@teribdown.bsky.social
Average suburban woman
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
10.11.2025 00:56 — 👍 23958 🔁 5430 💬 412 📌 215My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
What will Mike Johnson's new excuse be for not swearing in Grijalva?
10.11.2025 04:24 — 👍 13877 🔁 2598 💬 842 📌 125Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
We should start by taking healthcare away from Republican members of Congress, since they feel it’s a “fake economy” anyway
10.11.2025 17:33 — 👍 3154 🔁 632 💬 175 📌 24📌I can't stop banging this drum: Democrats had a spectacular Tuesday at the polls, the wind at their backs, and basically punched themselves and their voters in the face five days later.
This is political malpractice at best, and out and out brazen capitulation to their billionaire donors at worst.
If you think the people throwing Great Gatsby-esque parties for themselves, while millions were denied their food assistance, are all of a sudden going to grow a conscience and save affordable healthcare, you clearly have not been paying attention.
10.11.2025 16:38 — 👍 10944 🔁 2995 💬 277 📌 135“We’ll see.”
We’re supposed to accept that Democratic leadership allowed this caliber of strategist to negotiate a deal with the most diabolical, mendacious group of politicians in American government.
NEW: Trump grants “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to 77 of his allies who supported plans to subvert the 2020 presidential election. The move marks the president’s latest effort to protect those who backed his attempt to remain in power after losing the election.
10.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 316 🔁 185 💬 49 📌 29Democrats were overwhelmingly united on their shutdown demands.
Americans understood that Trump and Republicans were to blame.
Voters made it known last Tuesday that they'll elect leaders who stand up to Trump.
Democrats held the cards — and folded for no reason.
Didn’t Little Ho Peep get married like 5 times?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
President Donald Trump has pardoned a massive slate of prominent allies who supported plans to subvert the 2020 presidential election, according to Ed Martin, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) pardon attorney www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
10.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 1061 🔁 540 💬 114 📌 30
Unfortunately I am here to tell you: it's time to worry about what the Supreme Court is going to do to mail ballots postmarked by election day that arrive after election day, in states across the country. This could be enormous.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
After Tuesday’s elections, Republicans are even more desperate to prevent free and fair elections in 2026. In this video, I lay out the eight things we should all expect next and what we can do to fight back. youtu.be/7rSwJPz2MRo?...
09.11.2025 23:43 — 👍 1894 🔁 781 💬 36 📌 11
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
10.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 23829 🔁 6222 💬 2469 📌 645Just realized a little bit ago that none of the eight Democrats are up for reelection in 2026 or are retiring.
10.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 227 🔁 21 💬 38 📌 2If the shutdown ends, how long until Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva is sworn in?
10.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 1163 🔁 196 💬 92 📌 17
NYT: F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
By Adam Goldman
The head of MI5 asked the FBI for help. He asked Kash Patel to hold onto an FBI agent based in London who dealt with certain high-tech surveillance tools. OK says Patel! Nope.
Gobsmacking! Gift link!
Politics cover wired
ayo @wired.com
23.09.2025 20:44 — 👍 705 🔁 114 💬 7 📌 6
NEW: In a new legal filing, Texas Republicans call the DOJ’s constitutional concerns — which the state GOP used to justify its mid-decade redistricting effort — a “mistake” and said Gov. Greg Abbott used the department as “political cover.”
From: @jenrice.bsky.social
There's no purpose in me doing a blow-by-blow of the testimony Kash Patel gave today on the Epstein Files.
Every word was a lie or evasion.
Everyone watching knew they were seeing a Trump lawyer pretending to be the FBI director but actually trying to aid a client.
You want the truth? It is here:
🎥 Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) told the DOJ, once again, to “jump in the Gulf of Maine” after it sued her state for refusing to share private voter data.
Check out what Bellows had to say about the department’s unprecedented demands👇
As the folks at Fox News, a propaganda network, screamed for Matthew Dowd to get fired from MSNBC, no one cared after their co-worker Brian Kilmeade said homeless people should be murdered and offered a half-hearted apology four days later.
17.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 2044 🔁 592 💬 102 📌 34While playing dress up as a cop himself, Kash Patel is removing subject area experts from the FBI. That’s not how we keep America safe.
17.09.2025 20:17 — 👍 341 🔁 95 💬 4 📌 4Again, very strange to have US leaders bragging about war crimes on TV — especially since Vance’s unfunny joke is basically “we base our air strikes on such sketchy intel that we can’t figure out who is a fisherman and who is a drug smuggler,” which does appear to be true, BTW.
17.09.2025 20:18 — 👍 2026 🔁 576 💬 81 📌 22It's a shame they feel the need to kiss up to a man they know is a liar, a blowhard and a fool.
17.09.2025 20:20 — 👍 92 🔁 15 💬 11 📌 2They made him walk too much, and then rolled their eyes and didn't clap at his speech.
Either that or he doesn't think he'll be around much longer.
The treatment of the Korean workers in America should have been a scandal in every U.S. paper.
But then again…America.
I feel that for the first time, countries around the world are finally seeing America for what it is.
Welcome to the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧
Never before in U.S. History has a President been acknowledged by another country in this unique way! 🇺🇸
At Windsor Castle, in London & all across the land, people are United! ✊
They all want to see the #EPSTEIN_PedoFiles, ASAP! 👀
