Brad Johnson
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Starting to wonder what definition they're using for "fighting"
My promise to you: I will never stop fighting to protect your health care.
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Starting to wonder what definition they're using for "fighting"
Reposted by Brad Johnson
RESOURCE: Palantir, Anduril, Space X, Peter Thiel, JD Vance... technofascism is here and it's rapidly consolidating it's control over the US.
This great website maps all the connections.
#CallThemOligarchs #BanTheBillionaire
This great website maps all the connections.
#CallThemOligarchs #BanTheBillionaire
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
RESOURCE: Palantir, Anduril, Space X, Peter Thiel, JD Vance... technofascism is here and it's rapidly consolidating it's control over the US.
This great website maps all the connections.
#CallThemOligarchs #BanTheBillionaire
This great website maps all the connections.
#CallThemOligarchs #BanTheBillionaire
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The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
Defending the indefensible really comes off poorly. Being on Team Schumer is so corrupting.
Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.
I get it. I have my own feelings.
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I get it. I have my own feelings.
🧵
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Defending the indefensible really comes off poorly. Being on Team Schumer is so corrupting.
The Senate Democrats are unified under Schumer.
Did they all just do a unanimous consent agreement?
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Senate Democrats are unified under Schumer.
They're moving quickly through this list now.
I counted 8 Senate votes coming on the shutdown deal:
1) Motion to Proceed
2) Baldwin motion to table
3) Merkley motion to table
4) Paul amendment #3941
5) Cloture on the Collins substitute #3937
6) Collins substitute
7) Cloture on the bill as amended
8) Final passage
1) Motion to Proceed
2) Baldwin motion to table
3) Merkley motion to table
4) Paul amendment #3941
5) Cloture on the Collins substitute #3937
6) Collins substitute
7) Cloture on the bill as amended
8) Final passage
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
They're moving quickly through this list now.
Color me shocked
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Color me shocked
Trump is a war criminal.
“As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Trump is a war criminal.
It really is insane making that Schumer stayed Democratic leader after this @allinwithchris.bsky.social interview
FULL INTERVIEW: Chuck Schumer joins Chris Hayes
FULL INTERVIEW: New York Senator and Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joins Chris Hayes for a wide-ranging interview on Democratic strategy, the state of democracy, the war in Gaza, antisemiti...
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It really is insane making that Schumer stayed Democratic leader after this @allinwithchris.bsky.social interview
ah the good times
The President has ignored Congressional appropriations, closed Congressionally-created agencies, and is grabbing people off the street without any judicial process and sending them to a foreign labor camp while boasting that he won't follow a court order telling him to stop.
I think we're there.
I think we're there.
WATCH: Schumer says "our democracy will be at stake" if Trump disobeys the Supreme Court—but "we're not there yet."
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
ah the good times
we didn't even get the vote on the extension lol
Jeanne Shaheen - the DINO Senator from New Hampshire keeps looking for ways to surrender to Trump and MAGA in Congress. @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
Just one year extension of ACA subsidies would be a pathetic cave at this point. #noblankchecks
Just one year extension of ACA subsidies would be a pathetic cave at this point. #noblankchecks
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
we didn't even get the vote on the extension lol
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As the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins, California officials are the highest profile American delegation this week in Bélem, Brazil. The Trump administration has abandoned the Paris climate agreement and won’t send officials to the talks. bit.ly/43VqsBD
📸 Wagner Meier, Getty
📸 Wagner Meier, Getty
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins, California officials are the highest profile American delegation this week in Bélem, Brazil. The Trump administration has abandoned the Paris climate agreement and won’t send officials to the talks. bit.ly/43VqsBD
📸 Wagner Meier, Getty
📸 Wagner Meier, Getty
loll Dicky
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
loll Dicky
This is simply false: "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was not part of the group that negotiated a deal to reopen the government with no actual assurances on health care"
www.notus.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This is simply false: "Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was not part of the group that negotiated a deal to reopen the government with no actual assurances on health care"
No explanation of how Schumer's whip could vote for the deal without Schumer's blessing.
New: Schumer has been actively distancing himself from the legislation end the shutdown.
But for many Democrats, that’s not enough, and he’s bearing the brunt of the blame for allowing it to happen in the first place.
www.notus.org/democrats/sc...
But for many Democrats, that’s not enough, and he’s bearing the brunt of the blame for allowing it to happen in the first place.
www.notus.org/democrats/sc...
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
No explanation of how Schumer's whip could vote for the deal without Schumer's blessing.
the one question to ask any politician or reporter who claims the 8 Senate Ds went rogue to capitulate to Trump:
If Schumer opposed the deal, why did Schumer's whip vote for it?
If Schumer opposed the deal, why did Schumer's whip vote for it?
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
the one question to ask any politician or reporter who claims the 8 Senate Ds went rogue to capitulate to Trump:
If Schumer opposed the deal, why did Schumer's whip vote for it?
If Schumer opposed the deal, why did Schumer's whip vote for it?
I think Jeffries and Schumer don't understand everyone under the age of 60 has watched enough pro wrestling to understand kayfabe when we see it.
Or maybe they just don't care.
Or maybe they just don't care.
In today's softball interview with @aaronparnas.bsky.social, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social demonstrates his utter contempt for Democratic voters. He pretends that the Senate Democratic cave was not a Schumer special: "Chuck Schumer has held the line... he voted no."
BREAKING: Mike Johnson FOLDS And Will Swear In Adelita Grijalva
YouTube video by Aaron Parnas
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I think Jeffries and Schumer don't understand everyone under the age of 60 has watched enough pro wrestling to understand kayfabe when we see it.
Or maybe they just don't care.
Or maybe they just don't care.
In today's softball interview with @aaronparnas.bsky.social, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social demonstrates his utter contempt for Democratic voters. He pretends that the Senate Democratic cave was not a Schumer special: "Chuck Schumer has held the line... he voted no."
BREAKING: Mike Johnson FOLDS And Will Swear In Adelita Grijalva
YouTube video by Aaron Parnas
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In today's softball interview with @aaronparnas.bsky.social, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social demonstrates his utter contempt for Democratic voters. He pretends that the Senate Democratic cave was not a Schumer special: "Chuck Schumer has held the line... he voted no."
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Jeffries and Schumer are a team. h/t @aaronparnas.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Jeffries and Schumer are a team. h/t @aaronparnas.bsky.social
weird how outlawing the words "climate change" didn't stop it
Just days after Typhoon Kalmaegi and Typhoon Tino slammed into the Philippines back to back, Super-typhoon Fung-wong devastated the country – triggering flash floods and mudslides that washed away houses – displacing over 1.4 million people.
Now, another typhoon is on the way.
Now, another typhoon is on the way.
Eight dead and more than a million displaced after super typhoon Fung-wong slams the Philippines
About 1.4 million people evacuated as storm sparks flash floods and landslides and leaves millions without power
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
weird how outlawing the words "climate change" didn't stop it
Warner has such contempt for his own voters.
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Warner has such contempt for his own voters.
A source has forwarded me a photo from the key moment of @schumer.senate.gov's negotiations
![YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
[Gandalf]
ACTUALLY, GO RIGHT AHEAD.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w7jirivxkdpu4gvmdgsito3k/bafkreigrko3arwssshnxcarm6mv3z7ctong3u4akblnxdeai4qs6ky4lnq@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A source has forwarded me a photo from the key moment of @schumer.senate.gov's negotiations
Hill reporters are bullshit artists. They know Schumer directed the vote and yet...
Punchbowl: "Eight Senate Democrats broke with the party"
Axios: "Eight Senate Ds broke ranks"
NYT: "a small but critical group of Ds broke from their party"
WaPo: "the deal split the party"
Politico: "broke ranks"
Punchbowl: "Eight Senate Democrats broke with the party"
Axios: "Eight Senate Ds broke ranks"
NYT: "a small but critical group of Ds broke from their party"
WaPo: "the deal split the party"
Politico: "broke ranks"
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hill reporters are bullshit artists. They know Schumer directed the vote and yet...
Punchbowl: "Eight Senate Democrats broke with the party"
Axios: "Eight Senate Ds broke ranks"
NYT: "a small but critical group of Ds broke from their party"
WaPo: "the deal split the party"
Politico: "broke ranks"
Punchbowl: "Eight Senate Democrats broke with the party"
Axios: "Eight Senate Ds broke ranks"
NYT: "a small but critical group of Ds broke from their party"
WaPo: "the deal split the party"
Politico: "broke ranks"
@hcrichardson.bsky.social is brilliant, erudite, reliable, and a shining light in the darkness.
I sincerely hope she will explain how badly she was snookered by @schumer.senate.gov's rope-a-dope.
I sincerely hope she will explain how badly she was snookered by @schumer.senate.gov's rope-a-dope.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social is brilliant, erudite, reliable, and a shining light in the darkness.
I sincerely hope she will explain how badly she was snookered by @schumer.senate.gov's rope-a-dope.
I sincerely hope she will explain how badly she was snookered by @schumer.senate.gov's rope-a-dope.
AFGE President Everett Kelley knew Schumer would eventually fold without getting any concessions, which is why AFGE's position switched from telling Dems to fight the authoritarian regime's DOGEing of federal unions in spring to telling them to fold ASAP in the fall.
Honestly, given that taking any other position would require trusting Schumer and Jeffries not to cave during shutdown negotiations, I can understand why AFGE has given up on its defense of Article I of the Constitution.
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
AFGE President Everett Kelley knew Schumer would eventually fold without getting any concessions, which is why AFGE's position switched from telling Dems to fight the authoritarian regime's DOGEing of federal unions in spring to telling them to fold ASAP in the fall.