Jesse Berney
@jesseberney.com
Writer. 20+ years in politics, advocacy, and labor. Masters candidate in counseling and clinical intern therapist. He/him. DC.
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Jesse Berney
@jesseberney.com
· Nov 6
I know it's cringe as fuck, but small acts of kindness are going to be so important for the foreseeable future.
Being kind and doing kind things can be your lifeline. It can keep you sane.
Being kind and doing kind things can be your lifeline. It can keep you sane.
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TRUMP HANDED $40 BILLION TO ARGENTINA!!
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.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
TRUMP HANDED $40 BILLION TO ARGENTINA!!
Senate Democrats aren't calling for Schumer's ouster because he would punish them.
The eight moderates voted with the GOP because they knew Schumer wouldn't punish them.
The eight moderates voted with the GOP because they knew Schumer wouldn't punish them.
Here are the at least 6 House Democrats, 3 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 4 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Senate Democrats aren't calling for Schumer's ouster because he would punish them.
The eight moderates voted with the GOP because they knew Schumer wouldn't punish them.
The eight moderates voted with the GOP because they knew Schumer wouldn't punish them.
"everyone will get to see"
PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU NUMBNUTTED SQUIRREL FUCKER, THEY WANT HEALTH CARE
PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU NUMBNUTTED SQUIRREL FUCKER, THEY WANT HEALTH CARE
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"everyone will get to see"
PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU NUMBNUTTED SQUIRREL FUCKER, THEY WANT HEALTH CARE
PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU NUMBNUTTED SQUIRREL FUCKER, THEY WANT HEALTH CARE
chuck schumer resign today challenge
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
chuck schumer resign today challenge
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Marriage advice: Never go to bed angry.
Politics advice: Go to bed angry. Wake up angry. Eat breakfast angry. Work out angry. Go to work angry. Get coffee angry. Eat lunch angry. File your TPS reports angry. Pick up your kids from school angry. Make dinner angry. Watch Love Is Blind angry.
Politics advice: Go to bed angry. Wake up angry. Eat breakfast angry. Work out angry. Go to work angry. Get coffee angry. Eat lunch angry. File your TPS reports angry. Pick up your kids from school angry. Make dinner angry. Watch Love Is Blind angry.
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Marriage advice: Never go to bed angry.
Politics advice: Go to bed angry. Wake up angry. Eat breakfast angry. Work out angry. Go to work angry. Get coffee angry. Eat lunch angry. File your TPS reports angry. Pick up your kids from school angry. Make dinner angry. Watch Love Is Blind angry.
Politics advice: Go to bed angry. Wake up angry. Eat breakfast angry. Work out angry. Go to work angry. Get coffee angry. Eat lunch angry. File your TPS reports angry. Pick up your kids from school angry. Make dinner angry. Watch Love Is Blind angry.
Marriage advice: Never go to bed angry.
Politics advice: Go to bed angry. Wake up angry. Eat breakfast angry. Work out angry. Go to work angry. Get coffee angry. Eat lunch angry. File your TPS reports angry. Pick up your kids from school angry. Make dinner angry. Watch Love Is Blind angry.
Politics advice: Go to bed angry. Wake up angry. Eat breakfast angry. Work out angry. Go to work angry. Get coffee angry. Eat lunch angry. File your TPS reports angry. Pick up your kids from school angry. Make dinner angry. Watch Love Is Blind angry.
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Marriage advice: Never go to bed angry.
Politics advice: Go to bed angry. Wake up angry. Eat breakfast angry. Work out angry. Go to work angry. Get coffee angry. Eat lunch angry. File your TPS reports angry. Pick up your kids from school angry. Make dinner angry. Watch Love Is Blind angry.
Politics advice: Go to bed angry. Wake up angry. Eat breakfast angry. Work out angry. Go to work angry. Get coffee angry. Eat lunch angry. File your TPS reports angry. Pick up your kids from school angry. Make dinner angry. Watch Love Is Blind angry.
goodnight my monsters, thank you for letting me scream into the ether at you all night
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
goodnight my monsters, thank you for letting me scream into the ether at you all night
oh god the timing of this is so on the nose
BREAKING: We just got the First Circuit's ruling in the Rhode Island SNAP case: The petition for stay pending appeal is denied in part. (waiting for the full doc to hit PACER)
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
oh god the timing of this is so on the nose
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buddy, it’s time to go. resign your leadership position because you fucked everyone over on this one.
no one believes you and no one trusts you. it’s over.
no one believes you and no one trusts you. it’s over.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
buddy, it’s time to go. resign your leadership position because you fucked everyone over on this one.
no one believes you and no one trusts you. it’s over.
no one believes you and no one trusts you. it’s over.
boy did I pick a good time to leave politics for therapy
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
boy did I pick a good time to leave politics for therapy
The only way to do this is to start primarying all of them.
Dem pols really have 0 fear of their base and that kinda has to change.
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The only way to do this is to start primarying all of them.
I have been on a real rant about this recently -- the problem with the Democratic Party isn't just weakness. It's that the leaders spend all their time with rich people.
You know who spent an entire campaign shitting on billionaires and talking to normal folks? (Hint: he's the new mayor of NYC.)
You know who spent an entire campaign shitting on billionaires and talking to normal folks? (Hint: he's the new mayor of NYC.)
They like fundraising dinners and lifetime sinecures and useful stock tips
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I have been on a real rant about this recently -- the problem with the Democratic Party isn't just weakness. It's that the leaders spend all their time with rich people.
You know who spent an entire campaign shitting on billionaires and talking to normal folks? (Hint: he's the new mayor of NYC.)
You know who spent an entire campaign shitting on billionaires and talking to normal folks? (Hint: he's the new mayor of NYC.)
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not to be vengeful but i want all of us to remember this exact feeling the next time anyone pops off with some apologia for weak willed self serving democrats as if any of these fuckers deserve the benefit of the doubt
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
not to be vengeful but i want all of us to remember this exact feeling the next time anyone pops off with some apologia for weak willed self serving democrats as if any of these fuckers deserve the benefit of the doubt
You have to resign. Tonight.
This is such an embarrassing failure on your part. You and you alone. It was your job to hold the line to protect health care coverage, and you failed. Utterly. Miserably. You failed.
Democrats won a resounding victory less than a week ago, and you caved. Resign. Now.
This is such an embarrassing failure on your part. You and you alone. It was your job to hold the line to protect health care coverage, and you failed. Utterly. Miserably. You failed.
Democrats won a resounding victory less than a week ago, and you caved. Resign. Now.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
You have to resign. Tonight.
This is such an embarrassing failure on your part. You and you alone. It was your job to hold the line to protect health care coverage, and you failed. Utterly. Miserably. You failed.
Democrats won a resounding victory less than a week ago, and you caved. Resign. Now.
This is such an embarrassing failure on your part. You and you alone. It was your job to hold the line to protect health care coverage, and you failed. Utterly. Miserably. You failed.
Democrats won a resounding victory less than a week ago, and you caved. Resign. Now.
I'm so incandescently angry.
And it's a different kind of angry from when I'm angry at Trump and his ilk. They're evil; I'm angry at them for wanting to do wrong.
But these people are at least supposed to share my basic values. And seeing them capitulate like this--AGAIN--is more than I can bear.
And it's a different kind of angry from when I'm angry at Trump and his ilk. They're evil; I'm angry at them for wanting to do wrong.
But these people are at least supposed to share my basic values. And seeing them capitulate like this--AGAIN--is more than I can bear.
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I'm so incandescently angry.
And it's a different kind of angry from when I'm angry at Trump and his ilk. They're evil; I'm angry at them for wanting to do wrong.
But these people are at least supposed to share my basic values. And seeing them capitulate like this--AGAIN--is more than I can bear.
And it's a different kind of angry from when I'm angry at Trump and his ilk. They're evil; I'm angry at them for wanting to do wrong.
