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Not your attorney
@chlodubs.bsky.social
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Upset about everything.


Former policy attorney/lobbyist job hunting.
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Days earlier, Bon Jovi had gone by himself to an anti-Trump, "No Kings" protest. "If we can't be apolitical about feeding the hungry, housing the homeless and insuring those most in need, then you're right - I'm on the other side. If you're going to desecrate the White House, without asking or telling someone you're going to fucking do it, yeah, you're right, I'm on the other side." American politics requires language that his rock songs never have. "It's fucked."
November 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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unavaleable.bsky.social
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
More than anything else, this is what led some Senate Democrats to cut a deal: Trump’s willingness to hurt people exceeds their willingness to see people get hurt. I want to give them their due on this: They are hearing from their constituents and seeing the mounting problems, and they are trying to do what they see as the responsible, moral thing. They do not believe that holding out will lead to Trump restoring the subsidies. They fear that their Republican colleagues would, under mounting pressure, do as Trump had demanded and abolish the filibuster. (Whether that would be a good or a bad thing is a subject for another column.) This, in the end, is the calculation the defecting Senate Democrats are making: They don’t think a longer shutdown will cause Trump to cave. They just think it will cause more damage. If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise. Shutdowns are an opportunity to make an argument, and the country was just starting to pay attention. If Trump wanted to cancel flights over Thanksgiving rather than keep health care costs down, I don’t see why Democrats should save him from making his priorities so exquisitely clear. And I worry that Democrats have just taught Trump that they will fold under pressure. That’s the kind of lesson he remembers.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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itsonlyzach.bsky.social
Politicians: delaying SNAP was fine. Delaying our flights? Now hold on a second.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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dinfontay.com
*tapping the @meredithshiner.com sign so hard i break my index finger*
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM