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Enjoy board games, growing my faith through doubt, 80s/90s CCM, mystery and scifi novels, and bad reality tv.
Republicans want it to be the 1950s. Unfortunately, a lot elected Democrats think it's visionary to be back in 2012.
January 22, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Republicans want it to be the 1950s. Unfortunately, a lot elected Democrats think it's visionary to be back in 2012.
If a reasonable person were to wake up in a Republican body:
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If a reasonable person were to wake up in a Republican body:
MESSAGING I HOPE TO HEAR: We lost. We were fighting to lower healthcare costs but Republicans were willing to starve people to keep those prices high.
MESSAGING I EXPECT TO HEAR: This is a victory for bipartisanship.
MESSAGING I EXPECT TO HEAR: This is a victory for bipartisanship.
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
MESSAGING I HOPE TO HEAR: We lost. We were fighting to lower healthcare costs but Republicans were willing to starve people to keep those prices high.
MESSAGING I EXPECT TO HEAR: This is a victory for bipartisanship.
MESSAGING I EXPECT TO HEAR: This is a victory for bipartisanship.
Alabama isn't even next to Space.
September 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Alabama isn't even next to Space.
All it takes is 3 Republicans to be willing to save our economy, restore due process and medical research, and stop a dictator from shredding the Constitution. All they have to do is be willing to vote with people who hold different ideas on taxes and govt regulation. I'm not holding my breath.
April 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
All it takes is 3 Republicans to be willing to save our economy, restore due process and medical research, and stop a dictator from shredding the Constitution. All they have to do is be willing to vote with people who hold different ideas on taxes and govt regulation. I'm not holding my breath.
I'm sure this violates some state law. Even if not, this is an immigrant up to no good, so sending him to an El Salvador prison without due process seems to be the precedent.
“One of the recipients of a large, showy check, Nicholas Jacobs, is the chair of the Wisconsin College Republicans.”
Musk hands out $1M checks after efforts to block the giveaways in court are rejected
The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected state Attorney General Josh Kaul's lawsuit to stop Elon Musk and America PAC from giving $1 million each to two town hall attendees.
abcnews.go.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I'm sure this violates some state law. Even if not, this is an immigrant up to no good, so sending him to an El Salvador prison without due process seems to be the precedent.
Today, my dad said that teleworking government workers were lazy and entitled. Not recognizing that he was talking to his son, who is a teleworking government worker. It's amazing how Fox News poisons the mind.
March 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today, my dad said that teleworking government workers were lazy and entitled. Not recognizing that he was talking to his son, who is a teleworking government worker. It's amazing how Fox News poisons the mind.
@alt-ssa.altgov.info
In the Weekly Operational Report meeting from 3/21/25, Dudek threatens to defund low performing states, essentially saying SSA wouldn't pay DDS offices to make disability decisions.
In the Weekly Operational Report meeting from 3/21/25, Dudek threatens to defund low performing states, essentially saying SSA wouldn't pay DDS offices to make disability decisions.
March 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
@alt-ssa.altgov.info
In the Weekly Operational Report meeting from 3/21/25, Dudek threatens to defund low performing states, essentially saying SSA wouldn't pay DDS offices to make disability decisions.
In the Weekly Operational Report meeting from 3/21/25, Dudek threatens to defund low performing states, essentially saying SSA wouldn't pay DDS offices to make disability decisions.
Waste, fraud, and abuse.
March 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Waste, fraud, and abuse.
Near and dear to my heart. This is in my top 10 of the thousand things I'm worried about.
A special education leader under George W. Bush says the dismantling of the Department of Education will impact students with disabilities.
(via @wbur.org)
(via @wbur.org)
What to know about the future of special education without the Education Department
A special education leader under George W. Bush says the dismantling of the Department of Education will impact students with disabilities.
www.wbur.org
March 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Near and dear to my heart. This is in my top 10 of the thousand things I'm worried about.
Seeing more and more cybertrucks in a very red area of my blue state.
Why do they all look like they are already 10 years old? Faded, dented, rusted.
Why do they all look like they are already 10 years old? Faded, dented, rusted.
March 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Seeing more and more cybertrucks in a very red area of my blue state.
Why do they all look like they are already 10 years old? Faded, dented, rusted.
Why do they all look like they are already 10 years old? Faded, dented, rusted.
