middleaged53.bsky.social
@middleaged53.bsky.social
Our society’s conflation of wealth with virtue is the underlying problem. No kings. No slaves. No Nazis. Sometimes going to war is the right thing to do.
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My dog got a trim and now he looks like he just closed on a condo.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Primary time
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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I thought the shutdown was the fight, did I get that wrong
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 3:58 AM
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There really should be a coordinated effort to force Schumer out as Minority Leader as a result of his failure here.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Trump’s plan is for people to pay his banker friends hundreds of thousands more in interest on mortgages while they own a piece of your home until you die.
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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At least they FINALLY admitted why they refused to negotiate on the shutdown. First they lied and promised Dems they would “negotiate” this, but only AFTER they voted for the CR. But Dems were correct when they assessed that Republicans NEVER intended to extend these subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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The past 24 hours really exposed the Republicans’ non-plan on health care. Since they were unable to repeal the ACA, they intend to make health insurance premiums skyrocket so people can’t afford health care, which will ultimately make emergency rooms their primary care doctors.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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If this evidence ever sees the light of day, I want prosecutors, judges, and juries to see it, but I have absolutely no interest in viewing any of it.
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Fox goes with real-world math over WH gaslight.
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Also, the co-discovered has a big asterisk on it because if we are being honest he and Crick stole Rosalind Franklin's work and she never got recognition for the discovery which was a central piece to decoding the double helix structure.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari outside
of Speaker Mike Johnson's office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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IMO, I'd like to see fewer subsidies and bailouts for airlines and more investments in trains.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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bike lanes causing traffic again or something
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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"Police dishonesty, even on the stand and under oath, is so common that it has its own name (“testilying”), and it has forced prosecutor offices to create what are called “Brady Lists” of officers they will not put on the stand out of fear they’ll commit perjury."
My latest, in @msnbc.com, on how ICE, CBP, and Bovino may be overplaying their hand in Chicago.

Also: this will only make hiring go ICE harder.

And: I hope ppl appreciate that the lying Judge Ellis calls out is NOT an aberration, but a very consistent problem w police claims.
Opinion | ICE and CBP's aggressive tactics may have finally gone too far
A federal judge dealt federal agents a setback – and shed light on a much more persistent, deeper problem with policing.
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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“The current proliferation of AI that we see particularly in the library and education spaces would not be possible at the speed and scale that is happening without the precedent of book bans leading into it. They are very comfortable bedfellows..."

AI will have the agenda of whoever trained it.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Trump, Musk, Rubio, and the DOGE boys should always be inseparable from these hundreds of thousands of kids they killed
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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To add to my post from yesterday: people actually do not like being fired, kidnapped, starved, OR grounded
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Fvck!
Our work is NOT done.
"Centrist" Senate Dems are negotiating to end the shutdown in exchange for "promises" to extend #ACAcredits down the line.

GIVE ME A BREAK.

Hit those phones, and target those "centrist" Senators.

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
So the flight cuts — are they about safety or about the mad king lashing out at the flying class because his minions lost an election?
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Today would be a good day to fund the ACA and end the GOP shutdown.
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM