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@marielapenn.bsky.social

Progressive, cinephile, swimmer, tea enthusiast, trivia master, history buff, Seattle sports fan

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If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.

19.11.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2123    πŸ” 527    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 11

We all knew that. It’s you and your colleagues that seem to think otherwise, because CRs are the only way to force them to agree to funding. Instead, you’ve conceded the point after weeks of suffering which you rendered worthless.

11.11.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 672    πŸ” 136    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders. After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...

Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. And after the primary β€” whatever happens β€” we will rally behind the winner and crush the regime electorally in the midterms just like we did this last week.

We get the party we demand and we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.

11.11.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 805    πŸ” 197    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 8
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Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders. After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...

This isn’t about left vs. right.

This is about fighting back vs. losing.

The regime’s threats are too real and the stakes are too high to settle for the feckless, loser version of the Democratic Party we saw this week. In this moment when fascists are on the march, we need leadership with a spine.

11.11.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 588    πŸ” 149    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6
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Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders. After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.

We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.

If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. πŸ‘‡

11.11.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6349    πŸ” 2121    πŸ’¬ 176    πŸ“Œ 176
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CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside

We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.

We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.

10.11.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2080    πŸ” 726    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 64
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” β€” @indivisible.org

10.11.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4228    πŸ” 1227    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 89

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β€œThese are not the people to defend the country against the manifold extreme threats to our institutions and way of life posed by Trump and MAGA”
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β€œWe need to recognize that we can’t have a different Democratic Party β€” Until we have different Democrats leading it”
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10.11.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.

I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

10.11.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9327    πŸ” 1532    πŸ’¬ 199    πŸ“Œ 67

This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.

10.11.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1884    πŸ” 379    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 11

He orchestrated it and he's a liar. He's despicable.

10.11.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

NO. Primaries for all of you useless pricks.

10.11.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You are a liar and a POS. Go home.

10.11.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the answer

10.11.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course they did. Primary all of them

10.11.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So get rid of Schumer

10.11.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

10.11.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 13249    πŸ” 2258    πŸ’¬ 345    πŸ“Œ 179

Beyond policy considerations and electoral politics, Tuesday provided a lot of people with a brief spark of hope that maybe our democracy is not already dead, and Democrats immediately capitulating to anti-democracy forces for no discernible benefit is a great way to extinguish that spark.

10.11.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 597    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 9

the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence

this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch

10.11.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2374    πŸ” 451    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 39

Like for six weeks, Democrats actually united on a singular, coherent message of β€œthis is entirely about healthcare, it is the only thing that matters, all of this is about protecting healthcare” and then the flight delays started and the first thing they did was give up on healthcare

10.11.2025 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 262    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Dems are very proud of themselves for their β€œsavvy” willingness to tell their base to simmer down and let the experts work. What they don’t seem to understand is the intangible, but very real, damage that does to the enthusiasm of their voters, who feel abandoned. And then the β€œexperts” fail!

10.11.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 717    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4

What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?

10.11.2025 04:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5116    πŸ” 912    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 79

These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yesβ€”they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.

10.11.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3480    πŸ” 1342    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 113

Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.

10.11.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3394    πŸ” 756    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 11

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.

10.11.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3297    πŸ” 823    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 25

The Democratic Party stabbed America in the back less than a week after the American voters gave the party a β€œfight back” mandate.

10.11.2025 03:55 β€” πŸ‘ 416    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4

This is very obvious and this is why all the safest 2026 Dems should be primaried.

10.11.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How you gonna keep fighting when you always let them win fuckface

10.11.2025 03:51 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Nobody in American politics hates their own voters more than the Democratic Party

10.11.2025 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2667    πŸ” 438    πŸ’¬ 150    πŸ“Œ 37

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