Honestly, why does he want this taken down? It's probably the best he's ever looked...
March 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Honestly, why does he want this taken down? It's probably the best he's ever looked...
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
Can someone please explain his obsession with a straight border? Usually I can find the sinister meaning beneath his weird perseverations, but this one eludes me.
DOOCY: Are you concerned that if Canada became the 51st state, it would be a very very blue state?
TRUMP: You have that artificial line that looks like it was drawn by a ruler. I don't mean a ruler like a king, I mean a ruler like a ruler. It's just an artificial line.
TRUMP: You have that artificial line that looks like it was drawn by a ruler. I don't mean a ruler like a king, I mean a ruler like a ruler. It's just an artificial line.
March 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Can someone please explain his obsession with a straight border? Usually I can find the sinister meaning beneath his weird perseverations, but this one eludes me.
Let's be honest. If Democrats win back the presidency and legislature, instead of restoring everything and pushing forward, they will preach unity, incremental progress, and financial responsibility. They'll continue to perform for moderate-right.
March 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Let's be honest. If Democrats win back the presidency and legislature, instead of restoring everything and pushing forward, they will preach unity, incremental progress, and financial responsibility. They'll continue to perform for moderate-right.
The Acting Commissioner, who somewhat admitted to punishing the residents of Maine because the governor argued with Trump, now threatens to harm all recipients over judge's ruling.
Social Security Says DOGE Ruling Could Force Agency to Shut Down
The Trump administration is threatening to all but shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge’s ruling blocking activities by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency —...
www.bloomberg.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The Acting Commissioner, who somewhat admitted to punishing the residents of Maine because the governor argued with Trump, now threatens to harm all recipients over judge's ruling.
Democrats gearing up to declare that this is bad and that they STRONGLY wish they could do something about it.
March 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Democrats gearing up to declare that this is bad and that they STRONGLY wish they could do something about it.
Budget demand I'd like to see from Senate Democrats: DOGE eliminated; all oversight and operational control returned to agencies and Congress. If "waste" was identified, more funding provided for internal controls. Oh, and Musk deported.
March 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Budget demand I'd like to see from Senate Democrats: DOGE eliminated; all oversight and operational control returned to agencies and Congress. If "waste" was identified, more funding provided for internal controls. Oh, and Musk deported.
Attention @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view:
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.
March 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Attention @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
Today, disability cases in Social Security nationwide had an issue where the uploaded Release of Information form appeared illegible, rendering it unusable. We later learned it was due to a recent change in "WorkTrack", an employee monitoring program. I highly suspect DOGE.
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Today, disability cases in Social Security nationwide had an issue where the uploaded Release of Information form appeared illegible, rendering it unusable. We later learned it was due to a recent change in "WorkTrack", an employee monitoring program. I highly suspect DOGE.
Another hero.
Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats. Ortiz is an administrative judge at the Equal ...
sg.news.yahoo.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Another hero.
BREAKING: DOGE attempts to decrease life expectancy in order to save billions in Social Security. "All years beyond age 70 is now considered waste," says Musk.
March 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
BREAKING: DOGE attempts to decrease life expectancy in order to save billions in Social Security. "All years beyond age 70 is now considered waste," says Musk.
We aren't asking Democrat leaders to break laws. We just want them to stop following norms when nothing around them is normal. Speak forcefully. Feel some of the anger that citizens feel. Stop acting like there are any Republicans left who have any integrity.
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
We aren't asking Democrat leaders to break laws. We just want them to stop following norms when nothing around them is normal. Speak forcefully. Feel some of the anger that citizens feel. Stop acting like there are any Republicans left who have any integrity.
If you are keeping a list of resistance heroes, put Tiffany Flick near the top.
Extraordinary filing released tonight in a case about access to Social Security data from Tiffany Flick, fmr chief of staff to Acting Commissioner Michelle King. It details the unusual urgency the DOGE boys had in getting to SSA data & what they were looking for:
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
March 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
If you are keeping a list of resistance heroes, put Tiffany Flick near the top.
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We’re really going to dismantle the postwar western liberal order because a bunch of men who haven’t emotionally matured since they were 14 want to say the r word again
March 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We’re really going to dismantle the postwar western liberal order because a bunch of men who haven’t emotionally matured since they were 14 want to say the r word again