Katy Shanahan
@katyashanahan.bsky.social
ohio | political lawyer | basically here to create chaos
This is the energy we need to see from every elected Democrat.
Anything less simply will not suffice in this moment.
Anything less simply will not suffice in this moment.
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is the energy we need to see from every elected Democrat.
Anything less simply will not suffice in this moment.
Anything less simply will not suffice in this moment.
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Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
April 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
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Call me Little Mary Sunshine, but I think this tariff fiasco is going to fuck him up. That plus the risk to Social Security/Medicaid. People *should* care about extralegal kidnappings, attacks on universities & law firms, all the fascist sickness, but they don’t. Financial chaos can break through
April 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Call me Little Mary Sunshine, but I think this tariff fiasco is going to fuck him up. That plus the risk to Social Security/Medicaid. People *should* care about extralegal kidnappings, attacks on universities & law firms, all the fascist sickness, but they don’t. Financial chaos can break through
begging y'all to raise your standards for what you're demanding of your elected officials.
the 25-hr speech wasn't a filibuster of any bills/noms, it didn't stop business as usual, and literally a minute after Booker yielded the floor the Dems allowed a vote for a Trump nominee go uninterrupted.
the 25-hr speech wasn't a filibuster of any bills/noms, it didn't stop business as usual, and literally a minute after Booker yielded the floor the Dems allowed a vote for a Trump nominee go uninterrupted.
This is somewhat imprecisely worded, and some people in the replies are confused about how the Senate works. So here is live video of what happened. (TL;DR, it’s pretty much what Vicky says.)
April 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
begging y'all to raise your standards for what you're demanding of your elected officials.
the 25-hr speech wasn't a filibuster of any bills/noms, it didn't stop business as usual, and literally a minute after Booker yielded the floor the Dems allowed a vote for a Trump nominee go uninterrupted.
the 25-hr speech wasn't a filibuster of any bills/noms, it didn't stop business as usual, and literally a minute after Booker yielded the floor the Dems allowed a vote for a Trump nominee go uninterrupted.
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Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately.
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately.
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The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
March 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
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Our mission is to put American workers at the center of our politics and our policies and to create an economy where work is rewarded.
Read Sherrod Brown’s conversation with the @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
Read Sherrod Brown’s conversation with the @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
Sherrod Brown, Weighing a 2026 Senate Bid, Starts a Workers’ Group
Mr. Brown, the Ohio Democrat who lost his race for re-election last year, is forming the Dignity of Work Institute, which will highlight workers’ struggles.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Our mission is to put American workers at the center of our politics and our policies and to create an economy where work is rewarded.
Read Sherrod Brown’s conversation with the @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
Read Sherrod Brown’s conversation with the @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...
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All work has dignity. Americans are working harder than ever, with less to show for it.
Sherrod Brown is launching the Dignity of Work Institute to create an economy where work is valued, workers benefit from the wealth they create, and everyone can afford a decent living.
Sherrod Brown is launching the Dignity of Work Institute to create an economy where work is valued, workers benefit from the wealth they create, and everyone can afford a decent living.
March 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
All work has dignity. Americans are working harder than ever, with less to show for it.
Sherrod Brown is launching the Dignity of Work Institute to create an economy where work is valued, workers benefit from the wealth they create, and everyone can afford a decent living.
Sherrod Brown is launching the Dignity of Work Institute to create an economy where work is valued, workers benefit from the wealth they create, and everyone can afford a decent living.
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How badly do you have to fuck up being the Democratic leader that Trump is praising and congratulating you????
Trump congratulates @schumer.senate.gov on voting for the CR. Pathetic.
March 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
How badly do you have to fuck up being the Democratic leader that Trump is praising and congratulating you????
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The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
March 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Eternally grateful to Kristen Clarke for bringing this suit when she headed the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. And proud of the A.M.E. Church for standing strong in the face of the “formerly known as Proud Boys’” attack.
The Proud Boys organization no longer controls the trademark, “Proud Boys”, and is now “barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in Washington that its members vandalized.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Eternally grateful to Kristen Clarke for bringing this suit when she headed the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. And proud of the A.M.E. Church for standing strong in the face of the “formerly known as Proud Boys’” attack.
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Every Democratic Senator voted to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State. Every one of them should publicly demand that Rubio fire this man.
The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
Marco Rubio empowers State Department official Pete Marocco to run USAID
Marocco held several national security positions during the first Trump administration, including at USAID, where he tried to consolidate power and slash funding.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Every Democratic Senator voted to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State. Every one of them should publicly demand that Rubio fire this man.
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if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
February 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
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if you haven't learned about the imperial boomerang today's as good a day as any
Twenty years later, Guantánamo is everywhere. The lawless and ongoing administration of the prison there has metastasized throughout U.S. legal and political culture and underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.
Baher Azmy, legal director at @ccrjustice.bsky.social:
Baher Azmy, legal director at @ccrjustice.bsky.social:
Twenty Years Later, Guantánamo Is Everywhere - Boston Review
The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.
www.bostonreview.net
January 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
if you haven't learned about the imperial boomerang today's as good a day as any
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Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
January 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
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Anxious Nation Waits For Democratic Party To Do Something, Anything In Face of Republican Assault On Life And Liberty
January 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Anxious Nation Waits For Democratic Party To Do Something, Anything In Face of Republican Assault On Life And Liberty
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A lot of Dem incumbents are going to be confused and upset to find their strongest challenger next primary is "anyone but you."
I hope this shakes out to be more progressive, but it doesn't have to. Dem voters will just want anyone who doesn't seem as useless as the potatoes currently in the seats.
I hope this shakes out to be more progressive, but it doesn't have to. Dem voters will just want anyone who doesn't seem as useless as the potatoes currently in the seats.
the disconnect between elected Dems (business as usual) and the base (boiling mad) is about as big as I've ever seen it
I don't know how this eventually gets resolved but it's not a sustainable equilibrium
I don't know how this eventually gets resolved but it's not a sustainable equilibrium
January 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A lot of Dem incumbents are going to be confused and upset to find their strongest challenger next primary is "anyone but you."
I hope this shakes out to be more progressive, but it doesn't have to. Dem voters will just want anyone who doesn't seem as useless as the potatoes currently in the seats.
I hope this shakes out to be more progressive, but it doesn't have to. Dem voters will just want anyone who doesn't seem as useless as the potatoes currently in the seats.
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A reminder of Pam Karlan's testimony at Donald Trump's impeachment hearing:
January 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A reminder of Pam Karlan's testimony at Donald Trump's impeachment hearing:
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Yeah I know no one wants to talk about the connection between the emissions associated with genocide and catastrophic hurricanes and fire storms but we share an atmosphere
You can’t bomb Gaza and expect not to be touched by it
You can’t bomb Gaza and expect not to be touched by it
January 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Yeah I know no one wants to talk about the connection between the emissions associated with genocide and catastrophic hurricanes and fire storms but we share an atmosphere
You can’t bomb Gaza and expect not to be touched by it
You can’t bomb Gaza and expect not to be touched by it
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I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.
January 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.
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it’s kinda crazy that the thing threatening us most isn’t the fascists openly plotting how to kill us, but the democrats who promised to fight for us instead rapidly lining up beside the fascists, their immediate elimination of any friction to slow the assault - all to maintain their power.
January 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
it’s kinda crazy that the thing threatening us most isn’t the fascists openly plotting how to kill us, but the democrats who promised to fight for us instead rapidly lining up beside the fascists, their immediate elimination of any friction to slow the assault - all to maintain their power.
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Some Senate Dems don’t even seem to have read the eight-page Laken Riley Act, preemptively handing Trump the vehicle through which to carry out mass deportations that could target nearly all immigrants.
www.jezebel.com/democrats-sh...
www.jezebel.com/democrats-sh...
Democrats Show Zero Appetite for Resistance in 1st Major Fight vs. Trump 2.0
Some Senate Dems don’t even seem to have read the eight-page Laken Riley Act, preemptively handing Trump the vehicle through which to carry out mass deportations that could target nearly all immigrant...
www.jezebel.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Some Senate Dems don’t even seem to have read the eight-page Laken Riley Act, preemptively handing Trump the vehicle through which to carry out mass deportations that could target nearly all immigrants.
www.jezebel.com/democrats-sh...
www.jezebel.com/democrats-sh...
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the all but official position of the republican party is that voting for democrats disqualifies you from federal disaster assistance
Rep. Warren Davidson on California federal disaster relief: "If they want the money, then there should be consequences where they have to change their policies ... CA wants the money without changing the policies that are making the problem worse & I don't see how Rs could possibly support that."
January 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
the all but official position of the republican party is that voting for democrats disqualifies you from federal disaster assistance
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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
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$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.