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Wheezy McWindedpants

@drumtroll.bsky.social

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Single-issue voter: democracy. Big fan of glaciated landscapes. He/him/fuckyounazi

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · Aug 2

If you are in a blue state, start blowing your state elected’s phone and tell them they need to redistrict, too. This just became the most important issue of our moment.

Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · Aug 2

Breaking: Texas House redistricting committee passes Trump’s egregiously gerrymandered US House map giving GOP 5 new seats & 80% of congressional delegation in state Trump won with 56% of vote. Increases # of seats Trump won by 10+ points from 25 to 30 & reduces # of competitive seats from 2 to zero

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 24m

*Republicans need to act. Name the political opponents who are responsible for this! How can you be so bad at this??

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 45m

We’re about to get a whole bunch of Miles Bruners as they start getting notifications of their 2026 ACA premiums… as of today.

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 1h

A lesson @democrats.org sorely need to relearn.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Kudos to these universities for standing up to Trump's demands.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

That’s seven.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 1h

But… he didn’t answer your question. More mobilization… toward what?

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 1h

“The message couldn’t have been clearer…” Couldn‘t it have been? Still not clear on the political outcome the movement is advocating.

“Now we build on the momentum…” to what?

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 1h

Or that Merrick Garland was a Federalist Society plant (but not as much it proves Joe Biden was an incompetent, centrist fool better suited for a much earlier era who failed to defend our nation against a domestic enemy).

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 6h

The soldiers are still getting paid. Illegally and in violation of both the law and the Constitution.

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 6h

(Only Volvo Cars is owned by Geely Holding. Volvo Construction Equipment is still owned by the Volvo Group, which is still the original, very Swedish, Volvo.)

Volvo Construction Equipment - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 8h

Hell doesn't exist, but prison does.

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 8h

He’s had one — fully investigated and outed for outright corruption by @propublica.org and others. But Biden‘s DOJ… well, you know.

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 9h

No, I’m defending those who are about to experience real harm by defending the efforts to prevent the immediate harm from happening to them. What I see you doing is undermining those efforts. I don’t have a time machine back to 2009; I’ll choose what I can do to help people in what way I can today.

Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 10h

And you keep “helping.” 🫡

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 10h

You’re way off topic, here. Real people are about to experience real harm that Republicans are inflicting. Democrats are trying to prevent it, while Republicans are trying to imperil or bankrupt families. Don’t let (presently unobtainable) perfection be the enemy of good.

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 10h

It‘s *everyone vs Republicans who are instituting a dictatorship favoring oligarchs. There is an electoral enemy of freedom here, Robert, and you need to name the opponent at the ballot box.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 11h

I’d say this is damn good reason for Democrats to hold fast to the shutdown until Republicans agree to protect ACA credits.

Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 12h

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 10h

What are *Republicans doing to people. (This.)

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 12h

Not an accident:

Pete Hegseth’s tie causes diplomatic spat

US secretary of war accused of wearing ‘colours of Russian tricolor’ during meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 22h

Is Trump intentionally destroying the US economy so he and his oligarch funders can buy up everything for pennies on the dollar —as Russian oligarchs did when communism collapsed ? It certainly appears so. WATCH: substack.com/@jennbudd/no...

Jenn Budd (@jennbudd)

Explains a lot.

substack.com

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Hogula 🧛🏻‍♂️🐷🎃 @jessemackinnon.com · 1d

We are at war with everyone Trump feels like attacking that day. We are allied with the last world leader to blow smoke up his ass and tell him he’s the greatest President ever.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Wait so we’re also in an armed conflict against a completely different group? Sure yeah why not

Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · 1d

Pentagon discloses the latest strike on suspect boats in the Caribbean -- No. 7 in its current campaign -- with another video, but no evidence. In a first, this one is alleged to have ties to the Colombian insurgency group the ELN.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 21h

The @nytimes.com is a joke paper. It's so bad they have a well-established parody account that they are out-parodying with real headlines.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

I worry less about this attempt to consolidate an authoritarian regime succeeding in the end, even with as much damage as it's doing in the meantime. But if all these people walk free and still get a coin toss chance at winning elections, you're just inviting the next attempt to be more successful.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says if he invokes the Insurrection Act, ”there is no more court cases, there is no more anything.”
By “no more anything” he means no more democracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like it’s not a civilized country.

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Allies Not Enemies @alliesnotenemies.bsky.social · 1d

Save your reps' numbers in your contacts.
Call them while you're waiting in line, stuck in traffic, or bored on hold.

Doesn’t have to be perfect; they count topics, not eloquence.

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Wheezy McWindedpants @drumtroll.bsky.social · 1d

You voted against impeachment.