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Just trying to understand the world I find myself in.
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LAMENTATIONS
The bad news seems to come faster and faster. Increasing anxiety, powerlessness.
Or: the President is getting more and more done. Increasing feelings of power and … rage?
What happened to us? Where did we take different paths in our perceiving, thinking and behaving? In being …/1
The bad news seems to come faster and faster. Increasing anxiety, powerlessness.
Or: the President is getting more and more done. Increasing feelings of power and … rage?
What happened to us? Where did we take different paths in our perceiving, thinking and behaving? In being …/1
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How can we make THIS happen? Red states won’t comply👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
How can we make THIS happen? Red states won’t comply👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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We are headed toward martial law and the end of our democracy and I will never forgive the people in power who every step of the way told us it was all just fine and everything would work out swell as long as we kept pretending that nothing we have actually seen with our own two eyes was happening
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
We are headed toward martial law and the end of our democracy and I will never forgive the people in power who every step of the way told us it was all just fine and everything would work out swell as long as we kept pretending that nothing we have actually seen with our own two eyes was happening
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She operates on another level.
A phenomenal woman.
A phenomenal woman.
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
She operates on another level.
A phenomenal woman.
A phenomenal woman.
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Brazilian coup-plotters: charged 🇧🇷
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Brazilian coup-plotters: charged 🇧🇷
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Ah, creating a legal entitlement for $500K for some elderly millionaires because they being investigated for their role in an insurrection *in exchange for* a show vote to make health care affordable.
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Ah, creating a legal entitlement for $500K for some elderly millionaires because they being investigated for their role in an insurrection *in exchange for* a show vote to make health care affordable.
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In fact, the explanation is too obvious for anyone to speak out loud.
Revenge governing: Pentagon leadership--consistent with the Trump regime--cannot think outside "us versus them" This mindset is hurting the military. The loss of these officers threatens our security and safety. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In fact, the explanation is too obvious for anyone to speak out loud.
Really thoughtful analysis. Thank you, @americalabs.org
Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Really thoughtful analysis. Thank you, @americalabs.org
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For those interested, last night I wrote about what's in the CR deal for Congress. If you want a slightly more coherent take...
firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/whats-in-t...
firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/whats-in-t...
What's in the CR Deal for Congress?
With a vote as early as tonight, we quickly ran the numbers
firstbranchforecast.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
For those interested, last night I wrote about what's in the CR deal for Congress. If you want a slightly more coherent take...
firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/whats-in-t...
firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/whats-in-t...
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13) I think Dem leadership still suffers from frame drag. They think it's the 90s. Trump is dismantling the powers of Congress. They have to rise to that moment and demand big things.
Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
13) I think Dem leadership still suffers from frame drag. They think it's the 90s. Trump is dismantling the powers of Congress. They have to rise to that moment and demand big things.
Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.
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11) The discussion about health care was useful PR, but covered up discussion over the power of the purse, which is fundamental. If the WH doesn't have to follow the law, it doesn't matter what you pass.
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
11) The discussion about health care was useful PR, but covered up discussion over the power of the purse, which is fundamental. If the WH doesn't have to follow the law, it doesn't matter what you pass.
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
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Let the record show that President Donald Trump issued mass preemptive pardons to those involved in his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election five years to the day since the Four Seasons Landscaping debacle in Philadelphia.
Trump Completes Jan. 6 Autocoup With Mass Preemptive Pardons
For My Friends, Everything … Let the record show that President Donald...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Let the record show that President Donald Trump issued mass preemptive pardons to those involved in his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election five years to the day since the Four Seasons Landscaping debacle in Philadelphia.
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On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
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After everything, Senate Democrats still haven’t figured out that surrendering to Trump Republicans will end badly? Unbelievable.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
After everything, Senate Democrats still haven’t figured out that surrendering to Trump Republicans will end badly? Unbelievable.
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The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
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Then why’d you cave?
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Then why’d you cave?
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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All of this
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 1:41 AM
All of this
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So, not a single legal mind, including the pardon attorney in the Trump administration, told him that his list of people were not charged on the federal level? Trump looks like a damn fool as usual.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
So, not a single legal mind, including the pardon attorney in the Trump administration, told him that his list of people were not charged on the federal level? Trump looks like a damn fool as usual.
Global connections of “patriots”
Interesting.
Australia's number one grifter Jacinta Nampijinpa Price suddenly backs out and deletes Fridays tweets about her excitement to be the main speaker at fascist anti-immigration rally due to feature Nazi Tommy Robinson.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia's number one grifter Jacinta Nampijinpa Price suddenly backs out and deletes Fridays tweets about her excitement to be the main speaker at fascist anti-immigration rally due to feature Nazi Tommy Robinson.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price backs out as headlining speaker at anti-immigration rally due to feature Tommy Robinson
Exclusive: Rallies, organised by anti-lockdown protester Monica Smit and others, are set to go ahead in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane at the end of November
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Global connections of “patriots”
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Trump Pardons Rudy Giuliani And 76 Others Involved In Plot To Overturn 2020 Election
The president is not done rewriting history about his effort to cling to power following his 2020 defeat.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The president is not done rewriting history about his effort to cling to power following his 2020 defeat.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Pardons Key Players In Scheme To Overturn 2020 Election
The president is not done rewriting history about his effort to cling to power following his 2020 defeat.
www.huffpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Trump Pardons Rudy Giuliani And 76 Others Involved In Plot To Overturn 2020 Election
The president is not done rewriting history about his effort to cling to power following his 2020 defeat.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The president is not done rewriting history about his effort to cling to power following his 2020 defeat.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Hate to elevate x crap here, but think about this self-pitying asshole, personally responsible for 600,000 deaths by killing USAID, hundreds of thousands of them children, calling someone else "mean." It's almost as if he wants people to have empathy (just for him).
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Hate to elevate x crap here, but think about this self-pitying asshole, personally responsible for 600,000 deaths by killing USAID, hundreds of thousands of them children, calling someone else "mean." It's almost as if he wants people to have empathy (just for him).