Tom Cairney
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i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 AM
i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman
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the dodgers can't beat the mets when the dodgers ARE the mets
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
the dodgers can't beat the mets when the dodgers ARE the mets
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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Well, at least he admits he should have quit his Senate race.
Maybe PA could have had Conor Lamb as its US Senator, instead of John Fetterman.
And, I guess he was too busy writing his book to meet with his constituents, like me.
Excellent reporting from the Inquirer.
share.inquirer.com/q286ET
Maybe PA could have had Conor Lamb as its US Senator, instead of John Fetterman.
And, I guess he was too busy writing his book to meet with his constituents, like me.
Excellent reporting from the Inquirer.
share.inquirer.com/q286ET
John Fetterman said he ‘should have quit’ Senate bid in an excerpt from his new book
John Fetterman gave an emotional look into his struggle with depression in an excerpt of his new book Unfettered.
share.inquirer.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Well, at least he admits he should have quit his Senate race.
Maybe PA could have had Conor Lamb as its US Senator, instead of John Fetterman.
And, I guess he was too busy writing his book to meet with his constituents, like me.
Excellent reporting from the Inquirer.
share.inquirer.com/q286ET
Maybe PA could have had Conor Lamb as its US Senator, instead of John Fetterman.
And, I guess he was too busy writing his book to meet with his constituents, like me.
Excellent reporting from the Inquirer.
share.inquirer.com/q286ET
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Just noticed on an old VHS that Robert Patrick was wearing a NIN shirt when he was 3D scanned for the T-1000. That would have been 1990, so he was proudly supporting his brother Richard Patrick, who was in a new band called Nine Inch Nails at the time.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Just noticed on an old VHS that Robert Patrick was wearing a NIN shirt when he was 3D scanned for the T-1000. That would have been 1990, so he was proudly supporting his brother Richard Patrick, who was in a new band called Nine Inch Nails at the time.
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I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
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This is a fever dream.
Kaine says he thinks Johnson will have no choice but to take up the subsidies if it passes through the Senate. "And if it comes out of here bipartisan, he cannot not take it up without having November 2026 make November 2025 look like a picnic."
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is a fever dream.
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it's still funny that the wunderkind bright idea to fill a job is "someone already doing one of the other 9 identical jobs." classic outside-the-box youngster gm telling the boss to "sign the american league all stars" thinking. you can't lose!
Bari Weiss’ interest in high-profile journalists under contract at rival networks has struck insiders as naïve, and raised questions about her recruiting tactics. Meanwhile, CBS News staffers are bracing for another round of layoffs.
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Weiss’ Anchor Wishlist
Bari Weiss’ interest in high-profile journalists under contract at rival networks has struck insiders as naïve, and raised questions about her recruiting tactics. Meanwhile, CBS News staffers are bra...
www.status.news
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
it's still funny that the wunderkind bright idea to fill a job is "someone already doing one of the other 9 identical jobs." classic outside-the-box youngster gm telling the boss to "sign the american league all stars" thinking. you can't lose!
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More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
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what many centrist scolds of bluesky(tm) don't get is most lefty left shitheads on here are desperate to give dems a chance, they HUNGER to believe, and yet centrist dem reps trip over their own dicks on the first hurdle every time
it's not being a spoiler to expect your reps to stand up to fascism
it's not being a spoiler to expect your reps to stand up to fascism
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
what many centrist scolds of bluesky(tm) don't get is most lefty left shitheads on here are desperate to give dems a chance, they HUNGER to believe, and yet centrist dem reps trip over their own dicks on the first hurdle every time
it's not being a spoiler to expect your reps to stand up to fascism
it's not being a spoiler to expect your reps to stand up to fascism
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No notes….nailed it 🎯
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
No notes….nailed it 🎯
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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With alt text.
But also, I told you when used effectively shame works. The problem is Elon isn't shamed by normal things like the weight of being responsible for the deaths of 600,000 people, or being a white supremacist or whatever. Oates just landed on a pressure point.
But also, I told you when used effectively shame works. The problem is Elon isn't shamed by normal things like the weight of being responsible for the deaths of 600,000 people, or being a white supremacist or whatever. Oates just landed on a pressure point.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
With alt text.
But also, I told you when used effectively shame works. The problem is Elon isn't shamed by normal things like the weight of being responsible for the deaths of 600,000 people, or being a white supremacist or whatever. Oates just landed on a pressure point.
But also, I told you when used effectively shame works. The problem is Elon isn't shamed by normal things like the weight of being responsible for the deaths of 600,000 people, or being a white supremacist or whatever. Oates just landed on a pressure point.
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CNN: Was the shutdown worth it?
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
CNN: Was the shutdown worth it?
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
I voted for Kamala
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I voted for Kamala
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late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
late to this but i feel like an underrated part of the musk meltdown over joyce carol oates accusing him of not reading is this musk reply that makes it clear he has never read anything by joyce carol oates
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They used to wiretap your phones to collect this kind of information from you but now you pay for a Bluecheck and post it yourself
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They used to wiretap your phones to collect this kind of information from you but now you pay for a Bluecheck and post it yourself
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Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
It would be nice if your colleagues were willing to model that fighting energy
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
It would be nice if your colleagues were willing to model that fighting energy
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In which Trump says "The Great Big Beautiful Bill" is "the greatest piece of legislation ever passed in the history of our country," a deranged statement that no one will even mull over for a single moment, because deep down 100% of Americans know he's a narcissist who thinks he's a demigod
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In which Trump says "The Great Big Beautiful Bill" is "the greatest piece of legislation ever passed in the history of our country," a deranged statement that no one will even mull over for a single moment, because deep down 100% of Americans know he's a narcissist who thinks he's a demigod
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The same Democratic Party that just surrendered in the shutdown fight:
- gave up pandemic relief without a fight
- failed to ban gerrymandering
- gave up on Build Back Better
- voted to confirm Trump’s appointees.
Rollover.
Wither.
Die.
Like Fox News line: Democrats win, they lose.
- gave up pandemic relief without a fight
- failed to ban gerrymandering
- gave up on Build Back Better
- voted to confirm Trump’s appointees.
Rollover.
Wither.
Die.
Like Fox News line: Democrats win, they lose.
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The same Democratic Party that just surrendered in the shutdown fight:
- gave up pandemic relief without a fight
- failed to ban gerrymandering
- gave up on Build Back Better
- voted to confirm Trump’s appointees.
Rollover.
Wither.
Die.
Like Fox News line: Democrats win, they lose.
- gave up pandemic relief without a fight
- failed to ban gerrymandering
- gave up on Build Back Better
- voted to confirm Trump’s appointees.
Rollover.
Wither.
Die.
Like Fox News line: Democrats win, they lose.
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Secret wars based on unreality and used to expand the extrajudicial murder of those claimed to be enemies domestically is how the ratchet of authoritarian violence works.
Extrajudicial murder abroad leads to similar at home very quickly.
Extrajudicial murder abroad leads to similar at home very quickly.
"[T]his is not just a secret war, but a secret unauthorized war. Or, in reality, a make-believe war, because most of these groups we probably couldn’t even be in a war with,” said @bcfinucane.bsky.social about US claims it is in armed conflict with 24 cartel groups
theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...
theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...
Trump Has a Secret List of 24 “Designated Terrorist Organizations.” We Got Some of the Names.
The U.S. claims it is engaged in “armed conflict” with Tren de Aragua, Ejército de Liberación Nacional, and Cártel de los Soles, among others.
theintercept.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Secret wars based on unreality and used to expand the extrajudicial murder of those claimed to be enemies domestically is how the ratchet of authoritarian violence works.
Extrajudicial murder abroad leads to similar at home very quickly.
Extrajudicial murder abroad leads to similar at home very quickly.
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I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
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November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.
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Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.