My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
@dcfowler1.bsky.social
Academic, national security Democrat, world traveler, hopeful for a saner America.
My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
Itβs not a cult
12.11.2025 03:27 β π 2443 π 399 π¬ 181 π 3525th Amendment, now.
12.11.2025 04:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nationβs BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! βJust the Newsβ
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You canβt make this shit up, folks
Happy Veterans Day to the millions of Americans who have honored our nation with their service and sacrifice.
11.11.2025 19:03 β π 210 π 22 π¬ 8 π 0All of this
10.11.2025 01:41 β π 8510 π 1833 π¬ 159 π 32"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
Then whyβd you cave?
10.11.2025 02:56 β π 8231 π 1502 π¬ 666 π 100Maybe we need a new rally sign:
NO KINGS
and
NO QUISLINGS
Meanwhile, back in a country that still prosecutes leaders who abuse them...
10.11.2025 03:22 β π 846 π 203 π¬ 4 π 2(π¨) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Pardons 75+ Alleged Coup Plotters in Second-Most Obscene and Corrupt U.S. Presidential Pardon Ever, After His Pardon of 1,600+ Insurrectionists; New Pardon Is Confirmation That President Is Traitor to the United States
10.11.2025 10:54 β π 1395 π 673 π¬ 130 π 65π―. It wasn't about just the ACA subsidesβit was about those and β¦ everything else.
10.11.2025 14:41 β π 13601 π 3801 π¬ 418 π 129Do not vote into office people who literally do not understand how negotiations work
What an utter embarrassment Shaheen is to the entire state of New Hampshire
Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
10.11.2025 14:12 β π 17559 π 3372 π¬ 1075 π 236None of the Dem Senators (or Democratic-caucusing) who voted yes on the CR are worried about reelection:
β’ Dick Durbin β IL β Retiring 2026
β’ Catherine Cortez Masto β NV β Up 2028
β’ Jacky Rosen β NV β Up 2030
β’ John Fetterman β PA β Up 2028
β’ Maggie Hassan β NH β Up 2028
1/2
Tell me you donβt understand risk pools without telling me you donβt understand risk pools
10.11.2025 15:02 β π 13759 π 3048 π¬ 1374 π 637A future vote on the ACA tax credits is not enough.
The American people about to lose their health care need results, not votes.
Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy.
For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy.
The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trumpβs approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social
www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...
This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that β even if it did on Jan. 19.
10.11.2025 03:34 β π 1933 π 342 π¬ 105 π 11This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
10.11.2025 01:38 β π 23106 π 6037 π¬ 268 π 229Hunger is not a good strategy if you want to maintain the peace and your baseβ¦
βThere are only nine meals between mankind and anarchyβ β Alfred Henry Lewis
Makes you wonder if thatβs their goal.
@democrats.senate.gov You sold us out. Shall we send the bills for our new health insurance premiums to your offices? People will end up using the ER for their health care. Some people will go bankrupt or even die. Deeply disappointed
10.11.2025 04:49 β π 143 π 49 π¬ 9 π 180% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.
Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?
Tonight was a very bad night.
10.11.2025 03:09 β π 31680 π 9954 π¬ 1738 π 906Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen