Blanche Devereaux
@gingerkap23.bsky.social
Do Not Obey in Advance 🚫 Pro-Democracy 🩷 Pro-Human Rights 💜 Cat, Dog, Fish and Human mom 💗 Member of Las Vegas Grassroots 🗣️ #RESIST
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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-...
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 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Ask everyone you know, especially under 40 to track their ballots, Seattle!
Ask everyone you know, especially under 40 to track their ballots, Seattle!
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
Ask everyone you know, especially under 40 to track their ballots, Seattle!
Ask everyone you know, especially under 40 to track their ballots, Seattle!
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The harm caused by the shutdown was real, affecting millions, and no one should downplay that. But America is not in a situation of harm or no harm. Rapidly backsliding into authoritarianism, America is in a terrible situation where appeasement trades short-term relief for more long-term harm.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The harm caused by the shutdown was real, affecting millions, and no one should downplay that. But America is not in a situation of harm or no harm. Rapidly backsliding into authoritarianism, America is in a terrible situation where appeasement trades short-term relief for more long-term harm.
Wow
Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown something something...
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Wow
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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 12:38 AM
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.
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BTW…..👇🏽👇🏽
🚨 💰 WOW — @SenatorHagerty & @MarshaBlackburn snuck a provision into the spending bill that would let them sue the government for $500,000 because Jack Smith looked into their phone records around Trump’s insurrection.
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The Republican grifting is endless. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
BTW…..👇🏽👇🏽
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Senate Democrats walked away empty-handed, and don’t let anyone tell you different.
Tim Kaine and the others bought the lie that Republicans would negotiate on extending the ACA subsidies. They won’t.
Dems got played, Schumer failed to keep his caucus together, and the American people got nothing.
Tim Kaine and the others bought the lie that Republicans would negotiate on extending the ACA subsidies. They won’t.
Dems got played, Schumer failed to keep his caucus together, and the American people got nothing.
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Senate Democrats walked away empty-handed, and don’t let anyone tell you different.
Tim Kaine and the others bought the lie that Republicans would negotiate on extending the ACA subsidies. They won’t.
Dems got played, Schumer failed to keep his caucus together, and the American people got nothing.
Tim Kaine and the others bought the lie that Republicans would negotiate on extending the ACA subsidies. They won’t.
Dems got played, Schumer failed to keep his caucus together, and the American people got nothing.
Exactly what @aaronparnas.bsky.social is saying here; so this is why they need to change their votes to no on the CR. Please contact your senators, all of them, and tell them to either vote no or apply pressure on those 8 to vote no. Contact Schumer as well.
To the INFURIATING EIGHT
SHAHEEN
DURBIN
KAINE
KING
CORTEZMASTO
ROSEN
HASSIN
FETTERMAN
AND SCHUMER
Listen to this loud and clear
MAGA MIKE AIN'T PLAYING
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
PROMISES PROMISES "STUNATZ"
SHAHEEN
DURBIN
KAINE
KING
CORTEZMASTO
ROSEN
HASSIN
FETTERMAN
AND SCHUMER
Listen to this loud and clear
MAGA MIKE AIN'T PLAYING
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
PROMISES PROMISES "STUNATZ"
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Exactly what @aaronparnas.bsky.social is saying here; so this is why they need to change their votes to no on the CR. Please contact your senators, all of them, and tell them to either vote no or apply pressure on those 8 to vote no. Contact Schumer as well.
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The art of folding a winning hand
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The art of folding a winning hand
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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
There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
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Why aren’t you telling your platform that last night was a test vote and there’s still time to change minds?
20 million lives depend on it.
Call to save healthcare!
20 million lives depend on it.
Call to save healthcare!
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Why aren’t you telling your platform that last night was a test vote and there’s still time to change minds?
20 million lives depend on it.
Call to save healthcare!
20 million lives depend on it.
Call to save healthcare!
Call your senators AND house reps and demand that @schumer.senate.gov resign as senate minority leader NOW. Not at primaries, now.
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Call your senators AND house reps and demand that @schumer.senate.gov resign as senate minority leader NOW. Not at primaries, now.
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Trust me said the spider to the fly
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Trust me said the spider to the fly
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Not many people are talking about the children being harmed by #ICELawlessness but it's important to talk about.
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Not many people are talking about the children being harmed by #ICELawlessness but it's important to talk about.
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
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In a functional party system, this kind of capitulation in the face of authoritarianism could mean the end of the Democratic Party.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In a functional party system, this kind of capitulation in the face of authoritarianism could mean the end of the Democratic Party.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
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Absolutely correct
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Absolutely correct
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This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
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To say this was Dems voting, e.g., to fund ICE paychecks isn't unfair or an exaggeration. It's literally true. That they'd already given up on even trying to do anything about that doesn't change it, it's still in there. This is what constitutional accountability for the power of the purse is for.
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
To say this was Dems voting, e.g., to fund ICE paychecks isn't unfair or an exaggeration. It's literally true. That they'd already given up on even trying to do anything about that doesn't change it, it's still in there. This is what constitutional accountability for the power of the purse is for.
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We talk a lot about how uncompetitive general elections are in most cases, but the reality is primaries aren't better. In fact they're even worse. Only two incumbent Democratic senators have lost a primary in the 21st C., and one of them won reelection anyway as an independent.
i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
We talk a lot about how uncompetitive general elections are in most cases, but the reality is primaries aren't better. In fact they're even worse. Only two incumbent Democratic senators have lost a primary in the 21st C., and one of them won reelection anyway as an independent.