OBrienSci
@obriensci.bsky.social
Teacher, plant lover, science nerd, maker, voter. Always aiming to learn & do better. Adores critters. COVID cautious. ADHD. NOYCE fellow. Opinions are mine. She/Her.
No surprise, but it still feels awful.
We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
No surprise, but it still feels awful.
Don’t look at what I do, just believe what I say. 
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Don’t look at what I do, just believe what I say. 
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It’s never a fair fight when you’re forced to legislate with evil, soulless bastards.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
It’s never a fair fight when you’re forced to legislate with evil, soulless bastards.
When you’re retiring and you could do the right thing at little to no personal cost, but you chose to do the wrong thing instead.
Damn.
Damn.
None can be primaried in the next cycle, Shaheen & Durbin retiring.
Hassan, Masto, Fetterman up for reelection in 2028.
Rosen, Kaine, King up for reelection in 2030.
Hassan, Masto, Fetterman up for reelection in 2028.
Rosen, Kaine, King up for reelection in 2030.
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
When you’re retiring and you could do the right thing at little to no personal cost, but you chose to do the wrong thing instead.
Damn.
Damn.
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Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake.
I voted NO.
I voted NO.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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Schumer is spreading the word he was against the deal. But he is the leader. So he either tacitly let it happen or he failed as a leader. No excuse works for him. This is a fail.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Schumer is spreading the word he was against the deal. But he is the leader. So he either tacitly let it happen or he failed as a leader. No excuse works for him. This is a fail.
Does he… never mind.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Does he… never mind.
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We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.
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"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"PROMISE OF A VOTE ON HEALTHCARE"
Can someone please ask this man what his definition of “fight” is?
This man had got to gooooooooo.
This man had got to gooooooooo.
Schumer: "However this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue. Democrats must fight."
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Can someone please ask this man what his definition of “fight” is?
This man had got to gooooooooo.
This man had got to gooooooooo.
This “rank and file Dem” is apoplectic.
WTF are they thinking???
We have been doing SO MUCH to shore up our local communities so Dems can keep fighting on Capitol Hill.
Caving is an insult to all of our efforts. Jfc.
WTF are they thinking???
We have been doing SO MUCH to shore up our local communities so Dems can keep fighting on Capitol Hill.
Caving is an insult to all of our efforts. Jfc.
In March, after Schumer last surrendered, we called an emergency meeting of Indivisible leaders. 92% told us to call on him to step down from leadership (which we did).
In a poll over this weekend, 98.67% said we should keep up the fight.
Rank & file Dems are going to be PISSED!
In a poll over this weekend, 98.67% said we should keep up the fight.
Rank & file Dems are going to be PISSED!
Either way, so many Dems... the bulk of the Senate caucus, House leadership, governors, etc.,... all quickly throwing down the gauntlet with such open unrestrained attacks on any Dems who cave is new. It wasn't like that in March, not nearly as loud and widespread and immediate, much more base-only.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This “rank and file Dem” is apoplectic.
WTF are they thinking???
We have been doing SO MUCH to shore up our local communities so Dems can keep fighting on Capitol Hill.
Caving is an insult to all of our efforts. Jfc.
WTF are they thinking???
We have been doing SO MUCH to shore up our local communities so Dems can keep fighting on Capitol Hill.
Caving is an insult to all of our efforts. Jfc.
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I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
A vote for this bill is a mistake.
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Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Please don’t think this beltway game of having retiring Dem senators vote yes while everyone else votes no is going to shield leadership from the end result. We see what is happening and can’t be fooled by those games.
They are so used to the American people being politically illiterate that they think we will continue to accept this kind of performative bullshit.
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
They are so used to the American people being politically illiterate that they think we will continue to accept this kind of performative bullshit.
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Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
Who gets screwed: everyone else.
People have been busy everywhere trying to hold the fucking line while holding our lives together.
And goddamnit we deserve so much better than this.
Ugh.
And goddamnit we deserve so much better than this.
Ugh.
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
People have been busy everywhere trying to hold the fucking line while holding our lives together.
And goddamnit we deserve so much better than this.
Ugh.
And goddamnit we deserve so much better than this.
Ugh.
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Flood the phones:
(202) 224-3121
Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…
There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.
(202) 224-3121
Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…
There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Flood the phones:
(202) 224-3121
Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…
There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.
(202) 224-3121
Tell Chuck Schumer to grow a spine and hold the line…
There should be no deal that leaves working families behind.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
I will also be calling them to ask for a plan to raise the minimum wage to an ACTUAL living wage so people don't have to rely on the whims of a demented president to eat.
JFC what a mess we're in.
JFC what a mess we're in.
Fuck ICE.
I'll be calling my dem reps this week telling them I want to see a PLAN for dismantling ICE that can be enacted as soon as we get any degree of power.
I'll be calling my dem reps this week telling them I want to see a PLAN for dismantling ICE that can be enacted as soon as we get any degree of power.
i follow a lot of people covering ICE's terror campaign but it was eye opening to see irl how angry everyone is. every store has anti ice signs and know your rights brochures. there's anti ice graffiti everywhere. people are pissed.
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I will also be calling them to ask for a plan to raise the minimum wage to an ACTUAL living wage so people don't have to rely on the whims of a demented president to eat.
JFC what a mess we're in.
JFC what a mess we're in.
Fuck ICE.
I'll be calling my dem reps this week telling them I want to see a PLAN for dismantling ICE that can be enacted as soon as we get any degree of power.
I'll be calling my dem reps this week telling them I want to see a PLAN for dismantling ICE that can be enacted as soon as we get any degree of power.
i follow a lot of people covering ICE's terror campaign but it was eye opening to see irl how angry everyone is. every store has anti ice signs and know your rights brochures. there's anti ice graffiti everywhere. people are pissed.
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Fuck ICE.
I'll be calling my dem reps this week telling them I want to see a PLAN for dismantling ICE that can be enacted as soon as we get any degree of power.
I'll be calling my dem reps this week telling them I want to see a PLAN for dismantling ICE that can be enacted as soon as we get any degree of power.
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Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.
Listen in ⬇️
Listen in ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.
Listen in ⬇️
Listen in ⬇️
It looks like some kind of eclipse.
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It looks like some kind of eclipse.
"Congrats, with luck you can pay off your mortgage just in time to die!"
Trump and his cronies are now pushing 50-year mortgages.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
"Congrats, with luck you can pay off your mortgage just in time to die!"
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"A team of independent forensic analysts examined their testimony. The experts called it consistent and credible, saying most of the acts described met the United Nations’ definition of torture."
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
Don't look away. Under Trump the United States is a state that tortures and disappears www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"A team of independent forensic analysts examined their testimony. The experts called it consistent and credible, saying most of the acts described met the United Nations’ definition of torture."
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.
In our name, with our tax dollars.
Trump II is an indelible stain on our national honor.