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it's genuinely hard to produce creative work in an environment of stress, threat, and sheer boiling ugliness. it's hard to flex when you're flinching
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
it's genuinely hard to produce creative work in an environment of stress, threat, and sheer boiling ugliness. it's hard to flex when you're flinching
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If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If the outcomes aren't the most important thing, it's not even politics. Politics is literally about the outcomes. What he's describing here is cosplaying.
"back to fighting" sir please take your meds and don't be stingy. in fact just start taking whatever pills you can find, it's only upside from here.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"back to fighting" sir please take your meds and don't be stingy. in fact just start taking whatever pills you can find, it's only upside from here.
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Dick Durbin:
- Chicago Phone # doesn't accept voicemails outside of business hours; not accepting them now because it's full, and no one is picking up
- DC Phone # doesn't accept voicemails at all, period, and no one is picking up
- Springfield # can leave a vm, no one is picking up
- Chicago Phone # doesn't accept voicemails outside of business hours; not accepting them now because it's full, and no one is picking up
- DC Phone # doesn't accept voicemails at all, period, and no one is picking up
- Springfield # can leave a vm, no one is picking up
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Dick Durbin:
- Chicago Phone # doesn't accept voicemails outside of business hours; not accepting them now because it's full, and no one is picking up
- DC Phone # doesn't accept voicemails at all, period, and no one is picking up
- Springfield # can leave a vm, no one is picking up
- Chicago Phone # doesn't accept voicemails outside of business hours; not accepting them now because it's full, and no one is picking up
- DC Phone # doesn't accept voicemails at all, period, and no one is picking up
- Springfield # can leave a vm, no one is picking up
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Chuck Schumer? Don't mind if I do
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Chuck Schumer? Don't mind if I do
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The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
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no matter how disappointed you may be in the democratic party you will never be as disappointed as the democratic party is in you for expecting anything of them at all
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
no matter how disappointed you may be in the democratic party you will never be as disappointed as the democratic party is in you for expecting anything of them at all
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Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
4 years ago a doomed floor vote on the health policy people wanted was "a meaningless gesture" but now a doomed floor vote on the health policy we already have is going to be touted as a respectable win. Cool.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
4 years ago a doomed floor vote on the health policy people wanted was "a meaningless gesture" but now a doomed floor vote on the health policy we already have is going to be touted as a respectable win. Cool.
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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i think zohran’s (amazing) canvassers should now use their energy doorknocking the people who said they’d leave new york city if he won just to make sure they follow through
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
i think zohran’s (amazing) canvassers should now use their energy doorknocking the people who said they’d leave new york city if he won just to make sure they follow through
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
The Age of Men is over,
Rats and cockroaches, for example, are in their heyday.
This man gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to speak to rooms full of CEOs
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Age of Men is over,
Maybe today's the day people finally care about my theory that Andrew Cuomo is the father of David zaslav's kids
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Maybe today's the day people finally care about my theory that Andrew Cuomo is the father of David zaslav's kids
Accidentally got on the devil train
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Accidentally got on the devil train
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can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.
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1/2 “Mayor Wilson’s decision to unleash the police on our most vulnerable neighbors on the very day they lose their food assistance is an act of stunning inhumanity,” said Chris Olson, Co-Secretary of the Housing Working Group in Portland DSA (@portlanddsa.bsky.social)
Portland DSA Condemns Mayor Wilson's Cruel Camping Ban, Calls for Investigation into Misuse of Public Funds - Portland DSA
November 3, 2025 (PORTLAND, OR) – Portland Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) condemns in the strongest possible terms Mayor Keith Wilson’s decision to begin enforcement of the city’s “public camp...
portlanddsa.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
1/2 “Mayor Wilson’s decision to unleash the police on our most vulnerable neighbors on the very day they lose their food assistance is an act of stunning inhumanity,” said Chris Olson, Co-Secretary of the Housing Working Group in Portland DSA (@portlanddsa.bsky.social)
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Evil as hell. Glad to know that one of my senators, @amyklobuchar.com, voted to confirm USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins, the monster who is forcing children to go hungry.
@amyklobuchar.com voted for most of the Trump monsters to show that she’s “bipartisan.” Thanks Amy, great job!
@amyklobuchar.com voted for most of the Trump monsters to show that she’s “bipartisan.” Thanks Amy, great job!
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Evil as hell. Glad to know that one of my senators, @amyklobuchar.com, voted to confirm USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins, the monster who is forcing children to go hungry.
@amyklobuchar.com voted for most of the Trump monsters to show that she’s “bipartisan.” Thanks Amy, great job!
@amyklobuchar.com voted for most of the Trump monsters to show that she’s “bipartisan.” Thanks Amy, great job!
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Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence.
I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."
No.
ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.
I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."
No.
ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence.
I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."
No.
ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.
I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."
No.
ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.
M4GAN
November 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
M4GAN
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Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior
sting? fucking STING? who in 2025 wants to see solo sting? this has to be a joke
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
NFL Succumbs To Bad Bunny Criticism And Announces Special Super Bowl Concert With Sting
In an unexpected bid to calm the frenzy over Bad Bunny headlining the 2026 Super Bowl show, the NFL has introduced a special feature.
www.yahoo.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior