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adamnyc.bsky.social
@adamnyc.bsky.social
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Passionate about public reason. Averse to social media. Willing to compromise to advance human rights, but not to undermine them.
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@bkindivisible.bsky.social's @adamnyc.bsky.social telling it like it is.
Adam from Brooklyn Indivisible holds a sign reading "WE CAN'T AFFORD ANOTHER SCHUMER SURRENDER"
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
adamnyc.bsky.social
Protesters in front of Schumer's Brooklyn home with signs saying "Don't Cave," "Schumer: Hold the Line," "We Can't Afford Another Schumer Surrender," etc.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
adamnyc.bsky.social
And #HoldTheLine for back pay!

AFGE national promised that furloughed workers would receive full back pay as soon as the shutdown ended. But Trump's OMB has made it clear that federal workers won't get paid if the MAGA CR passed. Giving up is no way to win.

www.eenews.net/articles/whi...
White House floats not paying furloughed feds
Critics say the move would defy a Trump-signed law that mandates retroactive pay for government workers.
www.eenews.net
October 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
adamnyc.bsky.social
AFGE President also got it disastrously wrong when he suggested that capitulating on the MAGA CR would "put every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay — today."

Under the MAGA CR, federal workers would not receive back pay. #HoldTheLine

www.eenews.net/articles/whi...
White House floats not paying furloughed feds
Critics say the move would defy a Trump-signed law that mandates retroactive pay for government workers.
www.eenews.net
October 29, 2025 at 3:07 AM
adamnyc.bsky.social
Also wish people would communicate that AFGE President Kelley's statement demanded that we "put every single federal worker back on the job with full back pay — today."

Trump's OMB has said there'd be no back pay for workers if the MAGA CR passed.

Dems have no choice but to #HoldTheLine
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
adamnyc.bsky.social
Fascist propagandists are also now hijacking NYC's taxis. hellgatenyc.com/taxi-tv-news...
Taxi TV Is MAGA Now
New York City taxi riders are now served conservative news segments during their trips.
hellgatenyc.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
adamnyc.bsky.social
Great day canvassing for Zohran and Alexa Avilés in Sunset Park with @bkindivisible.bsky.social! NYers are excited to vote early for a better NYC!
Canvassers for Zohran Mamdani and Alexa Avilés in Sunset Park
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
adamnyc.bsky.social
Thank you, Senator!

Republican cowards need to stop bowing to MAGA's unpopular, unaffordable, un-American agenda.

Democrats are united in declaring #NoKings.

#HoldTheLine
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
adamnyc.bsky.social
tl;dr? Boycotting Bezos? Here are some excerpts.
“The legislation that ends the current lapse in appropriations must include express language appropriating funds for back pay for furloughed employees, or such payments cannot be made,” Mark Paoletta, OMB’s general counsel, wrote to White House budget director Russell Vought. By that interpretation, furloughed workers would not be paid when this shutdown ends. Lawmakers are considering a seven-week stopgap measure that would simply extend federal funding at current levels. That legislation passed the House last month but remains hung up in the Senate. It does not include additional language on back pay. ... But Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) told reporters that back pay was “a fairly standard practice” and that he wasn’t familiar with OMB’s argument. “My understanding is, yes, that they would get paid,” he said. “I’ll find out. I haven’t heard this up until now.” Administration officials hope the memo will maximize Republicans’ leverage in shutdown negotiations with Democrats... Democrats indicated the move might have the opposite effect. “Honestly, the impact it seems to have had on Democrats here is people kind of digging in their heels harder and not wanting to give an inch to those kind of hollow threats,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Virginia) told The Post on Tuesday. “And the latest threat to not pay furloughed federal workers at the end of the shutdown I think is in precisely the same category. The law is just very clear.” Excerpted from Jacob Bogage's article, "Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims." Washington Post, October 7, 2025.
October 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
adamnyc.bsky.social
What next? A MTG skeet?
October 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
adamnyc.bsky.social
We can't afford @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social voting for another Schumer Surrender.

No more Dem votes for MAGA cuts!
September 30, 2025 at 2:50 AM