Lmthorn
@lmthorn.bsky.social
concerned citizen, interested in everything, left-leaning for life, conflict-avoidant, committed introvert. Likes/follows are mine alone and not endorsements. I don’t answer DMs unless I know you. Even then it’s iffy
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the fact that multiple reports have suggested a fear that republicans would follow trump’s demands and abolish the filibuster motivated Ds to fold is incredibly damning and is a reminder that the senate itself is a major problem for those who want to save & revive american democracy.
Opinion | Democrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
the fact that multiple reports have suggested a fear that republicans would follow trump’s demands and abolish the filibuster motivated Ds to fold is incredibly damning and is a reminder that the senate itself is a major problem for those who want to save & revive american democracy.
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An sad feature of American culture is the blinders they wear.
Other countries have solved the problems that Americans are made to believe are unsolvable.
Instead of learning they chant "WE'RE #1!" while they go bankrupt from medical debt and do active shooter drills in kindergarten.
Other countries have solved the problems that Americans are made to believe are unsolvable.
Instead of learning they chant "WE'RE #1!" while they go bankrupt from medical debt and do active shooter drills in kindergarten.
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
An sad feature of American culture is the blinders they wear.
Other countries have solved the problems that Americans are made to believe are unsolvable.
Instead of learning they chant "WE'RE #1!" while they go bankrupt from medical debt and do active shooter drills in kindergarten.
Other countries have solved the problems that Americans are made to believe are unsolvable.
Instead of learning they chant "WE'RE #1!" while they go bankrupt from medical debt and do active shooter drills in kindergarten.
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This reflects an authoritarian indicator we identified in our assessment: assault on public knowledge and civil society. It mirrors Cold War propaganda, presenting a whitewashed, idealized past to define a desired future, reinforcing who is valued and who is excluded from economic opportunity.
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This reflects an authoritarian indicator we identified in our assessment: assault on public knowledge and civil society. It mirrors Cold War propaganda, presenting a whitewashed, idealized past to define a desired future, reinforcing who is valued and who is excluded from economic opportunity.
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Trump gave $40 billion to Argentina.
The government would reopen if Trump simply approved $30 billion in enhanced ACA Healthcare subsidies. It's literally less than 1 Argentina bailout.
The government would reopen if Trump simply approved $30 billion in enhanced ACA Healthcare subsidies. It's literally less than 1 Argentina bailout.
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Trump gave $40 billion to Argentina.
The government would reopen if Trump simply approved $30 billion in enhanced ACA Healthcare subsidies. It's literally less than 1 Argentina bailout.
The government would reopen if Trump simply approved $30 billion in enhanced ACA Healthcare subsidies. It's literally less than 1 Argentina bailout.
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Look at the receipts: GOP plans slash Medicaid, nutrition aid, and research while protecting tax giveaways and backing vanity projects like a $300M White House ballroom and a Qatari luxury jet retrofit. Their message: austerity for you, luxury for them.
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Look at the receipts: GOP plans slash Medicaid, nutrition aid, and research while protecting tax giveaways and backing vanity projects like a $300M White House ballroom and a Qatari luxury jet retrofit. Their message: austerity for you, luxury for them.
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There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.
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Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
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Medicare for All is not just moral it’s also the smart economic choice. @khanna.house.gov
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Medicare for All is not just moral it’s also the smart economic choice. @khanna.house.gov
All the various boycotts have gotten easier to do because I have so much less to spend these days. Feels like cheating. I’m not abstaining from frivolous purchases because I’m broke. No no no I’m doing it on principle I swear
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
All the various boycotts have gotten easier to do because I have so much less to spend these days. Feels like cheating. I’m not abstaining from frivolous purchases because I’m broke. No no no I’m doing it on principle I swear
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Trump’s economy suuuuucks.
🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Trump’s economy suuuuucks.
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This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?
He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?
He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
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Students held at gunpoint by Trump's masked thugs at York High School in Elmhurst, IL, right outside Chicago.
An unidentified car blocked the students in the parking lot
Pulled them out of their car at gunpoint
It was one month & local Patch the only one reporting it
Should be a national story
An unidentified car blocked the students in the parking lot
Pulled them out of their car at gunpoint
It was one month & local Patch the only one reporting it
Should be a national story
York Students Held At Gunpoint In Lombard: Elmhurst Official
The gun-wielding men were believed to be federal agents, an alderman said.
patch.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Recruit a Democrat. Every seat. Every state. Waves need someone to ride them. Call your state party, sign up to run, or volunteer. Make the GOP fight for every inch. Let’s go! No seat left empty!
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Recruit a Democrat. Every seat. Every state. Waves need someone to ride them. Call your state party, sign up to run, or volunteer. Make the GOP fight for every inch. Let’s go! No seat left empty!
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We are strongest because we reflect the diversity of the nation.
Stop trying to engineer the “perfect” type. Start recruiting people who can actually connect with the people in front of them.
Tip O’Neill was right then and he’s right now - All politics is (& remains) LOCAL. #Election2025
Stop trying to engineer the “perfect” type. Start recruiting people who can actually connect with the people in front of them.
Tip O’Neill was right then and he’s right now - All politics is (& remains) LOCAL. #Election2025
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
We are strongest because we reflect the diversity of the nation.
Stop trying to engineer the “perfect” type. Start recruiting people who can actually connect with the people in front of them.
Tip O’Neill was right then and he’s right now - All politics is (& remains) LOCAL. #Election2025
Stop trying to engineer the “perfect” type. Start recruiting people who can actually connect with the people in front of them.
Tip O’Neill was right then and he’s right now - All politics is (& remains) LOCAL. #Election2025
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«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It’s building empires.»
The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
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"Democracy ... [is] being systematically hollowed out and replaced.
The question now is whether democratic societies can recognize this formation for what it is—and build alternatives before the infrastructure of control becomes too deeply embedded to dislodge."
The question now is whether democratic societies can recognize this formation for what it is—and build alternatives before the infrastructure of control becomes too deeply embedded to dislodge."
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"Democracy ... [is] being systematically hollowed out and replaced.
The question now is whether democratic societies can recognize this formation for what it is—and build alternatives before the infrastructure of control becomes too deeply embedded to dislodge."
The question now is whether democratic societies can recognize this formation for what it is—and build alternatives before the infrastructure of control becomes too deeply embedded to dislodge."
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“Simply, Trump has been a terrible, terrible leader and people are pissed. He has done clear material harm to the American people and our country, on purpose, by design. He has become wildly unpopular, his agenda (which Republicans have to run on next year) even more so.”
“In a blue wave election Americans deliver a powerful rebuke of Trump and republicans across the country.
People are pissed and we need to keep fighting."
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/in-a-blue-...
People are pissed and we need to keep fighting."
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/in-a-blue-...
In A Blue Wave Election Americans Deliver A Powerful Rebuke Of Trump And Republicans Across The Country
People are pissed and we need to keep fighting
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“Simply, Trump has been a terrible, terrible leader and people are pissed. He has done clear material harm to the American people and our country, on purpose, by design. He has become wildly unpopular, his agenda (which Republicans have to run on next year) even more so.”
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Scott Bessent, the TREASURY secretary, willingly and openly misinforms and miseducates Americans widely and publicly on social media.
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Scott Bessent, the TREASURY secretary, willingly and openly misinforms and miseducates Americans widely and publicly on social media.
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if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
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[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]
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White men and women still have serious issues in this country per voting breakdowns.
As a 35% white male Dem voter, you 65% need some self reflection. Embarrassing
As a 35% white male Dem voter, you 65% need some self reflection. Embarrassing
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
White men and women still have serious issues in this country per voting breakdowns.
As a 35% white male Dem voter, you 65% need some self reflection. Embarrassing
As a 35% white male Dem voter, you 65% need some self reflection. Embarrassing
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Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.
Nero would be proud.
Nero would be proud.
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.
Nero would be proud.
Nero would be proud.
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