Kevin Mergel

what do you think about a campaign to get a couple of unhappy Republicans to change parties and flip control of Congress?
It would only take a few in either chamber to derail the trifecta, but the House might be easier and allow investigations for impeachment to begin

@indivisible.org
What do you think about a campaign to get a couple of unhappy Republicans to change parties and flip control of Congress?
It would only take a few in either chamber to derail the trifecta, but the House might be easier and allow investigations for impeachment to begin

I was thinking Indivisible would be well positioned to reach out to Republicans Trump/Musk might want to primary anyway... If the Democrats made an alliance to support them against primary challengers... It would help protect them from the retaliation.

#sistersinlaw : what do you think about a campaign to get a couple of unhappy Republicans to change parties and flip control of Congress?
It would only take a few in either chamber to derail the trifecta, but the House might be easier and allow investigations for impeachment to begin

I think the best way to spearhead this effort would be to reach out to your local Indivisible chapter and send the idea up the chain.
They would be well positioned to orchestrate and endeavor to find Republicans willing to help save democracy

Giving them an incentive to save their seat in exchange for switching parties would give control of at least one branch of Congress to the Democrats.
If we were able to switch just a handful of seats in both Chambers we would have control of Congress and be able to impeach the president again

I thought of a way to impeach the administration...
There are a number of Republicans afraid of being primaried by Trump, so they're going along with this coup in spite of misgivings.
We need something like GoFundMe- to offer financial support for any Republican willing to change Party.

MAGA voters are gleefully walking us right into it- waving their flags and patting themselves on the back.

Do you remember the Bush era Total Information Awareness (TIA) system?
How everyone from the left and the right talked about it being a surveillance society infringement on our freedom and wanted it completely shut down?
Welcome to the dystopian future!

(F)Elon Musk will have the ability to analyze every detail about your life.
Your very own 24/7 government spy. Monitoring and analyzing everything you do.

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

Musk has an AI system that's in competition with ChatGPT.

Musk is stealing all of your information so he can have a data set to completely rival ChatGPT.

Your MAGA voters are gleefully walking us right into it- waving their flags and patting themselves on the back.

Do you remember the Bush era Total Information Awareness (TIA) system?
How everyone from the left and the right talked about it being a surveillance society infringement on our freedom and wanted it completely shut down?
Welcome to the dystopian future!

(F)Elon Musk will have the ability to analyze every detail about your life.
Your very own 24/7 government spy. Monitoring and analyzing everything you do.

Trump suggests he could use military force to acquire Panama Canal and Greenland and 'economic force' to annex Canada He has repeatedly quipped in recent weeks that Canada should become the 51st state.

So ...
America First means
American Fist?

I guess it's still isolationism if you just annex the world

I wonder if Judge Merchan could devise a specific public service sentence on Donald that could preclude any effort to remain in the halls of political power.
Not a jail sentence, but some imposed civil duty concurrent with the end of his Administration

Only a 1.7% margin of popular vote victory...
from a reduced voter turnout....

Does Not A Mandate Make

Winning less than 50% of the total votes when more than a third of the electorate stayed home Does Not give someone a mandate to dismantle our democratic institutions

Looking over this person's thread - I think this is an important thing to consider when building your bluesky friend list.
Click their post so you can read the rest.
It explains how these bulk following techniques will likely infiltrate your feed with disinformation over time

I think the production choice comes from the fact that the band is so good that it's mostly done as a live take.
So the individual tracks aren't built up into the immersive whole

For me, the songs are good but the issue is with the production.
For the last few albums all the layers are crammed together making it sound flatter and noisy.
If there was more separation for the parts to breathe it would be easier to immerse yourself

I reposted Alan Cerny (below) because he's talking about the ability to BLOCK users on bluesky from reading or interacting with your page. He has a link to a group of maga users- you can use it to easily block a huge group of people you're not likely to want involved with your page.

This may be helpful for you new followers. You can block every single person on these lists. Just click on the subscribe button and it will give you the option to block every one on it. Here’s the first: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Fantastic.
Thank you

I'll look into that, thanks! 🙂

I've been listening to the LOTR audiobook, narrated by Andy Serkis, as a way to distract myself from political saturation.
It kinda helps, sometimes