AndyGator
@andygator.bsky.social
Political Campaign Strategist, Former Public School Teacher. Socialism in the political court, Pelicans on the basketball court. RVA. He/Him
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can't wait to see this inspiring messaging incorporated into the DSCC fundraising appeals
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
can't wait to see this inspiring messaging incorporated into the DSCC fundraising appeals
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Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
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🚨As the House debates the #BigUglyBill, educators urge Congressman Glenn Thompson to protect public schools. Vouchers aren’t “choice” — they fund exclusion. Public schools serve all kids. Don’t abandon them.
Read more: www.centredaily.com/opinion/opn-...
#SupportPublicEd #FundPublicSchools #EDUSky
Read more: www.centredaily.com/opinion/opn-...
#SupportPublicEd #FundPublicSchools #EDUSky
Voucher programs threaten the promise of public education | Opinion
“While these programs sound appealing on the surface, they risk dismantling the very foundation that makes American education a beacon of opportunity for all.”
www.centredaily.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🚨As the House debates the #BigUglyBill, educators urge Congressman Glenn Thompson to protect public schools. Vouchers aren’t “choice” — they fund exclusion. Public schools serve all kids. Don’t abandon them.
Read more: www.centredaily.com/opinion/opn-...
#SupportPublicEd #FundPublicSchools #EDUSky
Read more: www.centredaily.com/opinion/opn-...
#SupportPublicEd #FundPublicSchools #EDUSky
“Make America Healthy Again”
BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
www.cbsnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“Make America Healthy Again”
And no doubt, Musk is getting a fat government contract for this.
SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
And no doubt, Musk is getting a fat government contract for this.
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First day commuting from RVA to DC.
Took the VRE in. Great experience.
Leaving? Accidentally got on the Manassas train instead of the Fredericksburg train.
Not a great end to my first day. 🫠
Took the VRE in. Great experience.
Leaving? Accidentally got on the Manassas train instead of the Fredericksburg train.
Not a great end to my first day. 🫠
March 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
First day commuting from RVA to DC.
Took the VRE in. Great experience.
Leaving? Accidentally got on the Manassas train instead of the Fredericksburg train.
Not a great end to my first day. 🫠
Took the VRE in. Great experience.
Leaving? Accidentally got on the Manassas train instead of the Fredericksburg train.
Not a great end to my first day. 🫠
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It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.
Trump at the DOJ: "I believe that CNN and MSNDC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal."
March 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.
Honestly. Sincerely.
Resoundingly.
Exactingly.
Fuck every single Democrat who showed up last night and wore pink, held a little church fan, or a little white board.
If you’re not bringing @algreen.house.gov energy, you’re fucking complicit.
Resoundingly.
Exactingly.
Fuck every single Democrat who showed up last night and wore pink, held a little church fan, or a little white board.
If you’re not bringing @algreen.house.gov energy, you’re fucking complicit.
March 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Honestly. Sincerely.
Resoundingly.
Exactingly.
Fuck every single Democrat who showed up last night and wore pink, held a little church fan, or a little white board.
If you’re not bringing @algreen.house.gov energy, you’re fucking complicit.
Resoundingly.
Exactingly.
Fuck every single Democrat who showed up last night and wore pink, held a little church fan, or a little white board.
If you’re not bringing @algreen.house.gov energy, you’re fucking complicit.
Anything short of physically using themselves as human shields to prevent the Musk-ian takeover of all of our government infrastructure should be seen as Democratic cowardice and complacency.
Take notes.
Take notes.
February 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Anything short of physically using themselves as human shields to prevent the Musk-ian takeover of all of our government infrastructure should be seen as Democratic cowardice and complacency.
Take notes.
Take notes.
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Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.
February 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.
Why can we hear Beyoncé’s in-ear click track on the Netflix broadcast?
December 25, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Why can we hear Beyoncé’s in-ear click track on the Netflix broadcast?
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For far too long, greedy corporations have used inflation as a smokescreen to pad their profits.
We cannot allow underserved and working families to continue paying the price.
We cannot allow underserved and working families to continue paying the price.
December 6, 2024 at 11:51 PM
For far too long, greedy corporations have used inflation as a smokescreen to pad their profits.
We cannot allow underserved and working families to continue paying the price.
We cannot allow underserved and working families to continue paying the price.
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going to be very annoyed if in 3-4 years elite Dems start breaking out the “most important election of our lifetime” line again because buddy, there were, unironically, two Most Important US presidential elections of my lifetime, 2016 and 2024, and the party fucked up both of them royally
December 4, 2024 at 6:51 PM
going to be very annoyed if in 3-4 years elite Dems start breaking out the “most important election of our lifetime” line again because buddy, there were, unironically, two Most Important US presidential elections of my lifetime, 2016 and 2024, and the party fucked up both of them royally
In case you didn’t know- the US private healthcare market (and their profits > people m.o.) is precisely why healthcare costs are so much higher here than other countries.
BREAKING: CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are suing the Federal Trade Commission, claiming that the agency going after drug middlemen over high insulin prices is unconstitutional.
November 20, 2024 at 12:37 AM
In case you didn’t know- the US private healthcare market (and their profits > people m.o.) is precisely why healthcare costs are so much higher here than other countries.
Lukewarm take: gov’t depts. are important tools that we use to make sure civil rights are protected, we’re (generally) pretty safe.
Elimination the Dept of Ed would be catastrophic. It’s already kneecapped and underfunded.
Elimination the Dept of Ed would be catastrophic. It’s already kneecapped and underfunded.
I had my $$ on M4L’s Justice. But McMahon fits a type:
Her America First Policy Inst is a big dark money billionaire shop.
AFPI is part of the State Policy Network, which I write about in The Privateers.
Gives full reign to political hatchet-men even if dismantling ED stalls
Her America First Policy Inst is a big dark money billionaire shop.
AFPI is part of the State Policy Network, which I write about in The Privateers.
Gives full reign to political hatchet-men even if dismantling ED stalls
November 19, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Lukewarm take: gov’t depts. are important tools that we use to make sure civil rights are protected, we’re (generally) pretty safe.
Elimination the Dept of Ed would be catastrophic. It’s already kneecapped and underfunded.
Elimination the Dept of Ed would be catastrophic. It’s already kneecapped and underfunded.
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I talked to @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
about the communities hurt by new school voucher schemes—and Trump’s plan to kill the Dept of Education.
#EduSky
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
about the communities hurt by new school voucher schemes—and Trump’s plan to kill the Dept of Education.
#EduSky
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
Can Trump dismantle the Department of Education? It won't be easy, experts say
"One thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C.," President-elect Trump vowed in 2023.
www.cbsnews.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:47 PM
I talked to @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
about the communities hurt by new school voucher schemes—and Trump’s plan to kill the Dept of Education.
#EduSky
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
about the communities hurt by new school voucher schemes—and Trump’s plan to kill the Dept of Education.
#EduSky
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
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Trickle gonna start any moment...
The richest 10% of households hold 62% of the wealth in the US.
The bottom 50% hold 5.7%.
The bottom 50% hold 5.7%.
November 19, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Trickle gonna start any moment...
I wonder what the first govt agency on the chopping block for Muskyboy’s DOGE
Today, attorneys for SpaceX and Amazon are arguing before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional.
Both companies had been found in violation of workers' rights by the NLRB.
Both companies had been found in violation of workers' rights by the NLRB.
November 18, 2024 at 5:29 PM
I wonder what the first govt agency on the chopping block for Muskyboy’s DOGE
The existence of “recess appointments” seems like one of the several features of the US political system that assumes that those in power act out of altruism 100% of the time.
The answer is yes.
Trump may start his second term with a stunning power grab.
Could Trump force the Senate into recess — and then appoint whoever he wanted to the government?
apple.news/Ae58RYhsHQMK...
Trump may start his second term with a stunning power grab.
Could Trump force the Senate into recess — and then appoint whoever he wanted to the government?
apple.news/Ae58RYhsHQMK...
Trump may start his second term with a stunning power grab — Vox
With President-elect Donald Trump’s latest slate of extreme or controversial nominees — Rep. Matt Gaetz for attorney general, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, Pete Hegs...
apple.news
November 16, 2024 at 10:01 PM
The existence of “recess appointments” seems like one of the several features of the US political system that assumes that those in power act out of altruism 100% of the time.
Brandon Boston Jr has been so good.
Drop Cain or Green- but sign Boston to a legit contract. He’s earned it.
Drop Cain or Green- but sign Boston to a legit contract. He’s earned it.
November 16, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Brandon Boston Jr has been so good.
Drop Cain or Green- but sign Boston to a legit contract. He’s earned it.
Drop Cain or Green- but sign Boston to a legit contract. He’s earned it.
The Pels are playing way above what they should be right now.
Keeping it close. We’re starting to see some late-game Willie errors, but this is a game we have no business being in, Joker or not.
Keeping it close. We’re starting to see some late-game Willie errors, but this is a game we have no business being in, Joker or not.
November 16, 2024 at 2:47 AM
The Pels are playing way above what they should be right now.
Keeping it close. We’re starting to see some late-game Willie errors, but this is a game we have no business being in, Joker or not.
Keeping it close. We’re starting to see some late-game Willie errors, but this is a game we have no business being in, Joker or not.
So the Nuggets are really resting Joker tonight for their NBA Cup game v the Pels.
It’s happening. We’re a scrimmage for other teams.
It’s happening. We’re a scrimmage for other teams.
November 15, 2024 at 9:54 PM
So the Nuggets are really resting Joker tonight for their NBA Cup game v the Pels.
It’s happening. We’re a scrimmage for other teams.
It’s happening. We’re a scrimmage for other teams.
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People are acting like authoritarianism will have a 4 year expiration date.
November 14, 2024 at 10:13 PM
People are acting like authoritarianism will have a 4 year expiration date.