melinda
@melwedde.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Americans are already getting pounded by high healthcare costs. I'm not rolling the dice on my constituents’ healthcare on some pathetic promise from the Senate for a future vote that Mike Johnson won’t honor anyway. Nope.
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Americans are already getting pounded by high healthcare costs. I'm not rolling the dice on my constituents’ healthcare on some pathetic promise from the Senate for a future vote that Mike Johnson won’t honor anyway. Nope.
if you’re pissed off but want to remember the hope from last week, read this:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Democratic Tea Party Is Here
The party’s base is energized and mad as hell. And their rage isn’t just aimed at Donald Trump.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
if you’re pissed off but want to remember the hope from last week, read this:
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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john fetterman campaigned on not being the next joe manchin, duping a lot of people in the process, when the reality is and always has been that joe manchin was always a reliable healthcare vote in the senate
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
john fetterman campaigned on not being the next joe manchin, duping a lot of people in the process, when the reality is and always has been that joe manchin was always a reliable healthcare vote in the senate
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"What if, hear me out, we aligned with & helped pass the agenda of the people voters just rejected Tuesday and sports fans are booing?"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"What if, hear me out, we aligned with & helped pass the agenda of the people voters just rejected Tuesday and sports fans are booing?"
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Essentially, this is a case of over promising and under-delivering. In fact, the defining trait of Trump’s second presidency has been avoiding having him in a room with Schumer and Jeffries to cut a deal. This is why Johnson put the debt limit in OBBBA, which pissed off Rand Paul.
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Essentially, this is a case of over promising and under-delivering. In fact, the defining trait of Trump’s second presidency has been avoiding having him in a room with Schumer and Jeffries to cut a deal. This is why Johnson put the debt limit in OBBBA, which pissed off Rand Paul.
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The insurrection succeeded
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The insurrection succeeded
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As a Fetterman hater and alarm bell ringer from 2017, yes, this. We tried telling yinz! For years!
issue was yuppies fallling for an aesthetic rather than any actual evidence of progressive politics. they see a slob and think “oh shit this must be a working class person”. says more about his initial supporters than him tbh.
i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
As a Fetterman hater and alarm bell ringer from 2017, yes, this. We tried telling yinz! For years!
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We...desperately need more low-income people in Congress who know what it's like to navigate health insurance problems. But we live in an ableist society where it's hard for younger disabled and chronically ill politicians to get elected.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
We...desperately need more low-income people in Congress who know what it's like to navigate health insurance problems. But we live in an ableist society where it's hard for younger disabled and chronically ill politicians to get elected.
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
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Local politics > congressional politics.
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Local politics > congressional politics.
john fetterman campaigned on not being the next joe manchin, duping a lot of people in the process, when the reality is and always has been that joe manchin was always a reliable healthcare vote in the senate
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
john fetterman campaigned on not being the next joe manchin, duping a lot of people in the process, when the reality is and always has been that joe manchin was always a reliable healthcare vote in the senate
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Prescient
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Prescient
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
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Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.
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underrated result from Tuesday!
JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council.
@pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...
@pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...
As Minneapolis Votes, Some Struggle to Keep Police Violence in the Spotlight - Bolts
Five years after George Floyd, the mayor and his allies on city council claim credit for vast improvements, but critics keep pressing the case for more discipline and police alternatives.
boltsmag.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
underrated result from Tuesday!
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If you're a doomer after these past three weeks, you aren't paying attention
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
If you're a doomer after these past three weeks, you aren't paying attention
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You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You really do have to be willing to be part of making the thing that you say other people must make or do. That's just basic at this point. [feel free to rage about this on your own timeline not in my mentions]
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Jacky Rosen is one of the more moderate Democrats. She's a pretty even-keeled person and she's been livid this whole week.
Pure 🔥🔥🔥from Sen. Rosen: "This is a Republican shutdown...You are in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate. If you went home to a food bank instead of going to Mar-A-Lago...while people are starving, you might see and hear your constituents. You are blind to the suffering."
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Jacky Rosen is one of the more moderate Democrats. She's a pretty even-keeled person and she's been livid this whole week.
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If your first response to Nancy Pelosi's retirement announcement is some kind of insult or castigation of her, you need to do a shit ton of soul-searching.
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If your first response to Nancy Pelosi's retirement announcement is some kind of insult or castigation of her, you need to do a shit ton of soul-searching.
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If you're a young person, find your people are try stuff. You don't know how it will turn out AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. Failure is a natural part of living. Not something to be scared of. Try shit. Don't sit back and throw stones at others who are trying shit.
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If you're a young person, find your people are try stuff. You don't know how it will turn out AND THAT'S A GOOD THING. Failure is a natural part of living. Not something to be scared of. Try shit. Don't sit back and throw stones at others who are trying shit.
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
as I said two years ago: voters don’t want extremists running their kids’ schools!
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
as I said two years ago: voters don’t want extremists running their kids’ schools!
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their power together is legit too much
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
their power together is legit too much