Jeff Fecke
@jkfecke.bsky.social
Deleted the stove emoji because we are now touching it.
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It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
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White voters constantly treating actual politics like sports & protesting the wrong team at the polls is a pretty consistent part of the problem.
If your team’s offense puts up pretty good numbers for four quarters, and your defense doesn’t give up too many big plays, and your QB gets into field goal range on the last possession, but your special teams loses you the game by shanking a chip shot, it is okay to be angry at the coaching staff!
The internet is adamant that I’m instead supposed to be mad at all Dems when leadership voted no, House Dems are ethering it, & the DNC is blasting it, 3 of the Dems are retiring anyway & the rest either rep swing states or the relevant workers & aren’t up for a few yrs. Not the Republican majority.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
White voters constantly treating actual politics like sports & protesting the wrong team at the polls is a pretty consistent part of the problem.
As a Vikings fan I'm generally mad at the kicker in that situation, the rest of the team did their job.
If your team’s offense puts up pretty good numbers for four quarters, and your defense doesn’t give up too many big plays, and your QB gets into field goal range on the last possession, but your special teams loses you the game by shanking a chip shot, it is okay to be angry at the coaching staff!
The internet is adamant that I’m instead supposed to be mad at all Dems when leadership voted no, House Dems are ethering it, & the DNC is blasting it, 3 of the Dems are retiring anyway & the rest either rep swing states or the relevant workers & aren’t up for a few yrs. Not the Republican majority.
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
As a Vikings fan I'm generally mad at the kicker in that situation, the rest of the team did their job.
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Politics is not sports, hope this helps.
If your team’s offense puts up pretty good numbers for four quarters, and your defense doesn’t give up too many big plays, and your QB gets into field goal range on the last possession, but your special teams loses you the game by shanking a chip shot, it is okay to be angry at the coaching staff!
The internet is adamant that I’m instead supposed to be mad at all Dems when leadership voted no, House Dems are ethering it, & the DNC is blasting it, 3 of the Dems are retiring anyway & the rest either rep swing states or the relevant workers & aren’t up for a few yrs. Not the Republican majority.
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Politics is not sports, hope this helps.
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For those who refuse to accept that we're locked in a harm reduction situation, read this thread.
Dems were trying to get subsidies reinstated that the GOP had no desire to do. To pay for the wealthy tax cuts, the ACA, SNAP, and even federal payroll cuts have been fair game.
Dems were trying to get subsidies reinstated that the GOP had no desire to do. To pay for the wealthy tax cuts, the ACA, SNAP, and even federal payroll cuts have been fair game.
While there may have been more *emotionally* satisfying ends to the shutdown, once it was proven that GOP weren't caving on ACA subsidies *and* weren't willing to blow up the filibuster *and* Trump went to SCOTUS to defend his right to starve people against the law...
...what would've been left?
...what would've been left?
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
For those who refuse to accept that we're locked in a harm reduction situation, read this thread.
Dems were trying to get subsidies reinstated that the GOP had no desire to do. To pay for the wealthy tax cuts, the ACA, SNAP, and even federal payroll cuts have been fair game.
Dems were trying to get subsidies reinstated that the GOP had no desire to do. To pay for the wealthy tax cuts, the ACA, SNAP, and even federal payroll cuts have been fair game.
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Dems shut down the government for a record amount of time to fight over it, actually.
You could just focus on that instead of inventing The Bailey's in your head whose point of view you should defend.
You could just focus on that instead of inventing The Bailey's in your head whose point of view you should defend.
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Dems shut down the government for a record amount of time to fight over it, actually.
You could just focus on that instead of inventing The Bailey's in your head whose point of view you should defend.
You could just focus on that instead of inventing The Bailey's in your head whose point of view you should defend.
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I think they'll say wait why did my premiums go up under Trump and then be faced with a vote on candidates in 2026 who are (1) talking about improving the ACA vs. (2) a candidate who is probably talking about repealing the ACA even more
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I think they'll say wait why did my premiums go up under Trump and then be faced with a vote on candidates in 2026 who are (1) talking about improving the ACA vs. (2) a candidate who is probably talking about repealing the ACA even more
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so it’s not guaranteed that people who meet online will get along offline, and this isn’t necessarily about the depth of the friendship but the context
i have had a lot of people who i first met online end up disliking me offline and i used to think this made me atypically bad, but it’s normal
i have had a lot of people who i first met online end up disliking me offline and i used to think this made me atypically bad, but it’s normal
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
so it’s not guaranteed that people who meet online will get along offline, and this isn’t necessarily about the depth of the friendship but the context
i have had a lot of people who i first met online end up disliking me offline and i used to think this made me atypically bad, but it’s normal
i have had a lot of people who i first met online end up disliking me offline and i used to think this made me atypically bad, but it’s normal
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being online is a kind of literature
we are writing texts here
we are using tropes and plot beats and narrative aspects in our interactions, and are de facto larger than life here (even if you’re not Highly Online, if you’re just “professional” on here that’s also Heightened)
we are writing texts here
we are using tropes and plot beats and narrative aspects in our interactions, and are de facto larger than life here (even if you’re not Highly Online, if you’re just “professional” on here that’s also Heightened)
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
being online is a kind of literature
we are writing texts here
we are using tropes and plot beats and narrative aspects in our interactions, and are de facto larger than life here (even if you’re not Highly Online, if you’re just “professional” on here that’s also Heightened)
we are writing texts here
we are using tropes and plot beats and narrative aspects in our interactions, and are de facto larger than life here (even if you’re not Highly Online, if you’re just “professional” on here that’s also Heightened)
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sort of related to this but just about personal life and not politics: i have met many people offline who i met online first, and we’ve become friends, and online only friendship is real but it is fundamentally different and it’s because of this heightened reality/not thing
“why are you negotiating with these supervillains“
consider that even if they do go online and realize their coworkers are insane fascists who might as well be sith lords, it is really, really hard to keep believing someone is genuinely a supervillain when they sit across from you every day
consider that even if they do go online and realize their coworkers are insane fascists who might as well be sith lords, it is really, really hard to keep believing someone is genuinely a supervillain when they sit across from you every day
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
sort of related to this but just about personal life and not politics: i have met many people offline who i met online first, and we’ve become friends, and online only friendship is real but it is fundamentally different and it’s because of this heightened reality/not thing
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This pardon was signed on Friday, November 7th 2025, and not today November 9, 2025. This is how easily misinformation spreads.
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
This pardon was signed on Friday, November 7th 2025, and not today November 9, 2025. This is how easily misinformation spreads.
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This is honestly a potentially good sign.
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 7:22 PM
This is honestly a potentially good sign.
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at least this is honest
i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
at least this is honest
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It's wild how many people are wholly willing to straight up say "Israeli money secretly controls our elected officials and this no this does not make me antisemetic."
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's wild how many people are wholly willing to straight up say "Israeli money secretly controls our elected officials and this no this does not make me antisemetic."
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‘They caved for 90 days in order to try and get further concessions and, if they don’t, are right back ready to shutdown the government, again,’ is not much of a cave when i say it out loud.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
‘They caved for 90 days in order to try and get further concessions and, if they don’t, are right back ready to shutdown the government, again,’ is not much of a cave when i say it out loud.
If the strategy is "Call their bluff, open things up, see what happens, and shut things down on February 1st if nothing happens" then I'm okay with this.
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 5:35 PM
If the strategy is "Call their bluff, open things up, see what happens, and shut things down on February 1st if nothing happens" then I'm okay with this.
I will only back candidates who didn't cave when I asked them to Kill Glonzo.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I will only back candidates who didn't cave when I asked them to Kill Glonzo.
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The thing is if you want to dunk on Bluesky at this moment it's quite easy to do so. It takes more effort to make this up.
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The thing is if you want to dunk on Bluesky at this moment it's quite easy to do so. It takes more effort to make this up.
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I Am Organizing An Armed Militia To Take Nate Silver’s House By Force
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I Am Organizing An Armed Militia To Take Nate Silver’s House By Force
Yup. Primaries are fine, I have no problem with primaries, as long as everyone agrees to back the nominee in the end, even if it's one you don't want. Part of that is making sure potential nominees aren't maybe a Nazi maybe.
“primary every democrat” only becomes a serious threat if bsky doesn’t go goo goo babies over platner-esque candidates
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Yup. Primaries are fine, I have no problem with primaries, as long as everyone agrees to back the nominee in the end, even if it's one you don't want. Part of that is making sure potential nominees aren't maybe a Nazi maybe.
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Going back to Twitter would be like going back to fentanyl because you don’t like methadone’s side effects
And by principle I’m not going to a Zuck site
And by principle I’m not going to a Zuck site
I’m only here still because Bluesky is the worst microblogging platform except for all of the others which have been tried
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Going back to Twitter would be like going back to fentanyl because you don’t like methadone’s side effects
And by principle I’m not going to a Zuck site
And by principle I’m not going to a Zuck site
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SOLICITOR GENERAL SAUER, last week: “.. They are not revenue-raising tariffs.” 🤡
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
SOLICITOR GENERAL SAUER, last week: “.. They are not revenue-raising tariffs.” 🤡
This is GOOD, you WANT people paying into insurance and not using it, THAT IS HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is GOOD, you WANT people paying into insurance and not using it, THAT IS HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
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👇There it is, the alternative was to keep federal employees unpaid for 13 MONTHS. How the fuck do you think that would play out? A collapse of the entire underpinnings of the country, that's how.
Victory looks like a bill that extends the ACA subsidies OR (and this is a key or) keeps the government shut down until the midterms.
Yes. That's a victory too.
Yes. That's a victory too.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
👇There it is, the alternative was to keep federal employees unpaid for 13 MONTHS. How the fuck do you think that would play out? A collapse of the entire underpinnings of the country, that's how.