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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 1h

I needed to hear this.
And I’m as furious as I’ve ever been.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 3h

This voter of mostly yesterdays feels pretty damn betrayed as well.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 4h

Your book looks fantastic and I relish Olivia Laing’s work. Thanks got making my tbr pile fall over soon!

katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 4h

A lot of them are primaried. They just beat their opponents so handily that no one notices.
I wonder what would make that change? 🤔

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 7h

Yep, had that in my reply using the MSN article.
It’s not a mystery, is it? You sound like you could make the list on your own and be 99% right. (Kudos to you for that, btw. Most people are blue less, although not here.)

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 7h

Me, too. Really, I think the list is bad intel. Or maybe the writer confused women Senators, not for the first time.
Reads like a list someone made who didn’t know the politics of the people listed.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks for the reply.

As her constituent who pays far too much attention to politics, she’s not on any list I’ve seen. Not on today’s Politico list.

Murray is a champion who has never waivered, so I react when seeing her name without a source.

I am 100% confident she is not among the cavers.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 7h

Whoa, fact check time. Source?

Patty Murray is not on any list I’ve seen and is not in the wriggling middle camp. She is not one of them.

Kellly, Shaheen, Cortez Masto, Kong, Ossoff, Fetterman, Welch,
Baldwin and Slotkin are the names listed by MSN a few days ago.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

MSN

www.msn.com

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 7h

Well, I disagree about the futility of calling. I know my reps count them.

Call, boost the good guys (my Senators are great) and ream the wankers.

Ask for a Dem caucus before any deal is made.

And yes, primary the invertebrates, several of whom aren’t running again.

katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 7h

Please call anyway! (Mine are terrific and I called to cheer them on.)

Call them so they can tell their invertebrate colleagues their phones are lighting up.

Give them more leverage by asking that the Dem caucus meet before any deal is done.

Then tell me this is just a bad dream…

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 7h

Call your Senators and, if you agree, ask for a Dem caucus before any deal is made.

We need to help non-cavers get more leverage.

Anyone with a better idea? (Serious Q)

katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 7h

Why don’t we ask our Senators for a Dems caucus before any deal is made?

This is far beyond individual Senator’s preferences. They are not acting only for themselves here but for a nation and for Dems everywhere.

(I called my Senators and made this request. They are firm no votes, thank goodness.)

katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 7h

My Senators won’t cave and I called.

And I made a request:

I asked that they pressure for a Dem caucus meeting _before_ any deal is made.

Those 8 Senators now represent the entire Dem party AND the millions who oppose this regime. This is no longer an individual choice.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 2d

👏🎯

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 2d

Good point.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 2d

And also that New England elected a felt an obligation to represent their constituents. (Acid rain was hurting the NE, e.g.)

Money in politics has made many feel they can ignore voters without repercussion. But they can’t ignore who’s footing campaign bills.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 2d

I am absolutely one of those laughing libs who dismisses the idea of any intellectual rigor on the right, so this was good for me to read.
Obvs I know nothing about this topic, but is a belief about power (who does/should hold it and how) a through-line here?

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 2d

Oprah has some reckoning to do on that count.
Getting an email from Medicare with a photo of Dr. Oz hawking the misinformation of the day was not a high point.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t even talk about state legislatures. Usually part time, abysmal salary, if they get paid beyond a per diem. The lousy pay and schedule weeds out many (most?) working people, so get a lot of real estate agents, some lawyers.

katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Talk about it!

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 3d

Or she can avoid losing re-election while raising money for the campaign she’ll lose and then use the campaign funds for personal use?

(SCOTUS doesn’t seem interested in how campaign coffers are utilized.)

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 4d

We could look at Mamdani’s campaign for hints. Upbeat message, sense of both fun and purpose, really creative ways uf getting folks off their screens and into the streets talking to one another.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! Better referent.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 4d

And the globe was built for the 1964 World’s Fair. (Yes, old enough to remember it and that the globe has been a landmark ever since.)

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 4d

Greatly accelerated by the Court on which he serves…