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John Lore
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Niche Historian. Book Hoarder.
Real Amiable Sort of Freak, Just Keeping Pace.
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waldo.net
I sure would like to see the Virginia General Assembly legalize balcony solar in 2026. Let people buy a $100 solar panel at Costco, plug it into an outlet on their porch, and make electricity. Germany does it. Utah does it. Virginia can do it too.
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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mbunchanumbers.bsky.social
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
johnlore.bsky.social
If you betray constituents & squander your leverage fighting fascism, & the fascists (ICE) are *already* rounding people up, when fascists talk about rounding up their political opposition (you), your constituents will simply flip & say, "You first!" bc you've shown fascism's the inevitable outcome.
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
johnlore.bsky.social
Impressive.
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Nov 11
We’ve completed this cycle in less than a week this time:
We're so back [arrows going back and forth] It's so over
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
johnlore.bsky.social
Centrist Dems doing their best to convince everyone that Centrist Dems would never do what Centrist Dems just did so that Centrist Dems can quickly regain your trust so Centrist Dems can betray you again.

www.thirdway.org/press/statem...
Third Way
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November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"Federal law enforcement staff working at the camp have been waiting on Ms. Maxwell hand and foot," says the letter signed by House Judiciary committee ranking member

www.cbsnews.com/news/ghislai...
Ghislaine Maxwell plans to ask Trump to commute prison sentence, House Democrats say
Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking co-conspirator, is planning to apply for a commutation of her 20-year prison sentence, House Judiciary Committee Democrats say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
johnlore.bsky.social
It's worse than that. He greenlit and orchestrated their defection, and allowed himself a vote against it to CYA. You'll note none of them is up for election until at least 2029.
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Nov 10
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.

He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.

Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
johnlore.bsky.social
Your party, directed by you, literally Gave up fighting. And you gave yourself a CYA vote for protection. You're worse than useless. You are actively damaging to the interest of the American people, and I don't know why you regularly choose to be so. But you really have to go.
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · Nov 10
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis

For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare

We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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workingfamilies.org
That’s why we’ll be working to unseat both Republicans as well as corporate Democrats who have kowtowed to the Trump agenda and replace them with Working Families Party champions who will fight to lower the cost of living and guarantee health care for every family.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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salgentile.bsky.social
democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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In this 9-minute presentation I touch on betrayal trauma, betrayal blindness, institutional betrayal, DARVO, institutional courage, and what the theories and research findings suggests for responding to our current situation.

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Jennifer Freyd 2025 - Institutional Betrayal and the Path to Courage
YouTube video by jjfreyd
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November 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
johnlore.bsky.social
There is no party for The People in America. There is one intent on eliminating you and your rights, and one that will hold your hand and walk with you, assuring you it's not so bad.

Here's Senator Kaine, Hand-holder, who gave his vote for zero meaningful protections, despite his claims.
kaine.senate.gov Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · Nov 10
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
"I have long said that to earn my vote, we need to be on a path toward fixing Republicans’ health care mess and to protect the federal workforce. This deal guarantees a vote to extend Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, which Republicans weren’t willing to do. Lawmakers know their constituents expect them to vote for it, and if they don’t, they could very well be replaced at the ballot box by someone who will. This legislation will protect federal workers from baseless firings, reinstate those who have been wrongfully terminated during the shutdown, and ensure federal workers receive back pay, as required by a law I got passed in 2019. That’s a critical step that will help federal employees and all Americans who rely on government services. I’ll keep working towards a long-term government spending plan that includes critical priorities to support Virginians and funding for Virginia community projects."
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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kateration.bsky.social
A “VOTE”. NOT AN GUARANTEE AT ALL!!! IT’S A VOTE THAT WILL LOSE! YOU DUMB FUCKING SONOFABITCH.
kaine.senate.gov Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · Nov 10
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
"I have long said that to earn my vote, we need to be on a path toward fixing Republicans’ health care mess and to protect the federal workforce. This deal guarantees a vote to extend Affordable Care Act premium tax credits, which Republicans weren’t willing to do. Lawmakers know their constituents expect them to vote for it, and if they don’t, they could very well be replaced at the ballot box by someone who will. This legislation will protect federal workers from baseless firings, reinstate those who have been wrongfully terminated during the shutdown, and ensure federal workers receive back pay, as required by a law I got passed in 2019. That’s a critical step that will help federal employees and all Americans who rely on government services. I’ll keep working towards a long-term government spending plan that includes critical priorities to support Virginians and funding for Virginia community projects."
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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emmaroller.bsky.social
Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men: “If the rule you followed brought you to this... you to this...of what use was the rule?”
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
johnlore.bsky.social
Buckle up, kids! The weekly gala in Mar-a-Lago is gonna be *extra* decadent this week in celebration of these useful idiots.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The 8 Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown
There are few obvious threads connecting the group who broke the partisan impasse.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
johnlore.bsky.social
He's either an idiot believing paid liars, or he's paid liar thinking his constituents are idiots or pretending to be one himself.

#PrimaryFetterman
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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#PrimaryFetterman
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Taps sign
mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Nov 30
(The reason you may be lashing out is because the Democrats did accurately identify the threat of fascism but are now acting in a way that is wholly insufficient to deal with it)
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
johnlore.bsky.social
Risk averted.

www.thedailybeast.com/furious-demo...
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
the “axios is fake news trying to stir shit, dems aren’t gonna cave” to “the dem deal is actually good and smart and savvy” pipeline is real and best explained not be rational trains of thought but fear and cognitive dissonance
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
johnlore.bsky.social
"Moderate" Democrats trying to run this country into the ground jealous of Republicans' lead in doing so, sprint to within striking distance of overtaking them.

prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
johnlore.bsky.social
Senate Democrats prepare to destroy Obamacare in an orderly, stepwise progression, rather than fight to the end and hang it around Republicans necks. If those "moderates" succeed, Democrats will lose the midterms, and the fascism will be pure.

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Diagram of a ratchet demonstrating "The Ratchet Effect," in which "Democrats block movement back to the left," while "Republicans turn everything to the right."
November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM