Matthew Downhour
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"Investments to be made" are mostly imaginary so they can be whatever number he wants
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"Investments to be made" are mostly imaginary so they can be whatever number he wants
This is why I’m so mad at Schumer today - not because I thought he had great shut down leverage but because every previous appeasement was predicated on building up leverage for this moment
Oh yeah March was inexcusable after they basically threw Jeffries' caucus under the bus
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is why I’m so mad at Schumer today - not because I thought he had great shut down leverage but because every previous appeasement was predicated on building up leverage for this moment
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Oh yeah March was inexcusable after they basically threw Jeffries' caucus under the bus
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Oh yeah March was inexcusable after they basically threw Jeffries' caucus under the bus
Let’s be clear folks - I am not whispering a negative syllable about Democrats on normal social media. But we’re like 95% left of center here and for us the biggest question is ‘does Chuck continue?’
There are not any undecided voters on Bluesky. Here I hope to be part of the public outcry that says ‘why the hell is Chuck Schumer still in charge’
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Let’s be clear folks - I am not whispering a negative syllable about Democrats on normal social media. But we’re like 95% left of center here and for us the biggest question is ‘does Chuck continue?’
One thing Trump is legitimately very good at is passing the buck to his wicked boyars. “No no folks, I actually want to give people money for health care, I trust the Senate will execute this very real plan”
If you have trillions and trillions of dollars, man, just give me money to buy insurance and I’ll be on my way.
I’m through being bullshitted to
I’m through being bullshitted to
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
One thing Trump is legitimately very good at is passing the buck to his wicked boyars. “No no folks, I actually want to give people money for health care, I trust the Senate will execute this very real plan”
It’s gonna be the new Infrastructure Week.
Trump: "We want a healthcare system where we pay the money to the people instead of the insurance companies. We're gonna be working on that very hard over the next short period of time. Where the people get the money. We're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars."
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It’s gonna be the new Infrastructure Week.
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"sadly, thats not what our boy Pete said, was it"
Yes it is. He says "When I was younger." Those are the first four words in the screenshot I shared with you. I used alt text. Can you not read them?
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Yes it is. He says "When I was younger." Those are the first four words in the screenshot I shared with you. I used alt text. Can you not read them?
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He said that when he was depressed and younger he would've taken such a magic pill, not that he would take that magic pill as a married man.
I'd say you should use context clues, but here you don't even need to! He says "when I was younger" because he's talking about *when he was younger*!
I'd say you should use context clues, but here you don't even need to! He says "when I was younger" because he's talking about *when he was younger*!
November 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
"sadly, thats not what our boy Pete said, was it"
Yes it is. He says "When I was younger." Those are the first four words in the screenshot I shared with you. I used alt text. Can you not read them?
bsky.app/profile/alwa...
Yes it is. He says "When I was younger." Those are the first four words in the screenshot I shared with you. I used alt text. Can you not read them?
bsky.app/profile/alwa...
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I would have shared the very next paragraph where he gushes about how much he loves his husband and says "Thank God there was no pill. Thank God there was no knife." but I'm genuinely concerned that you don't understand the concept of past vs. present.
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I would have shared the very next paragraph where he gushes about how much he loves his husband and says "Thank God there was no pill. Thank God there was no knife." but I'm genuinely concerned that you don't understand the concept of past vs. present.
Listen I know some of y’all think I just like shitting on Democrats but listen - even many, perhaps most Senate Democrats disagree with Schumer’s strategy, and Senate Democrats are the most risk averse part of the party!
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Listen I know some of y’all think I just like shitting on Democrats but listen - even many, perhaps most Senate Democrats disagree with Schumer’s strategy, and Senate Democrats are the most risk averse part of the party!
If this is true then the real fight was over the debt ceiling. The reason this feels like such a let down is that the Democratic Senate leadership claimed they had to clear the way for gulags and secret police because they would be more ready to win a fight…now.
It's not leverage if you were never going to achieve your desired result, which was ACA subsidies remain intact. What the shutdown did was allow Dems to broadcast healthcare cuts the GOP passed. They are still the minority party so getting what they wanted out of this was never an option.
No one is really going to pay attention to the ACA subsidy vote because what matters is Democrats had leverage, people saw them use it, and people saw them give it away
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If this is true then the real fight was over the debt ceiling. The reason this feels like such a let down is that the Democratic Senate leadership claimed they had to clear the way for gulags and secret police because they would be more ready to win a fight…now.
