Margie Cook
@margie-cook.bsky.social
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This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.
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Idea: Tell Durbin to retire early. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Idea: Tell Durbin to retire early. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
@durbin.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us @senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us
"The Sunday Night Sellout" heard round the country.
"The Sunday Night Sellout" heard round the country.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
@durbin.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us @senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us
"The Sunday Night Sellout" heard round the country.
"The Sunday Night Sellout" heard round the country.
@kaine.senate.gov
What a clueless, stupid move.
What a clueless, stupid move.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
@kaine.senate.gov
What a clueless, stupid move.
What a clueless, stupid move.
@fetterman.senate.gov
You are clueless.
You are clueless.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
@fetterman.senate.gov
You are clueless.
You are clueless.
@durbin.senate.gov
You are an embarassment.
You are an embarassment.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
@durbin.senate.gov
You are an embarassment.
You are an embarassment.
@hassan.senate.gov
You are clueless.
You are clueless.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
@hassan.senate.gov
You are clueless.
You are clueless.
@shaheen.senate.gov
You are clueless.
You are clueless.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
@shaheen.senate.gov
You are clueless.
You are clueless.
@durbin.senate.gov
You are such a disappointment. Again.
You are such a disappointment. Again.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
@durbin.senate.gov
You are such a disappointment. Again.
You are such a disappointment. Again.
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
NO on the "deal" for a "scheduled vote" on ACA! You have got to be kidding, Dems! Please don't do this.
NO on the "deal" for a "scheduled vote" on ACA! You have got to be kidding, Dems! Please don't do this.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
NO on the "deal" for a "scheduled vote" on ACA! You have got to be kidding, Dems! Please don't do this.
NO on the "deal" for a "scheduled vote" on ACA! You have got to be kidding, Dems! Please don't do this.
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Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
April 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
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Catastrophic. This is what Mike Johnson has allowed Musk to do.
March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
This was before the tariffs
It's just...unbelievable
April 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Catastrophic. This is what Mike Johnson has allowed Musk to do.
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@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
April 1, 2025
Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
“Let’s get in good trouble.
“My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.”
According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.
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#OtD 1 Apr 1982 oil company Exxon made a private report on CO2. It showed burning fossil fuels would cause global warming which may be irreversible and could be detectable by 1995. They then spent $31m to spread false propaganda claiming the opposite stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8039...
April 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#OtD 1 Apr 1982 oil company Exxon made a private report on CO2. It showed burning fossil fuels would cause global warming which may be irreversible and could be detectable by 1995. They then spent $31m to spread false propaganda claiming the opposite stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8039...
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Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA?
President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants…
The book is called “The Jungle.”
President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants…
The book is called “The Jungle.”
April 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA?
President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants…
The book is called “The Jungle.”
President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants…
The book is called “The Jungle.”
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Tonight, between Booker and the Florida results, is a night to remember that the unraveling of American democracy is not inevitable. Trumpism’s vision for the future is not inevitable. We have a voice—and a vote too.
April 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Tonight, between Booker and the Florida results, is a night to remember that the unraveling of American democracy is not inevitable. Trumpism’s vision for the future is not inevitable. We have a voice—and a vote too.
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What Trump & Kennedy are doing to public health is a national tragedy
HHS doctors, scientists and tobacco control staff, rare disease experts, cancer drug wizards -- all fired today or leaving in recent weeks.
Yet.
🚨 At HHS, staff make up less than one percent of the overall agency budget. 🚨
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Yet.
🚨 At HHS, staff make up less than one percent of the overall agency budget. 🚨
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
Federal Health Workers Make Up Less Than 1% of Agency Spending (Gift Article)
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing ho...
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What Trump & Kennedy are doing to public health is a national tragedy
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
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April 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I will stand and speak with @booker.senate.gov
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov
WILL YOU?
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov
WILL YOU?
April 2, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I will stand and speak with @booker.senate.gov
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov
WILL YOU?
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov
WILL YOU?
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📢 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 5.
Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance.
Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance.
Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
March 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
📢 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 5.
Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance.
Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance.
Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...
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Trump and DOGE are dismantling Social Security— firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering offices.
Why? Because they don't want one of the govt's most successful programs to work.
They want to pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.
Why? Because they don't want one of the govt's most successful programs to work.
They want to pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.
March 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Trump and DOGE are dismantling Social Security— firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering offices.
Why? Because they don't want one of the govt's most successful programs to work.
They want to pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.
Why? Because they don't want one of the govt's most successful programs to work.
They want to pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement.
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“While government shutdowns are always harmful, by failing to stand up to Republicans now, they have committed a catastrophic strategic blunder that will cost our environment and climate dearly," said @bretthartl.bsky.social, Center Government Affairs Director.
March 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“While government shutdowns are always harmful, by failing to stand up to Republicans now, they have committed a catastrophic strategic blunder that will cost our environment and climate dearly," said @bretthartl.bsky.social, Center Government Affairs Director.
@durbin.senate.gov
I will never vote for you again. Done.
I will never vote for you again. Done.
March 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
@durbin.senate.gov
I will never vote for you again. Done.
I will never vote for you again. Done.
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Rollover and play dead wins. I'm honestly really sorry everyone. This is a bad, depressing outcome. We tried our best, and we didn't succeed. We're circling up with Indivisible group leaders over the next day to plan for what accountability will look like. Stay tuned.
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
March 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Rollover and play dead wins. I'm honestly really sorry everyone. This is a bad, depressing outcome. We tried our best, and we didn't succeed. We're circling up with Indivisible group leaders over the next day to plan for what accountability will look like. Stay tuned.