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Jill

@jillco.bsky.social

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#Phillies watcher Tennis player Sports without clocks 10, 9, 8, 76ers. Antifa VP (shh🤫) Former Soros professional protester Ban assault weapons, not books. Resist. Got vaxxed...didn't die. He's going to fuck up again.

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Jill @jillco.bsky.social · Apr 11

Psst...it's because ICE are sissy scaredy-cats, and they prefer easy pickings. Kids, parents, and grandparents are easy pickings.

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Jill @jillco.bsky.social · 17m

Delusional.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

Jill @jillco.bsky.social · 18m

Nope.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1h

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 42m

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

Any Democrat in Congress who would accept a promise from a Republican in Congress should undergo a cognitive test.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 2h

I will admit that this is the single funniest outcome of us doing a Keep Politics Out Of Sports after a guy kneeled

Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 3h

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.

Donnie dipshit between the announcers in the Fox booth on November 9, record 40th day of the GOP shutdown

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Jill @jillco.bsky.social · 2h

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ALT: a red balloon is being held by a person

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

This really is curious. Retiring sens who have no political skin in the game drawing their colleagues into a deal that will make the base furious

Walter IV @walteriv.bsky.social · 3h

Durbin - Retiring
Peters - Retiring
Shaheen - Retiring

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 3h

Invisible sunflowers at the #gatesofhell… #expectme

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 3h

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 3h

Rafael Veraza was trying to leave a Sam’s Club parking lot when a federal agent drove alongside a line of cars, spraying chemical irritants occupants of the vehicles through open windows — including his 1-year-old daughter, Ariana.

“My daughter didn’t have to go through this."

1-year-old, pepper sprayed by federal agent in Cicero: 'My daughter didn't have to go through this'

Video shows federal agents spraying chemical irritants from a moving vehicle at a line of cars waiting to leave a Cicero Sam's Club on Saturday morning. The action appears to violate a judge's restric...

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 4h

"OpenAI lost roughly $11.5 billion this quarter alone."

puck.news/an-ai-bubble...

Bubble Trouble?

A deep dive into hyperscaler earnings shows massive A.I. capex increases, accounting tricks, and the growing gap between spending and actual profits.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5h

Pretty please let us violently assault protesters, journalists, and clergy. Don’t take away one of our favorite activities.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5h

JUST IN: The Justice Department formally appeals U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction, which restricts the use of force against protesters and journalists.

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Jill @jillco.bsky.social · 4h

Can't even leave a message at Fetterman's office.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4h

Agree with this.

About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.

Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 5h

Opening the government with no concessions from GOP merely to alleviate airline cancellations - when Congress has been dragging its feet for years on chronic FAA staffing issues - is a lame ass choice.

Also, doing it while the House refuses to work is appalling.

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Jill @jillco.bsky.social · 6h

They said same thing a week ago.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 8h

Republicans have chosen the files. I am choosing the food. End the shutdown.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Two months ago, before Bovino arrived and the Broadview ICE facility was transformed into an impenetrable fortress, regular people were out there every single day for weeks telling feds to get out. We think about this day a lot.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · Sep 6

Since we've been out here observing, this small and growing group of neighbors (no organized protest planned today) have been repeatedly facing off with agents.

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 8h

Remember this godforsaken story the next time the police or their fanbase whine about limits on vehicle pursuits

sal tamarkin @sal.gay · 9h

Last night in Tampa, cops used a controversial and risky technique called a PIT maneuver while chasing a driver who'd sped away from a street race

The PIT maneuver failed. The driver sped away, losing control, and crashing into an LGBTQ+ bar killing 4 people and injuring 13

4 dead, 13 injured after Florida police chase ends with suspect crashing into popular LGBTQ bar

More than a dozen people were standing outside Bradley's, a popular LGBTQ bar, when the car crashed into them after a police chase.

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 7h

Did Washington DC ever get the funding that got slashed in the last CR? When Mike Johnson promised a vote to restore it "later"?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7h

Getting a deal where you are promised a future vote that might not pass the Senate let alone the House is a chump move.

Axios @axios.com · 8h

BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 7h

Thinking about when Willie Wilson said police “should be able to chase them [anyone who runs from police] down, and hunt them down like a rabbit,” and Paul Vallas wanted to “take the handcuffs off police.”

Everyone’s getting to see what that looks like in practice now & they don’t seem to like it.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

Gosh I wonder which one it could be. 🗽

@council.nyc.gov @bradlander.bsky.social @marklevinenyc.bsky.social
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Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted by prosecutors in Brooklyn on a host of charges related to a scheme to rig bets on pitches thrown in MLB games. Ortiz was arrested in Boston earlier today. Clase is not currently in custody.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

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