Twirling towards Freedom
@twirlingtofreedom.bsky.social
Sometimes I rage against the machine.
Sometimes I anxiety bake.
But always I'm twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Grew up in Texas, lived in NYC, live in Colorado, survive in the USofA
Sometimes I anxiety bake.
But always I'm twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
Grew up in Texas, lived in NYC, live in Colorado, survive in the USofA
The people are fighting; Chuck is not. We need a leader who represents us.
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 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The people are fighting; Chuck is not. We need a leader who represents us.
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We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
If you'd like to get furious at our legal system all over again -- introducing Felony Murder. You can get jail time for loaning your roommate keys to your car, which he uses to commit a robbery where someone dies. You can get life in prison or BE EXECUTED for a murder you did not commit. Effin' USA.
Here’s last night’s story about felony murder – a way you can wind up in prison for murder without actually killing anyone – as well as a certain Minnesota law regarding slippery pigs. youtu.be/Y93ljB7sfco
Felony Murder: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If you'd like to get furious at our legal system all over again -- introducing Felony Murder. You can get jail time for loaning your roommate keys to your car, which he uses to commit a robbery where someone dies. You can get life in prison or BE EXECUTED for a murder you did not commit. Effin' USA.
More of this, calling out Trump’s ridiculously unqualified team.
Reporter: Dr Oz said that—
Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
More of this, calling out Trump’s ridiculously unqualified team.
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Might you have missed some of the depth of Tuesday's results, beyond the big headline races?
I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over!
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I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over!
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November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Might you have missed some of the depth of Tuesday's results, beyond the big headline races?
I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over!
🧵
I'd been watching roughly 200 races heading into Election Day, so here's a thread of some of what you don't want to skip over!
🧵
"Criminals in the US have started using masks to impersonate fed officers, making it hard for ordinary citizens to know whether an armed masked man is there to enforce the law or to break it. There have been more cases of ICE impersonators this year than the past 4 presidential admins combined."
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Criminals in the US have started using masks to impersonate fed officers, making it hard for ordinary citizens to know whether an armed masked man is there to enforce the law or to break it. There have been more cases of ICE impersonators this year than the past 4 presidential admins combined."
👉Please sign!
It's time to De-ICE these flights. Demand that the CEOs of Avelo Airlines, Global X, Eastern Airlines, and Omni Air International stop profiting from cruelty.
It's time to De-ICE these flights. Demand that the CEOs of Avelo Airlines, Global X, Eastern Airlines, and Omni Air International stop profiting from cruelty.
De-ICE these flights! Tell ICE Air contractors to halt inhumane ICE Air transports.
Our neighbors are being detained, shackled, then flown out of the country in inhumane conditions—subjected to abuse, sometimes with no emergency plans, no A/C, and broken toilets. De-ICE these flights...
act.seiu.org
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
👉Please sign!
It's time to De-ICE these flights. Demand that the CEOs of Avelo Airlines, Global X, Eastern Airlines, and Omni Air International stop profiting from cruelty.
It's time to De-ICE these flights. Demand that the CEOs of Avelo Airlines, Global X, Eastern Airlines, and Omni Air International stop profiting from cruelty.
Happy 56th Anniversary to Sesame Street!
(Ask any Gen Xer to count to 12, and they WILL sing this song)
(Ask any Gen Xer to count to 12, and they WILL sing this song)
Sesame Street: 12 And Pinball Animation
YouTube video by Sesame Street
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Happy 56th Anniversary to Sesame Street!
(Ask any Gen Xer to count to 12, and they WILL sing this song)
(Ask any Gen Xer to count to 12, and they WILL sing this song)
The Supreme Court said it would hear a challenge to Mississippi’s counting of mail-in ballots received after Election Day, a case that could upend mail-in rules in dozens of states, creating chaos ahead of the 2026 elections. The case asks the justices to determine THE MEANING OF “Election Day.”
