Mike Sixel
@sixelmike.bsky.social
He/him
Pie is superior to cake. Frustrated liberal. Posts about gaming, birds or flowers, gratitude, too much politics.
Mikesixel.com
Pie is superior to cake. Frustrated liberal. Posts about gaming, birds or flowers, gratitude, too much politics.
Mikesixel.com
I wrote a scathing review of the dealership I bought my car from, but haven't posted it yet. I feel I need a cooling down period....
November 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I wrote a scathing review of the dealership I bought my car from, but haven't posted it yet. I feel I need a cooling down period....
Least shocking news ever. We need a new government, and laws like Europe, both for ownership and vacation time. And pretty much everything else.
Is this good? It doesn't seem good.
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
"Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."
Walgreens Cuts Pay for Hourly Store Workers After $10 Billion Buyout
Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Least shocking news ever. We need a new government, and laws like Europe, both for ownership and vacation time. And pretty much everything else.
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Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Think about buying a car, a fun, stress-free negotiating process that everybody loves. Now imagine that if you don’t buy a car you die and if you buy the wrong car you also die
I find that hand writing in my notebook often helps my mood. Today? Nothing can shake my anger over the democrats proving the youth right. They are complicit in the evil occurring in our nation.
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I find that hand writing in my notebook often helps my mood. Today? Nothing can shake my anger over the democrats proving the youth right. They are complicit in the evil occurring in our nation.
Primary all of them.
Democrats proving - again - they don't care about anything but their donors. Liquor and Regulated cannabis companies wanted this industry killed and they got it. And they did it while fucking us right in our affordable healthcare.
Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Primary all of them.
Always a good read.
Up on @fangraphs.com as I do each year, I discussed how I went about putting together the ballot for my award this year (NL Rookie of the Year).
blogs.fangraphs.com/my-2025-nati...
blogs.fangraphs.com/my-2025-nati...
My 2025 National League Rookie of the Year Ballot
Dan runs down his National League Rookie of the Year ballot.
blogs.fangraphs.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Always a good read.
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if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.
Democratic Senator Shaheen says "Hopefully the Republicans may hear us."
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.
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If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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new @fangraphs.com: Carlos Delgado went one-and-done on the 2015 ballot. Despite his 473 homers, he doesn't stack up well in WAR/JAWS, but his willingness to speak out against injustice makes him one of the most interesting HOF candidates I've covered.
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Carlos Delgado blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-contemp...
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Carlos Delgado
The longtime Blue Jays and Mets slugger bashed a ton of homers, and — more importantly — used his platform to speak out against injustice.
blogs.fangraphs.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
new @fangraphs.com: Carlos Delgado went one-and-done on the 2015 ballot. Despite his 473 homers, he doesn't stack up well in WAR/JAWS, but his willingness to speak out against injustice makes him one of the most interesting HOF candidates I've covered.
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I've been told not to give up. But the Democrats have. And they have actual power. And don't say it was only eight. If the others disagreed, Schumer would be out. This was a strategic vote.... By at least half the senators.
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I've been told not to give up. But the Democrats have. And they have actual power. And don't say it was only eight. If the others disagreed, Schumer would be out. This was a strategic vote.... By at least half the senators.
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Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
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Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
This. If the party really disagreed with the vote, Schumer would already be out as leader. Primary them all. Even the pretend liberals.
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This. If the party really disagreed with the vote, Schumer would already be out as leader. Primary them all. Even the pretend liberals.
@wyden.senate.gov how have you not replaced Schumer yet? I no longer believe in you or the other liberals at this point. Primary everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@wyden.senate.gov how have you not replaced Schumer yet? I no longer believe in you or the other liberals at this point. Primary everyone.
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Call a Senator that voted no tonight and demand that they vote to remove Chuck Schumer as Senate Minority Leader.
He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog
He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Call a Senator that voted no tonight and demand that they vote to remove Chuck Schumer as Senate Minority Leader.
He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog
He has weaponized his incompetence against the American people by allowing 8 Dem Senators to cave to an authoritarian regime. We need real leadership, not the oligarchy’s lapdog
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“The failure isn’t presumptively just on Schumer and the seven-plus rank-and-file senators who voted to cave. Assuming there are no consequences for the leadership failure, it’s also on the rest of the caucus.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
“The failure isn’t presumptively just on Schumer and the seven-plus rank-and-file senators who voted to cave. Assuming there are no consequences for the leadership failure, it’s also on the rest of the caucus.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
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Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.
Schumer couldn't vote for a democratic nominee, now he leads an utterly awful surrender. I'm giving zero dollars to democrats until he's out as leader. I'm asking you to do the same. And to let your democrat senator know he needs to be out as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Schumer couldn't vote for a democratic nominee, now he leads an utterly awful surrender. I'm giving zero dollars to democrats until he's out as leader. I'm asking you to do the same. And to let your democrat senator know he needs to be out as leader.
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The most relevant historical analogy is Senate Dems giving up their filibuster of Alito and other Bush nominees in exchange for a vague and unenforceable promise that Republicans wouldn't abuse the filibuster, a promise that needless to say they never even pretended to honor when they lost in 2026
This is key. The vote the Dems secured here is a fake nominal vote. Everyone knows this.
Markey & Pritzker weigh in…
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The most relevant historical analogy is Senate Dems giving up their filibuster of Alito and other Bush nominees in exchange for a vague and unenforceable promise that Republicans wouldn't abuse the filibuster, a promise that needless to say they never even pretended to honor when they lost in 2026
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.