But these people are at least supposed to share my basic values. And seeing them capitulate like this--AGAIN--is more than I can bear.
I gotta say, I'm not interested in the statements of Democrats who opposed this unless they call for a change in Senate leadership.
"This was a bad vote" is not enough. Call for Schumer's head.
"This was a bad vote" is not enough. Call for Schumer's head.
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I gotta say, I'm not interested in the statements of Democrats who opposed this unless they call for a change in Senate leadership.
"This was a bad vote" is not enough. Call for Schumer's head.
"This was a bad vote" is not enough. Call for Schumer's head.
This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000.
Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home.
Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.
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for anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration - in Westminster systems, if backbenchers cross the aisle on a supply (funding) bill, either they'll be expelled from the party ("lose the whip") or party leadership will immediately resign
whipping supply votes is, like, leadership's "you had one job"
whipping supply votes is, like, leadership's "you had one job"
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
for anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration - in Westminster systems, if backbenchers cross the aisle on a supply (funding) bill, either they'll be expelled from the party ("lose the whip") or party leadership will immediately resign
whipping supply votes is, like, leadership's "you had one job"
whipping supply votes is, like, leadership's "you had one job"
Schumer will vote against the deal, but that does not matter.
Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together.
This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.
Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together.
This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Schumer will vote against the deal, but that does not matter.
Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together.
This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.
Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together.
This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy
"new dems"
it literally doesn't get old dems than this
it literally doesn't get old dems than this
New Dems just released our Immigration & Border Security framework—a plan for how we can pass commonsense, bipartisan policies that fix our system & address the issues Americans care most about.
Read more about it in @washingtonpost.com ⬇️
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Read more about it in @washingtonpost.com ⬇️
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
These House Democrats seek a new middle ground on immigration
The New Democratic Coalition unveiled a plan to win back voters on immigration but they need the party’s support.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"new dems"
it literally doesn't get old dems than this
it literally doesn't get old dems than this
If Dems cave on health care subsidies, I might actually lose my fucking mind.
"A vote in Senate on the issue" is 1000% meaningless.
"A vote in Senate on the issue" is 1000% meaningless.
From what I have seen so far this does not seem like a good deal:
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If Dems cave on health care subsidies, I might actually lose my fucking mind.
"A vote in Senate on the issue" is 1000% meaningless.
"A vote in Senate on the issue" is 1000% meaningless.
"rich white guy who never speaks to normal human beings and has absolutely zero useful insights to share and pretends not to just be a republican but totally is" is the new "middle-class white guy in a diner who pretends not to just be a republican but totally is"
I’m sorry, but a goofy looking guy who grew up a privileged son of a pediatrician and has a phd in social theory from the university of Goethe and started in tech by investing an inheritance left to him by his grandfather talking about being a “dude” is very, very funny to me.
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"rich white guy who never speaks to normal human beings and has absolutely zero useful insights to share and pretends not to just be a republican but totally is" is the new "middle-class white guy in a diner who pretends not to just be a republican but totally is"
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gonna repeat this: if you want to send your money to a man running against a republican senator this is the man to send your money to.
he’s already been their senator
people genuinely know and like him
his campaign needs in state folks to knock doors for him.
that takes cash.
he’s already been their senator
people genuinely know and like him
his campaign needs in state folks to knock doors for him.
that takes cash.
Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones appears to be headed for another political showdown against current Sen. Tommy Tuberville, this time for the governor’s office.
🔗: https://www.al.com/politics/2025/11/alabama-democrat-hints-at-2026-rematch-with-tommy-tuberville-stay-tuned.html
🔗: https://www.al.com/politics/2025/11/alabama-democrat-hints-at-2026-rematch-with-tommy-tuberville-stay-tuned.html
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
gonna repeat this: if you want to send your money to a man running against a republican senator this is the man to send your money to.
he’s already been their senator
people genuinely know and like him
his campaign needs in state folks to knock doors for him.
that takes cash.
he’s already been their senator
people genuinely know and like him
his campaign needs in state folks to knock doors for him.
that takes cash.