Mikhail Gorbaechev
@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social
Once a Reverend of the Avocado kind. The General Secretary is dead, long live the General Secretary.
Pinned
I'm back.
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I'll go further and say that if you report the "Senate data" provision as being about Jack Smith you are actively lying to your readers. it is a bipartisan pro-corruption law that more or less confers immunity from corruption prosecutions on all 100 senators whether they want it or not.
this is being reported elsewhere as a sop to Republican senators angry about being investigated by Jack Smith but the language is honestly so much worse and so much broader than that.
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I'll go further and say that if you report the "Senate data" provision as being about Jack Smith you are actively lying to your readers. it is a bipartisan pro-corruption law that more or less confers immunity from corruption prosecutions on all 100 senators whether they want it or not.
She's not doing interviews because she's currently trying to stay upright after about a pint of Black Label.
Gillibrand says she is not doing interviews when I asked if she had spoken with Zohran Mamdani since his victory.
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
She's not doing interviews because she's currently trying to stay upright after about a pint of Black Label.
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we'll reunite after the 2026 primary cycle and not a moment sooner actually bsky.app/profile/whit...
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
we'll reunite after the 2026 primary cycle and not a moment sooner actually bsky.app/profile/whit...
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the vigil was pretty affecting. it was great to see all the support from a pretty white rural community, for them to hear the story a daughter told of her green-card holding mother being brutalized, knelt on, and interrogated while the DHS guys tried to make them admit her REAL ID was fake
I'm going to a vigil tonight that will almost certainly be under DHS surveillance to show solidarity with families whose loved ones were kidnapped in broad daylight what the fuck is Sheldon Whitehouse doing to face these 'dangers' of which he speaks, huh?
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the vigil was pretty affecting. it was great to see all the support from a pretty white rural community, for them to hear the story a daughter told of her green-card holding mother being brutalized, knelt on, and interrogated while the DHS guys tried to make them admit her REAL ID was fake
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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this shit is so enraging. don't fucking condescend to me, Sheldon, I know what you all did.
Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.
I get it. I have my own feelings.
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I get it. I have my own feelings.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
this shit is so enraging. don't fucking condescend to me, Sheldon, I know what you all did.
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it's not polite to say but we'd literally be better off as a country on net if every Democratic senator from a blue state dropped dead tomorrow and was replaced by some B-tier state politician appointed for their friendliness with the governor.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
it's not polite to say but we'd literally be better off as a country on net if every Democratic senator from a blue state dropped dead tomorrow and was replaced by some B-tier state politician appointed for their friendliness with the governor.
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“Eat shit forever, and if you want us to stop feeding you shit, you’re just dividing us”
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“Eat shit forever, and if you want us to stop feeding you shit, you’re just dividing us”
Let's fucking GOOOOOOOO
Hakeem Jeffries is about to get a primary challenger.
@chiosse.bsky.social will reportedly make an announcement about this in the coming weeks.
@chiosse.bsky.social will reportedly make an announcement about this in the coming weeks.
Against Mamdani’s Wishes, Gen Z Councilman Plans to Challenge Jeffries
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Let's fucking GOOOOOOOO
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Here is the requested take: publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Here is the requested take: publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
Was the promise "stop doing so much coke that you'd sweat in a walk in freezer"?
this is just like the diplomat
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Was the promise "stop doing so much coke that you'd sweat in a walk in freezer"?
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If Trump openly supports it you can also forget the "the House won't vote for it anyway!" theory - Johnson and the House will pass whatever they're told to
If you need confirmation Senate Democrats are fucking this whole thing up here you go. Excellent way to destroy the enthusiasm with huge Dem wins throughout the country up and down the ballot that were not even one week ago.
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
If Trump openly supports it you can also forget the "the House won't vote for it anyway!" theory - Johnson and the House will pass whatever they're told to
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
Primary them all!
🚨 Tim Kaine is saying the quiet part out loud - underscoring why anyone shouldn't be satisfied with any of the "no" statements or posts from Dem Senators.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
If Dem Senators are truly disgusted with this save they should be calling on #SurrenderSchumer to step aside as the Leader immediately.
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Primary them all!
This dude fucking rocks and is the only person other than AOC and the Khan I'd like to see run for President.
"When it comes to the issue of Palestinian rights going forward, I will say that the younger generation, of both Jews and non-Jews, take seriously the idea that we should have a principled, rights-based foreign policy— something I've long believed in"
Senator Chris Van Hollen on Zohran & Palestine.
Senator Chris Van Hollen on Zohran & Palestine.
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This dude fucking rocks and is the only person other than AOC and the Khan I'd like to see run for President.
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The quintessential example of the pro-Israel motte and bailey in action: it's not apartheid because the occupied West Bank is not a part of Israel, but everything in the occupied West Bank is a domestic issue for Israelis and the US has no business dictating to the Israelis on this.
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The quintessential example of the pro-Israel motte and bailey in action: it's not apartheid because the occupied West Bank is not a part of Israel, but everything in the occupied West Bank is a domestic issue for Israelis and the US has no business dictating to the Israelis on this.
If these people want to avoid internal recriminations, heads need to roll.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If these people want to avoid internal recriminations, heads need to roll.
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If you're from Colorado, Virginia, Rhode Island, or Delaware:
Mark your name or username on this sheet, then email or call a representative from your state to tell them to run against your Senator!
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Mark your name or username on this sheet, then email or call a representative from your state to tell them to run against your Senator!
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CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND ASK THEM TO RUN - PLEDGE
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November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you're from Colorado, Virginia, Rhode Island, or Delaware:
Mark your name or username on this sheet, then email or call a representative from your state to tell them to run against your Senator!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Mark your name or username on this sheet, then email or call a representative from your state to tell them to run against your Senator!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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if El-Sayed pulls it off I think this could be right. the ACA will be so gutted that just patching the holes won't be that appealing.
I think Medicare 4 All is going to rise from the ashes as a popular policy position for 2028
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
if El-Sayed pulls it off I think this could be right. the ACA will be so gutted that just patching the holes won't be that appealing.
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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oh baby something might be happening here, just need a few pushes (primaries)
Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
oh baby something might be happening here, just need a few pushes (primaries)
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Please celebrate David Simon calling me an asshole by joining DSA today: act.dsausa.org/s/3429.9wAmcW
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Please celebrate David Simon calling me an asshole by joining DSA today: act.dsausa.org/s/3429.9wAmcW
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like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure