Porter McConnell
@portermcconnell.bsky.social
Racial, economic & gender justice, DC politics. So you know, I’m in a good mood a lot.
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I get what Bernie sanders is saying when he’s asked if Schumer should be replaced, he says: who’s gonna replace him & that any replacement would be of a similar ideology and not a “progressive.”
I get that but there is a diff between “as left wing as Ilhan Omar” & “can hit the don’t-cave button”
I get that but there is a diff between “as left wing as Ilhan Omar” & “can hit the don’t-cave button”
NEW Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet: zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I get what Bernie sanders is saying when he’s asked if Schumer should be replaced, he says: who’s gonna replace him & that any replacement would be of a similar ideology and not a “progressive.”
I get that but there is a diff between “as left wing as Ilhan Omar” & “can hit the don’t-cave button”
I get that but there is a diff between “as left wing as Ilhan Omar” & “can hit the don’t-cave button”
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Wal-Mart called and said they needed that $2B of SNAP money to help their holiday bottom line.Then the airline executives called and cried that they didn’t want to have the flight reduction. Then the lobbyists called and…you get the picture. It wasn’t about the people, never has been, never will be.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Wal-Mart called and said they needed that $2B of SNAP money to help their holiday bottom line.Then the airline executives called and cried that they didn’t want to have the flight reduction. Then the lobbyists called and…you get the picture. It wasn’t about the people, never has been, never will be.
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The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”
So I don’t know man.
So I don’t know man.
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Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
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Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
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Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
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8 Democrats capitulated, in exchange for NOTHING! You’d think we had just LOST the election on Tuesday, rather than winning a landslide! Spineless cowards!
Here they are:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
Here they are:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
8 Democrats capitulated, in exchange for NOTHING! You’d think we had just LOST the election on Tuesday, rather than winning a landslide! Spineless cowards!
Here they are:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
Here they are:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
I cannot f’ing believe this nonsense
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I cannot f’ing believe this nonsense
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Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Ghouls. wapo.st/4qLEG1X
Trump administration orders states to pause paying full SNAP benefits
The Agriculture Department also demands that states “immediately undo” any steps they have taken to send full November payments to recipients of the food assistance program, referred to as food stamps...
wapo.st
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Ghouls. wapo.st/4qLEG1X
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Who are these “informed observers”? Because this would be a truly horrible deal.
Option A won’t lower premiums if insurance companies think subsidies are gonna stop halfway thru the plan year.
Option B fucks over sm biz owners & other middle class ppl… you know, the people who vote.
Option A won’t lower premiums if insurance companies think subsidies are gonna stop halfway thru the plan year.
Option B fucks over sm biz owners & other middle class ppl… you know, the people who vote.
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Who are these “informed observers”? Because this would be a truly horrible deal.
Option A won’t lower premiums if insurance companies think subsidies are gonna stop halfway thru the plan year.
Option B fucks over sm biz owners & other middle class ppl… you know, the people who vote.
Option A won’t lower premiums if insurance companies think subsidies are gonna stop halfway thru the plan year.
Option B fucks over sm biz owners & other middle class ppl… you know, the people who vote.
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www.axios.com/local/washin... Get to know Janeese Lewis George, D.C.'s counterpart to Zohran Mamdani.
The progressive who could be the Zohran Mamdani of D.C.
Janeese Lewis George is considering a run for mayor.
www.axios.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
www.axios.com/local/washin... Get to know Janeese Lewis George, D.C.'s counterpart to Zohran Mamdani.
LFG
News: Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George has started telling people she’s running for mayor, per several sources, confirming months of speculation about her political future.
She’d be the first major candidate to declare for 2026. Now the question: what will Bowser do?
She’d be the first major candidate to declare for 2026. Now the question: what will Bowser do?
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Imagine if the entire energy and machinery that just won a mayoral race with 2 million voters doesn’t go dormant. @corbintrent.bsky.social @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/less...
Time to Flex: Lessons for Mamdani From My Time With AOC | Common Dreams
You can’t change a system by sending one or two people into it and hoping for the best. You have to build and use political power to break the system’s ability to resist you.
www.commondreams.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Imagine if the entire energy and machinery that just won a mayoral race with 2 million voters doesn’t go dormant. @corbintrent.bsky.social @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/less...
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DOJ faces the coldest cut of all
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
DOJ faces the coldest cut of all
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Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not
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I yearn for a political party where not endorsing Mamdani while praising Dick Cheney gets you automatically booted out
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I yearn for a political party where not endorsing Mamdani while praising Dick Cheney gets you automatically booted out