@gh0stgotreal.bsky.social
will not tolerate conservative entitlement & dangerously sensitive giant egos in my life any longer
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Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.
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For those who don’t know, Jeffries is on the House floor *right now* whipping NO votes!
I’m so proud that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is our House Leader!
He is holding our entire Democratic caucus together to insist the Affordable Care Act be supported in any bill to open the government.
Rep Jeffries is taking no prisoners on this crucial issue!!
He is holding our entire Democratic caucus together to insist the Affordable Care Act be supported in any bill to open the government.
Rep Jeffries is taking no prisoners on this crucial issue!!
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
For those who don’t know, Jeffries is on the House floor *right now* whipping NO votes!
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Jeffries is whipping NO votes in the House on the shutdown deal. From Jake Sherman at Punchbowl:
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Jeffries is whipping NO votes in the House on the shutdown deal. From Jake Sherman at Punchbowl:
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It doesn’t get more pathetic than this.
Senator Who Caved on Shutdown Says “Standing Up to Trump Didn’t Work”
It doesn’t get more pathetic than this.
newrepublic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It doesn’t get more pathetic than this.
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This is absolutely right.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This is absolutely right.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.
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Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.
When will party leadership learn this lesson?
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I called my CA Senators & one of my CA Representatives today to demand they hold the line in not capitulating to a GOP budget that excludes protections for #ACA subsidies. I urge everyone to do the same! I'll call again tomorrow.
FYI, you only have ~60 secs to leave a voice mail, so be concise!
FYI, you only have ~60 secs to leave a voice mail, so be concise!
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I called my CA Senators & one of my CA Representatives today to demand they hold the line in not capitulating to a GOP budget that excludes protections for #ACA subsidies. I urge everyone to do the same! I'll call again tomorrow.
FYI, you only have ~60 secs to leave a voice mail, so be concise!
FYI, you only have ~60 secs to leave a voice mail, so be concise!
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And it teaches Trump that the solution to any Democratic resistance is to inflict maximum pain on the population!
This is an iterated prisoners dilemma, and it’s so important to be mindful of the future incentives that they’re creating!
This is an iterated prisoners dilemma, and it’s so important to be mindful of the future incentives that they’re creating!
November 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
And it teaches Trump that the solution to any Democratic resistance is to inflict maximum pain on the population!
This is an iterated prisoners dilemma, and it’s so important to be mindful of the future incentives that they’re creating!
This is an iterated prisoners dilemma, and it’s so important to be mindful of the future incentives that they’re creating!
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That said I am lifting up the Senators who I KNOW fought, like my own @vanhollen.senate.gov. We need to press those Senators to demand a different kind of leadership internally. There’s still a lot more work ahead and we need the leadership to be chastened.
I have come to believe this as well. The list is too strange. I don’t think a majority wanted to cave, but many more than the 8.
I think that these 8 Senators are falling on the sword for Schumer and other Senators who wanted the shutdown to end. This allows the majority of Senators to save face; and only retiring or not up for reelection Senators take the heat.
It’s a ruse.
It’s a ruse.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
That said I am lifting up the Senators who I KNOW fought, like my own @vanhollen.senate.gov. We need to press those Senators to demand a different kind of leadership internally. There’s still a lot more work ahead and we need the leadership to be chastened.
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If Durbin weren't retiring, he would be primaried, and he would lose.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If Durbin weren't retiring, he would be primaried, and he would lose.
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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now that is a harbinger of doom
Even the Dem centrists at Third Way are mad about the deal moderate Senate Dems cut with Republicans to end the shutdown:
"We should not have surrendered until we received at least something tangible on lowering health care costs."
"We should not have surrendered until we received at least something tangible on lowering health care costs."
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
now that is a harbinger of doom
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No matter how many times you post about this, you will not convince your constituents that this betrayal actually serves them.
