Steve Holmes
@bottyguy.bsky.social
Born in God’s country, Chicago. Living in Durham, NC.
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Update: this is no longer included in the final funding deal. I'm going to keep fighting to lower premiums and ensure Republicans can’t get away with a backdoor national abortion ban.
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Update: this is no longer included in the final funding deal. I'm going to keep fighting to lower premiums and ensure Republicans can’t get away with a backdoor national abortion ban.
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Spoke to @sanders.senate.gov who said of the 8 Senate Dems who supported ending the shutdown: "What those eight people are saying is, ‘We’re not prepared to stand up and take on Trump and the Republican Party." Interview will be out in the AM on What A Day.
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Spoke to @sanders.senate.gov who said of the 8 Senate Dems who supported ending the shutdown: "What those eight people are saying is, ‘We’re not prepared to stand up and take on Trump and the Republican Party." Interview will be out in the AM on What A Day.
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Exactly how MANY emerging-market strongmen are we going to rescue? 🤡
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Exactly how MANY emerging-market strongmen are we going to rescue? 🤡
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
@politico.com 🇭🇺
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
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This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
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"Do you think taxes should be raised on billionaires?"
Democrats:
🟢 Yes: 95%
⚫️ No: 2%
Independents:
🟢 Yes: 75%
⚫️ No: 12%
Republicans:
🟢 Yes: 48%
⚫️ No: 32%
Read it here: usapolling.substack.com/p/americans-...
Democrats:
🟢 Yes: 95%
⚫️ No: 2%
Independents:
🟢 Yes: 75%
⚫️ No: 12%
Republicans:
🟢 Yes: 48%
⚫️ No: 32%
Read it here: usapolling.substack.com/p/americans-...
Americans Unite Against Billionaire Influence
Voters across party lines say billionaire power has gone too far and demand higher taxes
usapolling.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Do you think taxes should be raised on billionaires?"
Democrats:
🟢 Yes: 95%
⚫️ No: 2%
Independents:
🟢 Yes: 75%
⚫️ No: 12%
Republicans:
🟢 Yes: 48%
⚫️ No: 32%
Read it here: usapolling.substack.com/p/americans-...
Democrats:
🟢 Yes: 95%
⚫️ No: 2%
Independents:
🟢 Yes: 75%
⚫️ No: 12%
Republicans:
🟢 Yes: 48%
⚫️ No: 32%
Read it here: usapolling.substack.com/p/americans-...
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Most people never have a house fire. So why are we wasting money on a fire department?
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Most people never have a house fire. So why are we wasting money on a fire department?
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The rewards are pouring in
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The rewards are pouring in
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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That means restrictions on abortion coverage for the uninitiated
Democrats are likely to get a vote on an extension later. But they've already gotten similar votes. Republicans already vowing to block an extension without major changes to the ACA, like adding Hyde language.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
That means restrictions on abortion coverage for the uninitiated
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Americans: "Why would you cave? This will endanger us and ruin you."
Senate Democrats: "We can't help it. It's our nature."
Senate Democrats: "We can't help it. It's our nature."
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Americans: "Why would you cave? This will endanger us and ruin you."
Senate Democrats: "We can't help it. It's our nature."
Senate Democrats: "We can't help it. It's our nature."
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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
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Does anyone on the senate actually know how the ACA works????
"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 11:10 PM
Does anyone on the senate actually know how the ACA works????
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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Agree with this.
About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.
About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.
Opening the government with no concessions from GOP merely to alleviate airline cancellations - when Congress has been dragging its feet for years on chronic FAA staffing issues - is a lame ass choice.
Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.
Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Agree with this.
About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.
About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.
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He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
He explicitly encouraged the Capitol riot
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This is so pants-on-head stupid. Even IF people are able to get and spend the money in their FSAs - which has an expiration date, and which can only be spent on certain “covered” expenses - they’ll still have to pay the insurance premiums they can’t control or afford.
"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 10:16 PM
This is so pants-on-head stupid. Even IF people are able to get and spend the money in their FSAs - which has an expiration date, and which can only be spent on certain “covered” expenses - they’ll still have to pay the insurance premiums they can’t control or afford.
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Zohran’s win showed that the establishment’s grip is loosening. If this is the way they want to cement their removal in history, so be it. It’s unfortunate that so many people will suffer as a result of their cowardice. We demand new, young, leaders who aren’t afraid to continue to fight for us!
If Dems cave on the mere PROMISE of a vote, those Dems that cave will need to be run out of office, primary the fuck out of them and LEADERSHIP for not being able to fucking lead. This is getting stupid with these constant losses because of shit leadership.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Zohran’s win showed that the establishment’s grip is loosening. If this is the way they want to cement their removal in history, so be it. It’s unfortunate that so many people will suffer as a result of their cowardice. We demand new, young, leaders who aren’t afraid to continue to fight for us!