Supreme Court to Hear Major Challenge to Mail-In Ballot Laws
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The Supreme Court said it would hear a challenge to Mississippi’s counting of mail-in ballots received after Election Day, a case that could upend mail-in rules in dozens of states, creating chaos ahead of the 2026 elections. The case asks the justices to determine THE MEANING OF “Election Day.”
"The Supreme Court's decision to not hear Kim Davis's petition means that the constitutionality of same-sex marriage is reaffirmed, at least for now." 🏳️🌈
Way to add a cliffhanger at the end of that sentence, but I guess we live in a state where all good news is enveloped in impending doom.
Way to add a cliffhanger at the end of that sentence, but I guess we live in a state where all good news is enveloped in impending doom.
Supreme Court declines to revisit gay marriage decision
The challenge to the court's 2015 ruling came from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex licenses after the court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which recognized a const...
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"The Supreme Court's decision to not hear Kim Davis's petition means that the constitutionality of same-sex marriage is reaffirmed, at least for now." 🏳️🌈
Way to add a cliffhanger at the end of that sentence, but I guess we live in a state where all good news is enveloped in impending doom.
Way to add a cliffhanger at the end of that sentence, but I guess we live in a state where all good news is enveloped in impending doom.
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The cruelty is the point. It is their choice to do this.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The cruelty is the point. It is their choice to do this.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
"70%+ of people in immigration custody have no criminal past. Although ICE has not released data on how many of them left children behind when they were arrested, the fact that an est. 6 million kids in the US have at least one parent without legal status suggests that this is the case for many."
As Trump’s deportation campaign continues, thousands of detainees with no criminal record are being detained. But “for every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about,” Caitlin Dickerson reports.
The Deportees Whose Stories We’ll Never Know
Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
"70%+ of people in immigration custody have no criminal past. Although ICE has not released data on how many of them left children behind when they were arrested, the fact that an est. 6 million kids in the US have at least one parent without legal status suggests that this is the case for many."
Our govt is disappointing, yet again. Rock out to this distraction:
Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/4nKv1G7
Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert
Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Our govt is disappointing, yet again. Rock out to this distraction:
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
The ripple effect of Trump's destructive decisions will be felt for decades.
- WHO typically foots the bill for the shipment of many samples around the globe. But Trump pulled out of the org, accusing it of being "owned & controlled by China" and blew a billion-dollar hole in the org's budget.
- WHO typically foots the bill for the shipment of many samples around the globe. But Trump pulled out of the org, accusing it of being "owned & controlled by China" and blew a billion-dollar hole in the org's budget.
Why next year's flu shot might not be as good as it should be
America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The ripple effect of Trump's destructive decisions will be felt for decades.
- WHO typically foots the bill for the shipment of many samples around the globe. But Trump pulled out of the org, accusing it of being "owned & controlled by China" and blew a billion-dollar hole in the org's budget.
- WHO typically foots the bill for the shipment of many samples around the globe. But Trump pulled out of the org, accusing it of being "owned & controlled by China" and blew a billion-dollar hole in the org's budget.
"I grew up seeing this logo of USAID on the cooking oil can and food boxes — knowing that Americans are the people who can support us in food, education, in medicine, in everything. America benefits, but they don't know that they are benefiting. They benefit because the people trust them so much."
They were promised a lifeline to 'graduate' from poverty. Then it was taken away
Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They'd get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"I grew up seeing this logo of USAID on the cooking oil can and food boxes — knowing that Americans are the people who can support us in food, education, in medicine, in everything. America benefits, but they don't know that they are benefiting. They benefit because the people trust them so much."
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
What a way to throw away a week of wins, Dems. Retire so we can vote in folx with spines.
a group of skeletons are dancing together in a cemetery .
Alt: dancing skeletons
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What a way to throw away a week of wins, Dems. Retire so we can vote in folx with spines.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.
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Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
Let’s be clear: Chuck Schumer is the one ending this shutdown, no matter how the votes read.
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
Chuck Schumer is claiming that he’s voting no, while letting other Senators (Fetterman, Kaine, King, etc) do HIS dirty work.
He must be removed from his leadership & primaried for the sake of this country
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
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 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
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A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
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Thus do all traitors
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Thus do all traitors