christiankerr.bsky.social
legislative staffer, trail runner, useless bisexual
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thank god they're shipping to the states again!
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Your general reminder that the ICE raids are, in fact, the ongoing violence in Los Angeles
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It’s such a perfect encapsulation of how the right drives American media cycles that slightly-too-long school closures are still considered a huge liability for democrats while murdering hundreds of thousands of people with anti-vaxx propaganda is never mentioned as a downside of Republican rule.
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obv this is irrelevant to the real, underlying issue—but the headline is not true?
there were 5 republicans either asleep in the cloakroom or protest voting because the bill was already passing
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yeah moderate republicans are gonna fold on this regardless. dems unquestionably have an age issue, but vacancies are a vanishingly small factor in whether reconciliation lives or dies
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it’s generally true tighter margins put more pressure on republicans, but in this case the compromises were with freedom caucus freaks who made the bill even more extreme to pick up their support in the last day
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not revelatory, but this is also why it's pretty much universally good politics to create and expand broad social benefit programs!
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this is such a rich text....but does he think renters don't pay local taxes?
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hear me out—
historic preservation but only for ihops
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they’ve been posing for fucking pictures in front of this prison like abu ghraib
this is their signature issue, it’s not going to go away just because you yell about tariffs
make them out to be the monsters they are, “we don’t disappear people arbitrarily to foreign prisons” is a fight you can win
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it's almost impressive how seamlessly he's fit our entire federal health system into the same grift he's been running for decades now
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your usefulness to other people is far from the most important thing, but i do hope you know how much i’ve learned from your work! it’s been immeasurably helpful this past week and i really, really appreciate it!