The most remarkable thing to me about Jacob Frey is his desire to continuing being mayor of Minneapolis, a position which continues to make him the public face of serious national issues he has no apparent desire to be the face of
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The most remarkable thing to me about Jacob Frey is his desire to continuing being mayor of Minneapolis, a position which continues to make him the public face of serious national issues he has no apparent desire to be the face of
Does Sanders have a protégé *in Vermont* ready to take over for him? You hear a lot about his acolytes elsewhere but none is eligible to replace him at his actual job. Any Vermonters know what the plan is there?
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Does Sanders have a protégé *in Vermont* ready to take over for him? You hear a lot about his acolytes elsewhere but none is eligible to replace him at his actual job. Any Vermonters know what the plan is there?
Yes - this is a loss because Democrats have now signed on to ACA cuts as a complicit party and once again made it a less effective issue for the mid terms
From that perspective, this would be a failure, right? Because the Dems lose the narrative that they did everything to stand in the way of ACA cuts.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Yes - this is a loss because Democrats have now signed on to ACA cuts as a complicit party and once again made it a less effective issue for the mid terms
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Victory looks like a bill that extends the ACA subsidies OR (and this is a key or) keeps the government shut down until the midterms.
Yes. That's a victory too.
Yes. That's a victory too.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Victory looks like a bill that extends the ACA subsidies OR (and this is a key or) keeps the government shut down until the midterms.
Yes. That's a victory too.
Yes. That's a victory too.
Seems like if you’re OpenAI this is the sort of thing you immediately quash because it’s terrible publicity *unless* this sort of thing is a substantial portion of your business volume
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Seems like if you’re OpenAI this is the sort of thing you immediately quash because it’s terrible publicity *unless* this sort of thing is a substantial portion of your business volume
It’s interesting that in fact the absence of the feminine is a key, maybe *the* key, plot point of the story
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
It’s interesting that in fact the absence of the feminine is a key, maybe *the* key, plot point of the story
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One of the things that infuriates me about a lot of the "sinophobia" discourse that Asian-American lefties do is that they try to frame the PRC's overseas intimidation of dissidents as an inter-Asian dispute when a lot of the guys who acted on behalf of the PRC are white
The most corrupt America Last President in history. Every day a new pardon worse than one the day before.
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One of the things that infuriates me about a lot of the "sinophobia" discourse that Asian-American lefties do is that they try to frame the PRC's overseas intimidation of dissidents as an inter-Asian dispute when a lot of the guys who acted on behalf of the PRC are white
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Everyone in the entire world connect headphones to your devices when they are emitting sounds in public again challenge
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Everyone in the entire world connect headphones to your devices when they are emitting sounds in public again challenge
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Golden’s vision of ‘shared prosperity’ is ‘everyone switches from avocados to fish oil so a couple thousand fishermen can make more money’ - surely you agree that’s not the path forward for the party?
November 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Golden’s vision of ‘shared prosperity’ is ‘everyone switches from avocados to fish oil so a couple thousand fishermen can make more money’ - surely you agree that’s not the path forward for the party?
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Yep. He hitched his wagon to tariffs as a tool to return manufacturing to the US. And tongue lashed anyone who pointed out the absurdity of Trumps tariffs to achieve that end.
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Yep. He hitched his wagon to tariffs as a tool to return manufacturing to the US. And tongue lashed anyone who pointed out the absurdity of Trumps tariffs to achieve that end.
It does feel like they are trying to soft launch the idea of an Open AI bailout which is pretty weird
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
It does feel like they are trying to soft launch the idea of an Open AI bailout which is pretty weird
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Trumps tariffs repeatedly poll as the least popular part of his agenda, yet Golden publicly and vocally supports them. This feels very much like a self inflicted wound from a popularist perspective
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Trumps tariffs repeatedly poll as the least popular part of his agenda, yet Golden publicly and vocally supports them. This feels very much like a self inflicted wound from a popularist perspective
Indeed, incorporating Lviv and Ivano Frankivsk would magnify by many times every right wing Polish complaint about Ukrainian EU accession
"the poles are irredentist and want lwow back" is one of those tropes you see a lot in russian-aligned media but almost never from poles, even from right-wing poles
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Indeed, incorporating Lviv and Ivano Frankivsk would magnify by many times every right wing Polish complaint about Ukrainian EU accession