Cblodg
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History lover, Civil War reenactor, Red Sox fan, politics, Disney. In the trail mix of interests.
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Schumer wanted to keep fighting for political reasons. Shaheen and crew wanted the deal because the shutdown had become pointless as there was no ACA deal to be had with Republicans. In my book they were both right. Schumer for wanting the fight and Shaheen for sticking to reality.
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Schumer wanted to keep fighting for political reasons. Shaheen and crew wanted the deal because the shutdown had become pointless as there was no ACA deal to be had with Republicans. In my book they were both right. Schumer for wanting the fight and Shaheen for sticking to reality.
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The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
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The Enterprise E, but not quite as it appeared on screen
Concept art by John Eaves
Concept art by John Eaves
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Enterprise E, but not quite as it appeared on screen
Concept art by John Eaves
Concept art by John Eaves
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Ah, yes: the Republican Party still has an armed wing.
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
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And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
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He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ah, yes: the Republican Party still has an armed wing.
The naïveté to believe this this is astounding.
I am supremely disappointed in you Jean. I have supported you since your first run as governor in NH.
What you have wrought is nothing short of a disaster.
I am supremely disappointed in you Jean. I have supported you since your first run as governor in NH.
What you have wrought is nothing short of a disaster.
Shaheen on Fox & Friends: "I believe there are number of Republicans who are gonna join us in trying to address healthcare costs ... we are gonna be able to continue to right about healthcare because we're gonna have a vote in December."
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The naïveté to believe this this is astounding.
I am supremely disappointed in you Jean. I have supported you since your first run as governor in NH.
What you have wrought is nothing short of a disaster.
I am supremely disappointed in you Jean. I have supported you since your first run as governor in NH.
What you have wrought is nothing short of a disaster.
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Delusional.
Shaheen on Fox & Friends: "I believe there are number of Republicans who are gonna join us in trying to address healthcare costs ... we are gonna be able to continue to right about healthcare because we're gonna have a vote in December."
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Delusional.
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Like I wrote, it’s Senate-brain logic: *what if we’re not opponents, but instead colleagues who all want what’s best for the American people?*
Are the “Republicans who are going to join [Dems] in trying to address healthcare costs” in the room with you right now, senator?
Are the “Republicans who are going to join [Dems] in trying to address healthcare costs” in the room with you right now, senator?
Shaheen on Fox & Friends: "I believe there are number of Republicans who are gonna join us in trying to address healthcare costs ... we are gonna be able to continue to right about healthcare because we're gonna have a vote in December."
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Like I wrote, it’s Senate-brain logic: *what if we’re not opponents, but instead colleagues who all want what’s best for the American people?*
Are the “Republicans who are going to join [Dems] in trying to address healthcare costs” in the room with you right now, senator?
Are the “Republicans who are going to join [Dems] in trying to address healthcare costs” in the room with you right now, senator?
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Asset prep 📐 for my next interactive web project / this video contains music🖖 #StarTrek #Enterprise-D MSD resources ➡️ ST:TNG Technical Manual • Set Blueprint Archive website by @portalrealm.bsky.social • Memory Alpha website for deck plans. YT video at youtu.be/o16BhAEurBE
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Asset prep 📐 for my next interactive web project / this video contains music🖖 #StarTrek #Enterprise-D MSD resources ➡️ ST:TNG Technical Manual • Set Blueprint Archive website by @portalrealm.bsky.social • Memory Alpha website for deck plans. YT video at youtu.be/o16BhAEurBE
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CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
CICERO, IL — Trump’s ICE goons pepper spray into a family’s car and hits a 1 year old baby girl.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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The only silver lining: when Republicans inevitably vote down ACA subsidies, it’ll be clear who fought to protect Americans’ healthcare—and who didn’t. Democrats gave them the rope. Now we’ll see if the GOP uses it to finish the job.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The only silver lining: when Republicans inevitably vote down ACA subsidies, it’ll be clear who fought to protect Americans’ healthcare—and who didn’t. Democrats gave them the rope. Now we’ll see if the GOP uses it to finish the job.
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In exchange, they got a promise for a symbolic vote on restoring ACA subsidies—one that will easily fail in the Senate and never even see the light of day in Mike Johnson’s House. That’s not a win. That’s window dressing.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
In exchange, they got a promise for a symbolic vote on restoring ACA subsidies—one that will easily fail in the Senate and never even see the light of day in Mike Johnson’s House. That’s not a win. That’s window dressing.
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Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
The No-Win scenario just continued.
Yeah, the government will likely reopen, and it will be due to an epic failure of leadership.
The republicans will never agree to save ACA assistance.
Life is going to get much harder for so many of us.
They were never going to extract ACA payments (cont.)
Yeah, the government will likely reopen, and it will be due to an epic failure of leadership.
The republicans will never agree to save ACA assistance.
Life is going to get much harder for so many of us.
They were never going to extract ACA payments (cont.)
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The No-Win scenario just continued.
Yeah, the government will likely reopen, and it will be due to an epic failure of leadership.
The republicans will never agree to save ACA assistance.
Life is going to get much harder for so many of us.
They were never going to extract ACA payments (cont.)
Yeah, the government will likely reopen, and it will be due to an epic failure of leadership.
The republicans will never agree to save ACA assistance.
Life is going to get much harder for so many of us.
They were never going to extract ACA payments (cont.)
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"Remastered" VFX shots of the Enterprise, shot practically using a motion control rig. Beautiful work by NJM Productions on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7zM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7zM...
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"Remastered" VFX shots of the Enterprise, shot practically using a motion control rig. Beautiful work by NJM Productions on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7zM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7zM...
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
A feckless leader.
Schumer: "However this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue. Democrats must fight."
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A feckless leader.
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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.
Shaheen’s already retiring.
@hassan.senate.gov on the other hand, her career in the US Senate from NH is more than done after this.
@hassan.senate.gov on the other hand, her career in the US Senate from NH is more than done after this.
New Hampshire Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan helped lead negotiations on a deal to reopen the government.
NH senators help broker deal to extend government funding
New Hampshire Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan helped lead negotiations on a deal to reopen the government.
www.wmur.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Shaheen’s already retiring.
@hassan.senate.gov on the other hand, her career in the US Senate from NH is more than done after this.
@hassan.senate.gov on the other hand, her career in the US Senate from NH is more than done after this.
By voting for this, Democrats are owning the shutdown. Because it will have been for NOTHING.
Needless pain, because in the end you screwed over the most vulnerable again.
You think the voters this last week didn’t send you a message to fight!?
Needless pain, because in the end you screwed over the most vulnerable again.
You think the voters this last week didn’t send you a message to fight!?
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
By voting for this, Democrats are owning the shutdown. Because it will have been for NOTHING.
Needless pain, because in the end you screwed over the most vulnerable again.
You think the voters this last week didn’t send you a message to fight!?
Needless pain, because in the end you screwed over the most vulnerable again.
You think the voters this last week didn’t send you a message to fight!?
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One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law!
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law!
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.
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If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
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i'm just saying my GOAT Pelosi would never tolerate this shit
it's literally your one and only job to whip votes man what are you doing
it's literally your one and only job to whip votes man what are you doing
if this is real it brings a whole new meaning to Cuck Schumer
brother if there are Democratic Senators negotiating with Republicans behind your back then it's fucking over man, you are literally in the world's most powerful cuck chair
brother if there are Democratic Senators negotiating with Republicans behind your back then it's fucking over man, you are literally in the world's most powerful cuck chair
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
i'm just saying my GOAT Pelosi would never tolerate this shit
it's literally your one and only job to whip votes man what are you doing
it's literally your one and only job to whip votes man what are you doing