Nate (he/him)

The kids are **not** alright.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

I thought I had gotten the AI turned off just right, but then I started getting a couple spam messages a day - like it was the penalty I pay for opting out.

Chuck Grassley has been an elected official since 1958 and a Senator for 45 years. He is the longest serving Senator in office. He chairs the Judiciary Committee.

Do we really have to go through some mandatory period where we all pretend that Homan is ANY better than Bovino? The man’s a scumbag, literally the architect of the family separation policy that abducted 5 year old Liam Ramos from his community in MN and put him in a concentration camp in TX.

To whoever is managing the Senator's socials: we want to abolish the concentration camps, not reform them. Your post is fascist collaborator BS. Please convince the Senator to do better. Otherwise you're working for a fascist collaborator and that kinda makes you a fascist collaborator too.

I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is:

"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."

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Democratic members of Congress are not bound by oaths to protect sources/congregants/patients like journalists, priests, and doctors are.

If your GOP colleagues are saying privately that they decry what ICE or Trump is doing, time to name names.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

If you told me 25 years ago that Bill Kristol would be to the left of most Democratic Congresspeople someday, I would have asked you what you were smoking and could I have some.

Asking as one of your constituents in Chicago. So far I haven't seen you do anything other than remove your name from Thanedar's impeachment resolution. I know you're not running for reelection, but if you want to be able to hold your head up in public in retirement, you need to do something.

So I expect you'll force a vote on impeachment on Monday?

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Funding this government is treason and anyone who does so has blood on their hands.

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

So you'll force a vote on impeachment on Monday?

I just wish Democrats would resist Trump trying to turn our country into a living hell with about half the vigor that Republicans resisted Obama trying to give us healthcare.

Both parties are refusing. Any House member could force a vote on impeachment. We could have a vote on impeachment every day the House is in session. Meanwhile, my Democratic Rep (Schakowsky) co-sponsored Thanedar's resolution and then removed her name a few days later. Vichy shit.

Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.

Chuck, how about you get off Bluesky and do literally anything to resist these fascists? Throw sand in the gears. No more unanimous consent. Not support for budgets, confirmations, nothing until Trump is out of power.

Bipartisanship with fascists, even on purely symbolic legislation, is still collaboration.

Angry about the seven Democrats that voted yea for the DHS/ICE appropriations bill? Then now is the perfect time to get acquainted with their primary and general election challengers. 1/

Any time they actually ask questions, they end up making Smith look good. Mark Harris and Laurel Lee gave him time to respond and it almost seemed like they wanted to help him.

Raskin just referred to Jim Jordan multiple times as "my friend." He really needs to choose his friends more carefully.

Honest question: at what point should we start to blame the staffers too? I can't get through to my Congresspeople. At most I can talk to a staffer. The people answering the phones and handling the social media have some agency too and, I would argue, some responsibility as human beings.

I really needed this reminder. But also I have a cat sitting on my chest, so dehydration it is.

We're out here in the Chicago winter standing on street corners watching out for ICE during school drop-off and pick up. You're worried about protecting kids from sports gambling‽ GTFOH We're worried about fascist secret police disappearing parents and children.

I live in Chicago and marginally reducing my rent doesn't matter much if fascist secret police can disappear me or my wife or neighbors tomorrow. You're like a caricature of an out-of-touch politician at this point. Step down as minority leader and plan your retirement already.

In case any staffer actually reads any of these replies, if you're drawing a paycheck you really owe it to the American people to tell your boss how much we want him to do literally anything to provide meaningful resistance to this fascist regime.