Connections got me today
05.02.2026 15:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@smithmachine.bsky.social
Policy Director, @budget.senate.gov / @merkley.senate.gov
Connections got me today
05.02.2026 15:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Really great analysis of just how much money Republicans pumped into the deportation-industrial complex with last year's reconciliation bill. www.kevinmcnellis.com/posts/ice-cb...
04.02.2026 14:47 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Transparency is not optional.
Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov is leading Senate Budget Dems in demanding answers from Pete Hegseth on why he classified his spending plans for the Big, Ugly Betrayal Bill.
G-d bless The One, The Only, The Truly Incredible Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band www.sfchronicle.com/super-bowl-l...
02.02.2026 20:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itโs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
When was your street last plowed? I mean, you could just look out the window to answer "it hasn't, duh," but this is fun too:
26.01.2026 13:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is @senateapprops.bsky.social erasure
25.01.2026 18:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The Carrot weather app never misses
25.01.2026 13:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0NEW: Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov is calling for transparency from Trump's Budget Chief, Russ Vought, on the $100 million slush fund Republicans gifted Vought's office when they passed the Big, Ugly Betrayal law last July.
20.01.2026 21:42 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Trump claims the affordability crisis Americans are facing is a hoax, all while he wastes money renaming agencies and renovating the White House.
Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov's full statement here: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
No need to use AI. We already know the American people don't want more cuts to working class programs so that Republicans can deliver bigger tax breaks to their wealthy donors.
Enough with your ๐ณ๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ, ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ป agenda.
๐ โIf you want to stump Lindsey, just ask him to name a country he wouldnโt bomb,โ Mr. Kennedy writes... โInvite him to dinner, and you donโt know if heโll sit down for an intelligent conversation or get drunk and vomit in the fish tank. But thatโs why I like him.โ
13.01.2026 22:41 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I legit believe that it's an underrated problem of the electoral college, that a president can just write off residents of states that don't vote for him.
More than twice as many people voted for Trump in LA County than in West Virginia, but to him, the former are irredeemable blue state liberals.
This is sociopathic.
"Nor does everyone in the administration believe that a full-court campaign on housing is necessary, with some arguing that ballooning costs are primarily a blue-state problem."
Legit wild that the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis, "justified" due to the high-profile fraud cases, has gone so overboard as to force the lead fraud prosecutor to quit.
This nonsense is so blatantly pretextual that they aren't even trying to hide it.
188 members of the House just put forward "'The Don' payment program" and I think I just died of second-hand embarrassment
13.01.2026 14:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Every time the announcers mention Patriots receiver Pop Douglas, I hear โCobb-Douglas Production Functionโ and I canโt be the only one.
โฆcan I?
Never a doubt
12.01.2026 00:46 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This explainsโฆ everything?
10.01.2026 02:12 โ ๐ 1044 ๐ 213 ๐ฌ 66 ๐ 18*Driving to the airport, 6-year-old son crying because we left the kittens at home*
Wife: Weโre flying United
6: Weโre not united without the kitties
Never a doubt
29.12.2025 04:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Almost Heaven
26.12.2025 15:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I have a feeling that people are going to be smashing that unsubscribe button
20.12.2025 13:07 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared." Incredible.
18.12.2025 16:41 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Should have mailed this suggestion back to 2009. The streetcar doesn't work because *it* doesn't have a dedicated lane.
17.12.2025 18:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"President Trumpโs chief of staff said she tried to get him to end his 'score settling' against political enemies after 90 days in office, but acknowledged that the administrationโs still ongoing push for prosecutions has been fueled *in part* by the presidentโs desire for retribution."
16.12.2025 14:27 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
16.12.2025 13:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What would you do without the filibuster?
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Dems: universal health care, child care, voting rights, abortion rights, unicorns 4 all
Trump: make it marginally harder to vote