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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10h

This is extremely bizarre. I don’t always agree with Sarah, but I’ve never seen her post anything remotely actionable, in years of following her both here and the old place.

Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 16h

What the fuck, bluesky
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)

I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explana...

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mattachine meowppy machine @spookybiscuits.com · 1d

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

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Maddy @maddyann.bsky.social · 1d

He's just a lying AH. Guy is an M.D. (and was a Congressman, and has been a Senator since 2021.) He understands it just fine, but he clearly thinks his Kansas constituents are stupid...

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early

With one more week, Trump would have owned far more of the responsibility for SNAP and flight cutbacks.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/10/e...

Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early - emptywheel

The eight Democrats who voted for a deal to reopen government not just caved, but caved at least a week too early.

www.emptywheel.net

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Maddy @maddyann.bsky.social · 2d

I'm assuming that every Senator who did not *explicitly* state they were against caving, are in the quisling party and need to be run out of D.C. on a rail!!

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

I'd like for someone in the dem caucus to tell us which senators were real no votes and which ones voted no because they were allowed to.

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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 2d

US flight cancellations rise as Sean Duffy warns travel could reduce to a ‘trickle’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US flight cancellations rise as Sean Duffy warns travel could reduce to a ‘trickle’

More than 2,500 flights cancelled as transportation secretary says flight reductions could reach 20% if shutdown persists

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Maddy @maddyann.bsky.social · 2d

I guess we are, at least to the extent that any of us believed/trusted him and the rest of the Dem leadership to actually care about We The People...

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

He thinks we are all stupid

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 2d

America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it.

I am voting NO.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

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Maddy @maddyann.bsky.social · 2d

Hearing "centrist" Dems tell me that Schumer was the Best They Could Do in the Senate made me literally ill, starting back in 2017. It's why I am not a Dem, even though I have never voted for (or supported) any Republican, since I was old enough to vote!!

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 7d

oh, and don’t EVER say we shouldn’t demand more of elected democrats. a whole lot of them need to be replaced because they’re still too scared to do the right thing. don’t fucking settle. expect more.

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Maddy @maddyann.bsky.social · 2d

(Or on November 4th, for that matter!)

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

Agree.

Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."

This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.

Maddy @maddyann.bsky.social · 2d

JFC, when Ro Khanna is a voice of reason, you can be sure you *really* effed up!!

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

Vote out Schumer, Gillibrand, and every Establishment Corporate funded Democrat. They've failed us repeatedly and have no idea how to lead. The Democratic Party will either die or transform into new leadership. It cannot survive in its current state.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

Tonight was a very bad night.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

The democrats are lying to our faces so openly they are not even attempting to keep the lies straight. This is absolutely the collapse of the senate democrats and an indictment of the entire party at the national level.

Every senator involved from the party chose to sell America out for their gain

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Reporter: What do you say to your colleagues who say this isn't a fight, this is a capitulation?

Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…

Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.

Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

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Maddy @maddyann.bsky.social · 2d

No. That's not what's going to happen. Stop with the "Dems can do no wrong" magical thinking. The MAGAts lie - always, totally, without remorse or compunction. Our reps just walked most of this country into a mulching machine.

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Maddy @maddyann.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, no.... You are *definitely* not Reading The Room about what actual Dem Voters want, dude. "ACA vote in December," JFC!

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Jeffrey Phillips @11thjeff.bsky.social · 2d

I still think Hassan shocks her dog with that collar.

These folks are no longer Democrats and deserve nothing good.

jeromecylin @jeromecylin.bsky.social · 2d

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

No one better at this than @amandalitman.bsky.social and her team.

Tap into the anger and run for office. Build the bench to replace the spineless fucks who betrayed us tonight.

Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 2d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s the list of the eight Democrats who caved:

⚫️ Catherine Cortez Masto
⚫️ Dick Durbin
⚫️ John Fetterman
⚫️ Maggie Hassan
⚫️ Tim Kaine
⚫️ Angus King
⚫️ Jackie Rosen
⚫️ Jeanne Shaheen

Their excuses don’t hold water. They betrayed all Americans who were counting on them to stand firm and keep fighting.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.

-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.

-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 2d

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Statement from DNC Chair Ken Martin on Senate Shutdown Vote.

For 7 weeks, we have stood firm and spoken with one voice: we must save health care for millions of Americans. Donald Trump has made it impossible for families to make ends meet, forcing them to choose between putting food on the table or paying their medical bills. The last thing Americans can afford is their health insurance premiums doubling overnight. Let me be crystal clear: Donald Trump and the Republican Party that orchestrated this betrayal of the American people are responsible for the men, women, and children who will suffer because they cannot get the health care they need to survive. These are the same people who rushed to vote for tax breaks for billionaires. It is clear whose side they are on. As this vote moves to the House, I stand with Dem 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 Dems who opposed this vote.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 2d

It's official - 8 D AYEs
Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Rosen
Fetterman

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

correction: they are all retiring, announced or not

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)

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Maddy @maddyann.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah - it suddenly affected *them*, not the people they were elected to represent!!

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.