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Author of the “Inspector Singh” crime novels and many, many children’s books! www.shaminiflintbooks.com. Committed to democracy and human rights. Obsessed with the beautiful game.

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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.

10.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 13387    🔁 3415    💬 234    📌 139
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Reporter: Dr Oz said that—

Jeffries: Who? Nobody who is serious in this country takes Dr. Oz seriously… I’m not going to respond to any comments from randos like Dr. Oz who is woefully unqualified.

10.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 18716    🔁 4314    💬 693    📌 322

It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.

10.11.2025 12:17 — 👍 7361    🔁 1139    💬 68    📌 17

Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.

10.11.2025 02:39 — 👍 1095    🔁 259    💬 21    📌 17

Hard to see @schumer.senate.gov being able to stay in leadership after this or in the senate, he was not the man for this moment

10.11.2025 01:55 — 👍 6464    🔁 1167    💬 382    📌 87

Learn these motherfuckers' names, they just betrayed every single member of the Democratic coalition and let Republicans rip healthcare away from over 11 million people.

Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Fetterman
Rosen

10.11.2025 01:56 — 👍 435    🔁 235    💬 44    📌 19
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Mark Kelly a NO, notable as he was allegedly one of the cavers

10.11.2025 01:12 — 👍 2116    🔁 415    💬 43    📌 45
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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

I insist that you read it.

GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

09.11.2025 16:05 — 👍 660    🔁 339    💬 65    📌 24

FWIW, this deal isn’t finalized yet.

If you want Democrats to keep fighting, call your Senator.

The vote to advance the bill will likely succeed, but all that does is tee up a final up/down vote.

10.11.2025 01:22 — 👍 1845    🔁 515    💬 82    📌 19

He's got to go. He has failed. He fails daily. He is the wrong man for this moment.

10.11.2025 01:34 — 👍 453    🔁 94    💬 38    📌 6
Joyce Carol Oates
@Joyce... 17h O
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the
"most wealthy person in the world."

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk
X.com
Oates is a liar and delights in being mean.
Not a good human.

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

09.11.2025 15:36 — 👍 29084    🔁 6372    💬 472    📌 768

I will support primary challenges against any safe state Dems that support this deal.

They are clearly I’ll-equipped for the moment we are in. They need to go.

10.11.2025 00:23 — 👍 529    🔁 144    💬 25    📌 11

Any Senate Democrats who vote to cave are feckless, weak-willed and gullible — or even worse. The American people want you to hold the line and keep on fighting.

DO NOT FOLD!!!

10.11.2025 00:06 — 👍 2679    🔁 679    💬 130    📌 33
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Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game.

(Video: Marisa Schultz)

09.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 10073    🔁 2287    💬 348    📌 276
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Hold the line.

09.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 1933    🔁 579    💬 104    📌 45
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If this is true, we will all remember which Senate Democrats buckled and caved. 😡

09.11.2025 21:33 — 👍 1547    🔁 468    💬 256    📌 63
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Rosen: And on Halloween weekend, in the middle of a shutdown where they’re defunding SNAP, where children will go hungry—millions of them—they are gluttonously eating and partying and laughing at their voters, laughing at what they can do to screw the American people.

09.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 6517    🔁 2100    💬 250    📌 84
Donnie dipshit between the announcers in the Fox booth on November 9, record 40th day of the GOP shutdown

Donnie dipshit between the announcers in the Fox booth on November 9, record 40th day of the GOP shutdown

Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.

09.11.2025 23:28 — 👍 4847    🔁 1656    💬 454    📌 240

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

09.11.2025 20:47 — 👍 5499    🔁 3156    💬 378    📌 205
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The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to,

not because the voters want them to,

not because the fed workers and SNAP recipients want them to…

they are caving because their DONORS want them to.

And that’s really all that ever matters to the corrupt

09.11.2025 22:03 — 👍 5481    🔁 2258    💬 285    📌 188
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Checking in on Trump:

09.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 1815    🔁 389    💬 496    📌 87

Our leaders are rolling over for this asshole?

09.11.2025 23:17 — 👍 1844    🔁 404    💬 105    📌 15

The president of the United States is on his way to an NFL game after a weekend spent partying at his country club and fighting to starve poor Americans.

And Senate Democrats want to surrender to him?!

Fuck that and fuck them.

09.11.2025 22:22 — 👍 4065    🔁 1193    💬 154    📌 78

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

09.11.2025 22:42 — 👍 3411    🔁 1641    💬 184    📌 164

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

09.11.2025 22:58 — 👍 26718    🔁 7507    💬 844    📌 530

Schumer caves like the weakling he is.

09.11.2025 20:56 — 👍 860    🔁 212    💬 150    📌 28

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

09.11.2025 14:18 — 👍 5207    🔁 1900    💬 167    📌 44
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

09.11.2025 09:23 — 👍 10541    🔁 7011    💬 851    📌 1688

Clips like this are political gold

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