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@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
Please call on leader Schumer to step down.
wendythurm.bsky.social Wendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 4d
This photo of @schumer.senate.gov joking around with Marco Rubio makes me sick to my stomach. Rubio and the rest of Trump's lawless, venal, evil gang are destroying America and Americans. There is nothing to smile about with these people. Schumer is so unfit for this moment. Just fucking go.
January 8, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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bunson8r.bsky.social
Post from tvsadam.bsky.social the reason sometimes people act madder at Democrats than Republicans when Republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn't be to yell at the roaches
January 4, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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johnathanperk.bsky.social
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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seancasten.bsky.social
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
crockofages.bsky.social
Defund the Democrat Party
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
lmao i love @gelliottmorris.com and am so glad he’s here on bluesky. go support his work!
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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senchrislarson.bsky.social
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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kjephd.bsky.social
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
October 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
Turns out, the MAGA Supreme Court is the one interested in converting your kids through the use of quack doctors with medically unsound practices based on no scientific evidence. "Every accusation is a confession" with them.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Supreme Court Wants to Convert Your Kids
During a hearing this week, the court’s theocrats made it clear that they’ll vote to end a ban on conversion therapy for minors.
www.thenation.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Karin Immergut is an ex-AUSA. That’s no guarantee of character, obviously. There are plenty of ex-AUSAs who are hacks, grifters, climbers, and throne-sniffers. Look at Emil Bove. But some of them give a shit about the rule of law and won’t pretend the emperor has clothes./1
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Oct 4
BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state constitutions block public funds from supporting religious entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) . The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional provisions. The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower). Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not all religions will receive public funds, the government forces minority faiths to support other faiths, or else. The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of- government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty structure. As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church- state separation and federalism principles. The Court's nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution "has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional
September 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
crockofages.bsky.social
I don't think "unimaginable" is the correct word to describe flooding in a floodplain that is also mapped as a flood hazard area.
www.npr.org/2025/07/12/n...
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain.
www.npr.org
July 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM