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Philip Storch retweeted
M4A is both a worker power bill and an employee satisfaction bill. No one (including bad bosses - lol) has to stay in a job they hate just to get healthcare and everyone has the means to get preventive care. Happier, healthier, stronger people everywhere.
Philip Storch retweeted
Democrat double speak:
Affordable = all that you can afford to buy
Market driven healthcare. Keep the insurers wealthy.
It's not #MedicareForAll It's the same old bullshit we have heard for decades.
BREAKING: Leader @HakeemJeffries announces bold new Democratic agenda:
“We need to take substantial steps toward bringing about universal healthcare — so that every single American in this country can afford to go see a doctor when they need one.
We’ve got to get big money out of politics and end Citizens United.
We have to prohibit members of Congress from trading stock.
We plan to deliver meaningful, bold, transformational change for the American people.”
Philip Storch retweeted
It’s fair to assume not a single American cast their 2026 vote believing it was an enthusiastic affirmation of Chuck Schumer.
There were lots of Americans who believed they were voting for change — including a change in the Dem Party.
Dems ignore this at their peril.
Philip Storch retweeted
My dog ate my homework.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Philip Storch retweeted
Resharing this wild clip from last year.
For years, Chuck Schumer's political compass was a fictional couple from Long Island who voted for Trump. Maybe it's time for Senate leadership that listens to actual voters?
Philip Storch retweeted
Ralph Nader’s public letter to Hakeem Jeffries on CounterPunch:
“How do you explain the Democratic Party’s failure at numerous critical junctures to stop Trump’s presidential campaigns? Trump’s energy levels to overcome impossible odds in 2016 and even more in 2024 tower above the feeble, indecisive ways of the Democratic Party. Your Party totally bungled, letting Trump continue to destroy our Democracy despite serious indictments, becoming a convicted felon, being sued, and being credibly charged with sexually abusing five dozen women. Trump is a foul-mouthed racist/bigot who constantly used defamatory language, such as against fallen GIs in World War II (a serial draft dodger, no less), and who was profiteering in suspect manners. He was low in the polls, and was widely condemned for his initiatory role inciting the January 6, 2020 insurrection in Congress, taking lives and causing injuries of many defending Capitol Police and other casualties. Still, he defeated your Party in 2024!
“Who could overcome such odds and win the presidency? Someone with towering egomaniacal energy, opposed by the anemic, indentured Democratic Party that refuses to replace losers with new progressive energy. Indeed, losers get promoted, such as heading the Democratic National Committee, while presumptive presidential winners like Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020 are sabotaged by Party apparatchiks and their large donors.
“More basically, the Party has become about raising money in place of credibly advancing progressive policies and programs. The almighty campaign dollars leave raising the paltry federal minimum wage ($7.25 per hour) to one-liners that your voting public doesn’t believe, or not taking up authentic full Medicare for all – which you just stunningly came out against!! Throwaway one-liners, like cracking down on corporate crooks, are not believable, because of the Party’s terrible record regarding corporate crime waves and massive corporate welfare. The same is true for not challenging Trump’s enormous 2017 tax cuts for the rich and big corporations when the Democrats took the House in January 2019. House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal (D-MA), astonishingly announced on opening day that he was not going to reopen these deficit-ballooning tax cuts, depriving investments in public works and services throughout communities nationwide.
“Then, of course, there is the long-sustained Democratic Party of overseas Empire, of a runaway unaudited – as long required by federal law – military budget and the aiding and abetting of Netanyahu’s genocidal mass murder and starvation of infants, children, mothers and fathers in Gaza, using U.S. bombs you voted for to drop the TNT equivalent of over eight Hiroshima bombs on that tiny enclave, the geographical size of Philadelphia, crowded with defenseless families having nothing to do with October 7, 2023, and the prior bombing raids by Israeli F-16s in the previous decades. Still, you proudly remain one of the top beneficiaries of AIPAC, which is the reason you and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) didn’t endorse your newly elected Mayor, Zohran Mamdani.”
Philip Storch retweeted
Jeffries’ uniform carries a lot of weight—
BlackRock is probably heaviest.
