whyisanything.bsky.social
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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i think "chuck schumer personally does not really think that donald trump is his enemy for this reason" is a perfectly respectable theory
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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all of these people live in a comfortable room-temperature fog of steakhouse dinners, galas held in their honor, and important decisions prechewed for them and fed to them by adoring but interchangable young people selected to be as inoffensive to them as possible by their chiefs of staff.
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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there is no reason that AIPAC would want to buy an end to the shutdown, but unconditional support for Israel as it plunges off a right-wing cliff and chronic Senate brain in the face of fascism are both kinds of toxic nostalgia which powerful, elderly morons wrap around themselves like warm blankets
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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And a thousandfold more people won't fucking know this even happened
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" -Maya Angelou

A lot more people will remember being pissed at all Dems than will remember the 8 names or what was in the CR
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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The internet traps everyone in an Eternal Present
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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we are going to win
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:
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 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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I've had an uptick in orders for this print recently, for reasons which are not particularly mysterious to me
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...
Democratic leaders failed us again. Time to get some new leaders.
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open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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The fact that many Democratic Senators are profoundly trapped in an unreal matrix of DC-media assumptions is a disaster on an epic scale. But it’s also an opportunity.

You have to wait years to primary most Senators, but you can fight to change those assumptions now.

Let me explain…
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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senate brain is a disease, man
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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to look on, for lack of a better word, the bright side here - "Dems are feckless losers" is not going to be the main story for very long because Trump can't help doing some new bullshit that sucks the oxygen out of the room every five minutes, so we'll be onto something else by next week
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The fight goes on
The history of any great struggle shows that it does not progress linearly toward victory. It is an uneven progress with setbacks and surges.

Tonight was a setback. But it is a refining fire. We are identifying who is up to this moment and who is not.

We will adjust and reaffirm our commitment.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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The history of any great struggle shows that it does not progress linearly toward victory. It is an uneven progress with setbacks and surges.

Tonight was a setback. But it is a refining fire. We are identifying who is up to this moment and who is not.

We will adjust and reaffirm our commitment.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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THIS IS WHAT CHUCK AND OSSOFF AND CORTEZMASTO WANT TO SELL US OUT FOR????

I'm crashing out so hard. Caving like this will kill the Democrats as a party.
November 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Also you can fax them for free
faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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IF YOUR SENATOR ISN'T PICKING UP, FAX THEM FOR FREE (AND WITHOUT A FAX MACHINE) HERE: faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW

www.senate.gov/senators/
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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gee, it sure is boring around here
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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but i think also my point is that this playing for keeps, like real constitutionalism or babarbism shit, in a way that is totally alien to american politics. like i really think we win, but we could also lose and that's fucking sucks
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM