Weftage
@weftage.bsky.social
Resident of USA, Oregon, Portland (which has not, in fact, burned to the ground, despite what you may have been told.)
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Just had a follower tell me "Nothing you say will change how I FEEL!"
And isn't that the crux of the problem? Learn to manage your goddamned emotions, and stop letting "vibes" rule you to the point that you reject facts, logic, reason, and decency.
Just repugnant.I blocked that one.
And isn't that the crux of the problem? Learn to manage your goddamned emotions, and stop letting "vibes" rule you to the point that you reject facts, logic, reason, and decency.
Just repugnant.I blocked that one.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Just had a follower tell me "Nothing you say will change how I FEEL!"
And isn't that the crux of the problem? Learn to manage your goddamned emotions, and stop letting "vibes" rule you to the point that you reject facts, logic, reason, and decency.
Just repugnant.I blocked that one.
And isn't that the crux of the problem? Learn to manage your goddamned emotions, and stop letting "vibes" rule you to the point that you reject facts, logic, reason, and decency.
Just repugnant.I blocked that one.
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In Oregon, SNAP benefits for November are available and won’t be taken away.
If you have questions, please check with Oregon Department of Human Services.
If you have other needs, like housing or utility costs, because you had to stretch to pay for food last week, please call @211info.bsky.social.
If you have questions, please check with Oregon Department of Human Services.
If you have other needs, like housing or utility costs, because you had to stretch to pay for food last week, please call @211info.bsky.social.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
In Oregon, SNAP benefits for November are available and won’t be taken away.
If you have questions, please check with Oregon Department of Human Services.
If you have other needs, like housing or utility costs, because you had to stretch to pay for food last week, please call @211info.bsky.social.
If you have questions, please check with Oregon Department of Human Services.
If you have other needs, like housing or utility costs, because you had to stretch to pay for food last week, please call @211info.bsky.social.
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I want dems to help stop the gop from: starving kids to death and forcing people to work without pay and firing people for fun and destroying the aca. And i also know we can't do all of that at once because white voters ensured repubs have power. And i want the courts to function. 3/4 now is a win
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I want dems to help stop the gop from: starving kids to death and forcing people to work without pay and firing people for fun and destroying the aca. And i also know we can't do all of that at once because white voters ensured repubs have power. And i want the courts to function. 3/4 now is a win
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So if you are broadcasting every day "DEM BAD" + assume that everyone understands "GOP much worse"?
You are not helping the situation.
You are merely reinforcing the idea that politics is hopeless and it is pointless to participate.
Think about the effects of your output on the general atmosphere.
You are not helping the situation.
You are merely reinforcing the idea that politics is hopeless and it is pointless to participate.
Think about the effects of your output on the general atmosphere.
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
So if you are broadcasting every day "DEM BAD" + assume that everyone understands "GOP much worse"?
You are not helping the situation.
You are merely reinforcing the idea that politics is hopeless and it is pointless to participate.
Think about the effects of your output on the general atmosphere.
You are not helping the situation.
You are merely reinforcing the idea that politics is hopeless and it is pointless to participate.
Think about the effects of your output on the general atmosphere.
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Yeah, this is another thing that kinda annoyed me, I watched people go from "ACA subsidies are a stupid reason to fight" followed by "HOW DARE YOU NOT GET ACA SUBSIDIES????"
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I was getting pretty incensed at all the obviously well off larger accounts on here that are neither federal employees, SNAP recipients, or depending on the ACA for their insurance.
The same accounts that thought fighting over the ACA was bs and are now saying it was the most important thing ever.
The same accounts that thought fighting over the ACA was bs and are now saying it was the most important thing ever.
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Yeah, this is another thing that kinda annoyed me, I watched people go from "ACA subsidies are a stupid reason to fight" followed by "HOW DARE YOU NOT GET ACA SUBSIDIES????"
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This is probably closest to my thinking as well. The problem with these situations is that there's no clean win. Could we have forced ACA subsidies since the GOP/Trump were being blamed? Maybe, but the harms would mount and no guarantee.
This isn't the best possible win, but it's "a" win.
This isn't the best possible win, but it's "a" win.
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is probably closest to my thinking as well. The problem with these situations is that there's no clean win. Could we have forced ACA subsidies since the GOP/Trump were being blamed? Maybe, but the harms would mount and no guarantee.
This isn't the best possible win, but it's "a" win.
This isn't the best possible win, but it's "a" win.
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People want Democrats to hit the off button that America refused to push last November when it mattered.
I learned a lot tonight, namely that a critical mass of people on my side had no clear idea what they actually wanted out of this beyond hopes that if the shutdown broke enough stuff, they'd get whatever was on their wishlist, and their preferred time horizon was "indefinite."
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
People want Democrats to hit the off button that America refused to push last November when it mattered.
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The fact remains that Republicans have control of our entire government and are weak as hell against Trump and Trump doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself.
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The fact remains that Republicans have control of our entire government and are weak as hell against Trump and Trump doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself.
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Republicans voted to originally kill the ACA subsidies in their Bad Betrayal Bill. 100% of Democrats voted against it. It still passed.
Republicans voted to completely repeal the ACA 70+ times (failing thanks to Dem solidarity).
Your healthcare costs skyrocketing is ENTIRELY due to the GOP.
Republicans voted to completely repeal the ACA 70+ times (failing thanks to Dem solidarity).
Your healthcare costs skyrocketing is ENTIRELY due to the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Republicans voted to originally kill the ACA subsidies in their Bad Betrayal Bill. 100% of Democrats voted against it. It still passed.
Republicans voted to completely repeal the ACA 70+ times (failing thanks to Dem solidarity).
Your healthcare costs skyrocketing is ENTIRELY due to the GOP.
Republicans voted to completely repeal the ACA 70+ times (failing thanks to Dem solidarity).
Your healthcare costs skyrocketing is ENTIRELY due to the GOP.
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Some of us still shop at Target and Amazon, stream Hulu, jam R. Kelly, plan Black Friday runs, watch the NFL, and can’t go a day without talking to MAGA relatives yet we expect hundreds of thousands of workers to keep sacrificing their paychecks during a shutdown. But we screaming about caving.
a man in a red shirt talks to another man
ALT: a man in a red shirt talks to another man
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November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Some of us still shop at Target and Amazon, stream Hulu, jam R. Kelly, plan Black Friday runs, watch the NFL, and can’t go a day without talking to MAGA relatives yet we expect hundreds of thousands of workers to keep sacrificing their paychecks during a shutdown. But we screaming about caving.
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Which is why dems got repubs to pass a new bill with huge concessions to help end the shutdown. Of course the House now has to reopen to try to pass it. Will Johnson risk having to swear in the AZ Dem? Or will he force the shutdown to continue?
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Which is why dems got repubs to pass a new bill with huge concessions to help end the shutdown. Of course the House now has to reopen to try to pass it. Will Johnson risk having to swear in the AZ Dem? Or will he force the shutdown to continue?
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Now for some levity and logic based in facts.
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Now for some levity and logic based in facts.
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hostage negotiators will generally let kidnappers get some stuff in exchange for not killing hostages
that doesn’t mean they are weak
that doesn’t mean they are weak
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
hostage negotiators will generally let kidnappers get some stuff in exchange for not killing hostages
that doesn’t mean they are weak
that doesn’t mean they are weak
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hostage negotiators also are aware they are dealing with terrorists who don’t keep their word
reluctantly trying to save hostages does not mean they are deluding themselves that hostage takers are good people
reluctantly trying to save hostages does not mean they are deluding themselves that hostage takers are good people
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
hostage negotiators also are aware they are dealing with terrorists who don’t keep their word
reluctantly trying to save hostages does not mean they are deluding themselves that hostage takers are good people
reluctantly trying to save hostages does not mean they are deluding themselves that hostage takers are good people
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Senate Dems voting for this aren't "cowardly fucks". They are voting for harm reduction for 7 weeks and to force the House back into session or own the shutdown. Anyone shitting on dems instead of repubs is part of the problem. Don't fall for this disinfo.
This is an important note, please look beyond the cowardly fucks that are the Democrats voting for this.
Now the House has to vote...and it's currently not in session because Johnson won't seat someone because of Epstein.
This is bad, but it's all bad, keep pushing.
Now the House has to vote...and it's currently not in session because Johnson won't seat someone because of Epstein.
This is bad, but it's all bad, keep pushing.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Senate Dems voting for this aren't "cowardly fucks". They are voting for harm reduction for 7 weeks and to force the House back into session or own the shutdown. Anyone shitting on dems instead of repubs is part of the problem. Don't fall for this disinfo.
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Really. Most of you motherfucking motherfuckers are not made for these times. Try grokking what people in less-fortunate places are going through, and how they resist. You have it easy.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Really. Most of you motherfucking motherfuckers are not made for these times. Try grokking what people in less-fortunate places are going through, and how they resist. You have it easy.
