Roland
@rolandwall.bsky.social
Evacuee from other place, seeking the 1/2 of America that doesn't support felons and racists. Environmental science guy, Philly by day, Delaware by night.
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Roland
@rolandwall.bsky.social
· May 10
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
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The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation
November 12, 2025 at 12:06 AM
McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation
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it's infuriating that there's a highly funded media machine dedicated to making lies and distortions sound like the simple truth.
seriously, how do you fight that? especially with legacy media so terrified of being accused of liberal bias that they've in effect created a conservative bias.
seriously, how do you fight that? especially with legacy media so terrified of being accused of liberal bias that they've in effect created a conservative bias.
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
it's infuriating that there's a highly funded media machine dedicated to making lies and distortions sound like the simple truth.
seriously, how do you fight that? especially with legacy media so terrified of being accused of liberal bias that they've in effect created a conservative bias.
seriously, how do you fight that? especially with legacy media so terrified of being accused of liberal bias that they've in effect created a conservative bias.
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The people STILL have power!
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.
Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The people STILL have power!
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Have you called your reps yet? Time to get Schumer and Durbin out of leadership.
UPDATE — Here are the at least 10 congressional Democrats, 5 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Have you called your reps yet? Time to get Schumer and Durbin out of leadership.
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What fighting back looks like.
Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. And after the primary — whatever happens — we will rally behind the winner and crush the regime electorally in the midterms just like we did this last week.
We get the party we demand and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.
We get the party we demand and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
What fighting back looks like.
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The people showed up in the streets for "No Kings."
They did their part.
The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.
They did their part.
8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.
They did not do their part.
They did their part.
The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.
They did their part.
8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.
They did not do their part.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The people showed up in the streets for "No Kings."
They did their part.
The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.
They did their part.
8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.
They did not do their part.
They did their part.
The people showed up at the polls on Tuesday.
They did their part.
8 Democrats in the Senate surrendered last night.
They did not do their part.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Again, I urge everyone to check out Jean Guehenno's "Diary of the Dark Years." His account of the Paris occupation by the Nazis demonstrates how seamlessly French politicians, media, and intellectuals collaborated with fascism. It was a mix of cowardice and self aggrandizement. And still is.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Again, I urge everyone to check out Jean Guehenno's "Diary of the Dark Years." His account of the Paris occupation by the Nazis demonstrates how seamlessly French politicians, media, and intellectuals collaborated with fascism. It was a mix of cowardice and self aggrandizement. And still is.
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If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
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This is humiliating for every person who showed up for NO KINGS, everyone who voted last Tuesday, everyone who stands up to ICE, every judge who has held the legal line, every small town person who stands up week after week in their red rural area with their signs saying “Vote Blue”. YOU LET US DOWN
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This is humiliating for every person who showed up for NO KINGS, everyone who voted last Tuesday, everyone who stands up to ICE, every judge who has held the legal line, every small town person who stands up week after week in their red rural area with their signs saying “Vote Blue”. YOU LET US DOWN
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Dem leadership couldn't bear for We the People to enjoy even one full week of hope.
Thanks so much for restoring my abject nihilism.
#demtreason
#demtreachery
#dembetrayal
Thanks so much for restoring my abject nihilism.
#demtreason
#demtreachery
#dembetrayal
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Dem leadership couldn't bear for We the People to enjoy even one full week of hope.
Thanks so much for restoring my abject nihilism.
#demtreason
#demtreachery
#dembetrayal
Thanks so much for restoring my abject nihilism.
#demtreason
#demtreachery
#dembetrayal
One thing last night shows - No Kings and last week's election scared some of the old school Dems as much as it scared the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
One thing last night shows - No Kings and last week's election scared some of the old school Dems as much as it scared the GOP.
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America is in a fight for its very survival. And the leaders of the Democratic Party in the US Senate are just not up to the challenge. Time to turn the page on them. With prejudice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
America is in a fight for its very survival. And the leaders of the Democratic Party in the US Senate are just not up to the challenge. Time to turn the page on them. With prejudice.
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The entire, explicitly stated, point of this exercise was to get an extension of the ACA subsidies. They didn’t get that, didn’t get close, and accepted a slap in the face performative vote that’s sure to lose
That is by definition caving, not compromise, as they got no actually closer to the goal
That is by definition caving, not compromise, as they got no actually closer to the goal
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The entire, explicitly stated, point of this exercise was to get an extension of the ACA subsidies. They didn’t get that, didn’t get close, and accepted a slap in the face performative vote that’s sure to lose
That is by definition caving, not compromise, as they got no actually closer to the goal
That is by definition caving, not compromise, as they got no actually closer to the goal
I damn well better not get any texts tomorrow from mainstream Dems begging me for money. This month marks 50 years that I have been a Democrat, but I promise you no Dem will get a penny or a vote from me who hasn't been clear in fighting fascism. And the burden of proof is on them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I damn well better not get any texts tomorrow from mainstream Dems begging me for money. This month marks 50 years that I have been a Democrat, but I promise you no Dem will get a penny or a vote from me who hasn't been clear in fighting fascism. And the burden of proof is on them.
I take one day off from protesting and the fu#king Dems cave. That's what I get for losing focus.
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I take one day off from protesting and the fu#king Dems cave. That's what I get for losing focus.
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The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.
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Democratic organizers did our fucking part. We gave Democrats a clean sweep on Tuesday so Chuck Schumer have leverage to negotiate.
Instead, either because of malice or sheer fucking incompetence, he is letting his caucus fold like fucking cowards.
Instead, either because of malice or sheer fucking incompetence, he is letting his caucus fold like fucking cowards.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Democratic organizers did our fucking part. We gave Democrats a clean sweep on Tuesday so Chuck Schumer have leverage to negotiate.
Instead, either because of malice or sheer fucking incompetence, he is letting his caucus fold like fucking cowards.
Instead, either because of malice or sheer fucking incompetence, he is letting his caucus fold like fucking cowards.
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The Democrats who caved just taught Republicans that using mass starvation as a weapon works.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Democrats who caved just taught Republicans that using mass starvation as a weapon works.
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“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
I’m One of the Clergy ICE Assaulted. They Treat Immigrants Worse
I learned the hard way that my clerical collar doesn’t offer much protection from ICE. But immigrants have no protection at all.
sojo.net
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
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Sure feels like it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Sure feels like it.