No wonder all of his colleagues love this ineffective (for the people) politician.
Philip Storch retweeted
Some facts:
1 - 84% of Democrats support Medicare for All - Schumer & Jeffries oppose
2 - 73% of Democrats want to abolish ICE- Schumer & Jeffries support ICE
3 - 72% of Democrats want to end or decrease aid to Israel - Schumer & Jeffries support more aid
Do we need these guys? NO
Philip Storch retweeted
Republicans always oppose packing the courts, except when they’re celebrating themselves for packing the courts.
Senate Republicans have confirmed 56 Article III judges at a rate not seen since the Reagan administration.
We’re confirming judges as swiftly as possible.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Senate Republicans confirmed 56 Article III judges by early November 2026 at a lower rate than comparable points under Reagan, Biden or Trump's first term, after holding pro forma sessions that prevented recess appointments.
pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…
news.ballotpedia.org/2026/11/04/pre…
advancingamericanfreedom.com/trackers/judic…
legalclarity.org/senate-recess-…
Philip Storch retweeted
In this case @realDonaldTrump , Trumpcare will be waaaay better than Obamacare (If you sign Abdul's bill into law).
This is a message for @realDonaldTrump.
Donald, this is on the table. Guarantee healthcare for every American, from cradle to grave.
Philip Storch retweeted
Saikat Chakrabarti, former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has launched a fundraising push to shield Democrats who refuse to back Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
It has raised over $50,000 in about 12 hours for Reps.-elect Don Leonard (D-Ohio) and Angela Gonzales-Torres (D-Calif.), Chakrabarti wrote, urging donations so they "don't have to worry about the establishment funding a primary against them."
Leonard says senior House Democrats threatened to make his life "a living hell" and oust him in 2028. Chakrabarti's fundraising page is linked in the reply.
In about 12 hours, we’ve already raised over $50k for @DonforOhio and @Angela4CA for standing up to Hakeem.
Keep it going. Donate to them so they don’t have to worry about the establishment funding a primary against them. Link in thread.
Philip Storch retweeted
Hakeem Jeffries needs to not be doing interviews so smugly and acting as if what happened on Tuesday was because we are just so in love with him! I’m telling you, the more he talks, the louder the calls are going to get, and it has nothing to do with his skin color; it’s his tone and his repeated flippant attitude towards what the American people want vs. what the system wants!
And the biggest elephant in the room was what was done to Angie Nixon in FL, Corey Bush, and others, and those are skinfolk! So I don’t want to hear people are attacking him because he’s black. It’s happening because where there’s smoke, there’s fire!
WATCH — @RepJeffries: “There’s no indication members of Congress have been overwhelmed by any calls.”
(This gaslighting seems to contradict what @axios @AndrewSolender have reported, and the million+ signatures on a petition for new leadership @MarkRuffalo helped circulate)
Philip Storch retweeted
We visited every office in the Senate yesterday, and one thing is clear: people are demanding new leadership in Congress.
The Senate cannot be led by an AIPAC-backed Senator who puts corporate interests before the people.
We need someone who will fight corporate interests, stop the wars, and put everyday people's needs first.
We're asking Sen. Van Hollen to run for Leader — the country needs his progressive leadership in the Senate!
Philip Storch retweeted
"Chuck and I grew up, literally, in the same [Brooklyn] neighborhood. I am older than Chuck, but we went to the same elementary school, the same high school. We were on the Banking Committee together when I was first elected to Congress. So I have known Chuck for a long time, and I like Chuck, personally. He’s a very nice guy. But, I think, in this moment in American history, Chuck’s views are way out of touch with where the American people are at—and especially with where [the base of] the Democratic Party is. On issue after issue, I think he is just not in tune with where his constituents are at." thenation.com/article/politi…
Philip Storch retweeted
What terrifies liberals most is that socialists have been correct all along about the fact that the “Democratic” party is a lie and doesn’t serve the people at all.
The only thing it serves the people are excuses to deflect from the truth, which is the party exists to serve corporations, billionaires, Israel, and the war machine, just like the GOP.
