The Robesse
@robesse.bsky.social
Solid center left sh*t poster and fanboy for the USWNT ⚽️. Don’t expect too much rigor as my interests are a mile wide but an inch deep 😜
Annie: We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover
YouTube video by Annie Ensemble - Topic
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April 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.
March 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.
Is it alarmist to say this is a test of martial law?
Trump invokes 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua
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Trump invokes 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua
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Trump enacts a 1790s law to target 'alien enemies' for detention and deportation
In a presidential action Saturday, Trump invoked the wartime authority Alien Enemies Act, targeting members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to immediate detention and deportation.
www.npr.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Is it alarmist to say this is a test of martial law?
Trump invokes 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
Trump invokes 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
This! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Sen. Jeff Merkley said Schumer’s reversal made his own opposition even more of a “hell no.”
“You don’t stop a bully by handing over your lunch money,” Merkley told CNN. “That’s exactly what this House spending bill does.”
“You don’t stop a bully by handing over your lunch money,” Merkley told CNN. “That’s exactly what this House spending bill does.”
Democratic Senator Torches Chuck Schumer for Caving to “Bully” Trump
Senator Jeff Merkley isn’t backing down.
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
DOGE is not about efficiency or reducing spending. It’s about removing barriers to crony capitalism.
March 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
DOGE is not about efficiency or reducing spending. It’s about removing barriers to crony capitalism.
Primary Schumer. Bye Felicia
March 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Primary Schumer. Bye Felicia
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1. Impoundment is illegal
2. Why would Dems approve funding legislation that Trump can unilaterally veto? What's the point of having a Congress at all if the president controls the purse strings?
2. Why would Dems approve funding legislation that Trump can unilaterally veto? What's the point of having a Congress at all if the president controls the purse strings?
March 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
1. Impoundment is illegal
2. Why would Dems approve funding legislation that Trump can unilaterally veto? What's the point of having a Congress at all if the president controls the purse strings?
2. Why would Dems approve funding legislation that Trump can unilaterally veto? What's the point of having a Congress at all if the president controls the purse strings?
I don’t agree that vaccination is a personal choice. Yes it’s an individual action but refusing vaccines puts everyone else at risk not just you. If you were to sh*t in a bucket and toss it in the gutter that is also an individual action that has consequences for those around you.
March 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I don’t agree that vaccination is a personal choice. Yes it’s an individual action but refusing vaccines puts everyone else at risk not just you. If you were to sh*t in a bucket and toss it in the gutter that is also an individual action that has consequences for those around you.
I called my US senators. The junior senator’s mailbox is full! Damn. Guess I’m not the only one p*ssed off.
March 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I called my US senators. The junior senator’s mailbox is full! Damn. Guess I’m not the only one p*ssed off.
POTUS47: There will be a period of adjustment.
The other 98% of us? See below.
The other 98% of us? See below.
March 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
POTUS47: There will be a period of adjustment.
The other 98% of us? See below.
The other 98% of us? See below.
Towards the end the host reads a letter from Ithaca that could be from any of us. We are incensed and reps seem “concerned.” Somebody slap somebody. Get mad! Go all in Rep Al Green! Commit to the inside line and overtake!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/o...
Opinion | ‘Is the Destruction the Point?’: Three Opinion Writers on Trump’s First 50 Days
Michelle Goldberg and Frank Bruni join Patrick Healy to discuss the issues that have defined Trump’s presidency thus far.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Towards the end the host reads a letter from Ithaca that could be from any of us. We are incensed and reps seem “concerned.” Somebody slap somebody. Get mad! Go all in Rep Al Green! Commit to the inside line and overtake!
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/o...
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Do you ever absentmindedly eat that last morsel on the plate and wonder, “wait, was that the bit that fell on the floor?”
March 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Do you ever absentmindedly eat that last morsel on the plate and wonder, “wait, was that the bit that fell on the floor?”
I’m still blown away how cunning POTUS47 is but also how also an idiot. Jobs in Windsor mean money spent in Detroit. Jobs in Ciudad Juarez mean money spent in El Paso. We are intimately connected and breaking those ties only does harm. It does no good. None. Never.
March 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I’m still blown away how cunning POTUS47 is but also how also an idiot. Jobs in Windsor mean money spent in Detroit. Jobs in Ciudad Juarez mean money spent in El Paso. We are intimately connected and breaking those ties only does harm. It does no good. None. Never.
March 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
Mike Johnson: "We're transitioning from Bidenomics and the terrible economy that was delivered by the last administration. It takes a while to turn that ship around."
March 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
Explosive meeting
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...
Explosive rocket
techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/s...
I’m getting a vibe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...
Explosive rocket
techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/s...
I’m getting a vibe.
Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk
Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Explosive meeting
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...
Explosive rocket
techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/s...
I’m getting a vibe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...
Explosive rocket
techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/s...
I’m getting a vibe.
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I have talked to veterans all over the country. They’re not happy that, when the VA is already understaffed, Musk wants to dismember the VA by laying off 83,000 employees.
A commitment has been made to those who put their lives on the line to defend us. We must not betray them.
A commitment has been made to those who put their lives on the line to defend us. We must not betray them.
March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I have talked to veterans all over the country. They’re not happy that, when the VA is already understaffed, Musk wants to dismember the VA by laying off 83,000 employees.
A commitment has been made to those who put their lives on the line to defend us. We must not betray them.
A commitment has been made to those who put their lives on the line to defend us. We must not betray them.
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Given that Trump is empowering Nazi wannabe Musk and has let neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists take high level posts, this has nothing to do with "antisemitism." It is the garden-variety war against higher education that right-wing authoritarians always do. abc7ny.com/post/trump-a...
Trump administration cancels $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University
The administration said the cuts were made because of "the school's continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students,"
abc7ny.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Given that Trump is empowering Nazi wannabe Musk and has let neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists take high level posts, this has nothing to do with "antisemitism." It is the garden-variety war against higher education that right-wing authoritarians always do. abc7ny.com/post/trump-a...
Mayors are the best. Mayor Wu is the best of the best!
Shame on Tom Homan for lying about the City of Boston.
March 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Mayors are the best. Mayor Wu is the best of the best!
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
The retaliatory tariffs against ag exports are not sustainable. Ag is export dependent. Some industries (high grade rice) are almost exclusively exported. Domestic demand is not enough to support current production and prices. It’s insanity to think ag can adjust to reduced exports without loss of
March 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The retaliatory tariffs against ag exports are not sustainable. Ag is export dependent. Some industries (high grade rice) are almost exclusively exported. Domestic demand is not enough to support current production and prices. It’s insanity to think ag can adjust to reduced exports without loss of
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COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."
@latenightercom.bsky.social
So. Thousands of federal workers and employees of federal contractors have been kicked to the curb with no legit reason with little or no notice and members of Congress are worried about getting primaried???!!! Get a grip and grow a spine! #stopdoge
March 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
So. Thousands of federal workers and employees of federal contractors have been kicked to the curb with no legit reason with little or no notice and members of Congress are worried about getting primaried???!!! Get a grip and grow a spine! #stopdoge
David Farenthold does a great analysis of DOGE’s wall of receipts on todays Daily at NYT.
Listen where you get your podcasts.
Listen where you get your podcasts.
March 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
David Farenthold does a great analysis of DOGE’s wall of receipts on todays Daily at NYT.
Listen where you get your podcasts.
Listen where you get your podcasts.