EmmaTK55
@emmatk.bsky.social
Professional NYC tour guide and art historian. Loves opera, cooking, birding, and books. Politics junkie. Oversharer. 💙
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Enough defending the Senate Democrats @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com especially @schumer.senate.gov We know it is not easy to replace him, but he is NOT doing a good job! It wasn’t about just five Senators, there were so many more! I usually love your commentary, but tonight it’s not making any sense.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Enough defending the Senate Democrats @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com especially @schumer.senate.gov We know it is not easy to replace him, but he is NOT doing a good job! It wasn’t about just five Senators, there were so many more! I usually love your commentary, but tonight it’s not making any sense.
OMG @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com saying to @maddow.msnbc.com “Who does it better that Chuck Schumer?” ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! We know it’s not easy but WTAF.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
OMG @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com saying to @maddow.msnbc.com “Who does it better that Chuck Schumer?” ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! We know it’s not easy but WTAF.
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The group behind “No Kings,” @indivisible.org warns primary challengers for some Senate Dems are coming after the big cave in shutdown battle. youtu.be/rGU51i00ed8?...
BREAKING: MESSAGE TO SENATE: 'SELLOUTS GET PRIMARIED' Ezra Levin weighs in
YouTube video by Jim Acosta
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November 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The group behind “No Kings,” @indivisible.org warns primary challengers for some Senate Dems are coming after the big cave in shutdown battle. youtu.be/rGU51i00ed8?...
@kim.senate.gov you bucked the establishment in NJ. You fought the Democratic machine and WON. Please bring that fire and energy to the Senate and call for @schumer.senate.gov to step aside as Minority Leader. You too, @booker.senate.gov You’re up for reelection in 2026; do you want a primary?
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
@kim.senate.gov you bucked the establishment in NJ. You fought the Democratic machine and WON. Please bring that fire and energy to the Senate and call for @schumer.senate.gov to step aside as Minority Leader. You too, @booker.senate.gov You’re up for reelection in 2026; do you want a primary?
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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
@djrothkopf.bsky.social is one of the writers I always turn to for straight-talking analysis: “[W]e need to focus not on changing parties but on changing the Democratic Party. And we need to recognize that we can’t have a different Democratic Party until we have different Democrats leading it.”
Time for change in some high places in the Democratic Party if we are to meet the greater challenges of the moment in this country. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-these-vi...
Why These Vichy Dems and Their Spineless Boss Need to Go Now
We need courage and clarity from our leaders. Schumer and these eight in the Senate have shown they have failed that test. Time to turn the page.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
@djrothkopf.bsky.social is one of the writers I always turn to for straight-talking analysis: “[W]e need to focus not on changing parties but on changing the Democratic Party. And we need to recognize that we can’t have a different Democratic Party until we have different Democrats leading it.”
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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There was a time when 90% of Americans would have understood how deranged in every conceivable way a post like this is
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There was a time when 90% of Americans would have understood how deranged in every conceivable way a post like this is
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
I mean if you showed this to any American in 2001 they wouldn't even understand what they were looking at or what sort of deranged creature could possibly speak like this in public
If your rage against the idiotic Democrats in the Senate is getting too much, watch this video with the sound up.
#TimelineCleanse #DogsofBluesky #yawns #pitties
#TimelineCleanse #DogsofBluesky #yawns #pitties
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
If your rage against the idiotic Democrats in the Senate is getting too much, watch this video with the sound up.
#TimelineCleanse #DogsofBluesky #yawns #pitties
#TimelineCleanse #DogsofBluesky #yawns #pitties
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Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
INSANITY. He now has a militia, along with the goons from ICE, to terrorize us. WTAF
The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.
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...
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
INSANITY. He now has a militia, along with the goons from ICE, to terrorize us. WTAF
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
This makes me feel a little better, thank you @joshtpm.bsky.social
I also feel better because I know the House won’t bring this for a vote bc Johnson doesn’t want to seat @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social I think the #EpsteinShutdown will last a while longer.
I also feel better because I know the House won’t bring this for a vote bc Johnson doesn’t want to seat @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social I think the #EpsteinShutdown will last a while longer.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 AM
This makes me feel a little better, thank you @joshtpm.bsky.social
I also feel better because I know the House won’t bring this for a vote bc Johnson doesn’t want to seat @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social I think the #EpsteinShutdown will last a while longer.
I also feel better because I know the House won’t bring this for a vote bc Johnson doesn’t want to seat @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social I think the #EpsteinShutdown will last a while longer.
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Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
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Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
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More Senate Democrats folded to let Trump gut our healthcare than House Republicans folded to release the Epstein files.
This is example of why we can't have nice things.
This is example of why we can't have nice things.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
More Senate Democrats folded to let Trump gut our healthcare than House Republicans folded to release the Epstein files.
This is example of why we can't have nice things.
This is example of why we can't have nice things.
ALL THIS. 100% The so-called moderate Democrats don’t understand that you cannot negotiate with bullies; why that’s such a hard lesson to learn?! People will suffer, people are suffering already, and now they won’t—until Jan when this rigamarole will start over, and then the Dems will cave, AGAIN.
The thing is, and I wish it wasn't, Democrats see themselves as the adults in the room. Republicans want to starve people, watch them die from preventable diseases, lose all their livelihoods and the Democrats are like, "no junior, you can't do that". /1
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
ALL THIS. 100% The so-called moderate Democrats don’t understand that you cannot negotiate with bullies; why that’s such a hard lesson to learn?! People will suffer, people are suffering already, and now they won’t—until Jan when this rigamarole will start over, and then the Dems will cave, AGAIN.
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if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Congrats, Senate Dems.
You just squandered all the momentum from last week.
Fucking incredible job.
You just squandered all the momentum from last week.
Fucking incredible job.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Congrats, Senate Dems.
You just squandered all the momentum from last week.
Fucking incredible job.
You just squandered all the momentum from last week.
Fucking incredible job.
I don’t even know what to think anymore. The fucking moderate Democratic senators who signed the deal need to be pushed out of office. The blowback needs to be immediate.
Question: the House has to vote on it, so they’re called back into session; does @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social get sworn in?
Question: the House has to vote on it, so they’re called back into session; does @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social get sworn in?
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I don’t even know what to think anymore. The fucking moderate Democratic senators who signed the deal need to be pushed out of office. The blowback needs to be immediate.
Question: the House has to vote on it, so they’re called back into session; does @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social get sworn in?
Question: the House has to vote on it, so they’re called back into session; does @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social get sworn in?
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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Democratic leadership:
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Democratic leadership:
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.
Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.