@debj-b.bsky.social
Didn’t expect to fight for so many rights that I thought we had already won and didn’t expect to have to fight fascists, but here we are and I’m in the fight.
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Here's a very partial list of what Dems have succeeded in getting excluded from the Big Ugly via Byrd Rule challenges.
It makes the bill less-shitty and may create a delay Dems can use to exacerbate the unpopularity of the bill.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/27/h...
It makes the bill less-shitty and may create a delay Dems can use to exacerbate the unpopularity of the bill.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/27/h...
June 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Here's a very partial list of what Dems have succeeded in getting excluded from the Big Ugly via Byrd Rule challenges.
It makes the bill less-shitty and may create a delay Dems can use to exacerbate the unpopularity of the bill.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/27/h...
It makes the bill less-shitty and may create a delay Dems can use to exacerbate the unpopularity of the bill.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/27/h...
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For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
June 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.
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Sadly I did not know this for the first 55 years of my life. They do not teach you this. This is absolutely true. And we should honor all of them this Memorial Day and always 
May 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sadly I did not know this for the first 55 years of my life. They do not teach you this. This is absolutely true. And we should honor all of them this Memorial Day and always 
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If second-term Trump does actually get a nuclear accord with Iran, which actually prevents war with Iran, many - including on the left - will want to credit & praise him.
And yet we are only on the brink of war because first-term Trump tore up Obama’s nuclear deal with in 2017!
And yet we are only on the brink of war because first-term Trump tore up Obama’s nuclear deal with in 2017!
May 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
If second-term Trump does actually get a nuclear accord with Iran, which actually prevents war with Iran, many - including on the left - will want to credit & praise him.
And yet we are only on the brink of war because first-term Trump tore up Obama’s nuclear deal with in 2017!
And yet we are only on the brink of war because first-term Trump tore up Obama’s nuclear deal with in 2017!
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The Google AI results at the top of searches are so pointless. We have a resource (the internet!) that knows everything, and instead of going to the source, it's like you asked your stupid cousin who is trying to recall the information from a podcast he heard last week.
February 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The Google AI results at the top of searches are so pointless. We have a resource (the internet!) that knows everything, and instead of going to the source, it's like you asked your stupid cousin who is trying to recall the information from a podcast he heard last week.
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It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots.
The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination.
This should outrage every single Member of Congress.
The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination.
This should outrage every single Member of Congress.
April 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots.
The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination.
This should outrage every single Member of Congress.
The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination.
This should outrage every single Member of Congress.
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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Our latest:
America ain’t dead yet
We’re down but we’re sure as shit not out
America ain’t dead yet
We’re down but we’re sure as shit not out
America ain’t dead yet
We’re down but we’re sure as shit not out
www.thealtmedia.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Our latest:
America ain’t dead yet
We’re down but we’re sure as shit not out
America ain’t dead yet
We’re down but we’re sure as shit not out
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If folks had voted for the Black lady who wanted to tax the rich and give everyone else a tax cut, we wouldn’t be having this problem.
This guy nails it. 🔥
This guy nails it. 🔥
April 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If folks had voted for the Black lady who wanted to tax the rich and give everyone else a tax cut, we wouldn’t be having this problem.
This guy nails it. 🔥
This guy nails it. 🔥
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"If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love Her enough.”
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
April 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love Her enough.”
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
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the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed
March 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed
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"I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight"
9/23/1779: John Paul Jones refused to surrender in a fight with the 44-gun Royal Navy frigate Serapis, even though his ship was burning & sinking. Only hours later, it was the Serapis that surrendered & Jones took command.
9/23/1779: John Paul Jones refused to surrender in a fight with the 44-gun Royal Navy frigate Serapis, even though his ship was burning & sinking. Only hours later, it was the Serapis that surrendered & Jones took command.
March 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight"
9/23/1779: John Paul Jones refused to surrender in a fight with the 44-gun Royal Navy frigate Serapis, even though his ship was burning & sinking. Only hours later, it was the Serapis that surrendered & Jones took command.
9/23/1779: John Paul Jones refused to surrender in a fight with the 44-gun Royal Navy frigate Serapis, even though his ship was burning & sinking. Only hours later, it was the Serapis that surrendered & Jones took command.
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These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters
Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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A really important email from my friend Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social . As he says "this is a 5 alarm fire."
America is under attack right now.
America is under attack right now.
February 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A really important email from my friend Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social . As he says "this is a 5 alarm fire."
America is under attack right now.
America is under attack right now.
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DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov - a “former” KGB spy.
That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…
That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…
February 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov - a “former” KGB spy.
That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…
That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…
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(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text.
Here it is (please share):
Here it is (please share):
Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump
Alnur Mussayev alleged Trump was given the codename “Krasnov”.
web.archive.org
February 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text.
Here it is (please share):
Here it is (please share):
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A MUST-SEE‼️
The PayPal Mafia—Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and Botha—have ties to apartheid South Africa & a hand in US policy and the election.
• Elon Musk – Unelected co-president, dismantling the government for his own gain. FUN FACT: His grandfather wanted to scrap democracy for technocrat rule.
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The PayPal Mafia—Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and Botha—have ties to apartheid South Africa & a hand in US policy and the election.
• Elon Musk – Unelected co-president, dismantling the government for his own gain. FUN FACT: His grandfather wanted to scrap democracy for technocrat rule.
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February 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A MUST-SEE‼️
The PayPal Mafia—Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and Botha—have ties to apartheid South Africa & a hand in US policy and the election.
• Elon Musk – Unelected co-president, dismantling the government for his own gain. FUN FACT: His grandfather wanted to scrap democracy for technocrat rule.
🧵
The PayPal Mafia—Musk, Thiel, Sacks, and Botha—have ties to apartheid South Africa & a hand in US policy and the election.
• Elon Musk – Unelected co-president, dismantling the government for his own gain. FUN FACT: His grandfather wanted to scrap democracy for technocrat rule.
🧵
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PAY ATTENTION:
While they bombard us with constant news cycles of f*ckery, they are continually trying to strip away our rights and humanity.
Bill H.R. 722 would lead to a Federal Abortion Ban with no exceptions!
#ProudBlue
#DemCast
While they bombard us with constant news cycles of f*ckery, they are continually trying to strip away our rights and humanity.
Bill H.R. 722 would lead to a Federal Abortion Ban with no exceptions!
#ProudBlue
#DemCast
February 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
PAY ATTENTION:
While they bombard us with constant news cycles of f*ckery, they are continually trying to strip away our rights and humanity.
Bill H.R. 722 would lead to a Federal Abortion Ban with no exceptions!
#ProudBlue
#DemCast
While they bombard us with constant news cycles of f*ckery, they are continually trying to strip away our rights and humanity.
Bill H.R. 722 would lead to a Federal Abortion Ban with no exceptions!
#ProudBlue
#DemCast
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I love this cat.
February 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I love this cat.
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This is a national emergency:
February 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is a national emergency: