@OldAndCranky
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She/her Boring old person. Currently embarrassed to be American. I have friends everywhere. #IDIC No starter packs please!!!
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A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.
Anyone with even a casual interest in film as an art form should watch the Apple+ documentary Mr. Scorsese. Splendid.
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Anyone with even a casual interest in film as an art form should watch the Apple+ documentary Mr. Scorsese. Splendid.
Joyce Carol Oates is a goddess.
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Joyce Carol Oates is a goddess.
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for context
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
for context
Hallelujah
SCOTUS, without comment, rejects appeal by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis to overturn its 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hallelujah
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⚡️ SCOTUS will NOT overturn marriage equality 🎉
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
⚡️ SCOTUS will NOT overturn marriage equality 🎉
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Absolutely correct
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.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Absolutely correct
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Tim Kaine (VA)
John Fetterman (PA)
Dick Durbin (IL)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
Jackie Rosen (NV)
Angus King (ME)
They do not support the concept of a fundamental right to healthcare. They sold the American people out. They must be primaried and stay gone.
Chuck Schumer too.
John Fetterman (PA)
Dick Durbin (IL)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
Jackie Rosen (NV)
Angus King (ME)
They do not support the concept of a fundamental right to healthcare. They sold the American people out. They must be primaried and stay gone.
Chuck Schumer too.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Tim Kaine (VA)
John Fetterman (PA)
Dick Durbin (IL)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
Jackie Rosen (NV)
Angus King (ME)
They do not support the concept of a fundamental right to healthcare. They sold the American people out. They must be primaried and stay gone.
Chuck Schumer too.
John Fetterman (PA)
Dick Durbin (IL)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
Jackie Rosen (NV)
Angus King (ME)
They do not support the concept of a fundamental right to healthcare. They sold the American people out. They must be primaried and stay gone.
Chuck Schumer too.
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)
They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.
The Senate Democrats!
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Given that Fetterman, Hassan, King, and Shaheen vote with Trump as much as they do, there's no reason to assume they just don't agree with him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Given that Fetterman, Hassan, King, and Shaheen vote with Trump as much as they do, there's no reason to assume they just don't agree with him.
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I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵
I thought my new health insurance premium was going to be $350 per month until I got this letter informing me that it would be $1,228.28 PER MONTH. I CURRENTLY PAY $50. Is my math mathing? Is that.... a 2,356.42% increase?
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
2256.42%????
TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY SIX POINT FORTY TWO PERCENT😩
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵
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This is an absolute betrayal of every democratic vote the party just won. And they think these same voters won’t remember this in 26?
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is an absolute betrayal of every democratic vote the party just won. And they think these same voters won’t remember this in 26?
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Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
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Chuck Schumer will go down in history as one of the Republican Party’s most effective Senators.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Chuck Schumer will go down in history as one of the Republican Party’s most effective Senators.
This song nicely illustrates what the Dem leadership is doing to us right now. Right between the eyes. youtu.be/l0DjrXDBJnU?...
Bruce Springsteen - Point Blank (studio)
YouTube video by mnls0
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November 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This song nicely illustrates what the Dem leadership is doing to us right now. Right between the eyes. youtu.be/l0DjrXDBJnU?...
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America is in a fight for its very survival. And the leaders of the Democratic Party in the US Senate are just not up to the challenge. Time to turn the page on them. With prejudice.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
America is in a fight for its very survival. And the leaders of the Democratic Party in the US Senate are just not up to the challenge. Time to turn the page on them. With prejudice.
I hear that reality is quite annoying tonight… do I want to know what’s happening or can I return to blissful ignorance?
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I hear that reality is quite annoying tonight… do I want to know what’s happening or can I return to blissful ignorance?
Watched Del Toro’s #Frankenstein - it’s gorgeous but it lost me about 2/3rds of the way through and I became less enchanted and kind of bored. It would’ve been nice to see it on the big screen but it went to streaming so quickly.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Watched Del Toro’s #Frankenstein - it’s gorgeous but it lost me about 2/3rds of the way through and I became less enchanted and kind of bored. It would’ve been nice to see it on the big screen but it went to streaming so quickly.
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I get why people are upset about SCOTUS putting a temp freeze on SNAP funding. But Justice Ketanji Brown’s move is more strategic than it sounds—she said the 1st Circuit Court should rule first. Trump skipped that step and went straight to SCOTUS. See article for full context….1
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I get why people are upset about SCOTUS putting a temp freeze on SNAP funding. But Justice Ketanji Brown’s move is more strategic than it sounds—she said the 1st Circuit Court should rule first. Trump skipped that step and went straight to SCOTUS. See article for full context….1
Wordlebot continues to give me attitude. I must destroy it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Wordlebot continues to give me attitude. I must destroy it.
“Sir, I guess there’s just a meanness in this world”
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“Sir, I guess there’s just a meanness in this world”
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In Europe universal healthcare, free childcare, free transportation; what Americans regards Zohran Mamdani’s policies as radical, for Europeans it is ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
In Europe universal healthcare, free childcare, free transportation; what Americans regards Zohran Mamdani’s policies as radical, for Europeans it is ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Nancy Pelosi gave us so many fierce moments. This is just one of them. Ripping up his 🐂 💩 State of the Union address. Epic.
She never hesitates to tell the truth about the felon, whether quietly or out loud.
#LikeABoss
She never hesitates to tell the truth about the felon, whether quietly or out loud.
#LikeABoss
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Nancy Pelosi gave us so many fierce moments. This is just one of them. Ripping up his 🐂 💩 State of the Union address. Epic.
She never hesitates to tell the truth about the felon, whether quietly or out loud.
#LikeABoss
She never hesitates to tell the truth about the felon, whether quietly or out loud.
#LikeABoss