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@creolegumbo.bsky.social

Politico, Liberal, Progressive. New Orleans native. “Legend in my living room.”

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I'm happy just to see Obama out there acting like what Trump is doing matters. That's worth breaking the implicit norm of former Presidents keeping a low profile.

But really I think Dem electeds are just overthinking this. Thermostasis + stove-touching gives them room to speak from their chests.

08.04.2025 16:24 — 👍 219    🔁 30    💬 6    📌 2
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Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘horrifying’ ICE probe in Northern NY The family has been transferred out of New York state.

No coincidence perhaps that Sackets Harbor is the home of Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar.

Turning in their own neighbors and their kids classmates is like catnip to MAGA acolytes. They live for the cruelty of it.

www.syracuse.com/politics/202...

05.04.2025 19:49 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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Judge orders urgent release of DOGE records, citing ‘unprecedented’ power and ‘unusual secrecy’ It’s the first significant ruling in a growing legal push to pierce DOGE’s secretive veil, a decision that undercuts Musk’s repeated insistence about the operation’s transparency.

A federal judge has ruled DOGE is wielding so much power that its records will likely have to be opened to the public under federal law.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the "unprecedented" authority of DOGE warrant the release of documents under FOIA. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

11.03.2025 19:21 — 👍 2056    🔁 650    💬 62    📌 26

No, he made it from the government. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

11.03.2025 18:26 — 👍 1867    🔁 415    💬 38    📌 6
A screenshot of an X post by the Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition
) posted on March 7, 2025. The post praises Senator Mark Kelly, a decorated veteran, for rebuking Elon Musk and teaching him a lesson in patriotism. It includes a quote from Senator Mark Kelly: "Traitor? Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do." The post features an image with two photos: one of Elon Musk on the left and another of Senator Mark Kelly standing near a rusted tank with "UKRAINE" graffiti in a public square, likely in Ukraine. The text overlay labels Kelly's response as directed at Musk, calling him a traitor after his visit to Ukraine. The post includes a link (bit.ly/4iD9Mng) for more information and hashtags #TraitorTrump.

A screenshot of an X post by the Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition ) posted on March 7, 2025. The post praises Senator Mark Kelly, a decorated veteran, for rebuking Elon Musk and teaching him a lesson in patriotism. It includes a quote from Senator Mark Kelly: "Traitor? Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do." The post features an image with two photos: one of Elon Musk on the left and another of Senator Mark Kelly standing near a rusted tank with "UKRAINE" graffiti in a public square, likely in Ukraine. The text overlay labels Kelly's response as directed at Musk, calling him a traitor after his visit to Ukraine. The post includes a link (bit.ly/4iD9Mng) for more information and hashtags #TraitorTrump.

Elon: Meet Sen. Kelly’s locker.

11.03.2025 19:30 — 👍 2165    🔁 219    💬 30    📌 9

Those white working class voters can’t buy a Tesla

11.03.2025 20:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So true, Donald.

11.03.2025 00:35 — 👍 293    🔁 48    💬 16    📌 5
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It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

10.03.2025 22:26 — 👍 20325    🔁 2849    💬 598    📌 238
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We should compare Social Security, which has never missed a payment since its inception, to Tesla's stock price.

10.03.2025 23:26 — 👍 23526    🔁 3969    💬 1049    📌 194

AT LAST.

Here’s hoping they keep up the honesty.

11.03.2025 01:31 — 👍 192    🔁 45    💬 3    📌 1
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Target hit hardest by DEI boycott; Costco saw double-digit traffic increase Walmart, Amazon also saw dips in traffic

If you want to know if the boycott was effective, look at the website traffic numbers.

On February 28th, Target traffic was down 9%. Walmart’s 5%. Amazon even lost traffic that day.

Who gained?
Traffic to Costco’s website went up 22%!! 👀

Keep going.

www.supermarketnews.com/consumer-tre...

05.03.2025 20:19 — 👍 389    🔁 125    💬 15    📌 11
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

05.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 82134    🔁 25923    💬 1689    📌 2841
Alina Habba tweeted ‘Nothing can ever stop this man from fighting for our country’!
David Simon replied with ‘Bone spurs’.

Alina Habba tweeted ‘Nothing can ever stop this man from fighting for our country’! David Simon replied with ‘Bone spurs’.

This is next level! 💥

05.03.2025 21:53 — 👍 51784    🔁 9371    💬 822    📌 406

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

05.03.2025 22:54 — 👍 98977    🔁 17194    💬 2006    📌 798

DISRESPECTFUL - WITHHOLD ALL COOPERATION UNTIL HE APOLOGIZES.

05.03.2025 18:10 — 👍 1546    🔁 211    💬 55    📌 7

“One way or the other we’re gonna get it.”

He’s talking about Greenland. At least at that moment.

And listen to the GOP laugh.

They think it’s funny, threatening the sovereignty of other nations.

Just in care you still thought “it’s just MAGA, not the GOP.”

They’re the same thing.

05.03.2025 17:47 — 👍 1352    🔁 276    💬 83    📌 19

She’s my favorite.

05.03.2025 15:26 — 👍 1332    🔁 161    💬 46    📌 10

This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

05.03.2025 02:47 — 👍 82012    🔁 11411    💬 1837    📌 212

She should have firsthand knowledge of such things

03.03.2025 01:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

now would be a good time for liberals to make a massive investment in progressive media. decades of relying on the ny times/wapo/ap/cnn has been a failure and they're now more right-wing than ever. everything is turning into a miniature fox news and liberals dont want to put money into this.

26.02.2025 15:09 — 👍 3001    🔁 585    💬 101    📌 41
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This is evil. Pure evil.

26.02.2025 22:20 — 👍 40241    🔁 13115    💬 3824    📌 1818

Let's organize a flood of op-eds arguing for personal reproductive liberty, so we can demonstrate the charade Bezos is engaged in ASAP.

26.02.2025 14:49 — 👍 1617    🔁 388    💬 67    📌 16

Unintentionally-telling frame in this AI-generated vision of how #Gaza might look after the ethnic cleansing of #Palestinians:
♦️Trump showing off his beach-bod. Alongside an equally-taut #Netanyahu.

26.02.2025 22:58 — 👍 394    🔁 72    💬 46    📌 6
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Arizona Court Dismisses Right-Wing Group’s Election Administration Lawsuit Read more.

Proud of the work my law firm did in this case!

"An Arizona judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to upend election policies in Yavapai County. The decision delivered a blow to a right-wing organization founded by Stephen Miller which brought the challenge."
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

26.02.2025 22:59 — 👍 28354    🔁 5367    💬 855    📌 256

And YOU seem to forget the GOP took a shellacking in 1982 midterms! Dems picked up 26 seats, winning the popular vote by almost 12 points.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Un...

26.02.2025 23:21 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Catholic Health Association pleads to spare Medicaid from GOP cuts The Catholic Health Association issued pleas to lawmakers, asking them to reject funding cuts and structural changes to Medicaid.

Medicaid pays for 40% of births in America. 🤰

Call your Rep! (202) 224-3121

26.02.2025 00:13 — 👍 2010    🔁 709    💬 83    📌 31

🔥Rep Veronica Escobar on House Floor: “My Republican colleagues, instead of working with us to reduce costs, they’re working to give billionaires massive tax breaks..this bill will make America poorer, sicker & hungrier. It will close hospitals & clinics. It will kick seniors out of nursing homes.”😡

25.02.2025 23:52 — 👍 409    🔁 149    💬 9    📌 7
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Trump-forward budget proposal imperiling Medicaid narrowly passes in Republican-led House – live Health coverage for more than 72 million Americans on the line with proposal of $4.5tn in tax cuts and increased spending for defense and border security

the plan “includes an estimated $800bn in potential cuts from Medicaid, a federal program providing healthcare coverage to more than 72 million Americans” and “$4.5 trillion in tax cuts,” because “fuck the poor” is on-brand for the gop.

make them own it.

26.02.2025 01:53 — 👍 816    🔁 249    💬 32    📌 16

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