Karen Wickre

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Purge, Merge, and Surge Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

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This is absolutely right.

The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

One of the more important actions we can take in the year ahead is to help other people keep from losing their minds in an environment of weaponized unreality and falling into despair as a result.

Here’s Soul II Soul with “Keep on Movin’” from their 1989 album by the same name. Enjoy 😊

This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?

Indivisible Brooklyn members in front of Chuck Schumer's apartment building at night holding signs that read "Schumer Hold the Line" and "Schumer Don't Cave on Us" etc. Lit up LED sign reading "No Schumer Surrender" and big letters on cards reading "DON'T CAVE"

On half an hour's notice, @bkindivisible.bsky.social showed up across the street from @schumer.senate.gov's apartment to tell him NOT to CAVE.

The final chant: "WE'LL BE BACK."

Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.

They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.

Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.

Agree.

Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."

This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.

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.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

My red line has always been lowering health costs for Americans. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t want an agreement that meets that bar. I’m a no.

Whatever else is in the deal, agreeing to merely have a vote on ACA is a fig leaf. Even if it passes the Senate, it won't in the House, which also makes it an easy yes vote for the Senate Rs who might want to, defusing it as an attack on them.

It is a stupid ask even on Team Schumer's own terms.

maturing is learning that neither a new planner nor any new productivity software will solve all your problems

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.

Get 'em Jasmine!
#USDemocracy

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Shutdown air travel tips! Don’t fly if you don’t have to, fly on a Wednesday or Saturday, and snack up HARD before you get on board. #airport #travel #shutdown #airplane

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CNN: The guy worth half a trillion dollars has just been awarded a trillion-dollar bonus

NYT: The president took a break from building a giant golden White House ballroom to eliminate SNAP benefits

CBS: It remains baffling that so many voters are willing to consider socialism

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

I knew that West Virginia, now one of the reddest, Trumpiest states, was a swing state back in the late 20th century. But here’s an astounding fact I just learned: in 1988, dweeby Massachusetts liberal governor Mike Dukakis won West Virginia!

The past is a foreign country.

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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

Continuing to close school libraries, defund public libraries, and ban books probably won’t fix it.

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Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Not sure if these are the Page One headlines WH was going for.

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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS

I learned a lot about Nancy Pelosi this week — including her very early advocacy for AIDS patients. She visited them in SF General’s AIDS ward and convinced the Reagan administration to allow the AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on the National Mall in 1987.

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This is what good journalism looks like. Go talk to the people actually impacted by all the nonsense, rather than just presenting the view from nowhere...

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from using furloughed employees’ email accounts to broadcast partisan messages about the shutdown.

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