Austin Kidwell
@austinkidwell.bsky.social
history, politics, economics, sac kings, colorado buffaloes
I am a leftist. Jean Jaures forever
Sacramento CA
I am a leftist. Jean Jaures forever
Sacramento CA
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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As fun as it was in the moment, that 8 game winning streak really did a number on this team's future*.
-Traded Fox for a "win now" piece in Lavine instead of trading for assets to build a good team in 2 years or so
-Made Vivek want to stay with Doug Christie long term
*the future was dodgy anyways
-Traded Fox for a "win now" piece in Lavine instead of trading for assets to build a good team in 2 years or so
-Made Vivek want to stay with Doug Christie long term
*the future was dodgy anyways
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
As fun as it was in the moment, that 8 game winning streak really did a number on this team's future*.
-Traded Fox for a "win now" piece in Lavine instead of trading for assets to build a good team in 2 years or so
-Made Vivek want to stay with Doug Christie long term
*the future was dodgy anyways
-Traded Fox for a "win now" piece in Lavine instead of trading for assets to build a good team in 2 years or so
-Made Vivek want to stay with Doug Christie long term
*the future was dodgy anyways
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Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Everyone is saying it. Literally everyone
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
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Anyway I think one reason I'm not that mad at these guys is we already knew they were the wrong people for this moment. A party trying to carry on with business as usual in the face of autocracy won't survive. They're sitting in a burning house and commissioning polls on how popular the fire is
If you think the president is a tyrant and you're running for office to oppose him the only platform you can have is "Give us enough votes to impeach and remove this menace." Otherwise what's the point of electing you?
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Anyway I think one reason I'm not that mad at these guys is we already knew they were the wrong people for this moment. A party trying to carry on with business as usual in the face of autocracy won't survive. They're sitting in a burning house and commissioning polls on how popular the fire is
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
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Funniest thing about the shutdown arc is the Democratic strategy made no sense, but was totally working thanks to the tireless efforts of Donald J Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Funniest thing about the shutdown arc is the Democratic strategy made no sense, but was totally working thanks to the tireless efforts of Donald J Trump.
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The filibuster is so fundamentally anti-democratic that forcing the authoritarian party to kill it so that they could keep taking health care and food away from Americans was probably the cleanest out from the damn thing, yet this Cones of Duneshire-ass opposition party loves rules more than wins.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The filibuster is so fundamentally anti-democratic that forcing the authoritarian party to kill it so that they could keep taking health care and food away from Americans was probably the cleanest out from the damn thing, yet this Cones of Duneshire-ass opposition party loves rules more than wins.
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we can't lose the filibuster, a procedural anomaly only our opponents take advantage of, because if we try to use it they threaten to end it, though they actually won't, since they use it
We need to kill the filibuster if only so the student government people doing real government jobs can’t keep not doing actual stuff out of Fear They Could Lose The Filibuster
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
we can't lose the filibuster, a procedural anomaly only our opponents take advantage of, because if we try to use it they threaten to end it, though they actually won't, since they use it
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They were chosen because they are not up for reelection so they can safely piss off voters.
The only answer is you have to hold the entire caucus accountable for the surrender. Every Dem who isn't calling for new leadership ought to be primaried. That, or accept continued failure.
The only answer is you have to hold the entire caucus accountable for the surrender. Every Dem who isn't calling for new leadership ought to be primaried. That, or accept continued failure.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
They were chosen because they are not up for reelection so they can safely piss off voters.
The only answer is you have to hold the entire caucus accountable for the surrender. Every Dem who isn't calling for new leadership ought to be primaried. That, or accept continued failure.
The only answer is you have to hold the entire caucus accountable for the surrender. Every Dem who isn't calling for new leadership ought to be primaried. That, or accept continued failure.
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Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
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this is excellent three-dimensional chess. every good politician knows that the average person loves it when you openly care more about senate procedure than their lives.
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
this is excellent three-dimensional chess. every good politician knows that the average person loves it when you openly care more about senate procedure than their lives.
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im not too sure the Democratic Party has a brand other than milquetoast losers who hate their constituents — for a party obsessed with polling get a clue yall
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
im not too sure the Democratic Party has a brand other than milquetoast losers who hate their constituents — for a party obsessed with polling get a clue yall
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Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.
But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.
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democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
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If the democrats care about these things they don’t operate like it, and voters see that.
Democrats care about people. We don't want kids to go hungry. This is both our greatest liability and our greatest strength.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
If the democrats care about these things they don’t operate like it, and voters see that.
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Imagine possessing both the arrogance and incompetence of Dick Durbin.
We understand how the Senate works, dude. That's the fucking problem.
We understand how the Senate works, dude. That's the fucking problem.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Imagine possessing both the arrogance and incompetence of Dick Durbin.
We understand how the Senate works, dude. That's the fucking problem.
We understand how the Senate works, dude. That's the fucking problem.
Keon Ellis needs to file a lawsuit against the kings
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Keon Ellis needs to file a lawsuit against the kings
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if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
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Hick, Warner, Booker, Reed. We need somebody to launch a challenge.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Hick, Warner, Booker, Reed. We need somebody to launch a challenge.
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it’s really because they are mad about their own flights being delayed lol
I fucking hate these people oh my god
I fucking hate these people oh my god
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
it’s really because they are mad about their own flights being delayed lol
I fucking hate these people oh my god
I fucking hate these people oh my god
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is it good when the dems in the house of representatives start calling for the senate to be abolished
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
is it good when the dems in the house of representatives start calling for the senate to be abolished
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Its cool that a lot of senators just straight up dont understand how healthcare works in this country
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Its cool that a lot of senators just straight up dont understand how healthcare works in this country
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On the one hand, great to be law. OTOH, how many Americans died during the century between when the House - representing the will of the American people - voted to make lynching a crime and when the Senate finally decided to pass the Emmitt Till anti-lynching act?
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
On the one hand, great to be law. OTOH, how many Americans died during the century between when the House - representing the will of the American people - voted to make lynching a crime and when the Senate finally decided to pass the Emmitt Till anti-lynching act?
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For that, you've got to look to the Senate's century long commitment to ensuring that Black Americans could be legally lynched. I am not being hyperbolic. Because in 1922, the House passed legislation to make lynching a federal crime. naacp.org/find-resourc...
naacp.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
For that, you've got to look to the Senate's century long commitment to ensuring that Black Americans could be legally lynched. I am not being hyperbolic. Because in 1922, the House passed legislation to make lynching a federal crime. naacp.org/find-resourc...