GrumpyInBK
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NEW: Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and a state assemblymember, will become New York City’s next mayor, The Associated Press reports.
He will be the city’s first Muslim mayor and, at age 34, ties the record for the youngest person to hold the office. https://to.pbs.org/4ovh28q
He will be the city’s first Muslim mayor and, at age 34, ties the record for the youngest person to hold the office. https://to.pbs.org/4ovh28q
Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! This is just the beginning... LET'S GO!!! #faith #hope #love
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I’d like to hear what Merrick Garland is doing right now
Reading case law & ghostwriting long-winded opinions to soothe his embarrassment of being the most ineffectual AG in history who could’ve stopped this but was too meek to act against the threat of Trump, our country & to the rule of law…
Reading case law & ghostwriting long-winded opinions to soothe his embarrassment of being the most ineffectual AG in history who could’ve stopped this but was too meek to act against the threat of Trump, our country & to the rule of law…
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’d like to hear what Merrick Garland is doing right now
Reading case law & ghostwriting long-winded opinions to soothe his embarrassment of being the most ineffectual AG in history who could’ve stopped this but was too meek to act against the threat of Trump, our country & to the rule of law…
Reading case law & ghostwriting long-winded opinions to soothe his embarrassment of being the most ineffectual AG in history who could’ve stopped this but was too meek to act against the threat of Trump, our country & to the rule of law…
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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 5:59 PM
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
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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 10 NOVEMBER 2O25
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
Thank You to HOUSE DEMOCRATS & Leader Hakeem Jeffries. ALL OF YOU -UNIFIED CAUCUS
I thank Rep. Ro Khanna for having the courage to speak the truth
EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD
SPEAK UP
SEN. SCHUMER
YOU NEEDTO RESIGN AS LEADER
DAY 10 NOVEMBER 2O25
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
Thank You to HOUSE DEMOCRATS & Leader Hakeem Jeffries. ALL OF YOU -UNIFIED CAUCUS
I thank Rep. Ro Khanna for having the courage to speak the truth
EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD
SPEAK UP
SEN. SCHUMER
YOU NEEDTO RESIGN AS LEADER
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
DAY 10 NOVEMBER 2O25
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
Thank You to HOUSE DEMOCRATS & Leader Hakeem Jeffries. ALL OF YOU -UNIFIED CAUCUS
I thank Rep. Ro Khanna for having the courage to speak the truth
EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD
SPEAK UP
SEN. SCHUMER
YOU NEEDTO RESIGN AS LEADER
DAY 10 NOVEMBER 2O25
THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
Thank You to HOUSE DEMOCRATS & Leader Hakeem Jeffries. ALL OF YOU -UNIFIED CAUCUS
I thank Rep. Ro Khanna for having the courage to speak the truth
EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD
SPEAK UP
SEN. SCHUMER
YOU NEEDTO RESIGN AS LEADER
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Why am I saying this
Last Tuesday was so invigorating, so MANY YOUNG PEOPLE showed up, worked hard & DEMOCRATS WON
AND not only young people, so many others but
NOW DISENFRANCHISED
LeaderJeffries kept the House Democrats United
I CANNOT SAY THAT ABOUT SCHUMER
WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP NOW
Last Tuesday was so invigorating, so MANY YOUNG PEOPLE showed up, worked hard & DEMOCRATS WON
AND not only young people, so many others but
NOW DISENFRANCHISED
LeaderJeffries kept the House Democrats United
I CANNOT SAY THAT ABOUT SCHUMER
WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP NOW
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Why am I saying this
Last Tuesday was so invigorating, so MANY YOUNG PEOPLE showed up, worked hard & DEMOCRATS WON
AND not only young people, so many others but
NOW DISENFRANCHISED
LeaderJeffries kept the House Democrats United
I CANNOT SAY THAT ABOUT SCHUMER
WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP NOW
Last Tuesday was so invigorating, so MANY YOUNG PEOPLE showed up, worked hard & DEMOCRATS WON
AND not only young people, so many others but
NOW DISENFRANCHISED
LeaderJeffries kept the House Democrats United
I CANNOT SAY THAT ABOUT SCHUMER
WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP NOW
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Language buried in this shutdown “deal” allows 8 GOP Senators who tried to throw a coup, sue to get millions in taxpayer money—because Jack Smith got their phone records. THEY TRIED TO THROW A COUP. There is no excuse for any Dem supporting this. This is absolutely wrong. Full stop—Period.
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Language buried in this shutdown “deal” allows 8 GOP Senators who tried to throw a coup, sue to get millions in taxpayer money—because Jack Smith got their phone records. THEY TRIED TO THROW A COUP. There is no excuse for any Dem supporting this. This is absolutely wrong. Full stop—Period.
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Democrats won’t save you
Vote blue no matter who HAS FAILED!
It is over for centrist establishment Dems.
Vote blue no matter who HAS FAILED!
It is over for centrist establishment Dems.
The Senate just passed legislation to reopen the government. 60-40.
39 Democrats and Rand Paul opposed the measure.
39 Democrats and Rand Paul opposed the measure.
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Democrats won’t save you
Vote blue no matter who HAS FAILED!
It is over for centrist establishment Dems.
Vote blue no matter who HAS FAILED!
It is over for centrist establishment Dems.
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Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
I agree. It’s time the leadership of the Democratic Party to change. Schumer, Jeffries, the whole lot of them are useless. They need to go! We need the AOC’s, the Crocketts, the Sanders, the Mamdani’s of the party to take over. We need people who fight like everything is on the line because it is…
“After a year spent organizing to try to convince the Democratic Party to unify and oppose this regime, here’s where I am: The time for convincing is over. We need new leadership.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Demand that your Dem senators call on Schumer to step aside: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I agree. It’s time the leadership of the Democratic Party to change. Schumer, Jeffries, the whole lot of them are useless. They need to go! We need the AOC’s, the Crocketts, the Sanders, the Mamdani’s of the party to take over. We need people who fight like everything is on the line because it is…
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A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
Tech Billionaire Mocks Pope Leo’s AI Warning — and Reveals Silicon Valley’s Original Sin
A billionaire tech guru openly mocked Leo's call for moral AI — and quickly backtracked after backlash. It’s a telling collision of Silicon Valley hubris with a pope they cannot buy, bully, or ignore.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
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#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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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 1:23 AM
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.
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Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.
As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Democratic leadership as they refuse to rubber stamp the full-scale Republican assault on Americans’ health care and I am proud of the majority of Senate Democrats who opposed this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.
WTF!!! Here are the people who 🤬 us over. The Democratic Party needs to really get a 🤬 grip on itself. Our political system once again failed us.
NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
WTF!!! Here are the people who 🤬 us over. The Democratic Party needs to really get a 🤬 grip on itself. Our political system once again failed us.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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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.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
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If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
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Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
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We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.