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Advaita, democracy, decency. *Two books every American should read: I.F. Stone's, The Trial of Socrates and James Douglass's, JFK and the Unspeakable.

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BROOKLYN WE ARE GOING TO CHUCKS! Join us across from 9 PPW at 8:30 *tonight*

Bring pots and pans, let’s make some noise about Chuck folding (again).

Not another #SchumerSurrender

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

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Insulating Republicans from consequences is never the answer

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this legislation also includes backpay for federal employees, despite the saber rattling from the White House.

this legislation also includes backpay for federal employees, despite the saber rattling from the White House.

THAT IS ALREADY A LAW. TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT WHO SIGNED THAT LAW. YOU ARE A FUCKING NEWS REPORTER

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getting two pinky swears from Republicans, including one that they will merely follow the law, is laughably thin gruel

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Bernie Sanders warns the Democrats who are thinking about betraying their base and caving on this pathetic deal that they should go home and talk to their constituents.

Again, I think they've already thought about how their constituents will feel about this and responded accordingly.

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I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.

I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this β€œdeal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.

Full statement:

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BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS:

β€œIf this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”

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They could have kept it about football or something generic. And every other question was that. But then this question invited Trump to turn a football game into a Trump lie festival. We don’t want partisan politics & lies in an NFL broadcast booth, we want to watch a game. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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β€œPeople are blaming republicans for food prices and flight cancellations and health insurance costs and are furious about gilded ballrooms and Gatsby parties and the president is falling asleep on tv and is the most deeply unpopular president in history, time to cave” is a hell of an argument

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Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.

This is not a deal β€” it's an empty promise.

Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.

Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.

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Yeah, but that was before air travel was in trouble and the senators were personally affected, see

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She’s absolutely right. Historic mistake. The worst move possible when faced with a fascist takeover is to compromise and appease and continue assuming good faith when there is NONE.

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in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, β€œit doesn’t look like anything to me”

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Caving on the shutdown won’t make you β€œmoderate.” It makes you WEAK! Giving Republicans what they want for NOTHING more than a β€œpromise” of a vote and risking millions of Americans’ healthcare isn’t compromiseβ€”it’s surrender and it’s the most RADICAL thing you could do in this moment. 1/

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Chuck Schumer is caving in on ACA extensions the right way.

by Ezra Klein

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Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

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We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting.

Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.

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There is no Dem who thinks that Schumer voting No washes his hands of it. He is the captain of the ship and owns the process and end result. If he can’t run the team, then someone else needs to. Hopefully the other Dem senators understand the mood of the voters. If not, you will.

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Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means.

Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

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This, from Tim Kaine is HILARIOUS:

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I hope Trump will get to the bottom of who did this

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at a basic level a huge amount of the actions of the federal govt amount to shitposting channeled through executive power. sounds like a snark. it’s not. it’s the language and impulse these people know. a mixed of bad humor and aggression driven by impulse.

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continues to be hard to say why the White House is taking such a beating for the shutdown when they keep announcing new voluntary actions they say explicitly are meant to increase pain to pressure Dems and then lots of bad things happen and people get sad.

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Absolutely, positively. And for the Caribbean boat strikes, too.

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Maybeβ€”just maybeβ€”sports leagues getting in bed with gambling companies wasn’t such a hot idea…

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LIVE: Trump COVER UP of DARK PAST BACKFIRES…GOP PANICS!! YouTube video by MeidasTouch

One source witnessed an FBI analyst have a breakdown while viewing the Epstein files. The analyst has kids the same age as the girls in the videos they were reviewing. I’ll cover this and more today at 3:30 PT / 6:30 PM ET here: youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...

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It's impossible to build any more housing in America, but luckily we have the politically easy and physically effortless alternative of just removing a third of the population.

This clown is the GOP chair in Tarrant County, Texas, the third largest county in the state.

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