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Brendan Nyhan

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

Even more true today: Democrats are ripe for a base revolt like the GOP in 2015 when Trump went down the escalator.

November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM Everybody can reply

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Scott Santens

@scottsantens.com

If Schumer folds again like this, he absolutely has to be removed. A revolt must happen.

November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM Everybody can reply

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Jess Calarco

@jessicacalarco.com

They want people to go hungry. Because hungry people will revolt. And if hungry people revolt, then they can vilify the hungry for revolting and claim that the hungry never deserved food at all.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.

Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order

The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.

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November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Jase 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇮🇪

@jasonboerema.bsky.social

Gee it’s almost like they want people to revolt so they can enact the insurrection act or something?

November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Buttadeus

@thewanderingjew.bsky.social

I can't tell if Schumer is leading this or if he's unable to hold out a centrist revolt

November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM Everybody can reply

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Raw Story

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Staggering flip in this county underscores red‑state revolt against Trump: analyst

Donald Trump’s approval rating has plunged to just 37 percent – one of the lowest of his presidency – as Democratic victories in the 2025 off-year elections signal growing voter frustration with the president and the GOP, according to political analyst Marina Dunbar. Dunbar, a Guardian U.S. fellow, ...

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November 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM Everybody can reply

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Denny Carter

@dennycarter.bsky.social

Thinking today about that mega-wealthy guy who in 2014 warned fellow mega-wealthy guys that it would not be too long before they faced popular revolt.

badfaithtimes.com/americans-ar...

Americans Are Looking Strongly Into Pitchforks

The limits of right-wing populism are going to be tested in 2025.

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November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM Everybody can reply

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The Guardian

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Welcome to 21st-century politics: a bitter revolt against power that will consume Labour and the Tories | John Harris

A mood of turbulence and insurgency against the two main parties has been building for years, says Guardian columnist John Harris

www.theguardian.com

November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM Everybody can reply

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frenchgirlnyc.bsky.social

@frenchgirlnyc.bsky.social

They're afraid of public revolt and a war.

November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM Everybody can reply

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drama

@withdrama.bsky.social

The AI revolt begins

November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM Everybody can reply

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social

They're shooting at each other. Good.
Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson

At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

www.washingtonpost.com

November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM Everybody can reply

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Jamie Schler

@lifesafeast.bsky.social

RIP America.

There are lessons to be learned from the French Revolution. The common people starving and overtaxed to feed the rich, the middle class stuck… it’s time to revolt against the monarchy.

November 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM Everybody can reply

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Anna 🌿👁️

@annacwebs.bsky.social

Listen I’m just a girl who has played a lot of Crusader Kings 3 but uhhh both parties couldn’t be doing a better job setting the stage for a peasant revolt/potential revolution if they TRIED

November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM Everybody can reply

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Dawn 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸🫣

@badgerbleu2.bsky.social

Revolt now! The government sure isn’t interested in our survival.

November 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM Everybody can reply

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Andy Kaczynski

@kfile.bsky.social

NEW on CNN: Inside the “absolute shitshow” at the Heritage Foundation. Where staff are in open revolt, a major donor bailing, and resurfaced deleted tweets from Kevin Roberts show him praising Pence and seemingly bashing Trump on Jan. 6th.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

How Nick Fuentes ignited a civil war within the Republican Party- and DC’s most prominent conservative think tank | CNN Politics

Nick Fuentes, the well-known White nationalist and Holocaust denier, has ignited a civil war within the Republican Party — and inside one of Washington’s most prominent conservative think tanks.

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November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM Everybody can reply

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We Are Saners

@wearesaners.bsky.social

How many of us want to pay masked armed thugs to terrorize our communities with assaults, kidnappings and concentration camps?

A tax revolt is coming.

🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 1d

& members of congress!!

November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM Everybody can reply

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Sky Marchini

@sky.skymarchini.net

“Hello yes I would like to pay with card”
“Oh sorry we only take Visa cards issued by chase”
“Ok bye”

(This is not going to last because consumers will REVOLT at the idea their Mastercard doesn’t work everywhere with a Mastercard sticker, and it will lead to the dreaded Abandoned Cart)

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1d

Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that would let stores reject certain credit cards.

Exclusive | Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape

The deal under discussion would lower credit-card interchange fees for merchants, but could make it harder for consumers to use rewards cards at the register.

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November 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM Everybody can reply

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NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎

@jerasikehorn.bsky.social

BREAKING: DC is buzzing with reports that Marjorie Taylor Greene is leading a revolt against Mike Johnson to REMOVE HIM as Speaker before the end of the month…

Thoughts?! 🤔

November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM Everybody can reply

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Osita Nwanevu

@ositanwanevu.com

The gamble Republicans have made here will pay off as long as they don't overreach to the point that voters really, truly revolt and/or Democrats are finally forced to change their behavior and move towards structurally disempowering them.

Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 6h

Anyway, it's clear that the GOP has given up on legislating and wants to see what's left of the welfare state wither away in court or through exec action and inertia. Letting subsidies expire — perhaps at the cost of seats in Congress — fits that picture. From 2020: newrepublic.com/article/1586...

