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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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CDC is not a Democratic or Republican agency. It's an American agency. One in three employees have been lost in recent months. This is dismantling of our health protections, not reform.
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
CDC is not a Democratic or Republican agency. It's an American agency. One in three employees have been lost in recent months. This is dismantling of our health protections, not reform.
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The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
October 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
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American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...
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Abbott egged on the Jade Helm conspiracists, who claimed that a military training operation was actually Obama invading the state of Texas.
Now a U.S. president is deploying Texas troops to other states to dominate and intimidate those states, and Abbott is complicit.
Now a U.S. president is deploying Texas troops to other states to dominate and intimidate those states, and Abbott is complicit.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
October 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Abbott egged on the Jade Helm conspiracists, who claimed that a military training operation was actually Obama invading the state of Texas.
Now a U.S. president is deploying Texas troops to other states to dominate and intimidate those states, and Abbott is complicit.
Now a U.S. president is deploying Texas troops to other states to dominate and intimidate those states, and Abbott is complicit.
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Fortunately once SCOTUS says courts can't stop Trump from sending Texans to kill Oregonians the Democratic leadership will have some strong points about kitchen table issues
October 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Fortunately once SCOTUS says courts can't stop Trump from sending Texans to kill Oregonians the Democratic leadership will have some strong points about kitchen table issues
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they’re illegally sending troops from more and more states to occupy my fucking city because a bunch of shitass ICE chumps can’t tolerate a person in an inflatable frog costume legally gyrating at them in front of a single building they lease from us, keep it fucking shut down, fuck these people
Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.
October 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
they’re illegally sending troops from more and more states to occupy my fucking city because a bunch of shitass ICE chumps can’t tolerate a person in an inflatable frog costume legally gyrating at them in front of a single building they lease from us, keep it fucking shut down, fuck these people
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How exactly would one write an opinion that the government is irreparably harmed by having to wait to deport people to die in Venezuela?
What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that.
Shameless!
Shameless!
BREAKING: SCOTUS (again) allows Sec. Noem to proceed with ending Temporary Protect Status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, over the objection of the three Democratic appointees.
October 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
How exactly would one write an opinion that the government is irreparably harmed by having to wait to deport people to die in Venezuela?
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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.
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All hell is about to be unleashed on people utterly unprepared to discern truth from falsehood.
I told OpenAI's Sora to make a video showing "Body cam footage of cops arresting a dark skinned man in a department store." It took less than a minute.
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
All hell is about to be unleashed on people utterly unprepared to discern truth from falsehood.
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$100K/year per worker for H-1B visas is practically a death knell for the program. This will create a significant wave of outsourcing and will hurt local economies dependent on tech workers.
If you paid me to sabotage America’s economy, I couldn’t do a better job than the Trump administration.
If you paid me to sabotage America’s economy, I couldn’t do a better job than the Trump administration.
Trump imposes $100K fee on H-1B visas in new immigration action | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Friday to impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas — in an effort to curb what the administration says is overuse of the program.
www.cnn.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
$100K/year per worker for H-1B visas is practically a death knell for the program. This will create a significant wave of outsourcing and will hurt local economies dependent on tech workers.
If you paid me to sabotage America’s economy, I couldn’t do a better job than the Trump administration.
If you paid me to sabotage America’s economy, I couldn’t do a better job than the Trump administration.
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Tech CEOs to Donald Trump as he tries to tank the industry with $100K/year H-1B visa fees.
September 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Tech CEOs to Donald Trump as he tries to tank the industry with $100K/year H-1B visa fees.
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It’s been a month since I wrote this and I want to reiterate that as bad as things look now, Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
September 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been a month since I wrote this and I want to reiterate that as bad as things look now, Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
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Apparently they're firing the whistleblower. bsky.app/profile/thet...
NPR: “A whistleblower says a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names & birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud lacking adequate security...” www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
August 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Apparently they're firing the whistleblower. bsky.app/profile/thet...
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If you just watched the news and had no knowledge of US history, you'd assume that Congress was an elected group of TV pundits who had no actual power or governing responsibility.
August 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
If you just watched the news and had no knowledge of US history, you'd assume that Congress was an elected group of TV pundits who had no actual power or governing responsibility.
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They’re going to rebrand it as the Centers for Disease Creation
August 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
They’re going to rebrand it as the Centers for Disease Creation
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"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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but 'there are cults online that worship spree killers and seek to imitate them' is another aspect of modern life that seems like it comes from a 1990s setting you would dismiss as bad satire.
August 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
but 'there are cults online that worship spree killers and seek to imitate them' is another aspect of modern life that seems like it comes from a 1990s setting you would dismiss as bad satire.
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One thing that keeps me up these days: how is the next party in power supposed to govern? The GOP has signaled it will not always be bound by laws or international agreements it disagrees with. It’s not absolute — they blew up part of reconciliation, but not all; ignore some court orders, etc. (1/7)
July 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
One thing that keeps me up these days: how is the next party in power supposed to govern? The GOP has signaled it will not always be bound by laws or international agreements it disagrees with. It’s not absolute — they blew up part of reconciliation, but not all; ignore some court orders, etc. (1/7)
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ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
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NOTE TO SELF: Next time google “what does this political party believe” before giving them $277 million
June 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
NOTE TO SELF: Next time google “what does this political party believe” before giving them $277 million
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Between today’s rulings on citizenship and age verification, the Court is taking a torch to the constitution and stripping away Americans’ core rights. This is a good time to remind everyone that I have the comprehensive court reform bill to expand the court.
June 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Between today’s rulings on citizenship and age verification, the Court is taking a torch to the constitution and stripping away Americans’ core rights. This is a good time to remind everyone that I have the comprehensive court reform bill to expand the court.
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As I have argued for months: The person calling the shots in this admin was never Musk or Bannon or Susie Wiles. It's always been Shadow President Stephen Miller. Anything Trump says on e.g. immigration is cheap talk; Miller is the decider.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Stephen Miller’s Fingerprints Are on Everything in Trump’s Second Term
The president ’s deputy chief of staff has played an outsize role in immigration—and amassed more power than almost anyone else at the White House.
www.wsj.com
June 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
As I have argued for months: The person calling the shots in this admin was never Musk or Bannon or Susie Wiles. It's always been Shadow President Stephen Miller. Anything Trump says on e.g. immigration is cheap talk; Miller is the decider.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...