@candyceg.bsky.social
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The most rudimentary knowledge of human behavior tells you that if you say, "if you don't X, then I will Y" and you punt on your "then," your "if" is, always was & always will be a lie.
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The most rudimentary knowledge of human behavior tells you that if you say, "if you don't X, then I will Y" and you punt on your "then," your "if" is, always was & always will be a lie.
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Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
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Every federal worker who has been clocking in without pay, every protestor who showed up for No Kings, every voter who turned out for Dems Tuesday, every community member confronting SS ICE in our streets - all of us braver & better than these "leaders."
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Every federal worker who has been clocking in without pay, every protestor who showed up for No Kings, every voter who turned out for Dems Tuesday, every community member confronting SS ICE in our streets - all of us braver & better than these "leaders."
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In 2024, swing & disaffected Dem focus groups kept saying "it seems to me 'this' happened on Dems' watch." This being fall of Roe, anti-voter laws, more month than check. Coupled with "in 2020 they said turn out to protect our freedoms, we did & it didn't work. Now they're saying it again?"
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
In 2024, swing & disaffected Dem focus groups kept saying "it seems to me 'this' happened on Dems' watch." This being fall of Roe, anti-voter laws, more month than check. Coupled with "in 2020 they said turn out to protect our freedoms, we did & it didn't work. Now they're saying it again?"
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Fool me 700 million times, you aren't fucking fooling me. I'm taking orders from the billionaires who want their planes flying & profits soaring.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Fool me 700 million times, you aren't fucking fooling me. I'm taking orders from the billionaires who want their planes flying & profits soaring.
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There but for the grace of working in international politics, electoral & confronting authoritarianism, go I. Genuinely grateful I know we were never going to vote (alone) our way to democracy. It takes unrelenting resistance, refusal & ridicule of regime & all its enablers.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
There but for the grace of working in international politics, electoral & confronting authoritarianism, go I. Genuinely grateful I know we were never going to vote (alone) our way to democracy. It takes unrelenting resistance, refusal & ridicule of regime & all its enablers.
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those of us* (see - fury!)
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
those of us* (see - fury!)
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Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.
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Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
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@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "What is going on with these masks?'...That's not something we can be doing in this country...I keep being shocked that there's not more pushback that [ICE] isn't properly showing who they are as they're trying to arrest people."
June 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "What is going on with these masks?'...That's not something we can be doing in this country...I keep being shocked that there's not more pushback that [ICE] isn't properly showing who they are as they're trying to arrest people."
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If you read my pinned report, you will fully understand why the President of the United States accidentally wrote "we" here.
Americans should expect for our country to be at war shortly.
All the vacillating by Trump is merely a performance.
Americans should expect for our country to be at war shortly.
All the vacillating by Trump is merely a performance.
June 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
If you read my pinned report, you will fully understand why the President of the United States accidentally wrote "we" here.
Americans should expect for our country to be at war shortly.
All the vacillating by Trump is merely a performance.
Americans should expect for our country to be at war shortly.
All the vacillating by Trump is merely a performance.
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It's called fascism as a category and assault as a specific action.
what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word
Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, is arrested outside immigration court
New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested at a federal building in Manhattan as he was trying to accompany a person out of an immigration courtroom.
apnews.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It's called fascism as a category and assault as a specific action.
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What says "cares about the working class" more than empowering crypto billionaires who are also techno fascists?
GENIUS Act passes Senate 68-30. Took more than a month from the first vote!
June 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
What says "cares about the working class" more than empowering crypto billionaires who are also techno fascists?
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I don’t have an inside joke or sardonic quip or anything of the sort.
All I’ve got is a gift link. Please read the story and watch the video.
Thugs ostensibly working for the federal government are arresting elected officials for insisting on due process.
All I’ve got is a gift link. Please read the story and watch the video.
Thugs ostensibly working for the federal government are arresting elected officials for insisting on due process.
Brad Lander Is Arrested by ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse
www.nytimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I don’t have an inside joke or sardonic quip or anything of the sort.
All I’ve got is a gift link. Please read the story and watch the video.
Thugs ostensibly working for the federal government are arresting elected officials for insisting on due process.
All I’ve got is a gift link. Please read the story and watch the video.
Thugs ostensibly working for the federal government are arresting elected officials for insisting on due process.
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Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this
June 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this
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I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.
June 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.
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I have been telling my mom to stop letting my stepfather watch Fox News - the true fake news network!
June 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I have been telling my mom to stop letting my stepfather watch Fox News - the true fake news network!
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A CONTROVERSIAL “APPEAL to Heaven” flag that has recently become associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement and Christian nationalism was flown above the Small Business Administration (SBA) agency last week in Washington, DC.
Things continue to go great.
(Killer scoop from @telliotter.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social for @wired.com)
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
(Killer scoop from @telliotter.bsky.social @leahfeiger.bsky.social for @wired.com)
www.wired.com/story/far-ri...
Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
www.wired.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
A CONTROVERSIAL “APPEAL to Heaven” flag that has recently become associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement and Christian nationalism was flown above the Small Business Administration (SBA) agency last week in Washington, DC.
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(🚨) On June 14, 2025, the Summer of Protest formally begins. We should expect weeks and weeks of various forms of tumult that will change our country forever. PROOF has created a primer to help you understand some of the events MAGAs will distort to try to end American democracy.
The Summer of Protest Is Here. This Primer Will Help You Understand What You See.
Corporate media and the far-right disinformation ecosystem haven’t just done nothing to educate Americans about public protests, they have poisoned the language we use to discuss them. That must end.
sethabramson.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
(🚨) On June 14, 2025, the Summer of Protest formally begins. We should expect weeks and weeks of various forms of tumult that will change our country forever. PROOF has created a primer to help you understand some of the events MAGAs will distort to try to end American democracy.
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Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.
June 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Candidly, as a civ-mil watcher, this scene at Bragg is freaking me out more than anything else that's happened so far. Just an absolute collapse of professional military norms.
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We should never let ourselves get desensitized to this. It can’t be overstated how outrageously unpresidential and un-American it is for Donald Trump to speak to the US military like they’re his partisan personal army.
Trump goads the troops into booing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass and attacks them as "incompetent"
June 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We should never let ourselves get desensitized to this. It can’t be overstated how outrageously unpresidential and un-American it is for Donald Trump to speak to the US military like they’re his partisan personal army.
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"Sen. Bill Cassidy's deadly gamble: With one pivotal “aye” for RFK Jr., he sacrificed the nation’s vaccine shield to immunize his own political future." New, by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
Sen. Bill Cassidy's deadly gamble
With one pivotal “aye” for RFK Jr., he sacrificed the nation’s vaccine shield to immunize his own political future.
open.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Sen. Bill Cassidy's deadly gamble: With one pivotal “aye” for RFK Jr., he sacrificed the nation’s vaccine shield to immunize his own political future." New, by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...
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NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents
June 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents