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This is encouraging. Signs of a Senate with a spine.
January 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Lavrieta Kwiatek (@lavrietakwiatek)
substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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The war zone in Portland is out of control.
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Exactly this
September 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Cowards
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
March 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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T’wasn’t a flask of Old Crow, so t’wasn’t Hegseth’s kin.
In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam.
It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.
March 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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We’re in the middle of spring tornado season
National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000.

With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Service Merges Offices as Staffing Pressure Mounts
The US National Weather Service will merge two of its largest forecasting units as it prepares for the loss of as many as 1,000 staffers.
www.bloomberg.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
February 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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This is evil. Pure evil.
February 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)?

A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)
February 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Chicken
As town hall meetings across America get heated, Republican lawmakers are cancelling events to avoid confrontations with angry constituents and more negative headlines.
GOP Lawmakers Told to Skip Town Halls After Viral Showdowns
Party leaders are reportedly eager to put an end to viral clips of voters booing members of Congress who back Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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By all means don’t listen to the voters
“.. this [DOGE] narrative should end very soon,” the official said. “Probably the best way for that to happen is no more town halls.”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
February 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
@karaswisher.bsky.social how is it going with finding a new buyer for The Post???
February 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I shared this note with the owner of the Washington Post this morning.
February 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details

Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.
February 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM