Kill the filibuster asap
My feeling right now is fuck the filibuster.
"But what if we need it against the GOP?"
Yeah? Well, we did, these last two years.
And you know what happened? We caved first. Multiple times.
"But what if we need it against the GOP?"
Yeah? Well, we did, these last two years.
And you know what happened? We caved first. Multiple times.
November 11, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Kill the filibuster asap
If we don't have the courage to use the filibuster to end concentration camps and save health insurance for millions of people, the only purpose it serves is letting the GOP fuck us up.
End the filibuster.
End the filibuster.
November 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
If we don't have the courage to use the filibuster to end concentration camps and save health insurance for millions of people, the only purpose it serves is letting the GOP fuck us up.
End the filibuster.
End the filibuster.
BREAKING: Young people are blockading Chuck Schumer's office to demand that he STEP UP and pledge to abolish the filibuster or STEP ASIDE as Senate Majority Leader in favor of Senator Chris Van Hollen.
November 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
BREAKING: Young people are blockading Chuck Schumer's office to demand that he STEP UP and pledge to abolish the filibuster or STEP ASIDE as Senate Majority Leader in favor of Senator Chris Van Hollen.
The filibuster only ever blocks Democratic legislation.
We're suckers if we keep it.
We're suckers if we keep it.
November 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
The filibuster only ever blocks Democratic legislation.
We're suckers if we keep it.
We're suckers if we keep it.
Here's the thing about the filibuster: the impact of a long filibuster is a government shutdown. The GOP basically doesn't care if the government shuts down, except when you're shutting down ICE which makes them kinda sad.
November 11, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Here's the thing about the filibuster: the impact of a long filibuster is a government shutdown. The GOP basically doesn't care if the government shuts down, except when you're shutting down ICE which makes them kinda sad.
It’s time for Senate Democrats to end the filibuster and transform American politics.
November 9, 2026 at 1:48 PM
It’s time for Senate Democrats to end the filibuster and transform American politics.
If you're gunned about changing the Dem leadership none of that matters a 10th as much as getting rid of the filibuster. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/forge...
Forget the Leadership Fights—Everything Comes Back to the Filibuster
In her note to TPM over the weekend, Theda Skocpol made a...
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November 12, 2026 at 8:05 PM
If you're gunned about changing the Dem leadership none of that matters a 10th as much as getting rid of the filibuster. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/forge...
Forget the Leadership Fights—Everything Comes Back to the Filibuster talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/forge...
Forget the Leadership Fights—Everything Comes Back to the Filibuster
In her note to TPM over the weekend, Theda Skocpol made a...
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November 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Forget the Leadership Fights—Everything Comes Back to the Filibuster talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/forge...
YES. This is the way. Break the filibuster, send wildly popular legislation to his desk, and MAKE HIM VETO IT.
Warren: "Democrats must deliver popular, meaningful legislation to Trump's desk, and then dare him to veto it. Dare him to veto an increase to the minimum wage for hard-working Americans ... you can't win what you don't fight for"
November 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
YES. This is the way. Break the filibuster, send wildly popular legislation to his desk, and MAKE HIM VETO IT.
If we don't have the courage to fuck the filibuster, we aren't really going to have the courage to use it.
November 11, 2026 at 12:50 AM
If we don't have the courage to fuck the filibuster, we aren't really going to have the courage to use it.
The whole “we can’t try shit because of the filibuster” drives me up a wall.
So you think they’ll filibuster it? Fine. Restore the talking filibuster. Make them stand up and do it. Make them talk for days and days. Tell them you’ll be ready to vote on it whenever they’re done talking.
So you think they’ll filibuster it? Fine. Restore the talking filibuster. Make them stand up and do it. Make them talk for days and days. Tell them you’ll be ready to vote on it whenever they’re done talking.
November 12, 2026 at 10:03 PM
The whole “we can’t try shit because of the filibuster” drives me up a wall.
So you think they’ll filibuster it? Fine. Restore the talking filibuster. Make them stand up and do it. Make them talk for days and days. Tell them you’ll be ready to vote on it whenever they’re done talking.
So you think they’ll filibuster it? Fine. Restore the talking filibuster. Make them stand up and do it. Make them talk for days and days. Tell them you’ll be ready to vote on it whenever they’re done talking.
This is why our demands for Senate leadership focus on the filibuster!
November 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM
This is why our demands for Senate leadership focus on the filibuster!
What's that you're saying? We should kill the filibuster?
Welcome to the party. Here's a package of anti-filibuster stories that I assembled for Grist in *2010*.
Welcome to the party. Here's a package of anti-filibuster stories that I assembled for Grist in *2010*.
Rules of enragement: The filibuster and Senate reform
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November 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
What's that you're saying? We should kill the filibuster?
Welcome to the party. Here's a package of anti-filibuster stories that I assembled for Grist in *2010*.
Welcome to the party. Here's a package of anti-filibuster stories that I assembled for Grist in *2010*.
It all grants my point: the Dems weren't willing to filibuster for health insurance or to end concentration camps, and so the filibuster can only ever help the GOP, who doesn't care who suffers, and can never help the Dems, who do.
Fuck the filibuster.
Fuck the filibuster.
November 11, 2026 at 1:55 AM
It all grants my point: the Dems weren't willing to filibuster for health insurance or to end concentration camps, and so the filibuster can only ever help the GOP, who doesn't care who suffers, and can never help the Dems, who do.
Fuck the filibuster.
Fuck the filibuster.
Look they didn't filibuster the GOP spending oodles of money on ICE as they murdered and kidnapped people or the GOP destroying the health insurance market.
So at this point, fuck the filibuster.
So at this point, fuck the filibuster.
November 11, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Look they didn't filibuster the GOP spending oodles of money on ICE as they murdered and kidnapped people or the GOP destroying the health insurance market.
So at this point, fuck the filibuster.
So at this point, fuck the filibuster.
Getting rid of the Filibuster. Getting rid of the Filibuster.
November 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Getting rid of the Filibuster. Getting rid of the Filibuster.
Totally. And while we're at it, ditch the 1972 "two-track system" in the Senate. That's what created the fake filibuster we have today, in which an email blocks a bill indefinitely.
A filibuster should require continual speech on the floor of the Senate. One slipup and it's over.
A filibuster should require continual speech on the floor of the Senate. One slipup and it's over.
When I say things, we need to theorize what a multi-valent and polyglot democracy looks like: it is truly stuff like this! You will have 258 Democrats by like, what Tuesday, give them stuff to do. This is why I want some loosening of the post Watergate reins on Chairs bringing bills to the floor.
Real banger of a paragraph from @mjtoma.bsky.social. As he writes, Republicans never get hung up on this kind of nonsense. Read the whole thing!
newrepublic.com/article/2177...
newrepublic.com/article/2177...
November 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Totally. And while we're at it, ditch the 1972 "two-track system" in the Senate. That's what created the fake filibuster we have today, in which an email blocks a bill indefinitely.
A filibuster should require continual speech on the floor of the Senate. One slipup and it's over.
A filibuster should require continual speech on the floor of the Senate. One slipup and it's over.
The primary reason I am against Schumer is because he either didn't want to or couldn't hold that filibuster together.
He's not fit for leadership.
He's not fit for leadership.
November 11, 2026 at 12:53 AM
The primary reason I am against Schumer is because he either didn't want to or couldn't hold that filibuster together.
He's not fit for leadership.
He's not fit for leadership.
My feeling right now is fuck the filibuster.
"But what if we need it against the GOP?"
Yeah? Well, we did, these last two years.
And you know what happened? We caved first. Multiple times.
"But what if we need it against the GOP?"
Yeah? Well, we did, these last two years.
And you know what happened? We caved first. Multiple times.
November 11, 2026 at 12:50 AM
My feeling right now is fuck the filibuster.
"But what if we need it against the GOP?"
Yeah? Well, we did, these last two years.
And you know what happened? We caved first. Multiple times.
"But what if we need it against the GOP?"
Yeah? Well, we did, these last two years.
And you know what happened? We caved first. Multiple times.
Tired: Eliminate the filibuster
Wired: Run up the score in 2028 so the Dems have 60+ Senate seats and can bypass the filibuster entirely
Wired: Run up the score in 2028 so the Dems have 60+ Senate seats and can bypass the filibuster entirely
If Peltola wins Alaska and no other seats change hands, the 2028 Senate elections will have the most favourable map for Democrats since 1966
November 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Tired: Eliminate the filibuster
Wired: Run up the score in 2028 so the Dems have 60+ Senate seats and can bypass the filibuster entirely
Wired: Run up the score in 2028 so the Dems have 60+ Senate seats and can bypass the filibuster entirely
Inherent contempt. Appropriations Instructions. Change in Committee Rules. Congressional Review Act. Getting rid of the Filibuster.
Two words: inherent contempt.
NEW: The big hurdle facing Democrats' oversight drive isn't Trump's threat to retaliate with criminal prosecutions. It's that these subpoena battles often drag out in court. One recent fight took 8 years. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2026/11...
www.politico.com/news/2026/11...
November 12, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Inherent contempt. Appropriations Instructions. Change in Committee Rules. Congressional Review Act. Getting rid of the Filibuster.
Part of restoring American democracy is making the Article I branch great again. And that requires ending the filibuster.
A million times this. Essentially, the only thing that matters in a Senate majority leader is whether they will aggressively push to abolish the filibuster. The vast majority of other successes or failures will flow from that. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/forge...
November 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Part of restoring American democracy is making the Article I branch great again. And that requires ending the filibuster.
The Democrats do care if people suffer under a government shutdown. The GOP kind of loves it.
So the filibuster really only helps the GOP, because they love making people miserable.
The Dems can't play chicken as long as the GOP can. The filibuster does not help the Democratic party at all.
So the filibuster really only helps the GOP, because they love making people miserable.
The Dems can't play chicken as long as the GOP can. The filibuster does not help the Democratic party at all.
November 11, 2026 at 1:59 AM
The Democrats do care if people suffer under a government shutdown. The GOP kind of loves it.
So the filibuster really only helps the GOP, because they love making people miserable.
The Dems can't play chicken as long as the GOP can. The filibuster does not help the Democratic party at all.
So the filibuster really only helps the GOP, because they love making people miserable.
The Dems can't play chicken as long as the GOP can. The filibuster does not help the Democratic party at all.
Forget the Leadership Fights—Everything Comes Back to the Filibuster
Forget the Leadership Fights—Everything Comes Back to the Filibuster
In her note to TPM over the weekend, Theda Skocpol made a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Forget the Leadership Fights—Everything Comes Back to the Filibuster