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Everything you’ve learned you’ve learned from imperfect people - Maggie Smith. #GoodBones #GraceOverGuilt Baseball fan, gardening, reader and wannabe traveler.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1h
THAT IS ALREADY A LAW. TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT WHO SIGNED THAT LAW. YOU ARE A FUCKING NEWS REPORTER
this legislation also includes backpay for federal employees, despite the saber rattling from the White House.
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 44m
My Senator up for reelection next year is John Cornyn.

Of course, he’ll vote yes.
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 14h
Safe people know how to handle hearing "no" without losing their sh*t & pivoting to emotional abuse.

No exceptions.
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 52m
Senators considering voting yes should sign in on Bluesky before they vote.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1h
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 55m
Is hope still possible?
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Cowboy “Huge Caboose” Socialist @mpavictoria.bsky.social · 10h
About half of them yeah.
stoopcat.bsky.social stoopcat.bsky.social @stoopcat.bsky.social · 11h
So Americans would be fine with fascism if the economy was good.....?
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 1h
I realize pressure is on those Dems up for reelection next year.
But the thing is if their political career is more important, they’re in the wrong job.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 1h
No health care, no deal.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 2h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2h
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 1h
That’s what I thought. He pulled it out of his butt.
a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and the words sureeeee are visible
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and the words sureeeee are visible
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 2h
Giggle
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 2h
This is all bc he hates Obama.
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 2h
Anyone know details other than R’s want to send $ direct to citizens for healthcare?

This cannot be well thought out, right?
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 2h
THIS ⬇️
wendythurm.bsky.social Wendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 3h
If the non-caving Democratic Senators are really as irate as they anonymously claim to the press, they should call a leadership vote & oust Schumer. Anything less is acquiescence.
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Ben McAdams Memorial Act(THE NECROMANCY ARCH) @purrtah.bsky.social · 2h
Brian Schatz is a no as is Janet Mills
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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 4h
To the Senate Dems: VOTERS TRUSTED YOU — DON’T BLOW IT!!! FIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE or get ready to be PRIMARIED! Senate leadership — STEP UP! Use your power NOW. No more talk. If you oppose this, SPEAK UP PUBLICLY! SHOW SOME FIGHT! HOLD THE LINE OR RESIGN! 3/3
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 3h
You know what his promises are worth?

Zilch
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h
While we're waiting to hear the terms of a shitty deal, this needs to be said. Whatever reason Trump is claiming there'll be a $2K tariff dividend (remember the $5K DOGE dividend), there'll be no such thing.

Right now Trump is staring at a $200B tariff payback hole.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Suggests $2,000 Payouts to Americans as He Defends Tariffs
President praises benefits of the levies after Supreme Court appears skeptical of his justification for many of them.
www.wsj.com
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 6h
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Brenda 🦋 @bren1008.bsky.social · 6h
wtf @dscc.bsky.social
Caving to a bully only emboldens them.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d
Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.

www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 2d
Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.
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