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John D ❌👑
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Mundus sine Caesaribus

Not everything that is faced can be changed,
but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
~ James Baldwin
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I like the idea of a #PurpleCaucus made up of senators and representatives declaring themselves:

Independents

Even a small number, working together, could shift votes and make both right and left come toward the center.

Their platform would be to promote what the majority of Americans want.
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🔥VETS SAY NO!
Veterans Day Rally
Nov. 11, 4-6 pm
Robert Church Park
191 Beale St
Memphis, Tn
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I will be a NO on the Senate’s “deal.” 1/3
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Sticker shock.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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There’s no ballroom, but East Room. And golden curtains. Same curtain that hung there during the Biden admin.

See, same curtain.

I took this pic last year, when Biden announced the immigration reform that Trump vetoed.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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The State Department funneled $7.5M to Equatorial Guinea, one of the world’s most corrupt regimes, to accept US migrants—using funds meant for refugee resettlement, not deportation. It exceeds all aid the country has received in the past eight years, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee found.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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SEATTLE!!!

We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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We congratulate our Union brothers & sisters & look forward to the Post-Gazette complying with the order so the strike can end and folks can get back to work.

Help the strikers finish this fight www.unionprogress.com/donate/
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
You can't depend on a lot of things
You need a busload of faith to get by

youtube.com/watch?v=wBIl...
Lou Reed - Busload of Faith - New York Album
YouTube video by Brian Eno
youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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HAKEEM JEFFRIES IS STANDING FIRM
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Traitors. 👇🏻
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
THIS 👇👇
The Senate might fold, but I sure as hell won’t.

Families are getting crushed by rising costs & as these healthcare tax credits expire, it’s only going to get worse.

And now the Senate wants us to “trust” them to fix it later with a debate on a bill, maybe?

I’m a F-NO!
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Shameful
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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They heard you. They heard you roll over.
Democratic Senator Shaheen says "Hopefully the Republicans may hear us."
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
www.aftynforcongress.com

Ready for another Democrat to take a seat in the House of Representatives?
Aftyn for Congress
FEED KIDS. FIX ROADS. FUND HOSPITALS.
www.aftynforcongress.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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❗️🇺🇦Ukrainian tank crew strikes 🇷🇺Russian infantry positions in Rodynske (Pokrovsk direction), Donetsk Oblast.
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The GOP bragged they’d never negotiate — that they didn’t need Democrats.

Then they shut down the government, threw parties at Mar-a-Lago, and kept Congress on vacation while Americans missed paychecks.

Polls were turning on them.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Republicans Made This Mess — Democrats Just Cleaned It Up for Them
While Republicans partied at Mar-a-Lago and cashed shutdown paychecks, Democrats gave them an escape hatch.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM