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Woke up screaming. All views are my own, at least at the time of posting. Elder millennial loving middle age.

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Guys the literal reading at mass today was anticapitalist Jesus driving the merchants out of the temple

I wish I were kidding.
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called both my senators today to leave the comment that when the republican administration is threatening a crackdown on dem voters and shrugging off the murder of dem politicians, and the dem leadership is talking about bipartisanship, then i don’t even understand what the party is for
September 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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today is a great day to tell your senators to fuck all the way off forever if they can’t call for schumer to step down right now
and then said i expect my representatives to support literally anybody else for leadership and that schumer shouldn’t wait till the next election to resign
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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It’s striking and inexplicable that Senate Dems crumbled following decisive signals from the American electorate that Trump’s policies are deeply unpopular and Americans expect the Democrats to fight Trump and Republicans over healthcare, affordability, & be a check on his chaos.
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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And the idea that republicans who just watched last Tuesday and are facing midterms were going to fully torpedo their potential reelections by never buckling to angry constituents is itself a wild prediction. These are not rock-ribbed iron-spined men and women of principle!
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Every short-term shutdown cave leads to worse long term consequences. Classic ratchet effect.
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Guys the literal reading at mass today was anticapitalist Jesus driving the merchants out of the temple

I wish I were kidding.
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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There’s no one I trust less than Donald Trump and Mike Johnson.

Any deal that relies on Republicans to keep their word is a bad one.

Democrats can’t give up on affordable health care for an empty promise. Minnesotans can’t afford for Democrats to cave.
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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It is a handicap in politics to be the party that genuinely believes in governance and is broadly opposed to continued suffering of constituents, and yet there is no future for anything but degradation and misery if the Republican Party under Trump cannot be made to suffer consequences for its acts.
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Hey @schumer.senate.gov how about don’t
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.

Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Yes. How do Dem electeds not understand this dynamic? After all these years?
At some point we have to let pain hurt Trump instead of helping him. Every time we let pain help him, he’ll do more and bigger next time.

Each acquiescence means the next one will be *more* painful.
November 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Schumer should throw in a 10th Supreme Court seat for Trump to fill while he’s at it.
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
Call them:

Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542

Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224

King (ME)
202 224-5344

Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324

Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451

Masto (NV)
202 224-3542

Warner (VA)
202 224-2023

Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Replacing the ACA with PaulRyanCare would be terrible on the merits and terrible politics. Any Democrat voting to replace ACA tax credits with temporary contributions to HSA accounts should face a primary challenge at the earliest possible opportunity www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/i-wa...
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This proposal would be even worse than the no deal on extending ACA subsidies bill being floated earlier: Democrats and Republicans have been locked for more than a month in a standoff over healthcare...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare.

I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Americans can’t afford this deal.

Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan.

A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The sandwich thrower was wrong. But Jeanine Pirro was, too.
To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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The GOP doesn't want less spending—they want a smaller pool of RECIPIENTS.

Their goal is to allocate our taxes to the fewest Americans possible & it’s those leeches that are hoarding the benefits of taxation.

Subsidizing their greed instead of using taxes on programs that benefit We, The People. 🧵
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Abolish Border Patrol.
Trump deportation agent: "I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM