Irma Rodríguez Mitton
@irmwrites.bsky.social
Lover of nature, books, and textile arts. Novice writer and farmer. Instrument of peace.
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“Despite his no vote, the entire political world knows this is a direct result of @schumer.senate.gov’s leadership … He either blessed this surrender, or was incapable of leading his caucus to hold the line.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Angry Democrats call on Schumer to resign after eight vote to end shutdown
Some lawmakers and progressive groups blame minority leader after eight senators defect
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
“Despite his no vote, the entire political world knows this is a direct result of @schumer.senate.gov’s leadership … He either blessed this surrender, or was incapable of leading his caucus to hold the line.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Here are the at least 6 House Democrats, 3 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 4 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Here are the at least 6 House Democrats, 3 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 4 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
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This really is curious. Retiring sens who have no political skin in the game drawing their colleagues into a deal that will make the base furious
Durbin - Retiring
Peters - Retiring
Shaheen - Retiring
Peters - Retiring
Shaheen - Retiring
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This really is curious. Retiring sens who have no political skin in the game drawing their colleagues into a deal that will make the base furious
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Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
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“It’s shocking to me that the rest of the country is not paying attention to what’s happening all across the neighborhoods of Chicago and the suburbs and, frankly, the rest of the state of Illinois,” Governor J. B. Pritzker says.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JxImaA
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JxImaA
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“It’s shocking to me that the rest of the country is not paying attention to what’s happening all across the neighborhoods of Chicago and the suburbs and, frankly, the rest of the state of Illinois,” Governor J. B. Pritzker says.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JxImaA
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JxImaA
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Senator's office not accepting voicemails? Fax them. Seriously. You do not need to have a fax machine. Hit Schumer up, now.
How to Send Faxes to U.S Senators - Alohi Blog
Fax usage is on the rise in some sectors due to legal compliance issues thanks to the extra security measures online faxing can offer. Almost all Senators have an open and dedicated fax number where t...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Senator's office not accepting voicemails? Fax them. Seriously. You do not need to have a fax machine. Hit Schumer up, now.
Super weird.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Super weird.
Go, scientists!!
@missouladems.bsky.social
It looks like I am part of a larger trend--10 times more scientists running for public office in 2026 compared to past mid-term elections. Maybe all the attacks on science are the cause😜.
#VoteForScience #scienceisreal #montanaelections
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
It looks like I am part of a larger trend--10 times more scientists running for public office in 2026 compared to past mid-term elections. Maybe all the attacks on science are the cause😜.
#VoteForScience #scienceisreal #montanaelections
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
The Epidemiologists Are Running for Office
Instead of trying to depoliticize their field, a swell of scientists want to become politicians.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Go, scientists!!
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So fun that I can’t believe anything I see on the internet is real anymore. What a great future. Good job rich guys.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
So fun that I can’t believe anything I see on the internet is real anymore. What a great future. Good job rich guys.
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The latest casualty of destructive republican policies - U.S. tsunami warning system for the west coast is shut down. www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...
U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow
Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.
www.nbcnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The latest casualty of destructive republican policies - U.S. tsunami warning system for the west coast is shut down. www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...
@schiff.senate.gov
@padilla.senate.gov
Please tell me you are aware of this (and doing something about it).
@padilla.senate.gov
Please tell me you are aware of this (and doing something about it).
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
@schiff.senate.gov
@padilla.senate.gov
Please tell me you are aware of this (and doing something about it).
@padilla.senate.gov
Please tell me you are aware of this (and doing something about it).
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The Republicans are going all the way to the Supreme Court to starve hungry children but please tell me again how the shutdown is the fault of the Democrats.
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The Republicans are going all the way to the Supreme Court to starve hungry children but please tell me again how the shutdown is the fault of the Democrats.
It’s a good day when you’re competing with your daughter on #library hauls.
#booksky
@everylibrary.bsky.social
#booksky
@everylibrary.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It’s a good day when you’re competing with your daughter on #library hauls.
#booksky
@everylibrary.bsky.social
#booksky
@everylibrary.bsky.social
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As Democrats offer to reopen the govt in exchange for keeping health insurance subsidies the same for one year, Trump orders his puppets in Congress to reject the deal as he flies back to Palm Beach for another weekend of golf and parties at his country club.
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
As Democrats offer to reopen the govt in exchange for keeping health insurance subsidies the same for one year, Trump orders his puppets in Congress to reject the deal as he flies back to Palm Beach for another weekend of golf and parties at his country club.
This is ridiculous.
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
www.bbc.com/news/article... @paulisci.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article... @paulisci.bsky.social
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is ridiculous.
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#Tennessee You're up next on Dec. 2nd! Do as Mamdani's supporters did - Volunteer by either making phone calls, writing postcards, or knocking on doors and get @aftynbehn.bsky.social elected.
If you can't volunteer, please donate to help her campaign. #SaveACA
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If you can't volunteer, please donate to help her campaign. #SaveACA
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November 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#Tennessee You're up next on Dec. 2nd! Do as Mamdani's supporters did - Volunteer by either making phone calls, writing postcards, or knocking on doors and get @aftynbehn.bsky.social elected.
If you can't volunteer, please donate to help her campaign. #SaveACA
secure.actblue.com/donate/ab-so...
If you can't volunteer, please donate to help her campaign. #SaveACA
secure.actblue.com/donate/ab-so...
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As if it wasn't 'bad enough' already, climate models underestimate future Ocean Heat Uptake, because them get present-day Antarctic sea-ice wrong.
One more reason why climate change will be worse than models project..
One more reason why climate change will be worse than models project..
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
As if it wasn't 'bad enough' already, climate models underestimate future Ocean Heat Uptake, because them get present-day Antarctic sea-ice wrong.
One more reason why climate change will be worse than models project..
One more reason why climate change will be worse than models project..
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If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
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6. You can be a progressive socialist and a patriot at the same time. Capitalism is not the same as patriotism.
7. Socialism brings equity, but it doesn't prevent individual success. It does make sure that if you are financially successful, you help support society that brought you that success.
7. Socialism brings equity, but it doesn't prevent individual success. It does make sure that if you are financially successful, you help support society that brought you that success.
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
6. You can be a progressive socialist and a patriot at the same time. Capitalism is not the same as patriotism.
7. Socialism brings equity, but it doesn't prevent individual success. It does make sure that if you are financially successful, you help support society that brought you that success.
7. Socialism brings equity, but it doesn't prevent individual success. It does make sure that if you are financially successful, you help support society that brought you that success.
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Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention.
THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
Africa's natural wildlife 'power' has nearly collapsed
Scientists warn that losing Africa’s large animals is draining ecosystem energy and reshaping the continent’s biodiversity.
www.earth.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention.
THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
THE most critical tasks of our time are:
• Protect what remains of wild ecosystems
• Mass rewilding where damaged or lost
www.earth.com/news/africas...
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75-year trend of October temperatures. It's as if something has changed. 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
75-year trend of October temperatures. It's as if something has changed. 🤔
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Private equity ruins everything.
Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them
For residents who can’t afford to move, rising lot rents can mean losing everything.
theconversation.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Private equity ruins everything.
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"It is the fast and irreversible shrinking, and eventual disappearance, of the mitigation options with every year of increasing greenhouse gas emissions."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Closing Door of Climate Targets
The linear relationship between cumulative carbon emissions and global climate warming implies that as mitigation is delayed, climate targets become unachievable.
www.science.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
"It is the fast and irreversible shrinking, and eventual disappearance, of the mitigation options with every year of increasing greenhouse gas emissions."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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• Mamdani is NOT in the country illegally
• Mamdani does NOT have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani has NOT said or done anything antisemitic
• Mamdani did NOT call to "globalize the intifada"
• Mamdani is NOT a communist
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
• Mamdani does NOT have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani has NOT said or done anything antisemitic
• Mamdani did NOT call to "globalize the intifada"
• Mamdani is NOT a communist
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
• Mamdani is NOT in the country illegally
• Mamdani does NOT have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani has NOT said or done anything antisemitic
• Mamdani did NOT call to "globalize the intifada"
• Mamdani is NOT a communist
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
• Mamdani does NOT have any connection to 9/11 or jihadist terrorism
• Mamdani has NOT said or done anything antisemitic
• Mamdani did NOT call to "globalize the intifada"
• Mamdani is NOT a communist
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Hi, I’m God.
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hi, I’m God.
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God