Quinn
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency
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you might remember how it took about 3 weeks after the inauguration of the nation's first black president - landslide victory ! huge dem majorities! - before the protagonist of The Politics Story was The Tea Party - a transparent astroturf movement that was the press wrote fan fiction about
February 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
you might remember how it took about 3 weeks after the inauguration of the nation's first black president - landslide victory ! huge dem majorities! - before the protagonist of The Politics Story was The Tea Party - a transparent astroturf movement that was the press wrote fan fiction about
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Thinking of my wouldn’t-hurt-a-fly housemate who turned out to have voted twice for George W. Bush. A lot of the apparent indifference to Musk’s crimes isn’t actually indifference, it’s silent enjoyment.
February 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Thinking of my wouldn’t-hurt-a-fly housemate who turned out to have voted twice for George W. Bush. A lot of the apparent indifference to Musk’s crimes isn’t actually indifference, it’s silent enjoyment.
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Stop calling monstrous things "distractions" challenge for the Democrats. Challenge level: Impossible.
Trans lives and Palestinian lives are not a distraction. They are lives being ruined and taken by this administraton's words and actions AT THE SAME TIME as their heist of the US government.
Trans lives and Palestinian lives are not a distraction. They are lives being ruined and taken by this administraton's words and actions AT THE SAME TIME as their heist of the US government.
February 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Stop calling monstrous things "distractions" challenge for the Democrats. Challenge level: Impossible.
Trans lives and Palestinian lives are not a distraction. They are lives being ruined and taken by this administraton's words and actions AT THE SAME TIME as their heist of the US government.
Trans lives and Palestinian lives are not a distraction. They are lives being ruined and taken by this administraton's words and actions AT THE SAME TIME as their heist of the US government.
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Trump has signed 10 executive orders attacking trans people in his first 16 days in office. Do not ever let anyone tell you that it's Democrats who are obsessed with trans people.
February 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Trump has signed 10 executive orders attacking trans people in his first 16 days in office. Do not ever let anyone tell you that it's Democrats who are obsessed with trans people.
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This reminded me: People living in England right before the English Civil War (1642-1651) were convinced they were living through the end of the world, and some kept detailed journals as a result. This isn't to dismiss that feeling. It's to say, start journaling. Your grandkids will lose their MINDS
I just keep journaling every day. It’s really important to me to have evidence of dates, times, things that Ive seen, who did what, what is happening.
All of this can fall apart and be deleted. But there has to be evidence. Writing matters and there has to be evidence of what happened
All of this can fall apart and be deleted. But there has to be evidence. Writing matters and there has to be evidence of what happened
February 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
This reminded me: People living in England right before the English Civil War (1642-1651) were convinced they were living through the end of the world, and some kept detailed journals as a result. This isn't to dismiss that feeling. It's to say, start journaling. Your grandkids will lose their MINDS
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The Germans advanced an audacious idea for how to get jewelry and other valuables from their neighbors
"Audacious" isn't really less of a value statement than calling it "outrageous"; it just means that the writer believes amused receptiveness is the correct and sophisticated posture to take
“Audacious.” What the fuck are these people doing.
February 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The Germans advanced an audacious idea for how to get jewelry and other valuables from their neighbors
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Our democracy is burning yet these Sen Dems just voted 2 confirm another nominee 4 the Trump regime (Collins as VA Sec)
Bennet
Blumenthal
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Klobuchar
Lujan
Ossoff
Peters
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warnock
Welch
Bennet
Blumenthal
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Klobuchar
Lujan
Ossoff
Peters
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warnock
Welch
February 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Our democracy is burning yet these Sen Dems just voted 2 confirm another nominee 4 the Trump regime (Collins as VA Sec)
Bennet
Blumenthal
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Klobuchar
Lujan
Ossoff
Peters
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warnock
Welch
Bennet
Blumenthal
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Klobuchar
Lujan
Ossoff
Peters
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warnock
Welch
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10 minutes till they're calling themselves The Kekstapo unironically, creepy little weirdos that they'd undoubtedly be
Among the ideas internally kicked around the Trump and Musk teams was the thought of planting younger informers or “spies” in different parts of the federal government to gain the trust of offices and teams suspected of anti-MAGA sentiments.
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
February 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
10 minutes till they're calling themselves The Kekstapo unironically, creepy little weirdos that they'd undoubtedly be
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in case it wasn't obvious enough to people: the cops blocking the actual legitimate representatives from entering; protecting the illegitimate elon-troops so they can steal and destroy. cops are always fash
CSPAN cut the feed after the press conference but the members of Congress and Senators have entered the main lobby where USAID HQ is located. The door is being blocked by law enforcement.
Photo provided to me:
Photo provided to me:
February 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
in case it wasn't obvious enough to people: the cops blocking the actual legitimate representatives from entering; protecting the illegitimate elon-troops so they can steal and destroy. cops are always fash
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To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.
Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
January 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.
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I wrote about the fascist nightmare of recent weeks, the entirely insufficient response by those who should be in opposition, and how I think we can be our own leaders. Embracing a diversity of oppositional method to face down a gang of thugs who hate all diversity. www.the-reframe.com/its/
It's The Fascism, Stupid
Five directional thoughts to align ourselves for the fight ahead. Notice direction, fight upward, ladders downward, look inward, grow outward.
www.the-reframe.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I wrote about the fascist nightmare of recent weeks, the entirely insufficient response by those who should be in opposition, and how I think we can be our own leaders. Embracing a diversity of oppositional method to face down a gang of thugs who hate all diversity. www.the-reframe.com/its/
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this is very clear and very straightforward about what's happening and at some point we also have to start pointing the finger at major news organizations who are flatly - out of bias, out of fear, out of incompetence, whatever - refusing to treat this as the emergency it is
do your jobs
do your jobs
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here."
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
February 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
this is very clear and very straightforward about what's happening and at some point we also have to start pointing the finger at major news organizations who are flatly - out of bias, out of fear, out of incompetence, whatever - refusing to treat this as the emergency it is
do your jobs
do your jobs
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They're just going to start black bagging people and renditioning them to prisons in foreign countries. People will spend years trying to find out where their loved ones were sent.
February 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
They're just going to start black bagging people and renditioning them to prisons in foreign countries. People will spend years trying to find out where their loved ones were sent.
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super bowl ad
not even kidding about this, do a super bowl ad about how Elon has your social security number and can shut off your grandma's check at any time
not even kidding about this, do a super bowl ad about how Elon has your social security number and can shut off your grandma's check at any time
Maybe someone with the means to do so should take out a full-page ad in as many newspapers as they can that just says “ELON MUSK HAS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER”
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here."
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
February 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
super bowl ad
not even kidding about this, do a super bowl ad about how Elon has your social security number and can shut off your grandma's check at any time
not even kidding about this, do a super bowl ad about how Elon has your social security number and can shut off your grandma's check at any time
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This is a hell of a crowd size for a protest at the Treasury Department.
People do not like Elon.
People do not like Elon.
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
February 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is a hell of a crowd size for a protest at the Treasury Department.
People do not like Elon.
People do not like Elon.
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Say what you will about Warren but I have zero doubt she knows the actual function of every wire Musk and the skibidi crew are chewing on
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here."
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
February 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Say what you will about Warren but I have zero doubt she knows the actual function of every wire Musk and the skibidi crew are chewing on
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1️⃣ The Trump administration is back, and trans people are under attack—again. Republicans came into power with a plan to make life harder for trans people.
If you're wondering how to actually help, this thread is for you. 🧵
If you're wondering how to actually help, this thread is for you. 🧵
February 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
1️⃣ The Trump administration is back, and trans people are under attack—again. Republicans came into power with a plan to make life harder for trans people.
If you're wondering how to actually help, this thread is for you. 🧵
If you're wondering how to actually help, this thread is for you. 🧵
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BREAKING NEWS: We’re SUING TRUMP! 🏛️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🧵
February 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
BREAKING NEWS: We’re SUING TRUMP! 🏛️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🧵
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Welcome to #TransTuesday!
2024 TRANS REP IN MEDIA, part 3: TV part 2, featuring Only Murders in the Building, Quantum Leap, Shrinking, Silo, Slow Horses, Somebody Somewhere, Star Treks, We Are Lady Parts, & more!
Then we look at the overall numbers and spot a definite trend (it's not good news).
2024 TRANS REP IN MEDIA, part 3: TV part 2, featuring Only Murders in the Building, Quantum Leap, Shrinking, Silo, Slow Horses, Somebody Somewhere, Star Treks, We Are Lady Parts, & more!
Then we look at the overall numbers and spot a definite trend (it's not good news).
TRANS REPRESENTATION IN 2024 MEDIA part 3: TV part 2 - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays
Welcome to Trans Tuesday! Here we go with TILLY’S 2024 TRANS REP IN MEDIA, part 3: TV part 2! We finish our discussion on trans rep on complete seasons of tv that I saw last year, and then look at the...
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February 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Welcome to #TransTuesday!
2024 TRANS REP IN MEDIA, part 3: TV part 2, featuring Only Murders in the Building, Quantum Leap, Shrinking, Silo, Slow Horses, Somebody Somewhere, Star Treks, We Are Lady Parts, & more!
Then we look at the overall numbers and spot a definite trend (it's not good news).
2024 TRANS REP IN MEDIA, part 3: TV part 2, featuring Only Murders in the Building, Quantum Leap, Shrinking, Silo, Slow Horses, Somebody Somewhere, Star Treks, We Are Lady Parts, & more!
Then we look at the overall numbers and spot a definite trend (it's not good news).
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The U.S. is currently undergoing a coup and Democrats are issuing strongly worded letters.
February 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The U.S. is currently undergoing a coup and Democrats are issuing strongly worded letters.
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The first thing Trump & Musk did was attempt to freeze payments to woke trans marxist grants which turned out to be Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, and police departments.
So, no, this isn't Genius Musk figuring out something nobody understood, it's a bratty child pulling wires in a server room.
So, no, this isn't Genius Musk figuring out something nobody understood, it's a bratty child pulling wires in a server room.
Ah, yes, I’m sure no prior administration thought to ask how all the payments are made.
February 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The first thing Trump & Musk did was attempt to freeze payments to woke trans marxist grants which turned out to be Medicaid, Meals on Wheels, and police departments.
So, no, this isn't Genius Musk figuring out something nobody understood, it's a bratty child pulling wires in a server room.
So, no, this isn't Genius Musk figuring out something nobody understood, it's a bratty child pulling wires in a server room.
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"I sense no appetite for a "works-with fascists-and-billionaires' message. I sense a desperate thirst for a 'fights fascists and billionaires' message."
www.the-reframe.com/its/
www.the-reframe.com/its/
It's The Fascism, Stupid
We're going to have to be our own leaders now. The ones we hired are broken.
www.the-reframe.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"I sense no appetite for a "works-with fascists-and-billionaires' message. I sense a desperate thirst for a 'fights fascists and billionaires' message."
www.the-reframe.com/its/
www.the-reframe.com/its/