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I think it's a mix of
1) them having held out for so long
2) it not being the usual suspects voting yes here
3) them getting SOMETHING out of it (even if not enough to many)
4) this CR only being through January
5) more people being seriously hurt by the shutdown than last time
1) them having held out for so long
2) it not being the usual suspects voting yes here
3) them getting SOMETHING out of it (even if not enough to many)
4) this CR only being through January
5) more people being seriously hurt by the shutdown than last time
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I think it's a mix of
1) them having held out for so long
2) it not being the usual suspects voting yes here
3) them getting SOMETHING out of it (even if not enough to many)
4) this CR only being through January
5) more people being seriously hurt by the shutdown than last time
1) them having held out for so long
2) it not being the usual suspects voting yes here
3) them getting SOMETHING out of it (even if not enough to many)
4) this CR only being through January
5) more people being seriously hurt by the shutdown than last time
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Best uno reverse of the year? The billboard ….. but the website! www.stoptheemployertax.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Best uno reverse of the year? The billboard ….. but the website! www.stoptheemployertax.com
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Like, a CR thru January that stops kids from starving over the holidays, and also forces the House back into session to seat Grijalva, and also gives us a straight up or down vote on ACA subsidies, seems about as good an outcome as one can get when the voters chose to push one out of power
It’s becoming pretty clear that big “resister” type accounts and the deeply stupid people who lap up their droppings will frame any government reopening as Dems “caving”
Even when Dems get the ACA subsidies they’re after, and then kick it to the House, which will center the Epstein threat again.
Even when Dems get the ACA subsidies they’re after, and then kick it to the House, which will center the Epstein threat again.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Like, a CR thru January that stops kids from starving over the holidays, and also forces the House back into session to seat Grijalva, and also gives us a straight up or down vote on ACA subsidies, seems about as good an outcome as one can get when the voters chose to push one out of power
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Yes, yes, "insane". It fully funds all mandatory nutrition programs for fiscal 2026 including SNAP, School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, & Summer EBT; also fully funds WIC w/$8.2 billion, a $603 million increase over fy 2025. Meanwhile, gov't opens, House votes no, & GOP is still blamed.
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Yes, yes, "insane". It fully funds all mandatory nutrition programs for fiscal 2026 including SNAP, School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, & Summer EBT; also fully funds WIC w/$8.2 billion, a $603 million increase over fy 2025. Meanwhile, gov't opens, House votes no, & GOP is still blamed.
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You know what I'm not doing? Freaking out.
You know what I'm not doing? Reflexively attacking Schumer.
You know what I'm not doing? Being online and engaging in spittle flecked rage.
No, we can't keep this shutdown into 2027. We won't have a fucking country.
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You know what I'm not doing? Reflexively attacking Schumer.
You know what I'm not doing? Being online and engaging in spittle flecked rage.
No, we can't keep this shutdown into 2027. We won't have a fucking country.
1/3
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
You know what I'm not doing? Freaking out.
You know what I'm not doing? Reflexively attacking Schumer.
You know what I'm not doing? Being online and engaging in spittle flecked rage.
No, we can't keep this shutdown into 2027. We won't have a fucking country.
1/3
You know what I'm not doing? Reflexively attacking Schumer.
You know what I'm not doing? Being online and engaging in spittle flecked rage.
No, we can't keep this shutdown into 2027. We won't have a fucking country.
1/3
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WELKER: Can you confirm that only Democrats have agency in Congress ever, forever and ever?
JEFFRIES: Can confirm. The regent can start and stop wars without Congress, give and take away federal funding without Congress, but keeping the government open? That's on us, Kristen.
JEFFRIES: Can confirm. The regent can start and stop wars without Congress, give and take away federal funding without Congress, but keeping the government open? That's on us, Kristen.
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
WELKER: Can you confirm that only Democrats have agency in Congress ever, forever and ever?
JEFFRIES: Can confirm. The regent can start and stop wars without Congress, give and take away federal funding without Congress, but keeping the government open? That's on us, Kristen.
JEFFRIES: Can confirm. The regent can start and stop wars without Congress, give and take away federal funding without Congress, but keeping the government open? That's on us, Kristen.
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You are a lost cause because you're completely wrong and everybody is telling you and you're actually incapable of doing the work clearly. You just want to say things and nothing you're saying is actually true when you're criticizing them. It's so easy to go to their pages and see all the stuff.
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
You are a lost cause because you're completely wrong and everybody is telling you and you're actually incapable of doing the work clearly. You just want to say things and nothing you're saying is actually true when you're criticizing them. It's so easy to go to their pages and see all the stuff.