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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.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Important post by KOS of DailyKOS…

Enough Senate Democrats appear ready to cave in the shutdown—for nothing…

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Enough Senate Democrats appear ready to cave on the shutdown—for nothing
Senate Democrats are caving on the shutdown. The broad framework for agreement, which was negotiated in part by Sens. Angus King, Jeanne Shaheen, and Maggie Hassan, as well as GOP senators, has “more ...
www.dailykos.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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I voted no tonight.

But the next phase of Democrats’ health care affordability fight is starting.

While I personally don’t believe Republicans will keep their promise to work with us on lowering health care costs, I would be thrilled to be wrong.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
November 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Officially official
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106.

12 days of work in 106 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The billionaires’ justices have been selective in application of their “principles,” depending on which party is helped.

Find me an originalist bone in Citizens United.

Find me a textualist bone in the presidential immunity decision.
Opinion | Tune In to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The Justices Will Be Squirming.
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Turkey prices are up 25% this year yet Trump tells people believe him not their eyes. Trump refuses to addresses high costs and instead lies that prices are down. Trump is the greatest failure as President ever. Period. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/t...
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Now THAT’S a Project I can support!! 👊
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.
News Alerts
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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A top U.N. court says Israel must allow the U.N. relief agency in Gaza to supply aid to the war-torn territory.
Top UN court says Israel must allow UN relief agency to supply aid to Gaza
The International Court of Justice says Israel must allow the U.N. aid agency in Gaza known as UNRWA to provide humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian territory.
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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If North Carolina enacts this new map, it will be sued.

I don't bluff and I usually win.
North Carolina moved closer Tuesday to dismantling a historically Black congressional district in a move one of its former representatives described as “blatant discrimination.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
‘Blatant Discrimination’: North Carolina Advances GOP Gerrymander at the Expense of Black Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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America has a dictator who loots the government for his private gain, locks up his opposition and launches dubious military strikes without any oversight.
October 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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The man who doesn’t read and can’t handle a briefing furloughed the people guarding America’s most dangerous weapons.
October 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Momentum Builds For The Resistance: Portland’s Courage, Grijalva’s Grit, Obama’s Fire, and Biden’s Strength
Momentum Builds For The Resistance: Portland’s Courage, Grijalva’s Grit, Obama’s Fire, and Biden’s Strength
Shredding GOP lies and spotlighting the truth
www.dworkinsubstack.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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also how does the president have the right to demand that the DOJ (i.e. US taxpayers) give him money?
okay, why does building a white house ballroom with private funds not violate the anti deficiency act. what am I missing here
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that
October 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Trump’s rhetoric has crossed a line — from “Deep State” conspiracy to open fascist playbook.

open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Trump’s “Enemy Within”: How Fascist Rhetoric Became U.S. Policy
Behind talk of “vermin” and “enemies,” Trump’s administration is mobilizing the tools of state power against its own citizens.
open.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.
October 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM