Jeff Waid
@jeffwaid.bsky.social
We are all Abrego Garcia.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
ignorant pawn of a subversive anarchist agenda
here, and elsewhere:
https://answerkeysurvivalguide.blogspot.com/
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
ignorant pawn of a subversive anarchist agenda
here, and elsewhere:
https://answerkeysurvivalguide.blogspot.com/
Pinned
@mayor.lacity.gov , which of the rallies did you attend today? Did you speak? Looking for video.
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Even if not pushing for this debacle, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s inability to hold his caucus is proof positive he is the wrong leader for this time.
The eight Neville Chamberlains betrayed the thousands of government workers who have held out, the SNAP beneficiaries who have faced starvation, and the millions of Democrats who supported this fight. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Words & Phrases We Could Do Without
Forget ‘moderates.’ There are ‘fighters’ and there are ‘defeatists’
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Even if not pushing for this debacle, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s inability to hold his caucus is proof positive he is the wrong leader for this time.
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New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is about how to find hope after Democrats caved so massively on health care.
Subscribe today! To mine, if you haven't, but we also have a new one that is a daily Salon round-up! salon.com/newsletter
Music by the Diodes.
Subscribe today! To mine, if you haven't, but we also have a new one that is a daily Salon round-up! salon.com/newsletter
Music by the Diodes.
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is about how to find hope after Democrats caved so massively on health care.
Subscribe today! To mine, if you haven't, but we also have a new one that is a daily Salon round-up! salon.com/newsletter
Music by the Diodes.
Subscribe today! To mine, if you haven't, but we also have a new one that is a daily Salon round-up! salon.com/newsletter
Music by the Diodes.
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While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
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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.”
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When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight, Part I
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Tuesday Showed the Power of Magnetism.
contrarian.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When CA launched Prop 50, it was polling at 38%. And so, we did it anyway. Winning campaigns requires that your GOALS define your actions, recognizing opinion - including who agrees to vote - is malleable. In other words, be a thermostat, not a thermometer.
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
contrarian.substack.com/p/bringing-a...
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Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the Petition
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
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That video above is great. But delaying the bill until Friday or Saturday would give voters time to pressure cavers like Rosen, King and Cortez Masto.
Really fighting at this point means being willing to piss off your colleagues.
Really fighting at this point means being willing to piss off your colleagues.
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
That video above is great. But delaying the bill until Friday or Saturday would give voters time to pressure cavers like Rosen, King and Cortez Masto.
Really fighting at this point means being willing to piss off your colleagues.
Really fighting at this point means being willing to piss off your colleagues.
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You are a BUFFOON @kaine.senate.gov.
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
You are a BUFFOON @kaine.senate.gov.
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Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Senate Democrats are the only group of people in America that could look at the election results from *less than a week ago* and conclude, “Ah, what the people want now is for us to roll over and show our bellies to the reactionary creeps”
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lol - @durbin.senate.gov - the Ranking Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committed voted for this before lecturing us about not knowing how the Senate works. 🙃
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
lol - @durbin.senate.gov - the Ranking Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committed voted for this before lecturing us about not knowing how the Senate works. 🙃
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
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I think this is absolutely right. They memorized the lessons of that era — triangulation, bipartisanship, government is somehow shameful — and can’t adapt to the very different world we’re now in.
IMHO, most of the Dem leadership came up through the ranks during the Reagan years and started getting seniority during the 1994 shellacking so a fighting retreat is their standard tactic. They don’t do brinksmanship well.
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I think this is absolutely right. They memorized the lessons of that era — triangulation, bipartisanship, government is somehow shameful — and can’t adapt to the very different world we’re now in.
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Yes. This is true. And I applaud the 35 Dems who stood their ground. My ONLY beef is with Schumer and the Cavy8
I'd say 95% of Democrats have come out against whats happened. Its only Chuck and his 8 corpo stooges that seem to think they've done a good thing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Yes. This is true. And I applaud the 35 Dems who stood their ground. My ONLY beef is with Schumer and the Cavy8
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“We’ll see.”
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
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 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“We’ll see.”
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
"negotiations to extend the ACA credits"
“concession we’ve been able to extract”
“closer to the possibility of work on the ACA tax credits"
“will protect federal workers"
Dumb? Or complicit?
@durbin.senate.gov
@hassan.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
@senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us
@shaheen.senate.gov
“concession we’ve been able to extract”
“closer to the possibility of work on the ACA tax credits"
“will protect federal workers"
Dumb? Or complicit?
@durbin.senate.gov
@hassan.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
@senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us
@shaheen.senate.gov
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"negotiations to extend the ACA credits"
“concession we’ve been able to extract”
“closer to the possibility of work on the ACA tax credits"
“will protect federal workers"
Dumb? Or complicit?
@durbin.senate.gov
@hassan.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
@senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us
@shaheen.senate.gov
“concession we’ve been able to extract”
“closer to the possibility of work on the ACA tax credits"
“will protect federal workers"
Dumb? Or complicit?
@durbin.senate.gov
@hassan.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
@senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us
@shaheen.senate.gov
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ICYMI yesterday: A roundup of the latest developments in America’s authoritarian crisis:
How the Trumpists plan to bring down the Republic – and how they might react to electoral defeat.
MAGA Will Rule or Ruin – some thoughts from my new piece:
How the Trumpists plan to bring down the Republic – and how they might react to electoral defeat.
MAGA Will Rule or Ruin – some thoughts from my new piece:
MAGA Will Rule or Ruin
A roundup of the latest developments in America’s authoritarian crisis: How the Trumpists plan to bring down the Republic – and how they might react to electoral defeat
steady.page
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
ICYMI yesterday: A roundup of the latest developments in America’s authoritarian crisis:
How the Trumpists plan to bring down the Republic – and how they might react to electoral defeat.
MAGA Will Rule or Ruin – some thoughts from my new piece:
How the Trumpists plan to bring down the Republic – and how they might react to electoral defeat.
MAGA Will Rule or Ruin – some thoughts from my new piece:
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Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028.
politi.co/3WN7A3T
politi.co/3WN7A3T
Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election
Pardon recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman and dozens more.
politi.co
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Trump's pardon of allies who helped him try to subvert the 2020 election is important. It's a permission slip--no, it's an encouragement, even an order--to allies to be ready to try to subvert the elections in 2026, and 2028.
politi.co/3WN7A3T
politi.co/3WN7A3T
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Hahahahah they were just playing a trick on us where they’d pretend to fight back until we voted for them, and then immediately cave www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Hahahahah they were just playing a trick on us where they’d pretend to fight back until we voted for them, and then immediately cave www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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DO NOT CAVE! @schiff.senate.gov
DO NOT CAVE!
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
DO NOT CAVE! @schiff.senate.gov
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Dems should be all over THIS, not caving on a shutdown and healthcare premiums on which the publicly currently clearly blame Trump and the GOP for.
At least some people’s lives have improved in Donald Trump’s America.
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Dems should be all over THIS, not caving on a shutdown and healthcare premiums on which the publicly currently clearly blame Trump and the GOP for.
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@houlahan.house.gov is delivering a compassionate #CupOfJoe.
Nikki, a brave mother working multiple jobs to support her 3 kids, reached out &spoke the truth about SNAP benefits going away.
Republicans must end this shutdown, fully fund SNAP & protect our healthcare.
Nikki, a brave mother working multiple jobs to support her 3 kids, reached out &spoke the truth about SNAP benefits going away.
Republicans must end this shutdown, fully fund SNAP & protect our healthcare.
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@houlahan.house.gov is delivering a compassionate #CupOfJoe.
Nikki, a brave mother working multiple jobs to support her 3 kids, reached out &spoke the truth about SNAP benefits going away.
Republicans must end this shutdown, fully fund SNAP & protect our healthcare.
Nikki, a brave mother working multiple jobs to support her 3 kids, reached out &spoke the truth about SNAP benefits going away.
Republicans must end this shutdown, fully fund SNAP & protect our healthcare.
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY