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Common Sense posts and responses. Sometimes good music too. The world has gone mad.
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · Dec 18
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h
Jack Smith speaks. Congress wants to hear more from him. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Jack Smith Speaks
You have choices about where you get your news and analysis.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10h
There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16h
"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14h
If a random guy in a mask grabbed someone and threw them in a vehicle—we'd call that a kidnapping. Until an alleged ICE agent identifies themselves, that's what this is.

For all we know they're a rapist murderer stalker looking for their next victim. Indefensible. Dem leadership must act NOW.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14h
ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 8h
They’re the new slime of humanity.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h
It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h
It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h
BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Department of State v @StateDept g.. The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans. The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.: 5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views
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hopeful66 @hopeful66.bsky.social · 12h
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 12h
Another day, Another great resistance community building starter pack from. @hopeful66.bsky.social -thanks my friend!
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hopeful66 @hopeful66.bsky.social · 12h
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 14h
The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16h
Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler.

This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 14h
American “Leadership”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17h
What a shock!
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17h
BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.
Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire
The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 15h
They’ll be firing rockets back and forth again before month’s end or maybe even the week.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17h
What a shock!
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17h
BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.
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Drew Abides @drewabides.bsky.social · 2d
It’s an ideology not an organization. These people want a bogeyman, and bogeymen are fictional.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h
7/ Democrats need to stand for something right now. And what need, to vote for this budget, is pretty simple and reasonable:

Don't cut people's health care just to pay for a billionaire tax cut.

Don't fund Trump's growing authoritarianism without checks on his corruption.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h
8/ But Trump doesn't want to end the shutdown. Because he thinks he's a king and he doesn't believe the law applies to him. He thinks he has extra powers in a shutdown. He doesn't.

But the longer Republicans boycott talks, the more the shutdown will hurt. So it's their move.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h
6/ Sure the House isn't here so Rs don't have to explain why they want premiums to go up and why they want to fund Trump's corruption.

But also because they don't want to swear in member-elect Adelita Grijalva. Since she would be the deciding vote to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 22h
Why? I think it rhymes with fepstein Iles.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h
5/ But here's the even darker kicker.

The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess.

And why?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h
5/ But here's the even darker kicker.

The House Republicans aren't even in town. Speaker Johnson told them to stay away from DC. They haven't been here in nearly a month. Refusing to show up for work. An unprecedented, unplanned 4 week recess.

And why?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h
4/ Ok, so then the obvious next step is to negotiate a compromise. That's how we've always avoided shutdowns. And Republicans need to convene those talks, bc they're in charge.

But here's the kicker - Trump is telling them to BOYCOTT NEGOTIATING. And they are following orders.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h
3/ The Senate keeps voting on 2 bills to reopen.

1. The GOP bill - it raises premiums on 22m Americans and lets Trump keep acting illegally.

2. The Dem bill - it stops the premium increases and checks Trump's illegality.

Each time, neither bill gets the necessary 60 votes.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h
2/ Democrats aren't going to vote for a budget that throws millions off health care and funds Trump's growing totalitarianism. At least I'm not.

Why work so hard to get to the Senate if you don't use your power to fight for what you believe in? Especially at a time like this.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h
Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.
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