alyson 🖤

is there not a way to tell bluesky you want your feed to be chronological?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful for his office to be completely overwhelmed with gratitude when they get there in the morning?

Jeffries: “what can we do? we have no power!”

Booker: hold my binder

#corybooker #bookerfilibuster

We kept hoping that somewhere behind the scenes, someone was doing SOMETHING…turns out in Booker’s office, they were.

Shoutout to Cory Booker’s staffers for what I am certain was a LOT of work and research and writing. He’s got a team behind him and they should all be recognized for preparing him to do this.

#booker #filibuster

Gallego and Slotkin confirmed way too many Trump nominees, and I think Gallego is ambitious enough.

Take Slotkin and Gallegos.

that means

49 R
43 D
8 NP

not filibuster-proof, not 2/3 but maybe like…the most peaceful outcome here.

Okay so let’s say we find four. as we are the democrats and we always play nice, give them four from our side for their new non-Russian party?

So yeah, who has been voting to confirm? Fetterman, Klobuchar…they’re both power-hungry enough and voted to confirm too much.

Maybe Bill Cassidy has a sliver of a soul left? and he sees now that babies are literally dying of a preventable disease? I think if we have a major outbreak, he might actually be willing to flip.

And fuck Susan Collins. I wouldn’t trust her to tie my shoe.

He could get some plum committeeship if he sees the way the wind is blowing and takes the true populist turn he’s been sort of teasing. MO is gonna be hit hard, and I think something like a natural disaster could tip him into play.

Thom Tillis is up for reelection and he needs the R apparatus

I think both the power-seeking and the amnesty-seeking aged might be good targets.

So McConnell. One last chance to do the bare minimum of what he should pay, but alas. We need numbers.

Maybe Josh Hawley is craven enough? Because look, it’s fucking politics. There will be considerations.

(also I’m aware I’m talking to myself over here but I had to talk this out)

So. We need four Republican Senators with a spine and a willingness to accept that this is ultimately a huge risk w a HUGE payoff.

Obviously Murkowski, but who else?

I’m gonna stream-of-consciousness profile.

So like, they can fuckin HAVE Fetterman as their “liberal” pal. Obviously Murkowski — I genuinely think she’d switch to Ind. in a heartbeat if it wouldn’t mean ceding so much power. So we make it so she doesn’t cede power. (wow, I’m high & I need an editor lol — shoulda led with that, huh?)

3/?

That means we go full magamaniac in harassing a handful of R senators to form a 3rd party that will caucus with Ds specifically as a check on Trump.

But we MUST be as ruthless and disconcerting as they are to us. I’m not joking — we have to go fucking FERAL as far as LEGAL HARRASSMENT

2/?

okay okay okay so hear me out: organically grown COALITION GOVERNMENT/TRUE THIRD PARTY

But like, playing nice is truly not an option. This could literally save us SO MUCH PAIN both domestically and internationally. We have to use the same social guerilla warfare THEY do.

1/?

We have to start asking how the military will respond when they are given illegal orders to act against US citizens.

Because it will happen.

Dark skies reflect my sadness at the firings of all the humans that help keep the #GreatLakes as healthy as possible. Tonight I mourn the loss of the 14 @usfws.bsky.social employees that kept the invasive sea lamprey at bay. My fishery will be hurt. 😢😢🌊🌊

Honestly? If I were a Californian, I’d be serious about seceding. Instead of sending DC all their money, they should invest in California. I’m in a red state; this isn’t a personal win for me. But if I were a well-run state? I’d be pissed as hell.

YES, I definitely am! Also, Leo Mars is a vibe. We’re crazy 😝

Look, I’m sorry but people trying to get others to sign petitions saying not to get rid of the Dept of Education is just flat ridiculous right now.

It’s not even bringing a knife to a gun fight. It’s bringing a wiffle ball bat to an armored battalion fight.

It’s ridiculous. This is not it.

painfully, excruciatingly aware 😂

I watched it at the Cheri and had an absolute blast. Face/Off and Scream are two of the best movie memories for me, going with my college friends and the vibe of the movie just being so awesomely fucked up. God bless the mid-90s. Truly the last of the good times lol.

So the last Mars retrograde in Leo-Cancer was…46 years ago. How do I know? Well, my spicy lil Leo Mars is actually post-shadow of that retrograde.

So once Mars decides to get off 17° Cancer, I’m heading back toward a Mars return. Yay?

For the algorithm, because we don’t have national health reporting now — we got caught in the Indy Flu A net.

We are all doing better than we were, it was about a week of illness, with 2-3 days that are the pits of hell.

Photo is me loopy with a fever, trying to show my pink fever cheeks lol

okay but either FIX Wheel of Fortune so it’s actually 1/4, or acknowledge it’s like…1/8 at BEST.

Ben and I thought we should watch that one again before we show it to her bc we can’t remember if it’s so bad it’s good, or just bad, and have determined our college-student recollection of it might not be PERFECT lol

My favorite movie of all time. I’m like…religiously devoted to Hot Fuzz (and The Greater Good)

and I mean, maybe also no chainsaw?

This is next on the 90s Blockbuster Movie Night list.