Mike Sacks
@mikesacks.bsky.social
NY-17 Congressional Candidate. Democracy advocate. Former political-legal journalist. Retired competitive air guitarist. Second-Best dad ever.
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Mike Sacks
@mikesacks.bsky.social
· Apr 9
Unf*ck Our Country
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I’m running for Congress.
I’ve spent my career holding the powerful accountable as a political & legal journalist. I’m running for Congress to tell you the truth, fight for New York, and Unf*ck Our Country.
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I’ve spent my career holding the powerful accountable as a political & legal journalist. I’m running for Congress to tell you the truth, fight for New York, and Unf*ck Our Country.
Join us: secure.actblue.com/donate/mbs-e...
Learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=20U5...
It’s almost as if he wants to create the political conditions for a pissed off electorate to demand Medicare for All just so he can go back to the private sector, shatter his old company’s $1.7B health care fraud record, and get away with it again
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
It’s almost as if he wants to create the political conditions for a pissed off electorate to demand Medicare for All just so he can go back to the private sector, shatter his old company’s $1.7B health care fraud record, and get away with it again
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Whatever’s happening in the Senate, I want everyone to read this & remember that this is our lives. In Chicago. The suburbs. Everywhere. We fight it every day. With organizing. With cantankerousness. With courage. With humor & kindness & generosity & solidarity & patriotism & love
And we will win
And we will win
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Whatever’s happening in the Senate, I want everyone to read this & remember that this is our lives. In Chicago. The suburbs. Everywhere. We fight it every day. With organizing. With cantankerousness. With courage. With humor & kindness & generosity & solidarity & patriotism & love
And we will win
And we will win
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These ghouls refuse to give ordinary people a cause of action against fed officials for legit constitutional violations, but go to bat with a *retroactive* cause of action for their insurrectionist colleagues crying for being caught conspiring to overturn an election. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
These ghouls refuse to give ordinary people a cause of action against fed officials for legit constitutional violations, but go to bat with a *retroactive* cause of action for their insurrectionist colleagues crying for being caught conspiring to overturn an election. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Corruption
NEW: Trump pardons the husband of GOP Rep. Diana Harshbarger.
Bob Harshbarger pleaded guilty to fraud & distributing kidney drugs from China that weren't FDA approved.
His wife was an officer in the company, but claimed she wasn't involved.
The WH says the pardon was not related to his last name
Bob Harshbarger pleaded guilty to fraud & distributing kidney drugs from China that weren't FDA approved.
His wife was an officer in the company, but claimed she wasn't involved.
The WH says the pardon was not related to his last name
Trump Pardons the Husband of a Republican Congressional Ally
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Corruption
These ghouls refuse to give ordinary people a cause of action against fed officials for legit constitutional violations, but go to bat with a *retroactive* cause of action for their insurrectionist colleagues crying for being caught conspiring to overturn an election. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
These ghouls refuse to give ordinary people a cause of action against fed officials for legit constitutional violations, but go to bat with a *retroactive* cause of action for their insurrectionist colleagues crying for being caught conspiring to overturn an election. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Meanwhile KBJ’s deadline is just before midnight tomorrow (Tuesday) on whether to give Trump a pass for unlawfully starving people as a political pressure point.
Looks like the Senate will pass the CR deal tonight - but the government will stay in shutdown mode for another two days (into Wednesday) because the House is not in D.C.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Meanwhile KBJ’s deadline is just before midnight tomorrow (Tuesday) on whether to give Trump a pass for unlawfully starving people as a political pressure point.
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Most alarmingly, only Senators trapped in this bubble could believe, against all evidence, that preserving the filibuster is a pro-democracy, save-the-Republic move, as opposed to the very thing that is rotting away the Republic, which is the deep disconnect between elections and policy outcomes.
I imagine what actually scared them into caving was the threat of Trump getting Republicans to actually eliminate the filibuster
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Most alarmingly, only Senators trapped in this bubble could believe, against all evidence, that preserving the filibuster is a pro-democracy, save-the-Republic move, as opposed to the very thing that is rotting away the Republic, which is the deep disconnect between elections and policy outcomes.
This case in a nutshell
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This case in a nutshell
The past few months has had casual observers freaking out while SCOTUS heads have been repeating at every turn “they’re not gonna take this case” and, well…
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The past few months has had casual observers freaking out while SCOTUS heads have been repeating at every turn “they’re not gonna take this case” and, well…
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CA1 says Trump must comply with Judge McConnell’s order to fully fund SNAP for November from contingency funds during shutdown.
KBJ’s 48-hour stay now begins, but query whether the full SCOTUS will extend it until Congress passes the CR directly funding SNAP.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
KBJ’s 48-hour stay now begins, but query whether the full SCOTUS will extend it until Congress passes the CR directly funding SNAP.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
CA1 says Trump must comply with Judge McConnell’s order to fully fund SNAP for November from contingency funds during shutdown.
KBJ’s 48-hour stay now begins, but query whether the full SCOTUS will extend it until Congress passes the CR directly funding SNAP.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
KBJ’s 48-hour stay now begins, but query whether the full SCOTUS will extend it until Congress passes the CR directly funding SNAP.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
Meanwhile I just sobbed my way through watching Chris Cornell’s daughters honoring their dad at Soundgarden’s Rock Hall induction
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Meanwhile I just sobbed my way through watching Chris Cornell’s daughters honoring their dad at Soundgarden’s Rock Hall induction
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
It appears that the Senate has lived up to my expectations of the Senate. But I'm voting no on this bill once it gets to the House. Cutting Americans healthcare and locking in assaults on Congress' power of the purse ain't gonna happen with my consent.
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Get ready.
But guess what! Even if Dems did ride to Republicans’ rescue this time, Trump’s monarchists in the White House will still illegally—and indefinitely—defund the very government functions Republicans are trying to blame the Democrats for temporarily shutting down.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Get ready.
And yet.
This is about more than health care. Republicans control Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court. They are wielding the gov’t like a weapon against their fellow Americans. If they want to keep funding such cruelty, corruption, and criminality, they can nuke the filibuster and get on with it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
And yet.
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So, in addition to the bullshit promise, the Trump administration won't be able to do things they legally could not do anyway? Good work!
Welp, that’s the Senate side of the shutdown over, it seems.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
So, in addition to the bullshit promise, the Trump administration won't be able to do things they legally could not do anyway? Good work!
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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.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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.
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There are endless examples of this regime of the bullies for the billionaires attacking our people. When we make believe we're in a fight for healthcare subsidies alone, as critical as those are, negotiating in good faith as if MAGA were normal party - we normalize the regime.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
There are endless examples of this regime of the bullies for the billionaires attacking our people. When we make believe we're in a fight for healthcare subsidies alone, as critical as those are, negotiating in good faith as if MAGA were normal party - we normalize the regime.
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I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
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If you’re disgusted by people who take government money and do no work then the people who disgust you are House Republicans
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you’re disgusted by people who take government money and do no work then the people who disgust you are House Republicans
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“I have to face the reality that I am probably going to become a late-stage cancer patient who’s uninsured. I have fought this so hard. I want to live.”
A cancer patient's $541 monthly premium will jump to $1,758.
Democrats are fighting for her.
Republicans are not.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
A cancer patient's $541 monthly premium will jump to $1,758.
Democrats are fighting for her.
Republicans are not.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions | CNN Politics
Millions of Americans with Affordable Care Act policies are contending with the looming lapse of the enhanced subsidies. The increased cost of coverage can lead to agonizing tradeoffs for many enrolle...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“I have to face the reality that I am probably going to become a late-stage cancer patient who’s uninsured. I have fought this so hard. I want to live.”
A cancer patient's $541 monthly premium will jump to $1,758.
Democrats are fighting for her.
Republicans are not.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
A cancer patient's $541 monthly premium will jump to $1,758.
Democrats are fighting for her.
Republicans are not.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...