Luke Russell
@lukerussell.bsky.social
Freelance artist: Illustration, Print Media & oil painting. Sweatshop worker. Union supporter.
SciFi/Horror nerd. Political junkie & history buff.
http://lukerussell.myportfolio.com
SciFi/Horror nerd. Political junkie & history buff.
http://lukerussell.myportfolio.com
These guys know they really REALLY fucked up. As if the "deal" wasn't bad enough, the messaging is so much worse.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
These guys know they really REALLY fucked up. As if the "deal" wasn't bad enough, the messaging is so much worse.
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
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Launch this man into the sun.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Launch this man into the sun.
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Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tapper: Angus King said standing up to Donald Trump didn't work.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
Sanders: Maybe Angus didn't notice the elections on Tuesday. I thought that they worked pretty well.
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Time for @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to replace @schumer.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Time for @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to replace @schumer.senate.gov
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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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Am I wrong or is the Washington Post editorial board implying they agree with the overturning of Roe?
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Am I wrong or is the Washington Post editorial board implying they agree with the overturning of Roe?
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November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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If you buy your own health insurance through the ACA marketplaces, how do this year's prices look to you?
Shopping for an Affordable Care Act health plan? NPR wants to hear your experience
If you buy your own health insurance through the ACA marketplaces, how do this year's prices look to you?
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If you buy your own health insurance through the ACA marketplaces, how do this year's prices look to you?
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Starting now: Press conference announcing a motion for a temporary restraining order challenging USDA's unlawful attempt to withhold SNAP benefits, featuring Attorneys General of CA, NY, MN, NJ and leaders from City Harvest, Food Action Research Center and No Kid Hungry.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Starting now: Press conference announcing a motion for a temporary restraining order challenging USDA's unlawful attempt to withhold SNAP benefits, featuring Attorneys General of CA, NY, MN, NJ and leaders from City Harvest, Food Action Research Center and No Kid Hungry.
It just doesn't seem like the action of an administration that plans to abide by any "deal" to reopen the government.
Trump administration renews Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments frozen
The Trump administration is again asking the Supreme Court to keep full food aid payments on hold. The request Monday is the latest in a legal fight over how the program that helps 42 million American...
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It just doesn't seem like the action of an administration that plans to abide by any "deal" to reopen the government.
I don't believe for a second that furloughed employees will go back to work, or those fired will be rehired, or that anyone will receive backpay, or even that flights will go back to normal.
Hell, I don't even think they are going to pay out SNAP benefits.
Hell, I don't even think they are going to pay out SNAP benefits.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I don't believe for a second that furloughed employees will go back to work, or those fired will be rehired, or that anyone will receive backpay, or even that flights will go back to normal.
Hell, I don't even think they are going to pay out SNAP benefits.
Hell, I don't even think they are going to pay out SNAP benefits.
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Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
I mean, if you're trying hard to put a positive spin on things...
“Democrats inarguably got at least one very important win: They have placed a glaring spotlight on Republicans’ refusal to renew the Obamacare healthcare subsidies, hanging the blame for spiking healthcare costs around their necks as the midterms draw near.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...
www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...
Dems Reward the Hostage-Taker
Perhaps ending the shutdown was the responsible thing to do. But by caving, Democrats risk legitimizing Trump’s maximum-pain shutdown tactics.
www.thebulwark.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I mean, if you're trying hard to put a positive spin on things...
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Perhaps better headline:
Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.
www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...
Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.
www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...
Trump Preemptively Pardons Rudy Giuliani, Others Involved in Attempt to Overturn 2020 Election | National Review
Trump also pardoned John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and dozens of other Republicans who came forward to act as alternate electors.
www.nationalreview.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Perhaps better headline:
Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.
www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...
Trump preemptively pardons everyone planning on election subversion in 2026 and 2028.
www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-p...
After a night to sleep on it, I still hate all of these motherfuckers.
Which Democrats voted to end shutdown
The Democratic defections broke a weeks-long deadlock amid the longest ever US shutdown.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
After a night to sleep on it, I still hate all of these motherfuckers.
I've only seen two sources note that these pardons are pointless, they were all charged with state, not federal, crimes.
So it's just a troll or Trump still doesn't know how anything works.
So it's just a troll or Trump still doesn't know how anything works.
Trump pardons Giuliani and others accused of plot to overturn 2020 election
He also pardons his former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows in a proclamation vowing to "end a grave national injustice".
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I've only seen two sources note that these pardons are pointless, they were all charged with state, not federal, crimes.
So it's just a troll or Trump still doesn't know how anything works.
So it's just a troll or Trump still doesn't know how anything works.
Well. That's somewhat surprising.
Good. But surprising.
Good. But surprising.
US supreme court rejects call to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage
Justices turn away appeal from former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Well. That's somewhat surprising.
Good. But surprising.
Good. But surprising.
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Never cave to bullies.
Donald Trump threatens BBC with legal action as chair says edit of speech in film was ‘error of judgment’ – latest updates
BBC confirms it has received legal letter from US president threatening legal case
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Never cave to bullies.
These cowards can't even defend their own actions.
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
These cowards can't even defend their own actions.
The only possible explanation for the complete caving of 7 Democrats and 1 Independent with the approval of Schumer is that, behind closed doors, Thune threatened to go ahead and kill the filibuster.
Fuck all of them AND the filibuster.
I said it may be an explanation, not a defensible one.
Fuck all of them AND the filibuster.
I said it may be an explanation, not a defensible one.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The only possible explanation for the complete caving of 7 Democrats and 1 Independent with the approval of Schumer is that, behind closed doors, Thune threatened to go ahead and kill the filibuster.
Fuck all of them AND the filibuster.
I said it may be an explanation, not a defensible one.
Fuck all of them AND the filibuster.
I said it may be an explanation, not a defensible one.
Hundreds of complaints you say? 🙄
BBC faces leadership crisis after news bosses quit over Trump speech edit and bias claims
Britain’s biggest and most important media organization, the BBC, is facing turmoil after its top executive and head of news resigned.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Hundreds of complaints you say? 🙄
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Donald Trump promised a golden age. Instead, Americans are downbeat about their finances and economic warning signs are flashing
It’s Trump’s Economy Now and Americans Don’t Seem to Love It
President Donald Trump has been back in office long enough for Americans to expect at least glimmers of the economic golden age he promised. Instead, warning signals are flashing.
bloom.bg
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Donald Trump promised a golden age. Instead, Americans are downbeat about their finances and economic warning signs are flashing
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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
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November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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
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@politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social
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