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joelforwi.bsky.social
@joelforwi.bsky.social
Anti-fascist humanist in SE Wisconsin. Formally educated in economics and history. We're not going back. DMs will be ignored.
From Andy Borowitz. "trump to host Titanic party at Mar a Lago"
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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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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Since 2020, I have been fighting for mail-in voting and the GOP has been fighting against it. A critical court case is now going before the U.S. Supreme Court. I can assure you that I will be there fighting hard to ensure every lawful ballot counts.
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Notice who voted for this:

Tim Kaine (VA)

John Fetterman (PA)

Dick Durbin (IL)

Maggie Hassan (NH)

Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)

Jackie Rosen (NV)

Angus King (ME)

None of these people is up for election next year. COINCIDENCE?! I think NOT.

This is an outrage.

#shutdown
#shutdown2025
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Again: This entire shutdown fight is one big advertisement for #MedicareForAll

Making a broken system less bad is not a real answer and never was.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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This is complete fiction — apparently originating with a satirical website — but shared as fact by the President of the United States.

Obama does not receive any “royalties” from the Affordable Care Act.
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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"I promise there will be a vote in December to extend healthcare subsidies. I mean it this time."
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Bring on the Progressives. Boot out the establishment.

I am so sick of them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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POLITICO: “.. Among those who received the ‘full, complete and unconditional’ pardons were Rudy Giuliani .. Mark Meadows, .. John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, .. Boris Epshteyn .. and Sidney Powell ..”

@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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On Tuesday, Americans sent Democrats a resounding message.

“Fight for us”

“Fight for working class Americans”

“Fight against Trump’s corruption, criminality and cruelty”

5 days later, Democrat Senators sent Americans a resounding message.

“Nah”
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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If Republicans are so committed to ending Medicare/Medicaid fraud, why does Trump keep pardoning healthcare execs found guilty of millions and sometimes billions in Medicare/Medicaid fraud?

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
Trump’s pardons included health care execs behind massive frauds
The list of some 200 Trump pardons or commutations, most issued as he vacated the White House this week, included at least seven doctors or health care entrepreneurs who ran discredited health care en...
www.pbs.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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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
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Former Pence chief of staff:
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Brazilian coup-plotters: charged 🇧🇷

American coup-plotters: pardoned 🇺🇸
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.”
Carl Sagan, born on this day in 1934
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Once the government reopens, precedent has already been set, if Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva, the newly elected representative from Arizona’s 7th District, someone else will. In Powell v. McCormack (1969), the
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I’m from Nevada and both my Senators voted for this disgrace of a bill. We have long memories ladies. You are now lame ducks.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Durbin really disgusts me. His own constituents are putting themselves in danger every day standing up to ICE to protect the most vulnerable. This is how he repays their bravery. What a disgrace.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM