Chrisella Herzog

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

A Facebook scammer took a close relative's entire life's savings away from them. Seven decades, poof, gone. Mark Zuckerberg did that to my family on purpose to make money for himself.

What is the Dems' version of the Tea Party movement going to be called?

Even more true today: Democrats are ripe for a base revolt like the GOP in 2015 when Trump went down the escalator.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:

Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever

That’s just it. In the Democratic Party, the question isn’t moderate or leftist right now. It’s whether or not a dem understands that the old political playbook for dealing with the right is obsolete.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

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

Really seeing once again, it seems, that the real divide in the Democratic coalition is not left/lib/moderate or anything like that.

It's the fight/no-fight divide. And the 'fight' dems are the ones winning elections.

Mike Lee doing something insane cause the clean CR isn't racist enough would be immensely funny.

Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.

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...

How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.

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.

Or, just a suggestion, we could pay people enough to enable them to buy a home.

Yes. How do Dem electeds not understand this dynamic? After all these years?

My deep concern about this approach is that it’s teaching the Trump administration that the path to get Democrats to cave is to inflict maximum pain.

It means if we do this again in January, he’s going to try and find new and creative ways to hurt more people faster to get Democrats to cave

I suppose it’s something to imagine that in addition to being yelled at by us they are also being yelled at by House reps, some of whom probably have their real phone numbers

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.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."

Sometimes I wonder whether the constant violations of the constitution and humanitarian outrages aren’t just a means of keeping the equally constant bribery and corruption off page 1.

A government by brain rot

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

People we're saying that he should just build an Oval Office in Mar A Lago and laughed at me when I said that the reality was he was gonna wreck the White House and turn it into Mar A Lago if they ever let him back in there

The AWS outage made it impossible to pay for parking outside the courthouse this morning.

Amazon should not have that kind of influence.