Carol Kim
@carolkim.bsky.social
Dreamer & doer. Working towards a kinder, healthier world. Business Manager of San Diego County Building & Construction Trades Council. CEO of NCPA. She/her/hers. Opinions = my own.
The navel-gazing, fiefdom-building, self-interest protecting attitudes are nihilistic and grotesque.
Democratic leadership needs a total reset, for the sake of the party, if not for the sake of this nation’s actual DEMOCRACY.
Democratic leadership needs a total reset, for the sake of the party, if not for the sake of this nation’s actual DEMOCRACY.
These folks never think "maybe we could've won OH, PA, MT with smarter plan," or "maybe Ron Johnson isn't teflon, and we need to rethink things."
And still, all of this for them is about control and power within the party far more than winning - electorally or otherwise - against Trump.
And still, all of this for them is about control and power within the party far more than winning - electorally or otherwise - against Trump.
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
The navel-gazing, fiefdom-building, self-interest protecting attitudes are nihilistic and grotesque.
Democratic leadership needs a total reset, for the sake of the party, if not for the sake of this nation’s actual DEMOCRACY.
Democratic leadership needs a total reset, for the sake of the party, if not for the sake of this nation’s actual DEMOCRACY.
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Too many thoughts on this, but will start with yes, good for them! And the Fight Clubbers created this article specifically (in part) because there was real pushback against the whole caucus, and the brand. Individual self-preservation + trying to sustain that push www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Too many thoughts on this, but will start with yes, good for them! And the Fight Clubbers created this article specifically (in part) because there was real pushback against the whole caucus, and the brand. Individual self-preservation + trying to sustain that push www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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We’ve completed this cycle in less than a week this time:
![We're so back
[arrows going back and forth]
It's so over](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreiesgdduvvdftduvq4oo5ftikuqzlipsym5mkh7le6nyjl4wyfsnnu@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We’ve completed this cycle in less than a week this time:
🤦🏻♀️ How are the people in charge so bad at knowing ANYTHING.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🤦🏻♀️ How are the people in charge so bad at knowing ANYTHING.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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When the moment came to blow apart a universal moment of energy, optimism, forward momentum for the anti-Trump, pro-democracy movement, say often:
It wasn't progressives or DSA. It wasn't the young people running against the gerontocracy, or primarying those captured by the institution.
It wasn't progressives or DSA. It wasn't the young people running against the gerontocracy, or primarying those captured by the institution.
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
When the moment came to blow apart a universal moment of energy, optimism, forward momentum for the anti-Trump, pro-democracy movement, say often:
It wasn't progressives or DSA. It wasn't the young people running against the gerontocracy, or primarying those captured by the institution.
It wasn't progressives or DSA. It wasn't the young people running against the gerontocracy, or primarying those captured by the institution.
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Even the dude who thinks we should try to win Elon back gets it. #SchumerGottaGo
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Even the dude who thinks we should try to win Elon back gets it. #SchumerGottaGo
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Boils down to: These Dems do not have the stomach to win the fight they are in. Whether it’s this shutdown or something else someday, they have to be willing to fight a truly bloody fight through to victory, and they just aren’t.
This cave sucks, but the true disaster is there’s no pretense left.
This cave sucks, but the true disaster is there’s no pretense left.
For a lot of senators they have people yelling in one ear about airline delays and food stamps and a bunch of other cascading problems and in the other about health care. Ds who flipped say it’s clear Rs were never going to give them what they wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Boils down to: These Dems do not have the stomach to win the fight they are in. Whether it’s this shutdown or something else someday, they have to be willing to fight a truly bloody fight through to victory, and they just aren’t.
This cave sucks, but the true disaster is there’s no pretense left.
This cave sucks, but the true disaster is there’s no pretense left.
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Both Senate Democrats and Republicans have failed in their responsibility to address the health care crisis and rein in a dangerous president who consistently ignores Congress’s authority and the rule of law. This “deal” is offensive to the American people and I won’t support it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Both Senate Democrats and Republicans have failed in their responsibility to address the health care crisis and rein in a dangerous president who consistently ignores Congress’s authority and the rule of law. This “deal” is offensive to the American people and I won’t support it.
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Carefully choreographed votes and angry press releases are all cute, but the indication of whether anyone in the caucus really cares is whether there’s any push for leadership changes or punitive action against the cavers.
There won’t be, but that would be the theoretical sign this is different
There won’t be, but that would be the theoretical sign this is different
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Carefully choreographed votes and angry press releases are all cute, but the indication of whether anyone in the caucus really cares is whether there’s any push for leadership changes or punitive action against the cavers.
There won’t be, but that would be the theoretical sign this is different
There won’t be, but that would be the theoretical sign this is different
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gotta be some ambitious Dems in NV, NH and PA who would be happy to run in a presidential year at the end of a staggeringly unpopular second Trump term
get your campaigns ready, folks
get your campaigns ready, folks
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
gotta be some ambitious Dems in NV, NH and PA who would be happy to run in a presidential year at the end of a staggeringly unpopular second Trump term
get your campaigns ready, folks
get your campaigns ready, folks
Every Senate Democrat that votes for this so-called “deal” needs to be primaried and unseated. This is absolutely unacceptable. WTAF, you spineless cowards. You’re a bunch of fucking scabs.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Every Senate Democrat that votes for this so-called “deal” needs to be primaried and unseated. This is absolutely unacceptable. WTAF, you spineless cowards. You’re a bunch of fucking scabs.
Unionize!
99% of us on the wrong side of their doors
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Unionize!
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Young men too 😮😮
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Young men too 😮😮
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Time to repeal Virginia's right to work law. Should be the first bill.
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Time to repeal Virginia's right to work law. Should be the first bill.
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Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads
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In Fort Worth, Democrat trade unionist Taylor Rehmet is ahead in the race for Texas Senate District 9 over his two Republican opponents, former Southlake mayor John Huffman and the chief comms officer of Patriot Mobile, a Christian right wing cellphone company, Leigh Wambsganss
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
In Fort Worth, Democrat trade unionist Taylor Rehmet is ahead in the race for Texas Senate District 9 over his two Republican opponents, former Southlake mayor John Huffman and the chief comms officer of Patriot Mobile, a Christian right wing cellphone company, Leigh Wambsganss
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To make the night even better, I came away from a Dallas political event with a pile of anti-ICE whistle kits to hand out. If you're in Deep Ellum or Old East Dallas and want one, let me know.
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
To make the night even better, I came away from a Dallas political event with a pile of anti-ICE whistle kits to hand out. If you're in Deep Ellum or Old East Dallas and want one, let me know.
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I very definitely believe this. Middle America wants Dems they trust, Dems they can believe in, Dems who are believable when they say they care about solving middle America’s problems.
Just to pre-empt the pundits, I absolutely believe you could run a Mamdani in middle America and win
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I very definitely believe this. Middle America wants Dems they trust, Dems they can believe in, Dems who are believable when they say they care about solving middle America’s problems.
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CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.*
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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TECH EXEC IN 2005: We believe the world is a better place when people are able to communicate online
THAT SAME TECH EXEC IN 2025: The greatest existential threat to humanity is the ability for women to talk back to me
THAT SAME TECH EXEC IN 2025: The greatest existential threat to humanity is the ability for women to talk back to me
March 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
TECH EXEC IN 2005: We believe the world is a better place when people are able to communicate online
THAT SAME TECH EXEC IN 2025: The greatest existential threat to humanity is the ability for women to talk back to me
THAT SAME TECH EXEC IN 2025: The greatest existential threat to humanity is the ability for women to talk back to me
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UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”