Steve Henley

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

HOUSE UPDATE: The procedural vote to advance the Senate-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act is stuck at 204-212 and is being kept open. 16 Republicans haven't voted. Democrats have full attendance (something they've struggled with all year) and are unanimously voting no.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

CNN: Are you confident Democrats can convince Americans that the impacts of this bill are Republicans' fault? That is a messaging challenge RASKIN: Look, it's a party-line vote

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

Mike Lee stands for nothing.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social

4 Republican votes in the House. That's it. That's what's needed to kill this horrific, sinful, and murderous GOP Billionaire Bill. Do 4 Republicans have the moral courage to do it?

David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social

Enraging. Murkowski voted for a measure she acknowledges is harmful for "the rest of our nation"—and she had to know the odds are that the Trump-pressured GOP House will accept this version. What a brazen display of moral cowardice and selfishness. She is complicit in the wrongdoing she decries.

Jacob Bogage@jacobbogage.bsky.social

It’s tempting to think the Senate passing the One Big Beautiful Bill makes this thing a done deal. It may have been the easy part. House hardliners have already called this a “nonstarter.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

Someone’s Big Beautiful Mad.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social

Mr. Fetterman, it's really this simple: you're receiving $174,000 a year for a position to which you were elected after asking people to trust that you'd be an unwavering champion for working class families. I don't give a fuck that you missed your beach trip. Stop whining and get back to work.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Trump’s response to Elon Musk

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social

We really need to start asking why the ICE agents are such snowflakes that they need to hide their identities when they arrest gardeners and taco truck drivers? Hundreds of thousands of state and local cops don't feel the need to hide their faces and identities.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Objection overruled.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Freedom Caucus is the biggest bunch of frauds in Congress. They talk a big game about debt on social media and Fox, then always vote to explode it followed by lame excuses.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Trump folds in his absurd lawsuit against Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social

Wow. The Senate was just interrupted by someone screaming: "You people are awful." This is so needed.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

I think it’s a great idea for Republicans to nominate Lara Trump for the open NC senate seat. Just like it was a great idea to nominate Herschel Walker, Dr. Oz, Kelly Loeffler, Kari Lake, Joe Kent, Scott Brown, Mark Robinson, Doug Mastriano, Winsome Sears, Tudor Dixon, on and on.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

They didn’t make the tax cuts permanent when they passed them. They gave them an expiration date, which is here. Now they are living with the consequences of that decision/compromise. These are new tax cuts to replace the ones that are expiring, but they don’t want them to count.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

“She adopted us, and we adopted her.” Over 50 years of teaching art history at New College of Florida, one professor carved out an influential but complex legacy. Her 31 favorite students inherited her intensity, her quirks and her life savings.

nytimes.comA Professor’s Final Gift to Her Students: Her Life Savings

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

I really thought this was SNL

Olympia Indivisible ❌👑@olyindivisible.bsky.social

Olympia has shown up! 💪🏼 #handsoff

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org

Demand for entering the U.S. has collapsed.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Adam Kinzinger’s security clearance is revoked every weekend. Deeply bizarre stuff.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Luna says there’s a video out there which proves conclusively that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t shoot JFK, and she is working on tracking it down.

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov

Trump is carving out a foreign policy legacy of diminished U.S. leadership, abandoned allies, starving children, and spreading diseases. History will never forget if he succeeds. Trump is not just turning America away from the world—he is turning the world away from America.

cbsnews.comTrump administration takes steps to formally shutter USAIDThe agency notified Congress of its plan to discontinue any USAID functions that do not align with Trump administration priorities.

Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘@chariselee.bsky.social

The issue is not that a journalist was present in the chat. The issue is that the chat existed at all.

Congressman Shri Thanedar@shrithanedar.bsky.social

We need an immediate Congressional investigation into how a reporter was put into a highly confidential signal chain with top Trump officials. This shouldn’t be partisan.

Burgess Everett@burgessev.bsky.social

Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Wicker tells Semafor he’ll be talking to ranking member Reed about the Atlantic story and next steps “We’re definitely concerned” “The chair and ranking member are going to discuss the action to take. That’s part of our oversight”

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Omg

Paul Barrett ❌👑@paulthedogman.bsky.social

Dangerous authoritarian leaders can also be incompetent bozos. In fact, their incompetence makes them all the more dangerous. Trump-Musk apparatchiks are planning military operations on unclassified group chats that include random journalists. #MAGADoofuses. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

washingtonpost.comWhite House acknowledges ‘inadvertent’ leak involving top Trump officialsThe Atlantic reported that its top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a group chat where Trump’s national security team plotted attacking Yemen.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

nightmare group chat

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

Top government officials sharing highly classified war plans in a group chat with unauthorized participants is possibly the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history. Democrats need to treat it more like that and less like a funny thing that happened.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

Wait until Musk learns about the rigorous standards for defamation of public figures under New York Times v. Sullivan.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

This will be an unmitigated disaster.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Luna: If we lose the house, mark my words that they will absolutely launch an impeachment of president trump

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Eduardo Bolsonaro, a Brazilian congressman and a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, said on Tuesday that he would seek political asylum in the U.S.

nytimes.comSon of Jair Bolsonaro Says He Will Seek Political Asylum in the U.S.Eduardo Bolsonaro, a son of Brazil’s former president, said he planned to stay in the United States, claiming persecution back home.

Craig Harrington@craigipedia.bsky.social

If Donald Trump was a Russian spy actively sabotaging the United States of America... what would he do differently?

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

International travelers concerned about President Donald Trump’s trade policies and bellicose rhetoric have been canceling trips to the United States, depriving the U.S. tourism industry of billions of dollars at a time when the economy has started to appear wobbly.

washingtonpost.comNervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plansInternational tourists are canceling plans to visit the United States, with Canadians leading the way.

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov

When I cast my vote, I’m representing the nearly 8 million people in Washington state. In this democracy their voices count for something—so you better believe I am not handing over my vote in exchange for nothing. I am voting NO on the House Republicans' slush fund CR.

GamerGrrrlCO 🇺🇲 🇺🇦@gamergrrrlco.bsky.social

Schumer said that if the government gets shut down, ALL authority to decide who is essential or not gets vested exclusively in the Executive, with no legal challenge or review possible. And the courts could be shut down as well. And the Executive branch could decide not to end the shutdown.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social

I’ll be on CNN at 6 with @jaketapper.bsky.social to discuss Senate Democrats’ responsibility to protect the federal government and vote NO on cloture and the GOP spending bill

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.