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@spottedstarling.bsky.social
Pro democracy.
Finally, his "in two weeks" project from nine years ago, had surfaced.
Or a foggy blueprint of it, given to scheming, extortion, and intended only for billionaires to profit from.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
So finally, his "in two weeks" project had surfaced.
This reminds me of his pitch for Trump’s miracle cure “signature” vitamin supplements in 2009, which were available for a bargain price if you signed up for a membership with the Trump Network and submitted a urine test because they customized them to your needs. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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When Trump wants to pardon a drug trafficker, befriend a terrorist, or praise a dictator because they did something to benefit him personally, when confronted with their past crimes he always either minimizes them or claims that they were treated unfairly. While Republicans just go along with it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Yup. I said this earlier today, but it was only a guess. Thanks for confirming it. It is no coincidence that of the 8 who came forward to do this, none of them are running in 2026. But they ran cover for some who are.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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@sanders.senate.gov: "We have already had 15 Republicans in the Senate defy Trump and say, 'Release the SNAP funds.' So I think that if we had held firm, it would be the Republicans who would yield. That was not the position of these 8 Democrats."
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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@sanders.senate.gov: "The message that came out last night is that some Democrats (remember, 47 people in the caucus, 8 voted, a small minority) that all over the country, people say, 'Stand up, fight, fight.' We had No Kings rallies, 7 million people coming out. And last night was a setback."
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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He cpuld be out of leadership THIS WEEK if Senate Dems grew a pair
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Time to act.
He needs to not be minority leader as of tomorrow. Demand that he and other leadership members involved in the mess resign from posts too. Only Murphy, Warren, & Sanders, who are also in leadership, fought this in the caucus meeting ahead of the vote.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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"There is a non-zero chance we repeat this all over again at the end of January when the funding deal will run out. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to negotiate with terrorists." www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...
Dems Reward the Hostage-Taker
Perhaps ending the shutdown was the responsible thing to do. But by caving, Democrats risk legitimizing Trump’s maximum-pain shutdown tactics.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Jon Stewart "Can't F**king Believe" Democrats Caved on the Shutdown

youtu.be/eFI6MwlLJ08
Jon Stewart "Can't F**king Believe" Democrats Caved on the Shutdown | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Know your nazi.
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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The wholesale pardoning of criminals is a giant flip off to the rule of law — including election deniers. Elect a felon, expect a crime.

The only way to get out ahead of this is to anticipate what his Trump’s criminal mind is planning next…

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.
www.brennancenter.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
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 4:43 PM
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1. @schumer.senate.gov needs to step down for failing to keep his party members in line.
2. A new @democrats.senate.gov
minority leader needs to punish the eight. Strip them of every position and perk.
3. @dscc.bsky.social needs to identify people to primary every one of them.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Centrist Democrats in the Senate folded on the shutdown, throwing away their leverage in exchange for worthless GOP promises.

When will they learn that there is no center between a government of oligarchs and a government of the people? https://youtu.be/EQzG_TrhyrY?si=LBXGJad9NjGyBGBo
The Failures of “Centrism”
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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As of this morning, it is imperative that the Democratic caucus in the senate remove Schumer as Minority Leader, Durbin as minority whip and Cortez Masto as Vice Chair of Outreach.

Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein confidante and child sex trafficker, is being waited on “hand and foot” by the staff at her minimum security prison camp while she prepares a request that Donald Trump commute her sentence, according to whistleblower revelations. More on @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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"If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise. Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention... I worry that Democrats have just taught Trump that they will fold under pressure."

{ gift link } www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | What Were Democrats Thinking?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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💯. It wasn't about just the ACA subsides—it was about those and … everything else.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.

Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen

Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Multimillionaires in Congress give themselves pay raises while we're exploited worse than ever. They could have nuked the filibuster in 2020 and passed everything we needed, fought fascism, they capitulated to protect neoliberalism.

Vote. Them. Out.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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80% of Democrats take corporate money. That's why blue states haven't passed anti-corruption laws to get big money out of politics. They're afraid of democracy, so they won't support ranked choice or eliminating the electoral college.
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Decoys! They are all in on it. This should have stopped funding in January and there would not be the massive ICE goon force we see today.
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM