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Post from Lisa Desjardins on X “YES Senate Dem Caucus members now: Cortez Masto Durbin Hassan Kaine King *Rosen* Shaheen Fetterman likely will give it the 8 it needs.”

🚨The second #SchumerSurrender is now pretty much complete.

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

let them never know another day’s peace
let their fruits taste of ashes
let their nights be sleepless
let their children disown them
let their names be forgotten

“We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,” says @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: jeffries.house.gov/2025/11/09/h...

People just voted across multiple states, in droves, for Dems who’ll fight for something.

_If_ Senate mods follow that showing by opting to fold for nothing … I do not think they will expect the backlash they touch off.

Nothing would be more in character for the current Democratic party than to look at the victories of Tuesday and immediately surrender

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

It appears that a significant number of Democratic senators learned entirely the wrong lesson. Primary everyone who votes for the cave.

Senate hopes for shutdown breakthrough Sunday Senators believe enough Democrats are ready to reopen the government.

If these 8 democrats do this, I hope they experience the most miserable primary campaigns in history www.politico.com/live-updates...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Story gets MORE bonkers. "His mother, Félicité Garzon Delvaux, grew up in an 18th-century museum-palace, daughter of a curator and an artist — and regularly takes her son to exhibits."

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.

Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva….

#TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

Just planted some bare root Aralia racemosa out back. Can only dream of a rat snake so cute!

Here we go! www.trumpcancelledmyflight.com

What a banger

A detail right from the Gulag Archipelago, and also from our immigration system.

The entire thread is infuriating.

Finally got to see her last year (& then in quick succession Anohni, FKA Twigs, Beth Gibbons, and Nick Cave so I think I have finally checked all my bucket list boxes)

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Quite a headline.

🤘!! & did the other contestants do a circle pit? Many questions.

Lawless goons. Racial profiling isn’t just something they do, it’s all they do.

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800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel.

Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire.

Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year.

Glad everything worked out for them.

How about you?

Its funny how Muslims, leftists and trans people were being blamed for Harris losing the election in 2024.

Then, a year later, the most popular politician in the country is Muslim democratic socialist who expresses full throated support for trans people.

Almost like it was never our fault🤔

Your weekly roundup of ways to get involved in D.C. Plus, a juror teach-in, a Council hearing on D.C. schools, and more.

How can people join you in getting involved across D.C.?

Our picks this week:
🤘 A @foodnotbombsdc.bsky.social benefit show
🧑‍⚖️ @harrietsdreams.bsky.social and @freedcproject.bsky.social are training future jurors
🧶 @rhizomedc.bsky.social hosts crafting and conversation about police abolition

This isn’t even the first time it would happen - you can literally just go back to when Eric Adams first ran for mayor, and when he got into office, to see how the media manufactured a crime wave that helped push his pro-police agenda at the expense of every other city service.

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

Sandwich Guy is FREE!

Are you crying? b/c I'm crying and I only lived in Chicago for two years.

Art points to the government table and says "these defendants should be ashamed of themselves.

"It's a disgrace. And one of the great things about our Constitution, is that if that's what we think, we can say it."

Mission under way to save 'world's most beautiful' snails Researchers in Cuba and the UK are working together to reveal the biological secrets of the beautiful but endangered Polymita snail.

So many snails! Here's some threatened by collectors: www.bbc.com/news/article...