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If you ever want to make the worst kind of sports fan angry, simply point out Wilt Chamberlains averages against Bill Russell.

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Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Dick Durbin, after a week of avoiding any and all calls to his office, hands Trump the keys to basically destroy the federal government in the next six months. Then comes out with this bullshit statement, in what I can only assume is amping up for fundraising. Peak Ghoul shit.

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honestly this stuff is insulting

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Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.

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whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

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What we need to be talking about right now is mass organizing, weaponizing our country's unions, and civic institutions. Learn your rights as a protester. Show up to local school board meetings, town halls, city hall meetings. It's now our civic duty to act outside of the national party system.

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These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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The idea of people thinking a Democratic primary years down the road will be of consequence given the events of the last two months, and especially after this vote seems extremely naive. Talk to your local union leaders, school boards, city councils and be ready to hit the streets. We're alone now.

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It’s awesome that Senate Democrats are voting to pass Trump’s budget while he’s at the DOJ calling them a bunch of criminals and saying newspapers and MSNBC should be illegal. That’s great, good job guys.

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god DAMN

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/concerned, gesturing frantically to arena security staff "Oooh wah ah ah ah!"

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EMERGENCY ACTION 🚨 8AM Friday 3/14 9 Prospect Park West, near Grand Army Plaza. @schumer.senate.gov needs to hear us: FIGHT BACK OR STEP DOWN.

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WATCH: "A shutdown will be terrible, but our job is to put the onus on the Republican President, the Republican House, the Republican Senate, the people who control the government. They are responsible. They've acted in an undemocratic, unprecedented, unilateral way," says Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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Whatever y'all did to "bully" Biden out, you can start that on up with Schumer now.

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The U.S. is a one-party state.

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Again, Trump has rescinded federal grants and clawed back hundreds of millions if not billions in appropriations she approved by fiat. If the Senate doesn’t use what remains of its power to push back, there’s no Senate.

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To be clear. Whatever happens tomorrow, the democratic project from here on out needs to be the complete obliteration of Democratic Party leadership. They've proven to be insufficient for this moment.

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Democrats are preparing to pass Trump's budget while Trump literally plans to ignore the law that Democrats pass and spend the money on whatever it feels like. Any Democrat who votes for this should be fed through the electoral shredder

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I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.

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Merkley: "The best time to take on a tyrant is as early as possible. And this is the moment."

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I think a lot of people who are used to dismissing any dissatisfaction with the Dem establishment as DSA malcontents are missing how radicalized normie lib moms who would have voted for Obama a third time if they could are getting

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Having to explain to my friends and family how cloture works was not on my bingo card today. Thanks for essentially lying to your base Senate Democrats

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How to lose your party in 10 days.

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I am so fucking tired of calling my stupid fucking senators but please call your stupid fucking senators right now - the vote no on cloture part is especially important

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Any Democrat who votes for this CR, please make sure you do so clearly, so we can point you out to the future generations you are screwing over because of your cowardice.

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If only there was a historic analog for this...

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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

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“We don’t have leverage but we have responsibility” is the epitome of Democratic Party brain damage. YOU DON’T HAVE RESPONSIBILITY! NO ONE IS GOING TO REWARD YOU FOR “ACTING RESPONSIBLE” IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DESTRUCTIVE REGIME FULLY CONTROLLED BY YOUR ENEMIES!

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i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

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NEW from me: With House Republicans passing a partisan, damaging continuing resolution that gives Donald Trump and Elon Musk free rein to continue to strangle appropriated spending, Senate Democrats have to decide whether they will actively participate in their institution's own destruction.

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This is the bar. It's not a high one. Anyone Dem who can't make this bar should be removed from office.

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guys love to say “dude my balatro run last night was insane” then show you a screenshot like this

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There are effectively two parties in this country. Republicans who are actively trying to kill you in the most efficient way possible, and Democrats who really think someone should do something about it.

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I swear to God they could start building camps in this country and half the Democrats in Congress would go on social media and say, "Don't take the bait."

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These people need to be primaried, dragged out of office, and publicly shamed for the rest of their lives.

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Khalil is for all intents and purposes an American, he is a permanent resident with an American wife and a soon to be American-born child. Khalil is not here on a tourist visa, and Khalil did not attend a "Hamas rally", but even if he did, he has the right to free speech. Fuck you.

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It's a start!

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These people do know we still see the price of eggs at the stores right? This feels like a decision made by someone who hasn't been to a grocery store in 30 years. i.imgur.com/gfFHscv.jpeg

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