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Jamie Ager @jamie.agerforcongress.com · 15h

I couldn't tell you what kind of sense it makes sending about $40 Billion in aid to Argentina when we could easily spend that money here at home repairing damage from Hurricane Helene. But I can tell you that when I'm in DC, I'll put Western NC first every time.

#NC11 #WNC

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

Mark Kelly blasts Trump's refusal to negotiate with Democrats.

"How much time do you think has Donald Trump spent–I'll ask you a question on this–with Democrats in the House and the Senate?"

"He spends more time on his ballroom than he does on Americans' health care"

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Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 22h

Firing squads, hanging, and the guillotine really the most actually humane methods of execution. This is a solved problem. Every other method is an attempt by us, as a society, to either cover up the murder we're doing or increase suffering. Neither one is a good reason.

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to wrap my head around the sadism required to not to even grant somebody the mercy of a bullet to the head.

Elle K @thiskingkong.bsky.social · 1d

Anthony Boyd asked Supreme Court justices to spare him from a torturous death by nitrogen hypoxia. They said no. His execution took 37 minutes. This is barbarous.
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/antho...

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 1h

Also wondering if he did any reporting on how insanely unpopular Su was with career DOL staff, because she and her cadre of appointees ran everyone into the ground.

Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 2h

If Wes Moore ensures that this guy ends up jobless I'll consider him for President.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 2h

Caucus coup caucus coup caucus coup

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 8h

Maryland’s Democratic senate president rejects a mid-decade redistricting in a letter to his caucus.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Maryland’s state Senate leader rejects call to redistrict, weakening Dems’ chances to redo map

“The Senate is choosing not to move forward with mid-cycle redistricting,” he writes.

www.politico.com

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 2h

He's a con man, and a very talented one.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

Tyranny. Intolerable.

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 15h

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

www.independent.co.uk

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 2h

Have you considered a malpractice lawsuit?

Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

I was not the shit, but like, smoking weed was definitely already fun as hell

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

Also I feel like relationships like that are almost always Republican man and Democratic woman. I don't think I've ever heard of the other way around

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

I had "Cause I Got High" as my ringtone in eighth grade and thought I was the shit

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

I think he ends up eating shit.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

"Everyone was mad about COVID and related inflation, as you can see from every country in the world having a massive backlash to the incumbent parties" feels parsimonious.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

You might say "come on Mikhail, he's not a Nazi," and to you I say bitch he had a Nazi tattoo that he wasn't ashamed of until it became politically inconvenient

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah man (((Those People))) really stabbed you in the back huh.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 9h

"It's really interesting to have this whole power structure essentially turn on to try to drag my name through the mud." Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner describes the resistance he has experienced within the Democratic Party.
www.threads.com/@thebriefing...

The Briefing with Jen Psaki (@thebriefingwithpsaki) on Threads

"It's really interesting to have this whole power structure essentially turn on to try to drag my name through the mud." Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner describes the resistance he has experienc...

www.threads.com

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10h

You briefly made the people who run this country feel guilty and they will never, ever forgive you for it.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10h

again a reminder that the NYT leadership supports Cuomo *because* of his record of sexual harassment, not *despite* it. they have a strong interest in making sure that they and their friends can never again suffer the indignity of being held accountable by their inferiors.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 11h

And Garlin isn't as far left as Abdul, he's a fairly mainline progressive Democrat.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah the latter is just not going to be as ugly a race. I'm all in on Garlin, especially in a year this rough for Republicans, but progressives don't loath Benson or anything.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 11h

Nick Levendofsky, executive director of the Kansas Farmers Union, is 100% a Democrat and should get in the race if he has any charisma.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 11h

One of said farm leaders should announce a run as a Democrat for the Senate.

States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 11h

Kansas farm leaders are pushing Congress to get back to work and solve problems facing the agriculture industry, pointing out that a closed government doesn’t mean U.S. lawmakers can’t be in session.

via @kansasreflector.com

‘We don’t shut down’: Kansas ag leaders tell Congress to get back to work

TOPEKA — Kansas farm leaders are pushing Congress to get back to work and solve problems facing the agriculture industry, pointing out that a closed government doesn’t mean U.S. lawmakers can’t be in…

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 11h

This is good not only because the left benefits from becoming YIMBYs, the YIMBY movement also benefits from left-wing people becoming predominant and sanding off the market fundamentalism and tech-right crime panic aspects.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 12h

It is in fact good that NYC DSA is broadly in favor of evidence-based housing policy!

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 12h

"our NYC DSA" buddy you were suspended for being a coked-up abusive freak to your comrades

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13h

"Mamdani is not the issue. The issue is much deeper... he is a convenient cipher for Jewish anxiety, the anxiety of how Israel, the center of American Jewish identity, is now being challenged, not only by the protestors but by young progressive Jews." shaulmagid.substack.com/p/the-issue-...

“The Issue is Not the Issue” – The Free Speech Movement 1964 - The Anti-Mamdani Craze

When Displaced Anxiety and the Need for Deflection Becomes a Dogma

shaulmagid.substack.com

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