maria_from_ga
@mariafromga.bsky.social
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maria_from_ga
@mariafromga.bsky.social
· Dec 19
welcome to Bluesky. we have rules here:
1) this dream isn't feeling sweet
2) we're reeling through the midnight streets
3) and I've never felt more alone
4) it feels so scary getting old
1) this dream isn't feeling sweet
2) we're reeling through the midnight streets
3) and I've never felt more alone
4) it feels so scary getting old
Welcome to Bluesky. We have rules here:
1) Is it worth it?
2) Let me work it
3) I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it
4) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
5) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
1) Is it worth it?
2) Let me work it
3) I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it
4) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
5) Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
These rules allow us to talk so good, to make it so divine, such that you wish social media would be like this all the time
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
My Mac I got in 2018 still works relatively fine!
Apple supremacy ftw lol
Apple supremacy ftw lol
dell laptop i got in 2022: fans screaming at max volume 24/7, file explorer crashes daily, battery dies if unplugged for longer than 20 minutes
mac laptop i got in 2022: works fine. a little slower than i remember when i'm running graphic-heavy projects in after effects
mac laptop i got in 2022: works fine. a little slower than i remember when i'm running graphic-heavy projects in after effects
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My Mac I got in 2018 still works relatively fine!
Apple supremacy ftw lol
Apple supremacy ftw lol
To be fair, they are just making notes from 21st century Republicans: big tax breaks to the wealthy and cut regulations to crash the economy, Dems sweep into power bc of voter backlash, Republican intransigence prevent necessary reforms, so voters pissed again vote in Republicans
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
To be fair, they are just making notes from 21st century Republicans: big tax breaks to the wealthy and cut regulations to crash the economy, Dems sweep into power bc of voter backlash, Republican intransigence prevent necessary reforms, so voters pissed again vote in Republicans
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Made everything worse, and they're still blaming immigrants because the far right understands that the last thing anyone wants to do is bear the shame of their own mistakes bsky.app/profile/chri...
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Made everything worse, and they're still blaming immigrants because the far right understands that the last thing anyone wants to do is bear the shame of their own mistakes bsky.app/profile/chri...
Exactly ppl are ignoring Kaine fell on his sword to save Warner, who has been shutdown-skeptical since March but knows voting as suck would end his career!!
Jennifer Carroll Foy should primary him
Jennifer Carroll Foy should primary him
1. Kaine and Warner operate as a single governing unit due to their relationship;
2. Kaine has hinted he won't run in 2030. Expect a hand-picked replacement (like Rep. McClellan) from the Kaine patronage lineage.
3. Primary Mark Warner. The case against him is book length.
2. Kaine has hinted he won't run in 2030. Expect a hand-picked replacement (like Rep. McClellan) from the Kaine patronage lineage.
3. Primary Mark Warner. The case against him is book length.
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Exactly ppl are ignoring Kaine fell on his sword to save Warner, who has been shutdown-skeptical since March but knows voting as suck would end his career!!
Jennifer Carroll Foy should primary him
Jennifer Carroll Foy should primary him
Like what’s the logic to punting to January when it’s going to be the same thing- just cave completely now
Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Like what’s the logic to punting to January when it’s going to be the same thing- just cave completely now
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like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
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Eight Senate Democrats saw charts like these and decided "oh yes, now that public opinion is on our side and our opponent is facing electoral consequences for their policy choices, now is a great time to give up all of our leverage in health care negotiations" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Eight Senate Democrats saw charts like these and decided "oh yes, now that public opinion is on our side and our opponent is facing electoral consequences for their policy choices, now is a great time to give up all of our leverage in health care negotiations" www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...
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it's all fun and games until someone threatens our moderate senators' precious vacation travel
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
it's all fun and games until someone threatens our moderate senators' precious vacation travel
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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We won elections by huge unexpected margins; time to concede in exchange for nothing. This is your brain on the Senate Democratic Conference. I hate them so much.
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We won elections by huge unexpected margins; time to concede in exchange for nothing. This is your brain on the Senate Democratic Conference. I hate them so much.
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The Republican Senate majority is built on minority rule, enabled by unequal representation & the two-party system.
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The Republican Senate majority is built on minority rule, enabled by unequal representation & the two-party system.
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The GOP hasn’t won more total votes or represented more people than Dems since the 1990s. They’ve won the Senate in 7 of 13 elections since 2000 anyway
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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I truly despise the Senate. Useless holdover from back when the thing American conservatives were willing to kill to maintain was chattel slavery.
Ezra Klein, having spoken to a "dozen or so House and Senate Democrats" over the weekend, says at least some of them worried extending the ACA subsidies would take them off the table as a political issue and wanted Republicans to keep the filibuster.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I truly despise the Senate. Useless holdover from back when the thing American conservatives were willing to kill to maintain was chattel slavery.
Because the Nov 1 deadline already passed, the exchange markets were already set and so the premium increases were already locked in for a year…….are they fucking stupid?!?!?
Ezra Klein, having spoken to a "dozen or so House and Senate Democrats" over the weekend, says at least some of them worried extending the ACA subsidies would take them off the table as a political issue and wanted Republicans to keep the filibuster.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Because the Nov 1 deadline already passed, the exchange markets were already set and so the premium increases were already locked in for a year…….are they fucking stupid?!?!?
Like do they expect ppl’s support when they do the same song and dance in January????
even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Like do they expect ppl’s support when they do the same song and dance in January????
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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I'm really sorry it had to happen like this but I'm heartened to see more people recognizing the need for Reconstruction Democrats regardless of who has to go to get them there.
and let's be realistic they are going to do this again in january like, note for note.
and let's be realistic they are going to do this again in january like, note for note.
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I'm really sorry it had to happen like this but I'm heartened to see more people recognizing the need for Reconstruction Democrats regardless of who has to go to get them there.
and let's be realistic they are going to do this again in january like, note for note.
and let's be realistic they are going to do this again in january like, note for note.
Tbc young moderates Casten, Sherrill, Underwood, are willing to fight
This is a generational war and any moderate over 55 is functionally useless at this stage
This is a generational war and any moderate over 55 is functionally useless at this stage
I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Tbc young moderates Casten, Sherrill, Underwood, are willing to fight
This is a generational war and any moderate over 55 is functionally useless at this stage
This is a generational war and any moderate over 55 is functionally useless at this stage
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remember every Democrat should be assumed to be in support of this unless they break Senate omertà and start opposing colleagues in primaries
It's official - 8 D AYEs
Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Rosen
Fetterman
Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Rosen
Fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
remember every Democrat should be assumed to be in support of this unless they break Senate omertà and start opposing colleagues in primaries
Like this needs to reiterate again, this caving was their same rationale in March and it didn’t work!!!!
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Like this needs to reiterate again, this caving was their same rationale in March and it didn’t work!!!!
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
I worry ppl are underrating how Trump learned he can take hostages and wield pain (ie withhold SNAP) and Dems will fold which….sets a bad precedent for a narcissist psychopath imo!!!
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I worry ppl are underrating how Trump learned he can take hostages and wield pain (ie withhold SNAP) and Dems will fold which….sets a bad precedent for a narcissist psychopath imo!!!
Noted far-left progressive Sean Casten pointing out that yes the Senate is a fucking joke
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Noted far-left progressive Sean Casten pointing out that yes the Senate is a fucking joke