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⬆️UpstateCentrist 🥀🏳️‍🌈🐝💙
@upstateb.bsky.social
👋🏼 📍Upstate NY

Biden-Harris Democrat #KHive
Historian, high school teacher, future lawyer

Liberal NOT leftist

Sinatra 🧡, Billie Holiday

Socialism IS NOT the answer to fascism, it’s the other side of the same coin.

For fun: #FridayFoodFright
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Democracy is far more than a form of government.
Democracy is a way of life which promotes the individual and combined interests of all.

The Greeks coined the word democracy, which meant "everybody is king," or *the people rule.*
The base? I don’t see Black women rebelling.

I see entitled white leftists whining.
One important result of the Dems' surrender on the shutdown: It is already producing a rebellion from the party's base.

Which is a good thing! Anger is the most powerful force in politics.

I explore in my latest for Public Notice:

www.publicnotice.co/p/shutdown-d...
Cue the rebellion
The Democratic base is enraged at their party's capitulation — and that's a good thing.
www.publicnotice.co
November 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Have the day you voted (or sat on the couch) for
Reality is that the public voted to get rid of the Biden-Harris ACA subsidy increases when they voted in Nov 2024 to give the GOP the House, Senate, & WH.

Voters are going to have to vote in a D House, Senate, & WH in 2028 if they want those ACA subsidy increases back.

Elections have consequences.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Size queen 🤣
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Cameron Calvin: "If the election was between Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and staying at home on the couch, the couch won."

#UrbanViewMornings
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Setting aside feelings about the author, he’s correct here
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Well, if Schumer is telling the truth and really was opposed, sounds like Durbin stabbed Schumer in the back and decided to take matters into his own hands:
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Folks memory-holed that Bernie was Senate Budget Chair and could not get $15/hr min wage passed.
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Some of you put "listen to Black women" in your bios just as an empty slogan. If you truly did listen, we have less whining and better navigation of this current messed up landscape. Some of us have been navigating uncertainty all our lives. We won't bend, or break. But we won't coddle you either.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I am so done with these trust fund white privileged Podcasters telling us what to do.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Repeat this again and over and over today
Good morning: If your first instinct after this “caving” was to blame the Black & Jewish man rather than the white family members you have that have voted GOP consistently for 50 years YOU ARE THE PROBLEM! At some point correction starts with you.
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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You can't hold the line when there's no line to hold. Republicans have the majority and were never going to reopen the government.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Reporter: Dr Oz said that—

Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Younger Americans are clearly the new “know nothings”

I’m so sick of these leftist groups.

Saw one earlier that was screaming to make AOC the minority leader. That would be a work of magic considering she’s not in the Senate
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It’s amazing how much vitriol is being spewed at democrats and Schumer today. You’d think the republicans and President are perfect and doing everything right

Priorities people!

(They’d just rather scream)
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Fucking brain dead leftists. Over them.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Kim Davis: “I’ll show that Supreme Court. I’m going to get married five more times.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
While you’re bitching about democrats (and once again letting republicans off the hook) and shitting on Schumer (you’re lucky to have him) this happened: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and over 75 others involved in fake elector scheme
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disbarred and disgraced former attorney, joins other Trumpworld loyalists in receiving an unconditional pardon
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The accuracy is amazing
The most accurate portrayal I’ve seen to date:
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Once again…too many people thought that what’s happening in this country could never happen here.

If folks would have voted accordingly in November of 2024 we wouldn’t be here.

IDGAF who this statement pisses of either.

THEY TOLD Y’ALL THEY WOULD DO ALL OF THIS BUT Y’ALL STILL GAVE THEM POWER🤷🏾‍♀️
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This fool (who I was foolishly following) has been a steady stream of Shumer lies and bullshit. 122k followers and no clue how govt or politics works. Just looking for attention.

Blocked. Fuck him.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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READ THIS. OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND IT ⬇️
Now for some levity and logic based in facts.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Democratic leadership as they refuse to rubber stamp the full-scale Republican assault on Americans’ health care and I am proud of the majority of Senate Democrats who opposed this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Senate Dems voting for this aren't "cowardly fucks". They are voting for harm reduction for 7 weeks and to force the House back into session or own the shutdown. Anyone shitting on dems instead of repubs is part of the problem. Don't fall for this disinfo.
This is an important note, please look beyond the cowardly fucks that are the Democrats voting for this.

Now the House has to vote...and it's currently not in session because Johnson won't seat someone because of Epstein.

This is bad, but it's all bad, keep pushing.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM