skryptical
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Chuck Schumer needs to be replaced as Senate Democratic leader
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Chuck Schumer needs to be replaced as Senate Democratic leader
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November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Schumer should have stepped aside five years ago but letting this happen is *bad* for party unity and that's at least the second most important part of his job.
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Schumer should have stepped aside five years ago but letting this happen is *bad* for party unity and that's at least the second most important part of his job.
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Hemp products are critical to treatment of disorders like anxiety and PTSD but we can’t let that get in the way of Big Pharma making a mint off their chemical nonsense, can we.
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Hemp products are critical to treatment of disorders like anxiety and PTSD but we can’t let that get in the way of Big Pharma making a mint off their chemical nonsense, can we.
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Right, it would ban and criminalize virtually all hemp-derived products currently on the market. Incredibly reckless to destroy a growing industry with more than 300,000 workers with no hearings or debate of any kind in Congress.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Right, it would ban and criminalize virtually all hemp-derived products currently on the market. Incredibly reckless to destroy a growing industry with more than 300,000 workers with no hearings or debate of any kind in Congress.
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Here are the Senators who voted to criminalize hemp products:
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Here are the Senators who voted to criminalize hemp products:
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Fun fact: big alcohol (distributors) have roots in organized crime. When prohibition ended, some of the bootleg networks and mobsters went "legit" by simply converting their supply chains. It's one of the few segments where you have to use a distributor in order to sell to retail.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Fun fact: big alcohol (distributors) have roots in organized crime. When prohibition ended, some of the bootleg networks and mobsters went "legit" by simply converting their supply chains. It's one of the few segments where you have to use a distributor in order to sell to retail.
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Dem Senators aren't for us unless they're for removing Chuck Schumer. Now is the time to highlight corruption in the Dem caucus and clean house.
Too many Senate Dems are bought and paid for and will fuck us and our entire democracy for their greed and the dark $$ that controls them.
Too many Senate Dems are bought and paid for and will fuck us and our entire democracy for their greed and the dark $$ that controls them.
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Dem Senators aren't for us unless they're for removing Chuck Schumer. Now is the time to highlight corruption in the Dem caucus and clean house.
Too many Senate Dems are bought and paid for and will fuck us and our entire democracy for their greed and the dark $$ that controls them.
Too many Senate Dems are bought and paid for and will fuck us and our entire democracy for their greed and the dark $$ that controls them.
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It's NOAA.. for now
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It's NOAA.. for now
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MoveOn, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and 6 Democrats have called on Chuck Schumer to step aside as leader.
So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader.
Here's what they said.
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader.
Here's what they said.
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
MoveOn, Indivisible, Our Revolution, and 6 Democrats have called on Chuck Schumer to step aside as leader.
So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader.
Here's what they said.
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
So we asked all 40 Democratic senators who didn’t cave to Republicans if they still think Schumer is the right leader.
Here's what they said.
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
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My 20-something kids realizing when they age off our health insurance, there will be nothing for them. Nothing to buy in the marketplace. No Medicaid. Most jobs don't offer FTE/benefits now.
@healthcareforallor.bsky.social is the way forward. Oregon can blaze the trail for universal healthcare.
@healthcareforallor.bsky.social is the way forward. Oregon can blaze the trail for universal healthcare.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
My 20-something kids realizing when they age off our health insurance, there will be nothing for them. Nothing to buy in the marketplace. No Medicaid. Most jobs don't offer FTE/benefits now.
@healthcareforallor.bsky.social is the way forward. Oregon can blaze the trail for universal healthcare.
@healthcareforallor.bsky.social is the way forward. Oregon can blaze the trail for universal healthcare.
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If you have never actually participated in assisting a political campaign I suggest you start.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
If you have never actually participated in assisting a political campaign I suggest you start.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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HER DAUGHTER IS RUNNING FOR CONGRESS AND SHE STILL DID THIS?!
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
HER DAUGHTER IS RUNNING FOR CONGRESS AND SHE STILL DID THIS?!
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So completely fucked up for SCOTUS to even consider touching this
President Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation judgment against him in a civil lawsuit by former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Toss E. Jean Carroll Judgment
President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation judgment against him in a civil lawsuit by former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
bloom.bg
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
So completely fucked up for SCOTUS to even consider touching this
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Update: this is no longer included in the final funding deal. I'm going to keep fighting to lower premiums and ensure Republicans can’t get away with a backdoor national abortion ban.
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Update: this is no longer included in the final funding deal. I'm going to keep fighting to lower premiums and ensure Republicans can’t get away with a backdoor national abortion ban.
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And dug underground tunnels all over his property. Don't forget that little tidbit. The guy's a loonie toon.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
And dug underground tunnels all over his property. Don't forget that little tidbit. The guy's a loonie toon.
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This, from a man who shot his own eye out while cleaning a gun.
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This, from a man who shot his own eye out while cleaning a gun.
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Won’t Jan 2029 be fun….
“My only regret is that they should have brought rifles,” Rhodes said in a recording from Jan. 10 played by the government. He added that they could’ve “fixed it right then and there” if they had weapons with them at the Capitol.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
“My only regret is that they should have brought rifles,” Rhodes said in a recording from Jan. 10 played by the government. He added that they could’ve “fixed it right then and there” if they had weapons with them at the Capitol.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Oath Keepers leader regretted not having guns on Jan. 6, prosecutors say at seditious conspiracy trial
During opening arguments Monday, the Justice Department played a recording of Stewart Rhodes saying his group "should have brought rifles" to the Capitol.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Won’t Jan 2029 be fun….
“My only regret is that they should have brought rifles,” Rhodes said in a recording from Jan. 10 played by the government. He added that they could’ve “fixed it right then and there” if they had weapons with them at the Capitol.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
“My only regret is that they should have brought rifles,” Rhodes said in a recording from Jan. 10 played by the government. He added that they could’ve “fixed it right then and there” if they had weapons with them at the Capitol.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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And now their leader is calling them out to support martial law and.a system of totalitarian control. Not surprised.
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
And now their leader is calling them out to support martial law and.a system of totalitarian control. Not surprised.
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Ah yes: 'The Oath Keepers’ formation was primarily in response to a perceived conspiracy by the U.S. government to facilitate total economic collapse, thereby providing the pretext to imposing martial law and a system of totalitarian control.'
extremism.gwu.edu/oath-keepers
extremism.gwu.edu/oath-keepers
Oath Keepers | Program on Extremism | The George Washington University
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extremism.gwu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ah yes: 'The Oath Keepers’ formation was primarily in response to a perceived conspiracy by the U.S. government to facilitate total economic collapse, thereby providing the pretext to imposing martial law and a system of totalitarian control.'
extremism.gwu.edu/oath-keepers
extremism.gwu.edu/oath-keepers
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New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
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If you want to fight for the ACA, then demand your colleagues reverse course and vote no on the next cloture, @whitehouse.senate.gov
Your colleagues abandoned this fight and betrayed the nation. You had a chance to hold the GOP accountable and you all threw it away. For what?
Your colleagues abandoned this fight and betrayed the nation. You had a chance to hold the GOP accountable and you all threw it away. For what?
1. We need to fight hard for a good ACA extension early in December and hold Republicans fiercely accountable if they betray everyone.
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you want to fight for the ACA, then demand your colleagues reverse course and vote no on the next cloture, @whitehouse.senate.gov
Your colleagues abandoned this fight and betrayed the nation. You had a chance to hold the GOP accountable and you all threw it away. For what?
Your colleagues abandoned this fight and betrayed the nation. You had a chance to hold the GOP accountable and you all threw it away. For what?