lisasusanberger.bsky.social
@lisasusanberger.bsky.social
But, there's a new ballroom... so winning. 💔
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
How many women? They're a dime a dozen so who cares?
This Texas woman developed preeclampsia, leading to still-birth. She DIED, leaving her young son behind.

This happens while an all-male panel in South Carolina is deciding whether women should be charged w/ murder for their pregnancies.

Abortion is healthcare.

How many more women have to die?
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I wrote your name for Mayor in November. You would have been a wonderful Mayor, and I hope you will consider running again in the future.
Trump is about to throw 170,000 formerly homeless families out of supportive housing onto the street.

This is not “housing policy.” It is one more step from the authoritarian playbook to elevate cruelty, scapegoat the vulnerable, punish cities & provoke disorder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Those fu*kers will do anything to deny poor, black and people of color food.
#BREAKING: Over a public dissent from Justice Jackson, #SCOTUS *extends* the temporary pause of the district court’s order that had mandated full SNAP payments for November—keeping that ruling (and those payments) on hold through the end of the day this Thursday:
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
My Thoughts on Last Night in the Senate

What happened wasn’t random. It was planned — or enabled — by Schumer or Durbin. And by design: not one of the “cavers” faces re-election in 2026 or is retiring. That’s not an accident.
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This 👇exactly. Schumer is very weak leader with little if any idea how to devise a successfully executed strategy.

Their coordinated explanations are very dated, and truly laughable. As a
Opposed to past, voters now decide on vibes not logic.

And yes, Schumer and Durbin need to go.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Clearly they think the public will blame GOP for losing their insurance in 2026. Unlikely after this debacle.
Hassan: With the government reopening shortly, Republicans now finally have to come to the table. Or make no mistake, Americans will remember who stood in the way.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Hahahahahaha
Shaheen: So let me be clear. No one in the senate chamber wants to extend the ACA tax credits more than I do.
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Hahahahahaha
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I'm done. I have been a Democrat since I registered to vote - over 50 years. Tomorrow, I am changing my registration to Independent and resigning from my county Democratic Committee.
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 1:16 AM
Duh!!!!!!!! Never gonna happen, and Mamdani knows this.

Hochul Raises Doubts About Mamdani’s Free Bus Proposal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/n...
Hochul Raises Doubts About Mamdani’s Free Bus Proposal
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Tomorrow, I am changing my registration to Independent and resigning from the New York County Democratic Committee.
We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting.

Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
So Democrats get:

1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays

2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail

3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts

Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Tomorrow I am changing my registration to Independent. And resigning from the New York County Democratic Committee.
let me just say Harry Reid would NEVER have allowed this
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The @GOP health insurance plan! You get possibly life-saving drugs if you know someone in the admin, otherwise, you're out of luck. Survival by autocracy. Fun!!
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 14d
Like many Americans, Scott Adams had insurance problems. But unlike most people he has powerful friends on social media, and when he asked President Trump for help, he got the cancer drug he needed.
Dilbert creator taps Trump to get cancer drug. Others wish they could, too
Like many Americans, Scott Adams had insurance problems. But unlike most people he has powerful friends on social media, and when he asked President Trump for help, he got the cancer drug he needed.
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
No stone unturned in the noble task of starving Americans. 😡
Yikes. USDA sent threatening letter to states telling them that if they sent out EBT money —which many states did during the window when a lower court said SNAP funds had to be released—they have to take it back (?)
Trying to sort out what this means and if states even can claw back the funds
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Clean up on aisle 5...
Dr Oz on the guy who collapsed in the Oval Office: "The president, God bless him, called the wife from the Oval Office giving her updates on how her husband was doing. When you actually know the man as a human being, not as a political actor, you have to love him."
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
They. Don't. Care.
“Everything’s rising except for wages." Housing costs are up, unemployment is up, “and the cost of food right now is unprecedented."

The shutdown could continue for weeks or months—all while food costs continue to rise. People were already struggling, and now they may go hungry too. trib.al/uBrvb9w
This SNAP Shutoff Comes at the Worst Possible Time
As food prices soar and kids are home for the holidays, families will have more mouths to feed and less money to do it.
trib.al
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Talent yes. Ability to get things done. We will see
100% agree w this.

Have lived in Calif (20+ yrs), Texas (4+ yrs), Wash state (2+ yrs), DC (long time) MA and MS and GA and outside US (long time). Not NYC.

No one outside NYC spends ten seconds caring who the city elects as its mayor.

But you can recognize political talent, which ZM surely has.
I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.
November 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
They're so damn happy about children suffering. Animals.
Classic JD saying
JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Such unseemly glee by the psychopaths.
Mike Johnson: "On Saturday, things are gonna become very dire."
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Should have made @benwikler.bsky.social DNC chair. Such outdated messaging/results. Not well suited for Trump era.
Spoke with voters last night in Lancaster, PA, with my good friend and DNC Vice Chair @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social.

We’ve got 5 days to go until Election Day! Vote for @retainwecht.bsky.social, @retaindonohue.bsky.social, and @retaindougherty.bsky.social.
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Hahahaha!
Setting aside the fact that in 4 GOP majority states (NV, IA, MT, UT) Dems have 0 Reps despite voting 40% Dem, New England has a district Trump won by 9 and 2 toss-up districts, and Republicans lost all 3 because they ran terrible full MAGA candidates like Karoline Leavitt in NH.
October 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Apparently there is no shame, even when proven wrong. Likely because he knew it was a lie when he wrote it.
“If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” -Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/orig...
A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
October 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Crime seems out of control.

Perhaps they should send in the national guard to this reddest of states?
October 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Once again, Kristi The Idiot, THERE IS NO SUCH ORGANIZATION AS ANTIFA.
Noem: "These leaders in these local cities along with Pritzker and Johnson ignore what's going on or they're helping antifa cover it up."
October 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM