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Patte
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Feminist. Progressive. I have lived in 7 states and now live in Wisconsin.
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Saw this elsewhere but it hit hard.
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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For a year, we've wondered whatever happened to empathy.

Well, wherever empathy went to hide, it has company.

Shame. And contrition.
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Thank you, Rep. Pocan. And thank you for calling for the resignation of Chuck Schumer.
Yes, the government will reopen today.

But here’s what won’t happen:
❌ No protection for 22M paying more for ACA
❌ 15M still losing healthcare due to Big Ugly Law
❌ SNAP cuts remain, $180B slashed from the #1 anti-poverty program
❌ Billionaire tax cuts untouched
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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If you believe it was just 8 senators I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. This was a Schumer operation.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Primary every last one of the. Even if they voted yes, the Democrat Caucus was behind this capitulation. Fuck them all.
Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Never forget that the airlines were instrumental in reducing the Covid isolation requirements and paid time off.

Why? It was hurting their profits.

They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.

Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.

Profit over people.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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A deal suggests both sides get something. This was not a deal, it was a complete surrender.
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
They caved. What pathetic losers. No integrity.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
If Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov caves on this CR vote, I will never support her again. I will work my ass off to primary her and send her home forever. Do Not Cave. The Republicans lie and lie and lie. There will be no ACA.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Being on SNAP benefits for 17 years, I've NEVER been told I wouldn't be paid my benefits. NEVER. What is going on is BEYOND cruel. The ppl w/disabilities, ppl w/chronic illnesses & cancer, seniors already isolated, the 16M hh's w/children. WE REFUSE TO BE A NUMBER. WE ARE PEOPLE. WE DESERVE DIGNITY.
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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