Marshelle Woodward
@mwoodward.bsky.social
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
Teach us to sit still.
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
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i think Senator Lander has a ring to it
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
i think Senator Lander has a ring to it
We need new Senate leadership.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We need new Senate leadership.
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If they cave, it reinforces my sense that the real problem with the democrats is not “wokeness,” but the fact that they don’t stand for anything and are willing to fight for nothing.
It’s worse than being useless; it is collaboration.
It’s worse than being useless; it is collaboration.
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
If they cave, it reinforces my sense that the real problem with the democrats is not “wokeness,” but the fact that they don’t stand for anything and are willing to fight for nothing.
It’s worse than being useless; it is collaboration.
It’s worse than being useless; it is collaboration.
I called Schumer and Gillibrand. It's Sunday night; you're leaving a message on an answering machine. Take 5 min and call your senators if you can. Email also wouldn't hurt -- staff are more likely to be monitoring the inbox right now than checking voicemail.
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.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I called Schumer and Gillibrand. It's Sunday night; you're leaving a message on an answering machine. Take 5 min and call your senators if you can. Email also wouldn't hurt -- staff are more likely to be monitoring the inbox right now than checking voicemail.
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I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
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I’ve had some good exchanges in the replies about where and how AI can be useful. Most of it comes down to: it has a lot of potential for science and tech, but even then needs a regulatory framework.
But that’s not how it’s being advertised or applied right now, and OpenAI is resisting regulation.
But that’s not how it’s being advertised or applied right now, and OpenAI is resisting regulation.
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I’ve had some good exchanges in the replies about where and how AI can be useful. Most of it comes down to: it has a lot of potential for science and tech, but even then needs a regulatory framework.
But that’s not how it’s being advertised or applied right now, and OpenAI is resisting regulation.
But that’s not how it’s being advertised or applied right now, and OpenAI is resisting regulation.
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This! The extent to which people don’t actually enjoy thinking has been eye opening.
That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This! The extent to which people don’t actually enjoy thinking has been eye opening.
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I fear this kind of talk would work on a lot of people I know. We might be in trouble because he would be an okay candidate but I suspect a horrible president.
Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I fear this kind of talk would work on a lot of people I know. We might be in trouble because he would be an okay candidate but I suspect a horrible president.
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A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
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Hey! I’m an expert on the mental health of college students and if an institution of higher education spent money to allow access to this service, that institution is liable contributing to the death of a student! Every family should sue and not settle.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hey! I’m an expert on the mental health of college students and if an institution of higher education spent money to allow access to this service, that institution is liable contributing to the death of a student! Every family should sue and not settle.
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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November 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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"The results wreck the argument from some prominent centrist commentators that Demts should react to 2024 by accepting that they lost the culture and need to compromise on core values to win again."
Good @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on the overreading of 2024:
www.arcdigital.media/p/democrats-...
Good @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on the overreading of 2024:
www.arcdigital.media/p/democrats-...
Democrats Sweep 2025 Elections, 2024 Narratives Crumble
In state and local elections, American voters repudiated Donald Trump's presidency, and disproved claims of a lasting right-wing cultural shift
www.arcdigital.media
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"The results wreck the argument from some prominent centrist commentators that Demts should react to 2024 by accepting that they lost the culture and need to compromise on core values to win again."
Good @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on the overreading of 2024:
www.arcdigital.media/p/democrats-...
Good @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social on the overreading of 2024:
www.arcdigital.media/p/democrats-...
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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs
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Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
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The magnitude of the Democrats’ win yesterday shows the rhythms of US democracy are still very much alive. The race against authoritarianism is clearly not lost yet.
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The magnitude of the Democrats’ win yesterday shows the rhythms of US democracy are still very much alive. The race against authoritarianism is clearly not lost yet.
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Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.
Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.
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"billionaires using media to manipulate public opinion in democracies is the problem of our time"
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"billionaires using media to manipulate public opinion in democracies is the problem of our time"
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57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.
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Congratulations Abigail Spanberger.
I can't wait to work alongside my union siblings to force her to go back on her campaign promise of not repealing right to work.
I can't wait to work alongside my union siblings to force her to go back on her campaign promise of not repealing right to work.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Congratulations Abigail Spanberger.
I can't wait to work alongside my union siblings to force her to go back on her campaign promise of not repealing right to work.
I can't wait to work alongside my union siblings to force her to go back on her campaign promise of not repealing right to work.