Patrice Dunckley
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Notice. Decide. Skill up. Act. Repeat.
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There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
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Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?
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If you're close to Edwardsville tomorrow, come see me!
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If you're close to Edwardsville tomorrow, come see me!
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🚨BREAKING: In a case with major implications for voting access, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether a mail-in ballot must be received by Election Day to count, or if it merely must be sent by then. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS to Hear GOP Lawsuit That Could Radically Restrict Mail Voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a case with major implications for voting access, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether a mail-in ballot must be received by Election Day to count, or if it merely must be sent by then. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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November 9, 2025
November 9, 2025
In order to pressure the Democrats to cave to Trump’s demands that they sign on to the House Republicans’ continuing resolution to fund the government, the administration has been refusing to fund the...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
November 9, 2025
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That’s what it is, what I was getting at about my texts this morning.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
That’s what it is, what I was getting at about my texts this morning.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.
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This.
This.
This.
This.
This.
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 1:34 PM
This.
This.
This.
This.
This.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
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Hey Senate Dems, mike johnson said last week he WOULD NOT promise a vote on tax credits!!!
Do you know what a bill the passes the senate but doesn't pass the house is called?
It's called NOTHING!
The republicans wont even hang the January 6th plaque (which is already law) They played you.
Do you know what a bill the passes the senate but doesn't pass the house is called?
It's called NOTHING!
The republicans wont even hang the January 6th plaque (which is already law) They played you.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Hey Senate Dems, mike johnson said last week he WOULD NOT promise a vote on tax credits!!!
Do you know what a bill the passes the senate but doesn't pass the house is called?
It's called NOTHING!
The republicans wont even hang the January 6th plaque (which is already law) They played you.
Do you know what a bill the passes the senate but doesn't pass the house is called?
It's called NOTHING!
The republicans wont even hang the January 6th plaque (which is already law) They played you.
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Dems held out for 40 days for nothing?
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dems held out for 40 days for nothing?
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Dear Senate Dems,
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Dear Senate Dems,
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
Republicans don’t keep their promises…
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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MAGA folks are claiming that Trump can’t fund SNAP even if he wants to because it’s against the law.
First, no it’s not.
Second, he’s a 34 time convicted felon. He was found liable for sexual assault. He’s been murdering people in the Caribbean.
Don’t pretend he cares about the law.
First, no it’s not.
Second, he’s a 34 time convicted felon. He was found liable for sexual assault. He’s been murdering people in the Caribbean.
Don’t pretend he cares about the law.
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
MAGA folks are claiming that Trump can’t fund SNAP even if he wants to because it’s against the law.
First, no it’s not.
Second, he’s a 34 time convicted felon. He was found liable for sexual assault. He’s been murdering people in the Caribbean.
Don’t pretend he cares about the law.
First, no it’s not.
Second, he’s a 34 time convicted felon. He was found liable for sexual assault. He’s been murdering people in the Caribbean.
Don’t pretend he cares about the law.
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Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
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If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.
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Call your senators.
NOW.
NOW.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Call your senators.
NOW.
NOW.
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NO FOOD FOR YOU: The Trump administration tells states to “immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025"
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
NO FOOD FOR YOU: The Trump administration tells states to “immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025"
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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