US government shutdown averted hours before deadline https://t.co/sWaZjjj1pD

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 3, 2021

Congress averted a government shutdown Thursday evening when both chambers voted to pass a stopgap bill to extend funding through mid-February after party leaders brokered a deal to overcome GOP brinkmanship over vaccine mandateshttps://t.co/VGZ9Qaicny

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) December 3, 2021

The House just averted a government shutdown.

This continuing resolution will ensure that we uphold our promise to workers, families, veterans, and seniors.

And it will allow us to stay focused on passing critical legislation like expanding child care and improving health care.

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 2, 2021

Not in this Republican Party. https://t.co/zb7hLQZkVc

— pastajoe (@pastajoe5) December 2, 2021

People close to McConnell are saying he’s *furious* that some of his senators are trying to force a shutdown.

They’re confident he can convince them it’s a bad idea politically, but I’m not so sure. The GOP is a serially unserious party. https://t.co/XZQRB1lngA

— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) December 2, 2021

"If it feels lately that everything is Fyre Fest, maybe it is. Manipulation is everywhere," writes @janicemin https://t.co/EHTOyXuNyA

— TIME (@TIME) December 3, 2021

Wear a fucking mask, get your fucking vaccination and convince more of your shitbag, deadbrained, selfish followers to do the same. That'll thwart Biden's evil plan, you useless, gibbering demagogue. https://t.co/jqVPnuVNtb

— David Simon (@AoDespair) December 2, 2021

Today's news:

Senior Trump official taking the 5th about the attempt to overturn the election.

GOP senators fighting to make it more difficult to stop the spread of COVID.

Biden needn't say this, but other Democrats can: The Republican Party is pro-insurrection and pro-COVID.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 2, 2021

The asymmetry where Republicans weren't bound by the filibuster in building this Supreme Court but Democrats are bound by it in legislatively responding to its rulings will prove devastating if Democrats don't change it.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) December 2, 2021

7.4% is the biggest increase in the Labour vote (exactly the amount by which the Labour vote fell at Batley & Spen in July) in any by-election since the GE exceeding the 6.5% rise in Labour's share of the vote at Airdrie and Shotts on 13 May –

— Arthur_S (@allanholloway) December 3, 2021

'The contract itself was in excess of £40 million?'

Matt Hancock's pub landlord: 'That's a matter of public record.'@mrjamesob: 'What was your turnover the previous year?'

Matt Hancock's pub landlord: 'Just under a quarter of a million.'

Read more: https://t.co/a20XJ3Chbv pic.twitter.com/pcWBpIah2q

— LBC (@LBC) December 2, 2021

Matt Hancock keeps saying that Labour donors also won PPE deals.

I’ve been studying PPE deals religiously for 20 months and remember *maybe* one or two deals linked to Labour donors.

By contrast, dozens of deals worth £3.5 BILLION have been awarded to Tory mates and donors.

— Sam Bright (@WritesBright) December 2, 2021

Why is Matt Hancock staging a comeback and why are the media entertaining it? He is a bin fire of mismanagement and corruption, he’s not ABBA.

— Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) December 2, 2021

Good news for Matt Hancock https://t.co/bLkWMqVrVB

— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) December 3, 2021

All you need to know about the Tories having a Christmas party in Downing St while canceling your Christmas plans. https://t.co/Bb3THEWe70

— benhunt (@benhunt) December 3, 2021

Both the Mail and Express have run headlines telling their ageing readers that the World Health Organisation says #omicron cases are 'mild'. Here's what the WHO actually said. pic.twitter.com/6Ze1SGaIDJ

— andrewzcooper.bsky.social (@AndrewzCooper) December 3, 2021

If anyone needs cheering up today Nigel Farage's anti-cancel culture conference has been cancelled.

— Katy (@KatyJayne101) December 2, 2021

Trafalgar Square Xmas tree provided by ToryTrees (Cayman) Ltd a company founded by a Tory donor & paid for by Tax payers at 25M pounds
Minister defends its appearance by saying it shows the state of new Global Britain, A weak, discredited, nation which wont last till Christmas. pic.twitter.com/7fvh7vhZMA

— Alex – Getting calmer now Tories have gone. (@Alexverycalm) December 2, 2021

UK and EU chief Brexit negotiators to meet for Northern Ireland talks https://t.co/VzXjGrnt4s

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 3, 2021

The US will delay its deal to remove tariffs on UK steel & aluminum over Northern Ireland issues.

The US imposed 25% and 10% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports on the EU in 2018. The tariffs were withdrawn in Oct this year, but they remain in place for UK due to Brexit. https://t.co/FYSRqByps0

— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) December 2, 2021

The EU did not invade Ireland. The EU did not partition Ireland. The EU did not blow up 200 roads crossing Ireland. The EU did not use 30,000 troops to maintain its border in Ireland. The EU did not ask for Brexit. The EU is not responsible to find solutions for brexit.

— Irishmonk (@castlvillageman) December 1, 2021

Farewell to #AngelaMerkel

A dignified departure with tributes from all sides, befitting of a calm, sober, intelligent, internationalist leader committed to citizenship, culture, science, Europe, and the less fortunate.

We desperately need that here.
https://t.co/iiJOCHrhb8

— Brendan May (@bmay) December 2, 2021

In her farewell address, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "resistance must be loud" when scientific facts are denied and conspiracy theories are spread. pic.twitter.com/xA8YIFLZN2

— DW News (@dwnews) December 2, 2021

Thursday’s @DailyMirror front page: Booze, nibbles and party games until the early hours…

The very next day Boris Johnson ‘cancelled’ Christmas for millions of people.https://t.co/Y6iqZ9Y2rS pic.twitter.com/fGtfajF3Tr

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) December 2, 2021

BTW – this Tory Christmas party thing, that twenty years ago would have finished a government, will have zero impact on them.

— John Rain 🥇 (@ItsJohnRain) December 2, 2021

Downing Street Christmas party claims: Playing by the rules? https://t.co/OlDt1sH8Hs

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 2, 2021

Keir Starmer urges PM to “look behind you” to Tory benches where a couple of dozen MPs still aren’t wearing face masks.

“As ever it’s one rule for them, one rule for everybody else”. #PMQs

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) December 1, 2021

this is awkward for Matt Hancock https://t.co/vqjluV5gxA

— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) December 1, 2021

The National Audit Office found that PPE suppliers with links to Conservative MPs were ten times more likely to be awarded contracts than those who applied to the Health Department.

Today Matt Hancock tried to argue with me about that fact. He lost. pic.twitter.com/ZDLNFFFDUG

— Anneliese Dodds (@AnnelieseDodds) November 30, 2021

Well, Matt Hancock has returned to Parliament to answer @AnnelieseDodds and he's now told a straight lie. He says "the Department of Health does not have a say in sub-contracting arrangements" but… pic.twitter.com/kwi8D8ds5a

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) December 1, 2021

“What an absolute load of rubbish… Did anyone else’s friends get contracts?”

Watch @JessPhillips and @MattHancock disagree over the handling of PPE contracts during the pandemic.
#Peston pic.twitter.com/RGQTvD2IPq

— Peston (@itvpeston) December 1, 2021

Tory MP asks the PM when he will repeal the Human Rights Act. PM promises to certainly review it.

Any mention of corruption is drowned out by the jeers of a Government that thinks it’s untouchable.

If you’re not horrified, you’re not paying attention. #PMQs

— Mhairi Black 🏳️‍🌈 (@MhairiBlack) December 1, 2021

Rosindell on his feet at PMQs calling for the abolition of the Human Rights Act. Here's a helpful guide to his view of who deserves to be treated like 'human beings'… https://t.co/OzVDlbh3tB

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) December 1, 2021

And yet you were quiet about this in London the other day 🤔 pic.twitter.com/0z2yUmWWmq

— Ian Summer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@iansummer1) December 2, 2021

Shouldn't you be covering the real dodgy prince?

— Gerry McK (@GMcK2012) December 2, 2021

EU frustration growing with U.K. not closing deal on medicines. Tactically, though, you can see the U.K. won’t want to hand EU a ‘Win’ in the magnanimity stakes until they’ve got more on customs/borders /1 https://t.co/TJLtB4s45H

— Peter Foster (@pmdfoster) December 2, 2021

Polls open in Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election https://t.co/BY5neAsCaJ

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 2, 2021

Nervousness grows in CCHQ as Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election approaches.

Chief whip has emailed Tory MPs urging them to join a “dawn raid” on polling day and calling for “as many hands as possible”.

One says: “They are shitting themselves.”

— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) November 30, 2021

Anything less than 50% for the Conservatives would be very disappointing for them. Labour should be looking at 35% for a good result, Reform should keep their deposit (5%), no one else should keep their deposit or be in four figures.

— Yelling About Elections (@YellElections) December 2, 2021

By election eve

Reminder of the 11 candidates in Old Bexley and Sidcup- a seat which has been Conservative (in its various iterations) since 1950. pic.twitter.com/F86twEbKfD

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 1, 2021

NEW — Donald Trump knowingly put at risk the lives of Gold Star families, wealthy donors at a Minnesota fundraiser, then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden, White House staff, the crews of Air Force One, and others.https://t.co/NZjcPBfphx

— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) December 2, 2021

In TV interviews last year, Trump implied that Gold Star families had infected him with COVID at a reception on Sept. 27.

We now know that Trump, as he delivered that smear, was aware that he had tested positive on Sept. 26.

His depravity is bottomless. https://t.co/GUUSXCtIZe

— Will Saletan (wsaletan on Threads) (@saletan) December 2, 2021

Mark Meadows could have revealed at any point in the last year that Trump tested positive for COVID three days before his first debate against Joe Biden. He chose to wait until now so that he could use that information to promote his book.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 2, 2021

Still mindblowing that Meadows wrote this book then RT'd Trump denying the claim in the book https://t.co/nk3VMEB9E7

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) December 1, 2021

The right hasn't just formed a cult around a *bad* person, they've formed a cult about what is arguably the single most reprehensible & repugnant human being alive. It's quite something. https://t.co/sl90vHeOKf

— David Roberts (@drvolts) December 1, 2021

Cheney:Trump has recently suggested that he wants to debate members of this committee. Any communications Mr. Trump has with this committee will be under oath and if he persists in lying then, he will accountable.. and subject to criminal penalties for every false word he speaks pic.twitter.com/fO169OS5lX

— Acyn (@Acyn) December 2, 2021

Today, Justice Sotomayor asked her fellow Justices to consider the stench of politics that would taint the Court if it reverses Roe & upholds a law explicitly passed by Mississippi legislators following Trump additions to the Court. Turns out, Mississippi isn’t the only one. https://t.co/HHdIGOVtbH

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) December 2, 2021

Y'all. Justice Sotomayor can count votes. She knows where this is headed… either viability is gone or Roe is gone.

Her questions are for the public… to let us know that abortion isn't the end. It's just beginning of the unraveling of these other rights of intimate life.

— Melissa Murray (@ProfMMurray on Threads 🧵) (@ProfMMurray) December 1, 2021

They’re going to either gut Roe or overturn it. Turns out 2016 was a pretty consequential election.

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) December 1, 2021

One by one, the Republican-appointed justices came before the Senate and promised they’d respect precedent. They’d respect settled law. Well, Roe v. Wade has been law for nearly 50 years. So let’s see that respect. But we can’t wait—we must #EndTheFilibuster so we can codify Roe.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) December 1, 2021

Oh Jesus please help us. Here we go again. Is she troubled?? Anxious?? Concerned?? Perplexed?? Baffled?? Ready to write a strongly worded letter that goes straight into her draft file?? All the above?? 🤔#DejaVu#Facepalm pic.twitter.com/f7q2maEcFL

— 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 Democracy Fan (@KayKaty) December 1, 2021

how awesome is it that Roe v Wade is in the hands of the guy who was so blackout drunk all through prep school and college that he literally can't remember how many women he sexually assaulted. ace fucking job there, America, take a victory lap

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 1, 2021

Two of the five judges who are poised to overturn Roe v Wade have been credibly accused of sexual harassment or assault.

Three of the five were appointed by a President who lost the popular vote.

It looks vile and illegitimate because it is.

Expand the court.

— Leah Greenberg (@Leahgreenb) December 1, 2021

Six years ago this month, Hillary Clinton tweeted that "A Republican president could nominate as many as 4 Supreme Court justices" & linked a warning that it could lead to the end of Roe v. Wade.

Her replies were filled with left-wingers accusing her of "fear mongering." pic.twitter.com/0lCRJKoMsB

— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) December 1, 2021

But don’t Democrats already control the White House, the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate? Shouldn’t they be acting now to protect abortion rights? https://t.co/vRPdWJN8X9

— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) December 2, 2021

Sidney Powell is now facing disbarment for repeatedly adding plaintiffs and co-counsel to her failed election fraud lawsuits without their consent or knowledge, either to establish standing or to have a licensed attorney able to file in that state. https://t.co/7QMmBEBKyn

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 2, 2021

Trump’s “stop the steal” effort was a grift… Bannon’s “build the wall” effort was a grift… Powell’s election overturning effort was a grift… It’s all a grift. Never-ending. Grifters. 💰 https://t.co/ivISNVgL5E

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) November 30, 2021

Michael Cohen: Trump Pulled Off the ‘Greatest Grift in U.S. History’

Factcheck: Accurate https://t.co/2Jbajd2lZT

— Spiro’s Ghost (@AntiToxicPeople) November 28, 2021

Cohen doesn't believe Trump will run in 2024, even though he keeps saying "I'm thinking about it." That's to "keep the grift going," he added. https://t.co/S6fVW3P0M3

— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 29, 2021

"[Trump's] and extreme danger because of his propagation of the Big Lie… that's his only business success. All indications are the Trump brand does terribly in the market but it does well as a matter of political fundraising" – @harrylitman w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/5WJYyQeKsx

— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) November 30, 2021

Good morning from the Supreme Court where they “will consider a case that could fundamentally transform abortion rights in America by overturning Roe v. Wade and clearing the way for stringent new restrictions on abortion in roughly half the country.” https://t.co/AxtLrEsEBa pic.twitter.com/r0YE2GLAWc

— Beatrice Peterson (@missbeae on all platforms) (@MissBeaE) December 1, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear oral arguments in a case viewed by activists as the most consequential abortion litigation in nearly a half-century. The landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling possibly hangs in the balance. https://t.co/eP28gTUUOD

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 1, 2021

“Literally, the rights that we have had in this country for nearly 50 years are at stake before the Supreme Court,” Cecile Richards discusses the impending arguments that could put the future of Roe v. Wade in jeopardy. https://t.co/D2hXVLbZyX

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 1, 2021

Former vice-president Mike Pence has expressed his confidence that the landmark Roe v Wade ruling will be struck down in the Supreme Court, potentially rolling reproductive rights back by 50 years https://t.co/5ORWhQDcXp

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 1, 2021

Here's Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign explicitly predicting that if he put another 2-3 justices on the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade would be overturned.https://t.co/uJJYmJ74Eo pic.twitter.com/5Zp4gDgdR1

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 2, 2021

Women who warned that Trump's Supreme Court appointees would undermine Roe v. Wade weren't "hysterical" after all, @LEBassett writes:https://t.co/VHjdaI5U75

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 2, 2021

"It has become kind of a weird baroque tradition for even the Republican appointees to say under oath all sorts of words about Roe being a type of settled precedent,” @AriMelber says as the Supreme Court is set to review a case that challenges Roe v. Wade.https://t.co/sKCNMKlqlT

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 1, 2021

One more note about 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey:

That decision struck down just one law. It required married women to notify their husbands before terminating a pregnancy. That's the law that anti-abortion advocates think SCOTUS should have upheld.https://t.co/ETxVZk8Eld

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) November 30, 2021

Abortion Rights Polling:

👏🏾60% say Roe v. Wade should be upheld.
👏🏾75% say abortion access should be left to women and their doctors. #TheReidOut #reiders pic.twitter.com/oQHonRbzwD

— The ReidOut (@thereidout) December 1, 2021

Anti-abortion states are already imposing brutal punishments on pregnant women in the name of protecting life—arresting, imprisoning, and prosecuting them for allegedly endangering their fetuses.

The cruelty we will see after Roe is almost unfathomable. https://t.co/xZBgp8Ol4w pic.twitter.com/3NUtA8CYRR

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) November 29, 2021

Roe v. Wade guarantees the right to a legal and safe abortion. It is the law of the land.

While the Supreme Court must do their constitutional duty and uphold that right, the Senate must do theirs by passing the Women’s Health Protection Act.https://t.co/kfmypapSfS

— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) November 30, 2021

In Opinion

"To overturn Roe now would be an act of constitutional vandalism — not conservative, but reactionary," writes Charles Fried, a law professor at Harvard University. https://t.co/lxus6T9AOx

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 1, 2021

Here’s my preview of the Mississippi abortion case the Supreme Court hears Wednesday. Lose the viability standard, effectively overturning Roe v. Wade, and anything is possible. https://t.co/rxs1JFvD7n

— Irin Carmon (@irin) November 29, 2021

Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, never had an abortion. She gave her baby girl up for adoption. In September, after decades of keeping her identity a secret, the Roe baby spoke publicly for the first time. https://t.co/RWlwatxcGA

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) December 1, 2021

Reminder: You can listen live tomorrow to the arguments before the Supreme Court in the Mississippi abortion rights case.

Click the live audio button on https://t.co/WsnIT7iqKb pic.twitter.com/sK9JV6g1X4

— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) December 1, 2021