Mike Sakasegawa
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Mike Sakasegawa
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· Dec 15
Okay new rule: if you respond to my jokes with advice and I don’t know you, I’m blocking you.
Good morning, by the way.
Good morning, by the way.
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 11th 2025) in less than 7 minutes
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
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November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 11th 2025) in less than 7 minutes
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1.5 oz bourbon
0.75 oz Luxardo
Juice of half a large lemon
Serve on the rocks
I don’t know if this has a name but it’s pretty good.
0.75 oz Luxardo
Juice of half a large lemon
Serve on the rocks
I don’t know if this has a name but it’s pretty good.
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
1.5 oz bourbon
0.75 oz Luxardo
Juice of half a large lemon
Serve on the rocks
I don’t know if this has a name but it’s pretty good.
0.75 oz Luxardo
Juice of half a large lemon
Serve on the rocks
I don’t know if this has a name but it’s pretty good.
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Thank you Scot Nakagawa for the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook and today's post about the #Senate votes. I encourage others to subscribe and read today's post, "Yes, This Was a Betrayal."
open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
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Yes, This Was a Betrayal
Democrats Are Bringing Facts to a Fight For Power
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November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thank you Scot Nakagawa for the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook and today's post about the #Senate votes. I encourage others to subscribe and read today's post, "Yes, This Was a Betrayal."
open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
It is really exhausting being this angry
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It is really exhausting being this angry
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 10th 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
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November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 10th 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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Hello, friends. There’s a new #HeyItsMe episode today, in which @rachzuck.bsky.social and I talk about the loss of her son, 15 months after his cancer diagnosis. www.heyitsmepodcast.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 20: A Clear and Clean Bonfire of Grief — Hey, It's Me
Rachel and Mike talk about the loss of her son.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hello, friends. There’s a new #HeyItsMe episode today, in which @rachzuck.bsky.social and I talk about the loss of her son, 15 months after his cancer diagnosis. www.heyitsmepodcast.com/episodes/epi...
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Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
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 2:17 PM
Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.
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Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
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November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
One can only assume that this is what they actually want to do, then
Normally retiring senators, from whichever party, do the courageous thing. This time they did the cowardly thing, and caved.
they're taking the heat for colleagues who agree with them, but don't want to get primaried
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
One can only assume that this is what they actually want to do, then
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that, i think, is the problem
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 3:12 AM
that, i think, is the problem
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And the Dems have betrayed the nation at a moment the Republicans are shaken by Tuesday's election results. Yes, Mamdani. But, more importantly, the Democratic sweep in Virginia -- governor, lieutenant governor, & attorney general, plus major gains in the state legislature.
I think this is the question Democrats are gonna get over and over: if you just handed over your main demand in the end, why cause a painful shutdown at all?
Governing is more than politics, but wild to see this group of Dems arguably toss the whole party under the bus, *politically* speaking.
Governing is more than politics, but wild to see this group of Dems arguably toss the whole party under the bus, *politically* speaking.
How do you make this your central demand for 40 days and then just let it go
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
And the Dems have betrayed the nation at a moment the Republicans are shaken by Tuesday's election results. Yes, Mamdani. But, more importantly, the Democratic sweep in Virginia -- governor, lieutenant governor, & attorney general, plus major gains in the state legislature.
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
My eldest requested chicken noodle soup for dinner tonight, so I made that. It can’t stop this evening from being both infuriating and massively disappointing. But at least we won’t be angry, disappointed, *and* hungry. So, good evening.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My eldest requested chicken noodle soup for dinner tonight, so I made that. It can’t stop this evening from being both infuriating and massively disappointing. But at least we won’t be angry, disappointed, *and* hungry. So, good evening.
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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.
My partner brought home a bottle of Tennessee whiskey after being away on a work trip. Gonna spend some time with that bottle tonight, I’m thinking.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My partner brought home a bottle of Tennessee whiskey after being away on a work trip. Gonna spend some time with that bottle tonight, I’m thinking.
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But what do you think about current Dem leadership and are you calling for a change after this massive failure? That's power you have right now.
We should be asking this and related questions of all Senate Dems. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
We should be asking this and related questions of all Senate Dems. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
Tonight, I am voting no on a procedural vote on an appropriations deal that would re-open the government. Since July, I have been clear: to earn my vote, Republicans would have to do something to bring down the cost of health care for working and middle-class Michiganders. (1/4)
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
But what do you think about current Dem leadership and are you calling for a change after this massive failure? That's power you have right now.
We should be asking this and related questions of all Senate Dems. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
We should be asking this and related questions of all Senate Dems. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.
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Both Senate Democrats and Republicans have failed in their responsibility to address the health care crisis and rein in a dangerous president who consistently ignores Congress’s authority and the rule of law. This “deal” is offensive to the American people and I won’t support it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Both Senate Democrats and Republicans have failed in their responsibility to address the health care crisis and rein in a dangerous president who consistently ignores Congress’s authority and the rule of law. This “deal” is offensive to the American people and I won’t support it.
I really want this to be true
We'll see, but the degree of immediate blowback, and how many other Dems immediately jumped onboard trashing it loudly, makes me think this might end up a failed attempt to cave. Overestimated their ability to hold enough Dem votes.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
Thing about being spineless is you can be pushed either way.
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I really want this to be true
Currently self-soothing by eating candy I don’t even like
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Currently self-soothing by eating candy I don’t even like
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correct.
Caving now means they literally did it for nothing and caused harm to people for nothing. Just absolute failure on every level.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
correct.
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