It shouldn’t be forgotten that Republicans controlled Congress for two years under Trump. Their record of major legislative accomplishments, even from a clear-eyed conservative perspective, was fairly unimpressive. Sure, there was a massive tax cut that also eliminated Obamacare’s individual mandate and some financial deregulation. But Republicans also failed to fully repeal Obamacare, the central policy promise they’d made for years, and they flubbed the dismantling of SNAP in the 2018 farm bill as well—both thanks partially to Senate moderates. Speculation that the party might finally go after Medicare and social security in the last few months before the midterms subsided once it became clear that Republican lawmakers were actually considering nothing more than another round of tax cuts. Those never passed, and many Republican candidates wound up staking their campaigns on panic over the migrant caravan and other culture war material.

If the conservative policy establishment was deeply disappointed by any of this, they showed few signs of it. The Heritage Foundation declared in early 2018 that the Trump administration, with the aid of the Republican Congress, had already embraced or accomplished 64 percent of their Mandate for Leadership platform. For reference, Ronald Reagan had evidently adopted only 49 percent of Heritage’s recommendations at the same point in his presidency. None of this is to say that Republicans in Congress didn’t do real damage—they did. But Democrats and the left had feared the full imposition of Paul Ryan’s agenda. That didn’t happen. Instead, Ryan himself gave up and left Congress. The Roosevelt Institute’s Mike Konzcal summed the situation up well in a March 2018 blog post. “At best, the Right’s policy voices are all ideas and no consequences,” he wrote. “More likely, they form a kind of entertainment industry that only is consequential to the extent it channels business interests or mass resentment.”

They aren’t more consequential because as much as most Republican lawmakers might support broadly unpopular legislation, they can’t actually pass anything without the support of moderate Republicans in bluer parts of the country or the kinds of moderate and conservative Democrats who happily and eagerly signed onto welfare reform a generation ago. As is often said, both are now endangered species—thanks to partisan sorting, most of those figures have either lost elections, retired, or put themselves in step with the rest of their parties. So, Republicans bent on deconstructing the welfare state have turned from real legislative battles to guerilla attacks—the White House’s hit on fair housing regulations, for instance, or the ongoing legal campaign to undermine Obamacare. These are fights that often play out in courts, which is why Senate Republicans, as little as they’ve managed to accomplish legislatively, have been so doggedly determined to confirm a constellation of conservative justices to the federal bench, in addition to the two Supreme Court seats they’ve filled. Mitch McConnell has pushed through over 200 judges since 2017; not a single circuit court vacancy remains. That work has alleviated some of the pressure Republicans might have to hold the Senate.

But much of that pressure is also obviated, again, by the design of the Senate itself. It should be well understood by now that even if Republicans lose the White House and the Senate—and of course, neither victory is assured—the Democrats’ ability to pass Joe Biden’s agenda will be limited by the Senate filibuster. Although Biden has suggested in recent weeks that he’s open to ditching it to overcome Republican obstruction, the decision is ultimately up to Democratic senators themselves, and pivotal moderates still oppose the move. The filibuster aside, the conservative structural advantage in the chamber will probably be in good shape for some time. Adding Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as states would help Democrats somewhat if the party were actually invested in making it happen⁠—another very large “if”—but analyst David Shor has estimated that a slight bias toward Republicans would remain in the Senate even if Democrats added six states, including the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam. If Biden attempts to circumvent Republicans through executive action as Obama did, Republicans can take solace in the fact that much of what he might try could be undone by another administration or, again, gummed up in court.

November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM Everybody can reply

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EARNED MY SPURS 🐎

@plannedtheride.bsky.social

Imma guess fans will revolt at this revolting idea.

November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM Everybody can reply

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George Tsakraklides

@tsakraklides.bsky.social

“Only rarely do farm-bred humans revolt. If the international kleptocracy in charge of this economy knew they could be held accountable, they wouldn’t be this ruthless”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

End-Stage Necrocapitalism: Fumbling Towards The Exit

Societies were formed not to evolve, but to obey, and what we tend to affectionately call “social evolution” was merely the aftermath of succumbing, and then adapting to, ever changing forms of oppres...

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November 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM Everybody can reply

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Sky Marchini

@sky.skymarchini.net

The ancient chinese wisdom handed down in Sun Tzu reminds us: “uhh ya gotta feed your army or they will revolt”

Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 4d

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 4d

Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq

November 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM Everybody can reply

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Bill Nemacheck

@billnemacheck.bsky.social

A medieval looking drawing showing a man on a horse saying I'd expect there to be less of you... And the opposition says fewer! And it's titled the pendants revolt

November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM Everybody can reply

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💙💙💙💙Blue wave resistance💙💙💙💙

@eliminatethegop.bsky.social

BREAKING: DC is buzzing with reports that Marjorie Taylor Greene is leading a revolt against Mike Johnson to REMOVE HIM as Speaker before the end of the month.

November 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM Everybody can reply

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JB 🐻✨🍉🪩

@jbfromdc.bsky.social

i don’t know what’s happening with the gay bars in DC but this sure isn’t making me interested in ever checking out Revolt

November 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM Everybody can reply

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