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Laurel Powell @laurelpowell.net · 8h

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8h

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 7h

Tonight was a very bad night.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Democrats can't defeat Trump-MAGA authoritarianism without an agenda that stands squarely on the side of working people.

We need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-establishment movement that will take on oligarchy like never before.

It starts with the party rejecting Big Money.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

If I were @schumer.senate.gov, I would not agree to help Republicans fund this regime on the "promise" of an ACA vote at a later date. It didn't work the last time when they promised to fund DC. It won't work this time either. The House won't touch it.

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lindasdavis.bsky.social @lindasdavis.bsky.social · 7h

Jeanne Shaheen now saying she voted yes because it guarantees a vote on the ACA. Does she not realize that a vote does not mean passage? The house and Trump will not accept it. So the "guaranteed" vote is just a gesture. I have a gesture for her:
🖕🖕🖕

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

It should be that simple.

Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 8h

No health care, no deal.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9h

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

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lindasdavis.bsky.social @lindasdavis.bsky.social · 8h

Dems are rewarding Republican bad behavior. Rs now know that if they turn up the pain dial on Americans and then wait, Dems will fold like a cheap tent. How can they be so stupid?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

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.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 9h

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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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 9h

Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

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Bernard Taylor @btaylorforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who thinks a 50 year mortgage plan is a good idea, let me introduce you to this Herbalife product I have been selling.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 9h

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

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Allen Dell @urgeoverkill.bsky.social · 1d

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lindasdavis.bsky.social @lindasdavis.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING:
Dem traitor senators who need to be primaried: Sen. Fetterman, Sen, Shaheen, Sen. King, Sen. Hassan, Sen Durbin,Sen, Kaine, Sen, Cortez Mastos and Sen, Rosen.

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lindasdavis.bsky.social @lindasdavis.bsky.social · 8h

a man is standing in front of a christmas tree and a sign that says `` merry thanksgiving '' .

ALT: a man is standing in front of a christmas tree and a sign that says `` merry thanksgiving '' .

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lindasdavis.bsky.social @lindasdavis.bsky.social · 8h

Love me some Bernie Sanders. If he had been elected president, we wouldn't be here right now.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

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lindasdavis.bsky.social @lindasdavis.bsky.social · 8h

STOP CAVING!!!! there is no upside to this. Appeasing oppressors never solves the problem of oppression. Dems like you are part of the problem.

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Cynny @cynny14.bsky.social · 12h

So why are we hearing today that Dems are caving and screwing us out of our healthcare? I am used to this regime trying to kill us, didn’t expect Dems to help them.

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lindasdavis.bsky.social @lindasdavis.bsky.social · 9h

a brown dog is looking at the camera with the word yes written on it .

ALT: a brown dog is looking at the camera with the word yes written on it .

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lindasdavis.bsky.social @lindasdavis.bsky.social · 9h

For the love of GOD, FIGHT!!! You weren't made leader to cave every time a tough situation presented itself! Standing up to an authoritarian is not derelict. It is NECESSARY! Stand and fight or get out of the way and let a REAL fighter take your place!

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a computer and says what is wrong with you ?

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11h

DO NOT CAVE!

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