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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 5h

Just failed a captcha because of autocorrect. How am I supposed to prove I'm not a robot to the robot if robots keeps pushing me out of the way and showing off to the robot about their spelling.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

(Published October)

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7h

Nothing says you’re a Very Serious FBI Director quite like taking the bureau’s plane, during a government shutdown, to a hunting lodge called … The Boondoggle Ranch.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director

In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.

www.wsj.com

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 7h

We can only have a healthy society if we change this

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12h

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list
., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 12h

I asked @motherjones.com readers what they thought of Democrats' response to the shutdown. Let's just say...they're not happy!

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Distraught, betrayed, and mad as hell: Your takes on the shutdown

We asked readers to weigh in on Senate Democrats' deal—and almost nobody is happy.

www.motherjones.com

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 15h

Happy Veterans Day.

One-fourth of federal workers are veterans.

Trump has literally decimated the federal workforce over the last nine months. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump Has Forced Out An Alarming Number Of Federal Workers — And Now We Have An Exact Number

“The performance of our government across the board is being diminished,” warned Max Stier, CEO of Partnership for Public Service.

www.huffpost.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

Boy watching Homer beat up the krusty burglar:

Stop! He’s already dead!

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave

"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."

www.gravityisgone.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."

For once, I believe him.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 14

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the original article this interview was based on. Please consider signing up for the newsletter if you want to know more about how your government works.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Jan 2

One of the more important actions we can take in the year ahead is to help other people keep from losing their minds in an environment of weaponized unreality and falling into despair as a result.

Here’s Soul II Soul with “Keep on Movin’” from their 1989 album by the same name. Enjoy 😊

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

On half an hour's notice, @bkindivisible.bsky.social showed up across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment to tell him NOT to CAVE.

The final chant: "WE'LL BE BACK."

Indivisible Brooklyn members in front of Chuck Schumer's apartment building at night holding signs that read "Schumer Hold the Line" and "Schumer Don't Cave on Us" etc. Lit up LED sign reading "No Schumer Surrender" and big letters on cards reading "DON'T CAVE"

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 2d

Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.

They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.

Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.

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The Scot 💙🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @thescot.bsky.social · 2d

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

Agree.

Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."

This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 2d

Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.

Donnie dipshit between the announcers in the Fox booth on November 9, record 40th day of the GOP shutdown

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

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