ConvergenceZone
@commonunity.bsky.social
Humanist. Naturalist. Lover of Peace (and Justice, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Science, Math, Diplomacy) and Creativity. BLM #Cascadia. #GoBlue! #WLU. FBaRmy 🌈
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Quick! Call Jeanne Shaheen to the negotiating table!
Lavrov Makes It Explicit: Russia Will Not End the War Unless Ukraine Capitulates
+ factcheck on Trump's claim about India
www.onestnetwork.com/post/lavrov-...
+ factcheck on Trump's claim about India
www.onestnetwork.com/post/lavrov-...
Lavrov Makes It Explicit: Russia Will Not End the War Unless Ukraine Capitulates
Lavrov demands Ukraine’s capitulation, Trump downplays war risks, and India continues Russian oil imports despite U.S. claims—signaling a widening geopolitical shift.
www.onestnetwork.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Quick! Call Jeanne Shaheen to the negotiating table!
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In 1972, Shirley Chisholm declared her candidacy for POTUS, shattering barriers as the first woman & African American to seek the nomination of a major political party.
Her #CupOfJoe was 'Unbought and Unbossed’, something we could use more of.
Her #CupOfJoe was 'Unbought and Unbossed’, something we could use more of.
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
In 1972, Shirley Chisholm declared her candidacy for POTUS, shattering barriers as the first woman & African American to seek the nomination of a major political party.
Her #CupOfJoe was 'Unbought and Unbossed’, something we could use more of.
Her #CupOfJoe was 'Unbought and Unbossed’, something we could use more of.
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You don't suppress economic data if it's good. Trump is suppressing all data (economic or otherwise) that will shed a bad light on his administration. The USA is a Banana Republic right now.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | How Americans will reap the consequences of the Trump administration's data purge
The loss of data has been extensive, and the consequences will be devastating to everything from Social Security to climate change.
www.msnbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
You don't suppress economic data if it's good. Trump is suppressing all data (economic or otherwise) that will shed a bad light on his administration. The USA is a Banana Republic right now.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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He campaigned on cutting the cost of living, but he has governed to raise it: regressive tariffs, immigration, fiddling with the Fed, cutting renewable energy, and firing the person whose job was to measure all of this.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
He campaigned on cutting the cost of living, but he has governed to raise it: regressive tariffs, immigration, fiddling with the Fed, cutting renewable energy, and firing the person whose job was to measure all of this.
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Don’t ask him to recite any Bible verse or any of the lines in God Bless America. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump knows the first three words to "God Bless America" but that seems to be about it
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Don’t ask him to recite any Bible verse or any of the lines in God Bless America. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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V. good from Bonica:
'When your “negotiation” is just agreeing to stop inflicting pain, it’s extortion, not compromise. And when the opposition accepts those terms, they teach you that inflicting pain works.'
'When your “negotiation” is just agreeing to stop inflicting pain, it’s extortion, not compromise. And when the opposition accepts those terms, they teach you that inflicting pain works.'
The Compassion Trap: How the Shutdown Weaponized Democratic Values Against Democracy Itself
When Opposition Parties Stop Fighting Because the Cruelty Becomes Unbearable. And Why They Shouldn't.
data4democracy.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
V. good from Bonica:
'When your “negotiation” is just agreeing to stop inflicting pain, it’s extortion, not compromise. And when the opposition accepts those terms, they teach you that inflicting pain works.'
'When your “negotiation” is just agreeing to stop inflicting pain, it’s extortion, not compromise. And when the opposition accepts those terms, they teach you that inflicting pain works.'
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🚨SPECIAL ELECTION ALERT🚨
Tennessee 7th U.S. Congressional district
NASHVILLE and western surrounding areas
Early voting on Wed Nov 12th
Election Dec 2nd
Vote Aftyn Behn for U.S. Congress
so she can fight for folks' affordability and healthcare
instead of a GOP man _bought_ to block Epstein files
Tennessee 7th U.S. Congressional district
NASHVILLE and western surrounding areas
Early voting on Wed Nov 12th
Election Dec 2nd
Vote Aftyn Behn for U.S. Congress
so she can fight for folks' affordability and healthcare
instead of a GOP man _bought_ to block Epstein files
🚨OUR NEW AD JUST DROPPED 🚨
Washington is giving billionaires the easy ride—while hard-working Tennessean get a rough ride due to bad policies.
I’m running for Congress to change that. Vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social beginning on Nov. 12 to shake up Washington. Election Dec. 2nd
#TN7 #AftynBehn
Washington is giving billionaires the easy ride—while hard-working Tennessean get a rough ride due to bad policies.
I’m running for Congress to change that. Vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social beginning on Nov. 12 to shake up Washington. Election Dec. 2nd
#TN7 #AftynBehn
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🚨SPECIAL ELECTION ALERT🚨
Tennessee 7th U.S. Congressional district
NASHVILLE and western surrounding areas
Early voting on Wed Nov 12th
Election Dec 2nd
Vote Aftyn Behn for U.S. Congress
so she can fight for folks' affordability and healthcare
instead of a GOP man _bought_ to block Epstein files
Tennessee 7th U.S. Congressional district
NASHVILLE and western surrounding areas
Early voting on Wed Nov 12th
Election Dec 2nd
Vote Aftyn Behn for U.S. Congress
so she can fight for folks' affordability and healthcare
instead of a GOP man _bought_ to block Epstein files
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Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
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It’s a perfect metaphor for our era: a glorified blogger is systematically dismantling the remnants of journalistic integrity at a major network because pesky ethics rules hinder the lucrative grift and partisan hackery she was hired to promote.
CBS News may soon have no standards—literally
Bari Weiss, the contrarian Substacker turned editor-in-chief of CBS News, appears ready to hollow out or eliminate the outlet’s standards and practices team, claiming that they have “too much ...
www.dailykos.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s a perfect metaphor for our era: a glorified blogger is systematically dismantling the remnants of journalistic integrity at a major network because pesky ethics rules hinder the lucrative grift and partisan hackery she was hired to promote.
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Welcome to the United States of Gaslighting. I just can't even look at the news anymore.
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Welcome to the United States of Gaslighting. I just can't even look at the news anymore.
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🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
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I think the time is NOW to encourage @aoc.bsky.social to primary the current complacent complicit senate minority “leader” who continues to rely on his brother, Robert, a longtime partner at complacent complicit Paul Weiss.
NY deserves a strong, fierce Senator.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
NY deserves a strong, fierce Senator.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I think the time is NOW to encourage @aoc.bsky.social to primary the current complacent complicit senate minority “leader” who continues to rely on his brother, Robert, a longtime partner at complacent complicit Paul Weiss.
NY deserves a strong, fierce Senator.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
NY deserves a strong, fierce Senator.
#Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
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i want @shaheen.senate.gov to be forced to answer direct questions from the media about why this is in her bill. Why did she agree to this, a license for Trump to bribe 8 GOP senators, but not get a lot more for the folks on the ACA? She blessed massive, now official corruption here.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
i want @shaheen.senate.gov to be forced to answer direct questions from the media about why this is in her bill. Why did she agree to this, a license for Trump to bribe 8 GOP senators, but not get a lot more for the folks on the ACA? She blessed massive, now official corruption here.
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Well, time for Jack Smith to put the dirty facts about Jan 6th and the traitor senators on the desk.
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Well, time for Jack Smith to put the dirty facts about Jan 6th and the traitor senators on the desk.
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Senate Republicans secured a provision in the government funding package that could award Republican senators hundreds of thousands of dollars for having their phone records collected — a routine, normal process — during the Jack Smith investigation. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Thune secures provision in government funding bill letting senators sue for phone records seizure
The new legislative language is an escalation of the GOP’s efforts to discredit former special counsel Jack Smith.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Senate Republicans secured a provision in the government funding package that could award Republican senators hundreds of thousands of dollars for having their phone records collected — a routine, normal process — during the Jack Smith investigation. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Therefore Tesla is not a business, it's a racket. This surely is contrary to US company law (I'm sure it would be in the UK).
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Therefore Tesla is not a business, it's a racket. This surely is contrary to US company law (I'm sure it would be in the UK).
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November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
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All three are all three
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
All three are all three
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"I am tired of losing and worse, I am tired of expecting to lose. We need Democrats who will use their positions of power not to constantly capitulate, compromise, and cave, but to fight-- not to say the word ‘fight’ because it’s the popular thing to do, but to actually do it and mean it."
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Senate Democrats have validated our worst fears about a party unwilling to meet the moment
plus.briantylercohen.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"I am tired of losing and worse, I am tired of expecting to lose. We need Democrats who will use their positions of power not to constantly capitulate, compromise, and cave, but to fight-- not to say the word ‘fight’ because it’s the popular thing to do, but to actually do it and mean it."
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police
The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
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This moment says everything about why Zohran Mamdani won.
A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.
He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.
A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.
He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This moment says everything about why Zohran Mamdani won.
A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.
He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.
A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.
He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.
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This is a huge deal. You need to pay attention here.
Think of your entire life on a phone going through menu after menu and never getting the prompt to what you’re calling for with no option to speak with a human.
Think! Why wouldn’t they want regulation? Red flag 🚩
Think of your entire life on a phone going through menu after menu and never getting the prompt to what you’re calling for with no option to speak with a human.
Think! Why wouldn’t they want regulation? Red flag 🚩
Big Tech is plotting a $100M lobbying and campaign spending blitz to block AI regulation at the state and federal level.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
We must stop this takeover before it's too late.
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is a huge deal. You need to pay attention here.
Think of your entire life on a phone going through menu after menu and never getting the prompt to what you’re calling for with no option to speak with a human.
Think! Why wouldn’t they want regulation? Red flag 🚩
Think of your entire life on a phone going through menu after menu and never getting the prompt to what you’re calling for with no option to speak with a human.
Think! Why wouldn’t they want regulation? Red flag 🚩
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🚨 NEW: ADP report: U.S. LOST an average of 11,000 jobs per week in October 2025.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🚨 NEW: ADP report: U.S. LOST an average of 11,000 jobs per week in October 2025.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.
Let’s compare, shall we:
In 2024, the economy ADDED about 2.2 million jobs in 2024 — an average monthly GAIN of 186,000.
From steady climb to sudden slide.