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Liz
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Big structural change fan
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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No. In Woke 2 we’re not doing shit like this to defend people like Nuzzi.
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Rapist Wakanda
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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The degree to which the American right has shed a sense of shame and openly embraces the most ugly moral stances possible is shocking. Fixing that will mean cultivating a hard cultural turn against such beliefs and using renewed shaming and social exclusion to punish those who hold and express them.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.

People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Correct
anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Momentum builds for new leadership!
Now is the time to fight, not surrender. 🗣️

Schumer must step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to step aside
"Inexplicably, some Senate Democrats, under Leader Schumer's watch, decided to surrender."
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Now is the time to fight, not surrender. 🗣️

Schumer must step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to step aside
"Inexplicably, some Senate Democrats, under Leader Schumer's watch, decided to surrender."
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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I'm reminded once again that a weak, incompetent opposition party is a hallmark of competitive authoritarianism.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Get rid of them all, because I haven’t seen a single one of them openly call for his ouster.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We made the filibuster a litmus test, and they just lied about it 🤷🏻‍♀️
We can't vote Schumer out until 2028 but we can make him being the senate majority leader a litmus test for 2026 candidates. Every single Dem senate candidate should be forced to go on the record and state they will not vote for him as majority leader.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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a note on the Minnesota primary: this is correct, the person to replace Tina Smith with is Peggy Flanagan
Replace Smith with Peggy Flanagan. Do not replace her with Angie Craig.
that's right, Smith is retiring, I forgot

that sucks! she's good! replace her with someone who is also good!
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway:

1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I (re)joined yesterday. I live abroad now, and I don’t know how much I can help. But you got my dues 🤷🏻‍♀️
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Part of me thinks “yeah, primary every last one of these fuckers!!!”

And the other part of me thinks “eh, fuck it. We’re gonna need wholesale constitutional reform anyway. Just abolish the damn Senate.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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If the democrats care about these things they don’t operate like it, and voters see that.
Democrats care about people. We don't want kids to go hungry. This is both our greatest liability and our greatest strength.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.
But I cannot support a deal that still leaves millions of Americans wondering how they are going to pay for their health care or whether they will be able to afford to get sick.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.

I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Luckily Schumer recruited Janet Mills to join them!
Schumer (74) is hiding behind Angus King (81), Jeanne Shaheen (78, retiring), and Maggie Hassan (67).

New England's geriatrics are leading on bowing down to the Trump regime
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Dude. Don’t talk down to me. My tweet specified leadership. Anyway unfollowed
also...like, the D party isn't all one thing. different people in the party have different priorities and work for somewhat different goals. it's not some massive conspiracy where they're all trying to fool you.
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
That’s fake. Or at least from leadership it’s just theater. There will be fall guys. Just like manchin and Sinema took the blame for the filibuster while probably at least another 10-15 didn’t want to scrap it. The Democratic Party as it currently exists has to be tea partied
the House is just not having it.

I don't understand the senate cave caucus. I guess they just suck?
Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare.

I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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the take home is that mamdani and his team did not ask permission. they aimed for power, they organized, and they won power

it does not matter how the democratic party reacts to this win. all that matters is that we raise up the people with vision, courage, and energy, and organize them into office
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM