🔁 529 💬 109 📌 298Trump is claiming credit for ending the government shutdown, boasting that he “broke the Democrats.”
11.11.2025 01:34 — 👍 1254 🔁 285 💬 250 📌 66The American people want us to stand and fight to lower costs, and that's what I believe we must do.
10.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 338 🔁 40 💬 41 📌 3Last night, tragically, 8 Democrats caved.
But the struggle continues.
Short term, we must not allow health care premiums to double for more than 20 million Americans.
Long term, we must provide health care to all as a human right.
Wife of a furloughed federal worker here. We live in Okinawa & they aren't paying our housing or his salary. We are worried about neighbors & coworkers in the same boat. This sucks. But what sucks worse? Dems fucking betraying us and caving so all of this was for nothing right when we had leverage.
10.11.2025 22:47 — 👍 403 🔁 90 💬 1 📌 0In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
10.11.2025 22:19 — 👍 22364 🔁 7131 💬 2187 📌 1377There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
10.11.2025 20:07 — 👍 9607 🔁 2993 💬 439 📌 254Update: this is no longer included in the final funding deal. I'm going to keep fighting to lower premiums and ensure Republicans can’t get away with a backdoor national abortion ban.
10.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 1338 🔁 346 💬 139 📌 18
Exactly how MANY emerging-market strongmen are we going to rescue? 🤡
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
Canada was officially declared “measles-free” 27 years ago, but no more. The rising number of measles outbreaks is a symptom of a deeper issue: declining trust in public messaging about science and health, which has led to decreased vaccination rates. buff.ly/V7RPaXR
10.11.2025 23:18 — 👍 26 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 3“After a year spent organizing to try to convince the Democratic Party to unify and oppose this regime, here’s where I am: The time for convincing is over. We need new leadership.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
It’s just plain stupid to encourage our most experienced controllers to quit, given the job’s rigorous training requirements and the shortage of controllers.
We should be trying to retain our most experienced controllers, not slandering them and pushing them to leave their careers early.
We the citizens demand leadership who will fight for us without backing down. Current Dem leadership does not have the spine.
11.11.2025 00:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last night's so-called deal was a tragically disappointing result for the millions of Americans who are facing higher health care costs next year, and for our efforts to confront this bully of a President. I voted no.
Let's talk about where we go from here. youtu.be/Zc-sUG6myqE?...
Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. And after the primary — whatever happens — we will rally behind the winner and crush the regime electorally in the midterms just like we did this last week.
We get the party we demand and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.
This isn’t about left vs. right.
This is about fighting back vs. losing.
The regime’s threats are too real and the stakes are too high to settle for the feckless, loser version of the Democratic Party we saw this week. In this moment when fascists are on the march, we need leadership with a spine.
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Good explainer from Sen. Schiff. I wish he was the Dem leader.
11.11.2025 00:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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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.
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
