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Yesterday was a tough day. Many folks were mad as hll, disheartened & frustrated. It's easy to focus on the Senators who let us down, but let's not forget about the Senators who did the right thing. I made this graphic last night because I wanted to focus on the good Senators who fought for us. 🔊🎵

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Washington mormon church member & primary teacher, Buckland Darrell, who was sentenced to only 8 years in prison for the rape of 5 children under the age of 12 last year, has been charged with more child sex crimes after 2 additional victims came forward. www.redmond.gov/CivicAlerts....

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From the halls of Congress to the communities of Southern Arizona, America mourns the painful loss of Congressman Raúl Grijalva, a passionate and undaunted servant of the people. Sending love and strength to his family. May his memory be a blessing to us all.

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I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.

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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 1 day ago • 2377 comments

All this! That is why I am so detached when I used to be deep in the minutia of the cloture & CR votes. I have been talking people off the ledge thru these shutdowns since 2010. There is no ledge this time. Dems didn’t stick with Biden & Folks played Russian Roulette with their votes for Rump.

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Craziest thing about Musk/Trump regime: everyone in US loses. Even oligarchs, with their corruption & low taxes, are getting much larger piece of a much smaller pie. Even Musk & Trump don’t seem particularly happy, certainly not the Republican Elite terrified that MAGA-terrorists will turn on them.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Aspiring dictator testing the fence

submitted 23 hours ago • 772 comments

I’m saddened to hear about the passing of my former colleague Raúl Grijalva. He was a tireless advocate for progress and he made Congress and our country a better place.

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www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

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Let’s face it, Schumer has been terrible even before this. It is time for new leadership. He isn’t the person for this moment in history, and the longer he clings to power the worse off we all are.

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I’m amazed how little coverage this story has gotten. They’ve burned well over $16 million to briefly hold 290 immigrants and several photo ops to GITMO. Just a total train wreck and they didn’t even mention it officially. Check out my latest. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 19 hours ago • 667 comments

FYI, I know you are all upset & I’m devastated. We’ve tried to mobilize people from all over to get the Senate Dems to do what’s right. In about 15 minutes, I am planning to be disappointed. Please take out your anger, appropriately by sending letters, emails, making calls & supporting primary

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

This is such an opportunity for organizing if someone gets out there.

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(Thank you @sueinrockville.bsky.social for the suggestion)

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Schumer says they’ll fix DC funding in a standalone bill. I’ll take things that aren’t going to happen for $500, Alex.

submitted 23 hours ago • 668 comments

Schumer is trying to justify his vote on Jake Tapper right now, saying if they had let the government shut down "they could fire half the workers in the federal government." WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW CHUCK

submitted 22 hours ago • 802 comments

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.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1335 comments

A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 291 comments

That is exactly true.

submitted 7 days ago • 1289 comments

This stupid conspiracy theory has been debunked for years but Secretary Brainworms wants to resurrect it. Too bad he can’t resurrect the kids he has already killed.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.

submitted 7 days ago • 78 comments

Shadow Surgeon General @vinguptamd.bsky.social giving you the advice you need

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Yes. We’ve become so inured to Trump’s grotesque bigotry that his disgusting “Pocahontas” remark barely caused a media blip. I’m sick of it.

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Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

submitted 11 days ago • 129 comments

Let this sink in.

submitted 10 days ago • 955 comments

We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10

submitted 10 days ago • 436 comments

This has always been the weirdest thing about the Trump As Master Negotiator narrative: He is a toddler who will do anything you want as long as you tell him he's the handsomest boy in the daycare

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why. What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

submitted 10 days ago • 3344 comments

What a photo. Green must be the start of something, not the end.

submitted 9 days ago • 1387 comments

Say something to your representatives

submitted 9 days ago • 1089 comments

Along with managing 2 million federal employees, making unilateral decisions about trillions in federal spending, running Tesla, running SpaceX, running X, running Xai, running Neurolink, and spending with his 14 kids, Musk will also provide "near instant" responses to the concerns of GOP Senators

submitted 9 days ago • 103 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 9 days ago • 1579 comments

Well said!

submitted 9 days ago • 1290 comments

This is next level! 💥

submitted 9 days ago • 846 comments

🔥 Rep. Al Green is not new to standing up

submitted 9 days ago • 723 comments

Mitch is one of the singular villains of American history, personally responsible for the destruction of our democracy and our government at a level above anyone save Trump himself he is a vile man on the level of John Calhoun and should be remembered as such

submitted 22 days ago • 93 comments

Remember the other day i said dark days ahead? Keep wasting your time Blaming Democrats and vote suppressing them. They are not the problem people!!!

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Yesterday it was university of Pittsburgh - today it’s Penn. I fear this will soon be a grimly long thread of more gratuitous Trump/Musk inflicted disabling of America for the long term www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 26 comments

We could have had Kamala Harris and everything would be going along wonderfully.

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