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Alyssa Warrick
@weezieweaver.bsky.social
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Clio of the Cave, purveyor of all things Capitol history, occasional instructor, full-time cat person, and mechanical keyboard enthusiast.
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weezieweaver.bsky.social
How long are they giving Cornyn to get there? And notice how his flight wasn't one of the ones canceled
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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purrtah.bsky.social
Fun fact, let’s say Thune does give Senate Dems a vote and doesnt whip against ACA subsidies, Speaker Johnson has no intention of ever holding a vote on it
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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bobcesca.bsky.social
"A promise of a vote on healthcare"
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Yes, color me shocked.
October 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis, & then it's another day:
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 14
Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."
October 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
weezieweaver.bsky.social
Being against kings is hating America?

So these guys hated America?
John Trumbull’s painting of the Declaration of Independence. Forty-seven or so men gathered in Independence Hall, mostly seated. Five members stand at the center: John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin. Jefferson holds his draft of the Declaration of Independence.
October 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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pdtoler.bsky.social
In 1874, Mary Ewing Outerbridge brought home America’s first tennis set — and customs agents seized it.

She got it back, built a court on Staten Island, and changed women’s sports forever.

History turns on curiosity, persistence, and a little nerve. 
Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/3brswyss🗃️
October 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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dkjrhi.bsky.social
“This is, simply put, bullshit.” - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

www.lawdork.com/p/barrett-tu...
Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings
Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.
October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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juliarosekraut.bsky.social
After President McKinley's assassination in 1901, anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested & then released because she had nothing to do with the assassination.

In its War on Anarchy, the US denaturalized Goldman in 1909.

And ... 10 years later, she was deported in 1919.

Ch. 2 in "Threat of Dissent" 🗃️
Emma Goldman mugshot from 1901
March 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
weezieweaver.bsky.social
YA KNOW WHAT WOULD HAVE PREVENTED AN INFANT WHO CANT BE VACCINATED AGAINST WHOOPING COUGH? OTHER PEOPLE BEING VACCINATED AGAINST WHOOPING COUGH
September 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
Yes. (And still getting "standoff" BS and "who will blink first" and "who will voters blame" from news.)

Trump and MAGA control the *entire* government. It's a simple fact:
- White House
- Senate
- House
- Scotus
- OMB (to the hilt)
- Every regulatory agency

They're in command. It's on them.
obriensci.bsky.social OBrienSci @obriensci.bsky.social · Sep 30
I do not understand why they cannot get the headlines right.

Just follow the gop playbook!

“Repubs control it all! The shutdown is on them!”

As nauseum.

Don’t lead with the nuance.
September 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
weezieweaver.bsky.social
Who cares about the Hatch Act?

There are no guardrails.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 30
SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:
Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown
Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."
www.thehandbasket.co
September 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump.

All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing
September 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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wessiler.bsky.social
Past shutdowns have resulted in $36 million/day of damage to park infrastructure alone. This one could be worse: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
How Bad Will A Shutdown Be For National Parks?
Rural communities could lose hundreds of millions of dollars a day, and that’s before mass layoffs
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
weezieweaver.bsky.social
Republicans control both houses of Congress and the executive branch. If there’s a shutdown, it is entirely their fault.
September 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Map of Sinclair stations
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
weezieweaver.bsky.social
If you’re not carrying anything into work, I don’t trust you.
September 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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davidw1457.bsky.social
Huh...

At the same time that they are pushing to require proof of citizenship to vote, that proof being a passport or birth certificate...

At the same time they are trying to end birth right citizenship, making the birth certificate invalid for proving citizenship...

What a weird coincidence
September 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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earlymodjustice.bsky.social
What gets me is that the suspect *wanted* others to think that the shooter was liberal:

“When another user suggested that the killing of Mr. Kirk would lead President Trump to send the National Guard to Utah, the suspect replied, ‘in a red state??? nah CLEARLY the shooter was from california.’”
aric.bsky.social Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Sep 14
The Utah shooter joked on Discord with his friends that his doppelganger killed Charlie Kirk when they asked him about it

From Nick Bogel-Burroughs, and contribution from me.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
September 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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thefarce.org
I guess offering, "I meant to say 'Let's kill some hobos!' won't save your job.
September 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.
September 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Honestly a great reminder of how we take the visual coherence of sports television direction and camerawork for granted to see a rare instance where they completely fuck it up
cjzero.bsky.social CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Sep 14
I don't know what the TV crew was doing on this play but I am CACKLING
September 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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juliarosekraut.bsky.social
Hi folks. We've seen this before during the Cold War.

Check out Ch. 5 in "Threat of Dissent" to learn more. 🗃️

And, remember, in Kent v. Dulles (1958), the U.S. Supreme Court held that American citizens have a fundamental right to travel.

supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
September 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM