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This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.

There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP

Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
buddhaclauser.bsky.social Christine @buddhaclauser.bsky.social · Feb 26
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Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
February 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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January 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Remember tomorrow that the origins of Thanksgiving- as a truly national holiday- came from the work of Sarah Hale and Abraham Lincoln. A nation gave thanks to God as it mourned the Union dead and prayed for the defeat of the Confederacy by either changing rebel minds or bringing them to submission.
November 27, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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It'll be $50 million when they follow through with their recent promise to contribute more money to one of the crypto super PACs for the midterms.

They've promised this second contribution even with an open FEC complaint against them, and have threatened me for reporting on it.
molly.wiki Molly White @molly.wiki · Nov 2
However, when I noted this earlier this week, I was met with a threat from Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal, who tweeted that continuing to report on Coinbase would be “.... unwise”.
Tweet by paulgrewal.eth on October 30, 2024 @iampaulgrewal Once again, with feeling. Repeating misrepresentations of facts after previously being put on notice is …. unwise. Quoted tweet by Molly White @molly0xFFF As an active federal contractor, Coinbase is prohibited from making political contributions, including to super PACs. This makes $50 million that they have contributed in violation of pay-to-play laws for contractors. Despite being the subject of our complaint with the FEC pertaining to their $25 million contribution to Fairshake in May, which was also within the prohibited time period, Coinbase has brazenly doubled this amount with a second contribution. While they’ve not (at least that I’ve seen) argued that they were unaware of this campaign finance prohibition, which would already be unlikely given clear warnings on Fairshake’s website that contributions by federal contractors are prohibited, this newest contribution seems to definitively remove that potential line of argument for them. Instead, Coinbase’s only rebuttal to our complainta has been to claim that, despite that pesky federal contract of theirs, they somehow aren’t a federal contractor due to a detail in how the contract is funded. Because the contract is being paid out of the pool of seized cryptocurrencies and other assets known as the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture Fund, they’ve argued they do not fall within the definition of “federal contractor”16 used by the FEC because they are not paid with “funds appropriated by the Congress” — an argument that lawyers at Public Citizen have plainly described as “incorrect”, and one that we rebutted on August 5 in our supplemental filing (citations omitted here): As the Supreme Court has recently explained, “an appropriation is simply a law that authorizes expenditures from a specified source of public money for designated purposes.” Under this definition, Congress’s enactment 28 U.S.C. § 524(c)(1),b creating the Assets Forfeiture Fund and authorizing the Attorney General to make expenditures from that fund for specific purposes, was an appropriation. Indeed, over the past five decades, both courts and the Department of Justice have considered the statutory creation of the fund to be an appropriation. The Congressional Research Service has similarly described the statute as a “permanent appropriation.” Coinbase’s only communications with me since the FEC complaint have been public, made via a handful of tweets171819 from Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal. In them, he outlined this argument while also insinuating that I am intentionally spreading “misinformation” on behalf of my shadowy backers. While Grewal has come up with this rather creative legal theory under which he argues Coinbase’s contributions were not prohibited, he has not identified any factual errors in my reporting. As far as I’m aware, neither he nor anyone else from Coinbase have commented on our position since we made the supplemental filing on August 5, except to repeat the claim in a tweet19 (without adding any further support for it) that the funds with which they’re being paid are not Congressionally appropriated. Despite that, Grewal retweeted my recent post highlighting Coinbase’s newest contribution and its apparent violation of this prohibition with a threat, writing: “Once again, with feeling. Repeating misrepresentations of facts after previously being put on noticec is …. unwise.” And for the record, Grewal is not some total hack with no legal background, but is in fact an ex-magistrate judge who has somehow now found himself reduced to issuing impotent threats on Twitter for Coinbase. (I assume the position pays pretty well, but I can’t imagine any salary at which I would be willing to post with a straight face that it would be “.... unwise” for a writer to continue to report on my company). Lest you think that Grewal is simply a loose cannon, perhaps sent off the rails by knowledge of Coinbase’s poor earnings that would be reported the next day,20 Coinbase communications team member Jaclyn Sales also reshared the threat, adding “Say it louder for the people in the back”. Some Coinbase supporters have found themselves in the awkward position of trying to defend one of the largest cryptocurrency companies that, on one hand, claims to support individual freedoms and fight back on behal
November 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM