SusanneMc
@sumac914.bsky.social
SF Bay Area. Just here trying to stay responsibly and reasonably informed 😎
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"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."
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Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell’s treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”
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November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..."
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I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
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Reminder that the last time Schumer had a serious primary challenger it was Geraldine Fucking Ferraro in 1998.
For 27 years he has been encouraged to do weak shit like this while the world crumbles around him.
Vote in primaries people. Every year. And push pols you like to run for higher office.
For 27 years he has been encouraged to do weak shit like this while the world crumbles around him.
Vote in primaries people. Every year. And push pols you like to run for higher office.
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Reminder that the last time Schumer had a serious primary challenger it was Geraldine Fucking Ferraro in 1998.
For 27 years he has been encouraged to do weak shit like this while the world crumbles around him.
Vote in primaries people. Every year. And push pols you like to run for higher office.
For 27 years he has been encouraged to do weak shit like this while the world crumbles around him.
Vote in primaries people. Every year. And push pols you like to run for higher office.
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Chuck Schumer Must Go.
Now.
Now.
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Chuck Schumer Must Go.
Now.
Now.
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Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward
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UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
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"Schumer voted against it, in the hope that his vote would conceal his fingerprints. He fooled no one."
Democrats Get Rolled by Their Own - The American Prospect
Coming out of last Tuesday’s election blowout, the Democrats were riding high and unified. But on Sunday night, centrist Senate Democrats, with Chuck Schumer’s tacit encouragement, voted to reopen the...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Schumer voted against it, in the hope that his vote would conceal his fingerprints. He fooled no one."
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New from @qjurecic.bsky.social in The Atlantic: "The Trump administration is cracking down on Americans' freedom of speech with a new viciousness, but the First Amendment won't go down without a fight."
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New from @qjurecic.bsky.social in The Atlantic: "The Trump administration is cracking down on Americans' freedom of speech with a new viciousness, but the First Amendment won't go down without a fight."
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It’s estimated that 50,000 people will die, just in the first year, from lack of insurance.
This is an existential crisis. These are real lives that will be lost.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social … step up.
@chuckschumer.com …
Step down.
Let’s save lives.
This is an existential crisis. These are real lives that will be lost.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social … step up.
@chuckschumer.com …
Step down.
Let’s save lives.
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It’s estimated that 50,000 people will die, just in the first year, from lack of insurance.
This is an existential crisis. These are real lives that will be lost.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social … step up.
@chuckschumer.com …
Step down.
Let’s save lives.
This is an existential crisis. These are real lives that will be lost.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social … step up.
@chuckschumer.com …
Step down.
Let’s save lives.
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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.
...
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.
...
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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Seems like there should be a petition to write this into the plot of a future season of Slow Horses.
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Seems like there should be a petition to write this into the plot of a future season of Slow Horses.
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Pardoning your co-conspirators to own the libs!
Most of their charges are state charges, so this doesn’t actually help them. It’s gross, but it doesn’t really move the needle.
Most of their charges are state charges, so this doesn’t actually help them. It’s gross, but it doesn’t really move the needle.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Pardoning your co-conspirators to own the libs!
Most of their charges are state charges, so this doesn’t actually help them. It’s gross, but it doesn’t really move the needle.
Most of their charges are state charges, so this doesn’t actually help them. It’s gross, but it doesn’t really move the needle.
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This guy is fucking feckless. He's almost as useless as Susan Collins and the speech sounds like her blather
But, again, rich and old and doesn't need to worry about his health insurance
Mainers have two Senators screwing them over
But, again, rich and old and doesn't need to worry about his health insurance
Mainers have two Senators screwing them over
King: So I believe that we are closer tonight to a vote on the ACA tax credits than we were this morning. This agreement tonight is a win for the American people.
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This guy is fucking feckless. He's almost as useless as Susan Collins and the speech sounds like her blather
But, again, rich and old and doesn't need to worry about his health insurance
Mainers have two Senators screwing them over
But, again, rich and old and doesn't need to worry about his health insurance
Mainers have two Senators screwing them over
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This is a bad deal for Americans.
Voters turned out in record numbers last wk to elect Democrats believing they would fight for working families.
We urge Senate Dems to vote NO on the reported GOP budget package, which fails to address the devastating health care crisis.
Voters turned out in record numbers last wk to elect Democrats believing they would fight for working families.
We urge Senate Dems to vote NO on the reported GOP budget package, which fails to address the devastating health care crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is a bad deal for Americans.
Voters turned out in record numbers last wk to elect Democrats believing they would fight for working families.
We urge Senate Dems to vote NO on the reported GOP budget package, which fails to address the devastating health care crisis.
Voters turned out in record numbers last wk to elect Democrats believing they would fight for working families.
We urge Senate Dems to vote NO on the reported GOP budget package, which fails to address the devastating health care crisis.
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I'm looking to see not only which Senate Dem candidates oppose this surrender (all of them will) but also where they go beyond this with respect to senate leadership.
I want to see concrete promises for a new fighting Dem Party, because the current one is broken.
I want to see concrete promises for a new fighting Dem Party, because the current one is broken.
This moment demands fighters, not folders.
Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I'm looking to see not only which Senate Dem candidates oppose this surrender (all of them will) but also where they go beyond this with respect to senate leadership.
I want to see concrete promises for a new fighting Dem Party, because the current one is broken.
I want to see concrete promises for a new fighting Dem Party, because the current one is broken.
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No one is more talented at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than Chuck Schumer's Senate caucus
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
No one is more talented at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than Chuck Schumer's Senate caucus
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We'll see, but the degree of immediate blowback, and how many other Dems immediately jumped onboard trashing it loudly, makes me think this might end up a failed attempt to cave. Overestimated their ability to hold enough Dem votes.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We'll see, but the degree of immediate blowback, and how many other Dems immediately jumped onboard trashing it loudly, makes me think this might end up a failed attempt to cave. Overestimated their ability to hold enough Dem votes.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
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You are all teaching the fascists that laying off government employees, shutting down air travel, and starving children is the way to get whatever they want.
Capitulating with this “deal” is shameful.
Capitulating with this “deal” is shameful.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
You are all teaching the fascists that laying off government employees, shutting down air travel, and starving children is the way to get whatever they want.
Capitulating with this “deal” is shameful.
Capitulating with this “deal” is shameful.
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Do not cave!! Dems will be so disappointed in all of you, we will lose the fragile momentum the party gained this week. Do not cave!!
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Do not cave!! Dems will be so disappointed in all of you, we will lose the fragile momentum the party gained this week. Do not cave!!
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Why on gods green earth would you take the Republicans at their word?
Democrats are like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
Democrats are like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field
ALT: a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field
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November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Why on gods green earth would you take the Republicans at their word?
Democrats are like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
Democrats are like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
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if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.
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My red line has always been lowering health costs for Americans. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t want an agreement that meets that bar. I’m a no.
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
My red line has always been lowering health costs for Americans. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t want an agreement that meets that bar. I’m a no.
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Schumer will vote against the deal, but that does not matter.
Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together.
This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.
Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together.
This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Schumer will vote against the deal, but that does not matter.
Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together.
This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.
Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together.
This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.