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this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

I was in KY too. IN has open primaries, so it's a lot easier, but the GOP here is extra corrupt, so it doesn't benefit Dems much.

I understand people leaving the party on principal, but if you live in a closed primary state, party membership is the only way to have a say. Corporate Dems just cannot stop shooting themselves in the foot.

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Is this *it*? Is voter dissatisfaction so rampant that a cleansing wave of primary voters demanding change is coming to wash away the dross?

Maybe. But it's very far from a certainty. It depends on a critical mass of voters who've accepted excuses for decades refusing to accept excuses anymore.

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@democrats.senate.gov What in God's name was the point of the shutdown if a few corporate sell outs are just going to cave without getting anything from the GOP?

Y'all better get ready to primary those senators. Winning last week was SUPPORT for your actions and now you betrayed your base.

Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision, reports The New York Times

Supreme Court suggests that Kim Davis go fuck herself and/or one of her 37 ex-husbands.

Have you ever seen the episodes where Lucy pulls the football away while Charlie Brown is going to kick it and he falls on his face? You're Charlie Brown. Johnson will never allow a vote on those subsidies, you sell out. This better be your last term.

Is she new? Has she not seen this bullshit before? She's old enough to be my grandma probably, but she really thinks they're going to vote on subsidies later?

DAVIS, KIM V. ERMOLD, DAVID, ET AL. The motion of Foundation for Moral Law for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae out of time is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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

Here's a fundraising email I received for some reason.

Turning Point is really embracing the civil, non-incendiary discourse we were told Charlie Kirk championed.*

(*He didn't really champion those things, and I'm sure he would have been fine with this email.)

Good job Senate Dems.

This is who you helped.

OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...

Makes sense.
prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...

It is wild to me that guys like him start businesses that fail and then somehow, they're geniuses and people keep giving them billions for more business ideas that are ultimately going to fail, but by God, let's give them a little more just in case they're not lying about their product this time.

There are entire airports that only exist with scheduled service due to lavish Federal subsidies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenti...

James, quick q: what do you pay for healthcare? i feel like i subsidize your sweet rate for a gold ACA package, so....

Yeah, it is. We have the weakest possible opposition leadership. It shouldn't have gotten to a second term at all and it wouldn't have if Dems had a collective spine between them.

It is fucking insane to me that senate democrats bailed him out

He's the minority leader. It's his job to lead his party in the senate. He didn't, clearly. If he can't keep them in line, he needs to step aside. Let someone with a backbone do it.

I doubt they wanted to end it with ZERO concessions.

Resign, you spineless coward. What was the point of holding out for a month to just cave in and get nothing for it?! Are you really this weak? Damn, son. We won last week and you're hellbent on making sure you never win again. Your political instincts are a joke, you sell-out.

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Small comfort to see Senate Dems who voted NO
The rest got played-again

Schumer is Charlie Brown and the GOP is Lucy with the football. Over and over and over and over, ad nauseum

It's kind of uncertain whether Johnson will ever convene the House again

HE'S SPINELESS. Dems get nothing from this. They just had huge election wins and Schumer is undermining them once again. He's half the reason the GOP has gotten away with so much. Stop believing in fairy tales.

Oh, yeah. He held strong all right 🤣🤣🤣

“Um well there aren’t even any Senate Dem Press releases saying they support the deal”

Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

Robert Reich What Democrats SHOULD Be Doing

Fighting against Trump isn’t enough. It's time for Democrats to show America what they're fighting FOR — and embrace the fresh, new voices leading the way. This week was a good start. Here's what else they need to do. https://youtu.be/Uzc57eD3cWI?si=fLGGWBf468q4aacc

This is literally where I am.

I can understand the ACA decision, but the core goal of this shutdown was to try and assert some manner of "the executive branch will follow the goddamn law"

We didn't get that, at all.