If you really want to convince us, come back to NH and have a town hall instead of talking at us from the marble Capitol palaces
If you really want to convince us, come back to NH and have a town hall instead of talking at us from the marble Capitol palaces
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
No matter how many times you post about this, you will not convince your constituents that this betrayal actually serves them.
If you really want to convince us, come back to NH and have a town hall instead of talking at us from the marble Capitol palaces
If you really want to convince us, come back to NH and have a town hall instead of talking at us from the marble Capitol palaces
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Contact every Democratic US Senator.
Make one thing clear:
Accepting a "deal" to end the #shutdown that doesn't include saving the #ACA subsidies will be a career ending decision
How to contact US Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Make one thing clear:
Accepting a "deal" to end the #shutdown that doesn't include saving the #ACA subsidies will be a career ending decision
How to contact US Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Contact every Democratic US Senator.
Make one thing clear:
Accepting a "deal" to end the #shutdown that doesn't include saving the #ACA subsidies will be a career ending decision
How to contact US Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
Make one thing clear:
Accepting a "deal" to end the #shutdown that doesn't include saving the #ACA subsidies will be a career ending decision
How to contact US Senators: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
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Lucy is really going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time. She really means it.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Lucy is really going to let Charlie Brown kick the football this time. She really means it.
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And this vid explains it youtu.be/mdFRfeGRKfI?...
Shutdown NOT Over: What Tonight’s Senate Vote Actually Means
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
And this vid explains it youtu.be/mdFRfeGRKfI?...
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Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
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There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
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This is nearly at 47k signatures, by the way. Join us.
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the petition: c.org/c5PbGWk6hM
(Change(dot)org will ask you to donate. You *do not* need to donate.)
Sign the Petition
Demand That Chuck Schumer Step Down As Minority Leader
c.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is nearly at 47k signatures, by the way. Join us.
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that you take them at their word, after more lies than we can count, proves you don’t have what it takes to govern.
your vote was a gift to the criminals executing a coup and harming americans.
resign
your vote was a gift to the criminals executing a coup and harming americans.
resign
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
that you take them at their word, after more lies than we can count, proves you don’t have what it takes to govern.
your vote was a gift to the criminals executing a coup and harming americans.
resign
your vote was a gift to the criminals executing a coup and harming americans.
resign
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Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.
This was helpful. The Senate only voted to have a _debate to vote on this C.R._ "The actual C.R. has not been voted on yet." But "it does signal that they would vote 'yes'" on this C.R. that lacks ACA tax credit extension. AND THEN the House MUST OPEN to approve it before sending send it to Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This was helpful. The Senate only voted to have a _debate to vote on this C.R._ "The actual C.R. has not been voted on yet." But "it does signal that they would vote 'yes'" on this C.R. that lacks ACA tax credit extension. AND THEN the House MUST OPEN to approve it before sending send it to Trump.
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One key thing that we all should be remembering right now is that disordered personalities DO NOT CHANGE.
Trump will not change. Fetterman will not change. There is no way to convince or mollify Stephen Miller.
The only option is to organize to remove disordered people from power forever.
Trump will not change. Fetterman will not change. There is no way to convince or mollify Stephen Miller.
The only option is to organize to remove disordered people from power forever.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
One key thing that we all should be remembering right now is that disordered personalities DO NOT CHANGE.
Trump will not change. Fetterman will not change. There is no way to convince or mollify Stephen Miller.
The only option is to organize to remove disordered people from power forever.
Trump will not change. Fetterman will not change. There is no way to convince or mollify Stephen Miller.
The only option is to organize to remove disordered people from power forever.
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Everything is everyone else's fault but his, which is of course hallmark malignant narcissism.
Now we have Trump blasting air traffic controllers, telling them they hate this country for not showing up without pay.
"I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK... You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record."
"I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK... You will have a negative mark, at least in my mind, against your record."
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Everything is everyone else's fault but his, which is of course hallmark malignant narcissism.