@mattblizek.bsky.social
Literally waiting to see if I can afford health insurance next year with the #ACA subsidies deadline coming. It's insanely stressful.
But also let's please recognize the subsidies are just a band aid on a bullet wound.
But also let's please recognize the subsidies are just a band aid on a bullet wound.
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Literally waiting to see if I can afford health insurance next year with the #ACA subsidies deadline coming. It's insanely stressful.
But also let's please recognize the subsidies are just a band aid on a bullet wound.
But also let's please recognize the subsidies are just a band aid on a bullet wound.
There's some delicious irony in Trump being brought low due to a scandal from released emails.
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There's some delicious irony in Trump being brought low due to a scandal from released emails.
Honestly there probably would have been a bigger push for an Epstein Special Prosecutor in 2020 if not for that whole global pandemic thing.
July 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Honestly there probably would have been a bigger push for an Epstein Special Prosecutor in 2020 if not for that whole global pandemic thing.
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This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on.
They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America.
This is authoritarianism.
They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America.
This is authoritarianism.
June 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on.
They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America.
This is authoritarianism.
They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America.
This is authoritarianism.
I should have done this a long time ago. #deleteduolingo
Any other language apps people recommend that aren't advocating for teachers to be replaced by AI?
Any other language apps people recommend that aren't advocating for teachers to be replaced by AI?
May 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I should have done this a long time ago. #deleteduolingo
Any other language apps people recommend that aren't advocating for teachers to be replaced by AI?
Any other language apps people recommend that aren't advocating for teachers to be replaced by AI?
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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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Sanders: A woman is walking down the street, a car stops, and these guys — in plain clothes and masks — grab her, throw her into the car, and take off. That happened in Vermont today. That’s the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships, not in a democracy.
April 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Sanders: A woman is walking down the street, a car stops, and these guys — in plain clothes and masks — grab her, throw her into the car, and take off. That happened in Vermont today. That’s the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships, not in a democracy.
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OFFICIAL: Donald Trump is worse than a worldwide pandemic.
April 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
OFFICIAL: Donald Trump is worse than a worldwide pandemic.
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anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"
March 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"
no jodas nuestras playas en Rincón. #SalvaRincon #RutaEscénicaResponsable
March 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
no jodas nuestras playas en Rincón. #SalvaRincon #RutaEscénicaResponsable
Shades of John Kerry voting for Iraq War funding before voting against it. How did that work out for him?
Fetterman, Cortez Masto, Durbin, Gillibrand, Hassan, Peters, Schatz, and Chuck Fucking Schumer ALL VOTED NO on the Continuing Resolution. They voted to let it pass—ostensibly because it was essential that it pass—AND THEN THEY FUCKING VOTED AGAINST IT.
March 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Shades of John Kerry voting for Iraq War funding before voting against it. How did that work out for him?
Lt Gov Stratton seems to be lining up to challenge Durbin in 2026. She would be a serious challenger, especially with Gov Pritzker's support.
Democrats have a chance to stop this unconscionable submission to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s impulses.
I join Governor Pritzker and strongly urge a no vote on the Continuing Resolution.
I join Governor Pritzker and strongly urge a no vote on the Continuing Resolution.
March 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Lt Gov Stratton seems to be lining up to challenge Durbin in 2026. She would be a serious challenger, especially with Gov Pritzker's support.
This week would be a very good time for an Illinois Democrat to announce their primary challenge to @durbin.senate.gov .
March 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This week would be a very good time for an Illinois Democrat to announce their primary challenge to @durbin.senate.gov .
Imagine ruining your whole career just to help Trump and Musk destroy the government. Cowardice when we need leadership.
Trump and Musk would love a shutdown.
We must not give them one.
From me in @NYTimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
We must not give them one.
From me in @NYTimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
Opinion | Chuck Schumer: Trump and Musk Would Love a Shutdown. We Must Not Give Them One.
A government shutdown would lead to real pain for the American people.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Imagine ruining your whole career just to help Trump and Musk destroy the government. Cowardice when we need leadership.
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I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.
Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
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Democrats again tell the public, "We are weak, submissive, disorganized, and unwilling to defend you. But please vote for us in 2026 because the GOP is worse."
March 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Democrats again tell the public, "We are weak, submissive, disorganized, and unwilling to defend you. But please vote for us in 2026 because the GOP is worse."
There are no good billionaires.
Bill Gates has liquidated his climate policy and advocacy organization, laying off dozens of staff in Washington, Brussels, and elsewhere.
It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. heatmap.news/climate/brea...
It’s another giant retrenchment for the billionaire, who had already slashed his climate grant budget last month. heatmap.news/climate/brea...
The Bill Gates Era of Climate Giving Has Ended
Breakthrough Energy is winding down its policy and advocacy office, depriving the Inflation Reduction Act of a powerful defender.
heatmap.news
March 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
There are no good billionaires.
The corruption couldn't be any more blatant.
SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.
People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a…
buff.ly
March 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The corruption couldn't be any more blatant.
At a time when online gambling and sportsbooks is threatening the integrity of baseball this would be such an awful move by Mandred.
March 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
At a time when online gambling and sportsbooks is threatening the integrity of baseball this would be such an awful move by Mandred.
It's literally not safe for tourists to visit the United States right now.
This German woman was put in solitary confinement for over a week and is still in custody.
How many other tourists is this happening to right now?
This German woman was put in solitary confinement for over a week and is still in custody.
How many other tourists is this happening to right now?
I've occasionally seen Europeans end up in this kind of situation when they cross from Mexico, but usually it's because they haven't followed the waiver process correctly to be entering from a land border. Sounds like this woman had all her docs straight and is somehow still in custody a month later
German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
www.kpbs.org
March 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's literally not safe for tourists to visit the United States right now.
This German woman was put in solitary confinement for over a week and is still in custody.
How many other tourists is this happening to right now?
This German woman was put in solitary confinement for over a week and is still in custody.
How many other tourists is this happening to right now?
Trump and Vance sound like the biggest cowards to ever sit in the Oval Office.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
February 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Trump and Vance sound like the biggest cowards to ever sit in the Oval Office.
It's wild to me that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov have been completely silent on Trump's corrupt deal with Eric Adams.
This literally puts their constituents in danger yet they say nothing because of some legacy political machinery?
This literally puts their constituents in danger yet they say nothing because of some legacy political machinery?
February 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's wild to me that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov have been completely silent on Trump's corrupt deal with Eric Adams.
This literally puts their constituents in danger yet they say nothing because of some legacy political machinery?
This literally puts their constituents in danger yet they say nothing because of some legacy political machinery?
If @axios.com will follow Trump's wishes on this then how can anyone trust the rest of their reporting? Will they run it all past the Trump team first for approval?
February 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If @axios.com will follow Trump's wishes on this then how can anyone trust the rest of their reporting? Will they run it all past the Trump team first for approval?