Mitch Chapman
@mchapman42.bsky.social
Probably-retired software developer. Python, C/C++, Swift/SwiftUI for personal projects.
Photos, mostly from northern New Mexico: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mitchman/
Photos, mostly from northern New Mexico: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mitchman/
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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Asked point-blank if he’ll bring ACA extensions to the floor, Speaker Johnson bolted. We know the answer already. He won’t.
Further proof that Republicans don’t care about bringing your health care costs down.
Further proof that Republicans don’t care about bringing your health care costs down.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Asked point-blank if he’ll bring ACA extensions to the floor, Speaker Johnson bolted. We know the answer already. He won’t.
Further proof that Republicans don’t care about bringing your health care costs down.
Further proof that Republicans don’t care about bringing your health care costs down.
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My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
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And the truly craziest thing abt this cave is that someone seeing the invasion of Chicago firsthand, Dick Durbin, doesn't understand this.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
And the truly craziest thing abt this cave is that someone seeing the invasion of Chicago firsthand, Dick Durbin, doesn't understand this.
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Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
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Mark Kelly a NO, notable as he was allegedly one of the cavers
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Mark Kelly a NO, notable as he was allegedly one of the cavers
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We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
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I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.
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 11:14 PM
I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.
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This “deal” would force 370,000 Arizonans to pay more for the same or worse healthcare coverage.
I refuse to make life harder for the people I serve. I’m absolutely a NO.
I refuse to make life harder for the people I serve. I’m absolutely a NO.
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This “deal” would force 370,000 Arizonans to pay more for the same or worse healthcare coverage.
I refuse to make life harder for the people I serve. I’m absolutely a NO.
I refuse to make life harder for the people I serve. I’m absolutely a NO.
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Not a deal. It's a Dem surrender.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not a deal. It's a Dem surrender.
All of this is confirming my belief that Republicans never learn from a loss and Democrats never learn from a win
“People are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This would be much better than what @shaheen.senate.gov, @hassan.senate.gov, @rosen.senate.gov, @baldwin.senate.gov, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, @ossoff.bsky.social, @peters.senate.gov, @durbin.senate.gov, @fetterman.senate.gov, inter alia are (reportedly) considering at this moment.
when interviewed why don't the democrats say it this way.
"we'll vote to fund the government when the repubs turn health care back on, and btw also food for US citizens."
make it really clear, repetitively, that the repubs could end this by doing the right thing, being human, not being terrorists.
"we'll vote to fund the government when the repubs turn health care back on, and btw also food for US citizens."
make it really clear, repetitively, that the repubs could end this by doing the right thing, being human, not being terrorists.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This would be much better than what @shaheen.senate.gov, @hassan.senate.gov, @rosen.senate.gov, @baldwin.senate.gov, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, @ossoff.bsky.social, @peters.senate.gov, @durbin.senate.gov, @fetterman.senate.gov, inter alia are (reportedly) considering at this moment.
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Senator Mark Kelly: We are going to be so mad if you vote to reopen the government without anything in return! Don't do it! @gallego.senate.gov and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Senator Mark Kelly: We are going to be so mad if you vote to reopen the government without anything in return! Don't do it! @gallego.senate.gov and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
Done. No answer, of course; left messages.
Senate Democrats appear to be caving. Call NM Senators NOW.
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Done. No answer, of course; left messages.
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Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
yep
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!
Find them here: reps.fyi
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Democratic leadership:
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Democratic leadership:
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
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USDA telling states to pause benefits is one thing. Telling them to claw back benefits is another: a) illegal - you can't do this without due process b) an administrative nightmare.
If courts rule against the administration (again), states would have to given benefits back.
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If courts rule against the administration (again), states would have to given benefits back.
bsky.app/profile/cram...
Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
USDA telling states to pause benefits is one thing. Telling them to claw back benefits is another: a) illegal - you can't do this without due process b) an administrative nightmare.
If courts rule against the administration (again), states would have to given benefits back.
bsky.app/profile/cram...
If courts rule against the administration (again), states would have to given benefits back.
bsky.app/profile/cram...
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Yeah, but what happens when parents can’t feed their kids? Rise in crime where people are either trying to get food or money for food. Then the “crackdown” on crime comes. A crackdown that impacts brown-skinned people more. Desperation leads to more crime and harsher punishments. Rinse. Repeat.
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Yeah, but what happens when parents can’t feed their kids? Rise in crime where people are either trying to get food or money for food. Then the “crackdown” on crime comes. A crackdown that impacts brown-skinned people more. Desperation leads to more crime and harsher punishments. Rinse. Repeat.
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"A team of independent forensic analysts examined their testimony. The experts called it consistent and credible, saying most of the acts described met the United Nations’ definition of torture."
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
Don't look away. Under Trump the United States is a state that tortures and disappears www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"A team of independent forensic analysts examined their testimony. The experts called it consistent and credible, saying most of the acts described met the United Nations’ definition of torture."
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
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NEWS: Marc Elias has been named a "Human Rights Hero" by @americanbar.org's Civil Rights and Social Justice Section.
"If you care about the survival of our democracy, you should familiarize yourself with his work," Section member Bobbi M. Bittker wrote.
elias.law/newsroom/pre...
"If you care about the survival of our democracy, you should familiarize yourself with his work," Section member Bobbi M. Bittker wrote.
elias.law/newsroom/pre...
Marc Elias Named 'Human Rights Hero' by American Bar Association Civil Rights and Social Justice Section
elias.law
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
NEWS: Marc Elias has been named a "Human Rights Hero" by @americanbar.org's Civil Rights and Social Justice Section.
"If you care about the survival of our democracy, you should familiarize yourself with his work," Section member Bobbi M. Bittker wrote.
elias.law/newsroom/pre...
"If you care about the survival of our democracy, you should familiarize yourself with his work," Section member Bobbi M. Bittker wrote.
elias.law/newsroom/pre...
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
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There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.