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Pam Spaulding
@pamspaulding.bsky.social
Former natl political blogger, Pam's House Blend (2004-2013) during OG citizen journo era. Dipping back into pol discourse here. Spinal fusion vet (3x). DM only if I know IRL. Durham, NC native, now in Central Valley CA.

PHB history: https://is.gd/7GbAv2
"As 5 more Senate Ds joined Rs to pass a compromise bill to end the shutdown, @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com details how Speaker Johnson is the “big loser in this compromise” bc not only will his bill not be signed into law, but “the Epstein files come back to life in the House.”
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Lawrence: With Trump's shutdown ending, Dems are closer than ever to forcing Epstein files release
YouTube video by MSNBC
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November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
And the Ds caved to this POS.

He undermines his own regime by opening his mouth daily.

In Trump's mind a bunch of lazy black & brown people are on SNAP, not his own MAGAts. He's blind to facts. Many that face food insecurity WORK at jobs where inflation has always outpaced wages.
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Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
We could ask this question about a lot of things Drowsy Dementia Don's pulling 💰 out for.

- How is he paying for the Argentina bailout?
- The Qatar 747 upfit?

All of this is why you have oversight...oh, wait that requires a functioning Congress.

We need an audit.

📺 bsky.app/profile/atru...
TRUMP: The ones who stayed, I'm sending them a $10,000 bonus

INGRAHAM: Where's that money coming from?

TRUMP: I don't know. I'll get it from someplace.
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Co-sign 💯. Vance deserves all the couch blaster jokes & gossip — after all, he wants *us* to have a sense of humor re: Trump's "jokes."

JD is a fraud through & through & Erika's clearly defining the MAGA "grieving widow" image for them — w/o any of our help.
🧾 www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
People gossiped about JD Vance and Erika Kirk. Then, inevitably, came the "don't gossip" scoldings.

Screw it! Let's defend wild speculation. First, these two deserve it.

Second, the gossip tells us a lot about JD Vance's political future. An analysis.

www.salon.com/2025/11/10/w...
Why JD Vance and Erika Kirk's hug made tongues wag
The vice president’s current wife, Usha, is a growing political liability
www.salon.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Recidivism broken record bc this FOTUS loves other felons.

Drug dealer granted clemency by Decomposing Dictator, Jonathan Braun, is now heading back to the can for 27 months. He:
- screamed at synagogue member
- groped family’s nanny
- swung IV pole at nurse & threatened to kill her.
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Drug dealer granted clemency by Trump sent back to prison for violating terms of release
Man accused of groping family’s nanny, evading bridge tolls and swinging IV pole at nurse and threatening to kill her
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November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Tiny violin 🎻 for homobigot Kim Davis as SCOTUS refused to take her case. No explanation given. Obergefell v Hodges is safe for now.

"This is a win for same-sex couples everywhere who have built their families and lives around the right to marry."
🧾 is.gd/8As1iE
Supreme Court denies Kim Davis' petition to revisit same-sex marriage ruling
The judges will not revisit the landmark 2015 decision in Obergefell v Hodges.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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No surprise from the pedophile-protecting Mike Johnson.

Covering up crimes of child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, #PussyCommittee member Trump, & all the Elite Predators are more important than the People's Business.

#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles
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November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is 💯 from Steve Schmidt (@thewarningses.bsky.social).

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Chuck Schumer Fails to Fight Back Against Trump...AGAIN
YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Reposted by Pam Spaulding
Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The chutzpah of the pedophile-protector FELON crapping on air traffic controllers.

Decomposing Dictator Trump was literally sleeping on the job!

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November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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A reminder that even though Schumer voted no, he's the Senate Minority Leader, so this was either:
1. A performative, orchestrated "No" vote to attempt to protect himself on the left flank; or
2. We must believe he lost control of his caucus. 🙄

Leadership change mandatory.
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The 8 Senate Democratic Caucus members who voted to end the shutdown
There are few obvious threads connecting the group who broke the partisan impasse.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Pam Spaulding
@schumer.senate.gov let people go weeks without paychecks, let families lose access to SNAP and vital programs, all for nothing. No concessions, no vision, no fight.

And now they’ll ask us to work tirelessly to flip Congress next year, but why should anyone trust they’ll do better?
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Why does Decomposing Dictator believe a POTUS can pardon anyone for a state crime?

He doesn't even seem to know who he's pardoning from day to day, but surely pardon attorney *Ed Martin* knows Trump can't do this.

Is it another power grab to run up the SCOTUS flagpole?
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Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”

Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
📣 16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave: Another disgrace, and a new path forward
By @brianbeutler.bsky.social

"There are 47 Senate Democrats. Replacing Chuck Schumer as minority leader and Dick Durbin as whip would require just 24 votes."
🧾 www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
There's nothing worse than an orchestrated D surrender for nothing in return but promises from dishonest brokers. Chuck Schumer & the Surrender Senators know that *we know* who took part in the dance.

Voters will be reminded frequently and hopefully vote accordingly.
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Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
JFC. 🙄 8 Senate Ds sold us out for *a promise* from Rs for a "future vote on extending enhanced ACA subsidies."

BTW, no deal can pass unless Mike Johnson recalls the House (& swears in Adelita Grijalva!). He's previously said he would not hold a vote on extending the tax credits.

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Live updates: Senate reaches deal to extend government funding in major sign shutdown is poised to end | CNN Politics
Several Senate Democrats are signaling a willingness to vote to reopen the government if they secure some concessions from the White House, according to a source. Follow here for the latest.
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is *brutal*.

F this Decomposing Dictator.

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Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Tech bros want to control human behavior to the point of disabling executive function/decision making through algorithms/AI, cultivating social withdrawal.

This convo is depressing bc it's not far from reality.

Q: Think the problem, as described, is overstated?
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Scott Galloway on ‘a new species of asexual, asocial males’
YouTube video by CNN
youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What happens to people w/pre-existing conditions, care that exceeds govt funds put into a HSA?

People go w/o coverage, pushing more into the ER for inappropriate, inadequate care — & then the taxpayer pays for that anyway.

Too many remember those days...& will vote...not for Rs.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
📣 This 🧵 illustrates regime erasure of sacrifice & service of black service members during World War II. They served in segregated units & faced Jim Crow back home.

Memorials were removed based on a complaint from Heritage Foundation (of P2025 & defender of Nick Fuentes).
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
No self-accountability for allowing creation of violent images using AI. But what is wrong w/us as a species? 😱

"The videos are usually 10 seconds long and mostly feature a “teenage girl” being strangled, crying, & struggling to resist until her eyes close & she falls to the ground."
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OpenAI's Sora 2 is flooding social media with videos of women being strangled. Yet another example of generative AI companies failing to prevent users from creating media that violates their own policies against violent content.

www.404media.co/openais-sora...
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Reposted by Pam Spaulding
Seriously who is advising Dem Senators on this fucked up strategy? Just themselves and their savvy strategists?

It's like they just do not care what the base thinks - even after last week's stunningly good elections. I know it's a bubble up there on the hill but this seems especially reckless
“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🤣 The Decomposing Dictator blindsides his own people AGAIN.

So if these tariffs pay for this $2,000 "dividend" & SCOTUS shoots down his tariffs that must be paid back, where does the 💰 come from?

Scott Bessent is left holding the bag since Trump didn't speak to him about it. 🤡😆
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November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Can't accuse Trump's DOJ of making sense. (Note the tax 💰 & humiliating effort spent on the DC Sandwich Guy case. 🤣)

I don't think any jury could put out of their minds the endless boasting by Decomposing Dictator about Qatar's 747 gift (costing us billions of tax 💰 to strip/upfit).
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Um, do federal prosecutors *really* want to take the position that it's not okay to receive something of value from … Qatar?

I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Surprised some folks across the pond didn't take the long arm of litigious mob boss Trump seriously. This unforced error by BBC, editing footage from Trump's Jan 6th speech to imply an *explicit order* to attack the Capitol, was unwise; he's extorted for *far less*.
🧾 www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign - live updates
Davie says
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM