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tyler kraus
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husband to the coolest disney gay™️ on the planet, shameless progressive, and corgi fanatic. kristine kraus’s son. purveyor of formerly-known-as “never tweets” and regular instigator of chaos. yadda yadda yadda, here i am.
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Je t’aime de toute mon âme 🩷 @joshualeehiggins.com
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“who’s excited for their holiday bonus this year”
December 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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really went dark for the sequel
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Almost time
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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🤭
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.

The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I refuse to stop insufferably posting about Florence’s new album but holy shit, does this song hit me to the core. Just a pure, achingly honest and brutally vulnerable song that caught me in the right place at the right time. Absolutely no other notes.
The Old Religion by Florence + the Machine on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:40
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November 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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If they caved after 24 hours:
- no SNAP lapse
- no shutdown RIFs
- No ACA subsidies

Cave at 40 days
- restart SNAP
- Reverse RIFs
- No ACA subsidies

How is this anything but an abject failure in both policy and messaging?
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 1:21 AM
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Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:

—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
🚨NEW FLORENCE DAY 🚨 AND THIS ALBUM IS A BANGER
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Video teaser for Chappell Roan’s upcoming single ‘The Subway.’
July 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Happy birthday to Laurie Metcalf! Loveeeee her
June 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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I’d like to report a murder
April 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
@daveplotkin.bsky.social was the first hire we made on my mom’s 2018 campaign. He was one of the most talented, kind, and creative political communicators I ever got to know. And his loss hurts my heart so much. May your work, your life, and heart live forever. Rest in power, sweet friend. 🤍
April 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Timeline cleanse 🌞
March 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.

My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.

I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
 
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Remember: whatever happens from here on out the Dems who vote for this GOP budget are complicit. Because they willingly surrendered the power they had to stop it.

The idea that allowing what’s been happening the last two months to continue is a way to avoid “blame” is madness
March 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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thered be calls for impeachment if a dem did this
March 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 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
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM