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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 2d

ill be back

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

The under center run game has completely vanished on them

Sheil Kapadia @sheilkapadia.bsky.social · 3d

Through six weeks, the Eagles are -1 in point differential.

They have been out-gained in every single game this season.

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Kat Flandermeyer @katflandermeyer.bsky.social · 3d

cam skattebo runs like a deer that wandered into a convenience store and is now mowing down candy aisles trying to figure out where the window is

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

more and more convinced wild rumors are circulating about his health and people are trying to get ahead of it.

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

it's genuinely weird to live in a time where politico, owned by naked right wingers in the tank for trump, axel springer, writes flatly that "trump is using the DOJ to persecute his perceived enemies"

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

The issues inherited

Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

At this point, I think he knows that Rs aren't immune to the blowback - he clearly sees the blow back - but thinks (or rather, is praying) that pressure on Dems will accelerate in such a way that it'll eclipse the building pressure on the GOP.

I just don't see that happening now.

Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

Downstream of all that - it's a threat to his chair. I imagine it won't be hard to find nine for a motion to vacate

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

every clip, every day is more desperate

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

yeah we cannot confuse what the media is doing with the messaging war in general. Despite the media, Dems are winning the messaging war on epstein and they're winning it on the shutdown. and their leads are increasing.

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

My pet theory is that there are wild rumors circulating around the capital about Trump's health, which has fractured the GOP even more than usual and also emboldened Dems more than usual - IE Jefferies just randomly becoming confrontational yesterday

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

genuinely don't know what to tell people who think Dems are losing the messaging war on Epstein or the shutdown right now. they live in a different universe. Dems have lost a lot of messaging wars but they are clearly winning here.

A screenshot of a post that has a link to a headline from Beltway News. The post says "How? How are we losing this messaging war? This is insane shit."

The headline of the story says "SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein's financial records."

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

I think some sort of impoundment control is the right approach because you can still sell it as being related to health care, where you're already winning.

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

? Dems are not losing the messaging war on the shutdown or Epstein right now.

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

He says that some hospitals are going to have to go to an ER model and then in the second half of the clip cites all the non-ER services he gets in rural NE right now that make his hospital great. Flailing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 3d

if trump twisted the arm of the GOP caucus I think it would lead to a motion to vacate. I still think it leads there at this point honestly

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 3d

the Democratic shutdown strategy was not without problems -- chief among them that it's obvious Trump should just agree to their terms and claim the W -- but so long as the GOP won't take yes for an answer, the strategy an electoral winner that unifies the Dem conference www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Even Democrats like Warnock — who represents a battleground state — are emboldened to keep up the fight on health care despite the expectation of missed paychecks for US troops next week and the first missed partial paycheck for other federal workers this Friday. He recalled a phone call earlier Wednesday with a retired school librarian from Georgia whose basic healthcare coverage is going to skyrocket from $441 a month to over $1,100 a month.

“I’m going to keep fighting,” Warnock said.

It’s a surprising display of lockstep in a moment that could soon reach the point of a national crisis — and the opposite outcome that Republican leadership expected from the same Democratic Party that quickly relented in the March funding fight.

Remarkably few Democrats have raised concerns in private caucus meetings or in member-to-member calls in recent days, according to multiple people in attendance. (“Shockingly, everybody is in agreement,” one senior aide said, summing up the recent mood.)

Still, many Democrats insist they will outlast their GOP counterparts on the shutdown pressure. They point to early public polling that suggests more voters blame Republicans. Constituent calls are overwhelmingly supportive, even for swing-seat Democrats, according to sources in the offices. (In one House office, the calls were 20 to 1 in favor, according to a senior aide.) Then there are the cracks they see starting to show on the other side with Republicans like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, warning that Americans risk higher health care costs if her party doesn’t take action to prevent premium hikes.

The Washington Post’s one-day survey of 1,010 Americans on the shutdown’s first day found that 47% blamed Trump and majority Republicans in Congress, 30% blamed Democrats in Congress and 23% weren’t sure.

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 4d

The Middle East line is the most obvious attempt at a shiny object distraction I can remember seeing

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 4d

The very obvious shiny object line about going to the Middle East is so funny. Pay no attention to the hospital visit!

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 4d

It’s like when Tyrion saw Tywin had a suspicious letter from the Twins but then George immediately distracted the reader with some Cercei/Tyrion drama. all the signs of the red wedding were written on the page. If he’s dead before the years end don’t let the media call it a shock

Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 4d

The word distraction is used way too often but this Middle East comment is definitely a distraction/shiny object to counter the fact he’s going to walter reed again

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up."

But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

New — White House says Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 4d

Dems have never seen republicans this wobbly from top to bottom and they’re in attack mode. Crazy

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d

Sen. Kelly and Sen. Gallego confront Mike Johnson about the GOP shutdown:

"Why don't you bring back your Republican members so we can have a serious negotiation?"

Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 4d

I wouldn’t use the term good faith, but he’s someone that usually has his finger on the pulse and will admit when something realpolitik isn’t gonna go the GOPs way. He, like everyone on the right, misread the situation in a major way and is now flailing because there’s no good way out.

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 4d

losing my mind that his girlfriend is just sitting there in support

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 4d

I'll add - i think that birth rates are being bound down not by people who don't want kids, but by people who would like the opportunity of having 4-5 kids but cannot make it work financially or career wise or they just plain run out of time

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Gee @piggenres.bsky.social · 4d

Some people say they want five and they end up wanting two. Some people say they want one and they end up with two and try really hard for three. Sometimes an accident happens, even in this day and age, and you make it work. but you never know until you're in the midst of it i think.

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