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Powerful Die In outside Malliotakis’ BK office. NY11 deserves healthcare & essential services, not tax cuts for billionaires! Thanks to the NY11 Healthcare for All Coalition & @1199seiu.org for amazing community organizing! @indivisible.org @citizenactionny.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

If I see one more grown and well paid man say they couldn’t do a marginally brave thing because they were afraid of threats I am going to lose my mind

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

WILD: Donors from outside NYC are spending 💰 on a sham City Council candidate against a progressive leader. This prop candidate said she has “no relationship” w her plutocrat donor Len Blavatnik. Turns out Blavatnik runs a company with her father and brother. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

submitted 7 days ago • 966 comments

This is a BIG deal and we 💯 agree that it’s past time for @schumer.senate.gov to step aside.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

250 people or so at Chuck Schumer's house this morning

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

submitted 9 days ago • 833 comments

Bernie Sanders: "If you do nothing, you sit back and say, 'it's gonna be terrible.' And that's right. 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 govt"

submitted 9 days ago • 518 comments

This is a signal to the American people that Democrats will not fight for them. We have to be using our votes for leverage right now. To protect the social services folks are asking us to. To invest in our communities. Otherwise Republicans will just keep running us over.

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

Gov employee told me he supports doing everything to stand up to lawlessness even at cost of his job. He understood the odds are tough with Republican control. But our nation was founded on long odds against authoritarianism. I’ll say again, I’m voting NO on cloture/CR tomorrow.

submitted 9 days ago • 131 comments

This is exactly right but so commonly misunderstood.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

You know people are furious when they show up at an 8am protest at @schumer.senate.gov house. Chuck you are betraying us. It’s not too late to change your mind and actually fight back! @indivisible.org @socialists.nyc @riseandresist.bsky.social @marisakabas.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

This is the most nonsensical interview I’ve heard in a long time. “We are going to fight them on everything…” (except this one thing right here where we actually have some leverage…)

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

No Dem Senator has to follow Schumer here. This is a weak stategic move driven by fear and learned helplessness. Don't follow him. He's leading the party into irrelevance and helping Trump and Musk in the process. Call your Dem Senators and ask them not to join Schumer's surrender tomorrow.

submitted 9 days ago • 248 comments

🚨JOIN US: Saturday, March 15 at 11AM in Foley Square, marching to Wall Street for a die-in. Rise and Resist is proud to join this mass mobilization to STOP THE CUTS. Info & sign up: www.mobilize.us/indivisibleo... #StopTheCoup #SilenceEqualsDeath #Resist

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

“Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country.” www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

I haven't verified this, but I respect Josh, and head fakes like this are typical. That said, DC is less House of Cards and more Mean Girls/Veep. There may be a master plan, but just as likely things are chaos. Outside pressure works in that environment. So tell Senate Dems today: NO on cloture.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

There’s no reason to have a Democratic Party if it won’t go to the mat to save the Department of Education. It’s a fundamental belief that children in America deserve better futures. It’s tremendously simple. You cannot continue funding a government that would close this.

submitted 11 days ago • 85 comments

Wonder where we’d be today if @schumer.senate.gov had taken @bkindivisible.bsky.social advice in 2021?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen? We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.

submitted 10 days ago • 155 comments

A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”

submitted 11 days ago • 1297 comments

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 12 days ago • 227 comments

My congressman @repdangoldman.bsky.social still hasn’t acknowledged the abduction and detention of Mahmoud Khalil. His office numbers for constituents: Brooklyn: (718) 312-7575 Manhattan: (212) 822-7878 DC: (202) 225-7944 Email him: goldman.house.gov/address_auth...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

STILL waiting for @schumer.senate.gov, Gillibrand, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social to make a public statement about the ICE disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil… Thank you to @velazquez.house.gov for speaking out already!!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

submitted 12 days ago • 1476 comments

Apparently, you can't say or write "cancer moonshot" or "peanut allergy" without permission if you work at the National Cancer Institute. 🤷‍♂️ www.propublica.org/article/nati...

submitted 12 days ago • 97 comments

My fear is that the Trump administration arrested Mahmoud Khalil to make an example out of him because they’re gambling Dems won’t put their jobs and lives on the line to protect a Palestinian.

submitted 13 days ago • 307 comments

Built 100+ tombstones for the 3/15 Healthcare March & Die In 🪦☠️ Join us at Foley Sq at 11am www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen... @indivisible.org @maketheroadny.bsky.social @popdemocaction.bsky.social @peoplesplannyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @foodandwater.bsky.social @1199seiu.org

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

A beautiful day to talk w/ + give flyers to NY11 constituents re: (1) how the upcoming House budget cuts to services will hurt their communities (2) how to call Rep. Malliotakis at (718) 306-1620 to urge her to fight (3) do a little stickering about what DOGE is really up to. @indivisible.org

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 27 days ago • 582 comments

👀 Find one near you. ➡️ Boston-area folks, ours is Saturday morning.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Take note of the messaging - this is both accurate and deeply unpopular. It's the kind of thing that forces GOP House members to quietly tell their constituents that they too are concerned about Musk. Make them own this. Make them squirm.

submitted 31 days ago • 19 comments

Dear Rep. Goldman, As group w many of your constituents, do not waste time telling people what to get upset about. Trump declaring himself king is worth hyperventilating about! Don’t get distracted from doing all YOU can to fight, i.e. your leverage during the budget negotiations. Focus on that.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Here at the Health & Human Services (HHS) rally in Washington, DC, to support our federal workers! Interesting chant from the crowd. “Hey, hey, RFK! We remember JFK!” Rep. Jamie Raskin spoke first and compared JFK’s championing of science & human rights to RFK’s anti-science stance.

submitted 31 days ago • 42 comments

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 31 days ago • 317 comments

Seen around Brooklyn … is your neighborhood next?! Print yours on Avery 94101 or equivalent: drive.google.com/file/d/1g4J4... Got ideas for addt’l slogans? Drop them in the comments!

submitted 32 days ago • 30 comments

We the People are pissed! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard @polrev.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 681 comments

Feels like Democrat elected officials are also hiding from constituents - we sure hope @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social’s offices respond to our request for meetings 😇 @indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social @ezralevin.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

No one gives a shit if Gabbard is confirmed at 12:30 am or 11 am. Who cares? She probably isn't getting sworn in till the morning anyway. What EVERYONE has been demanding is that Democrats make confirmations as costly as humanly possible for the Republicans. They are REFUSING to do this.

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

Democracy needs everyone in the streets on Monday! events.pol-rev.com/events/9fe63...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Elon is not elected, but he's not invulnerable. He's got offices like this all over the country.

submitted 41 days ago • 30 comments

Sharing from a friend the new terms for National Endowment for the Arts Grants: If you "promote gender ideology" in your work or if you promote diversity, equity. and inclusion, you are no longer eligible to apply for a National Endowment for the Arts grant.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Scenes from a lively rally with hundreds of constituents outside @schumer.senate.gov’s demanding he Resist or Resign! Do your job, Chuck - Democrats should be fighting coups not performing “bipartisanship” with fascists. Cc: @indivisible.org @socialists.nyc

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments