Micheál Keane
@aexia.bsky.social
Long-time Democratic campaign hack. Obama alum. Warren alum. Father to Twin Toddler Terrorists (he/him)
Disciple of Saint Pleizar the Volcano Thrower because the media likes Republicans and wants them to succeed.
Disciple of Saint Pleizar the Volcano Thrower because the media likes Republicans and wants them to succeed.
“The Paper of Record”: “It’s already in the NY Post”
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
“The Paper of Record”: “It’s already in the NY Post”
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If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
First, I will say this: never believe an Axios backed story with only a Thune test vote schedule.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
That being said, for obvious reasons to anyone who sees my posts regularly, I don't think a deal is a good idea for Dems, but the rumored deal seems pretty poor even factoring in my priors against.
IMO there are two legitimate goals to non-cooperation (which would likely lead to shutdown):
-Demonstrate Dem opposition & non-complicity
-End filibuster
-Demonstrate Dem opposition & non-complicity
-End filibuster
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks:
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
-Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility
-They did it for nothing
-They caved to Trump
Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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if the Democrats are willing to accept this deal, in particular, i don't think a single Senator should make it through their primary. this just makes health inequity worse and lets Trump send out checks with his name on them!
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
if the Democrats are willing to accept this deal, in particular, i don't think a single Senator should make it through their primary. this just makes health inequity worse and lets Trump send out checks with his name on them!
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Basically: I think the political point scoring arguments right now are missing the point pretty seriously. We absolutely have to assert the constitutional order, and you cannot open the government if the other party refuses.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Basically: I think the political point scoring arguments right now are missing the point pretty seriously. We absolutely have to assert the constitutional order, and you cannot open the government if the other party refuses.
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it is literally just letting him gut the program and then put his name onto a check
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
it is literally just letting him gut the program and then put his name onto a check
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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A multi billion dollar giveaway to Turbotax and other big Trump donors.
The I.R.S. is shutting down its free online system for filing tax returns, a program that the Biden administration introduced last year and that users gave high marks.
via @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
via @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b...
I.R.S. Halts Free Online Offering for Filing Taxes Directly
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A multi billion dollar giveaway to Turbotax and other big Trump donors.
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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They like Trump and want to help him
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
They like Trump and want to help him
Granted I'm a couple days late to the party but Pluribus is about AGI, right?
And frankly, the tact about family members is that you're talking to the thing that killed them.
Maybe there's a way to reverse it. Hopefully. But it's very clearly not stable in the long-term.
And frankly, the tact about family members is that you're talking to the thing that killed them.
Maybe there's a way to reverse it. Hopefully. But it's very clearly not stable in the long-term.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Granted I'm a couple days late to the party but Pluribus is about AGI, right?
And frankly, the tact about family members is that you're talking to the thing that killed them.
Maybe there's a way to reverse it. Hopefully. But it's very clearly not stable in the long-term.
And frankly, the tact about family members is that you're talking to the thing that killed them.
Maybe there's a way to reverse it. Hopefully. But it's very clearly not stable in the long-term.
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Seems like the ones waging a "war on Christianity" are Republicans, huh?
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
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Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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mainstream political news is gonna look like Radio Rwanda because journalists are all addicted to twitter
my prediction is that in two years the cultural divide between X users and anyone else is going to be as wide as 4chan users and FB users in the 2008
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
mainstream political news is gonna look like Radio Rwanda because journalists are all addicted to twitter
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Some dumbfuck accounts that only post Luigi gifs are 100% going to fall for this.
Republicans waged a relentless, decades-long campaign to privatize Medicare and Medicaid
They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance
Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers
We are supposed to take this seriously?
They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance
Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers
We are supposed to take this seriously?
November 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Some dumbfuck accounts that only post Luigi gifs are 100% going to fall for this.
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"is Naoya Zenin gay or trans" the greatest thread in the history of forums locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"is Naoya Zenin gay or trans" the greatest thread in the history of forums locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
I think you're underestimating how she stopped being hot to these guys the day she turned 18
Something I find very funny is people periodically talking about how Sabrina Carpenter "isn't hot to men", as if heterosexual male fans are the audience her career depends on. I thought we had all understood 'women mostly dress up for themselves, or for women' but looks like we've forgotten again.
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I think you're underestimating how she stopped being hot to these guys the day she turned 18
my platform: teaching media literacy in journalism schools
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
my platform: teaching media literacy in journalism schools
I'm aware that you shouldn't mess with the Zohran
His... awareness of Zohran? what?
NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I'm aware that you shouldn't mess with the Zohran
All according to keikaku.
Somehow Schumer has managed to get the Republicans to the edge of a field of rakes, pointed out how to avoid it, and their plan is to confidently walk right into the middle of the field.
So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.
Amazing.
Amazing.
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM
All according to keikaku.
Ideal situation for “make them deny it”
I think this bag is fake.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Ideal situation for “make them deny it”
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And the Sinister Six are going to give Trump what he wants: starving children.
They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
And the Sinister Six are going to give Trump what he wants: starving children.
Looking at leaked clips of the first two episodes of JJK S3 and they just went incredibly hard.
The Naoya/Choso fight in particular is great looking. Makes me really look forward to the Perfect Preparation arc.
#jujutsukaisen #jjk
The Naoya/Choso fight in particular is great looking. Makes me really look forward to the Perfect Preparation arc.
#jujutsukaisen #jjk
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Looking at leaked clips of the first two episodes of JJK S3 and they just went incredibly hard.
The Naoya/Choso fight in particular is great looking. Makes me really look forward to the Perfect Preparation arc.
#jujutsukaisen #jjk
The Naoya/Choso fight in particular is great looking. Makes me really look forward to the Perfect Preparation arc.
#jujutsukaisen #jjk