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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 1d

Republicans could override the filibuster and reopen the government with only 51 votes.

Any other solution requires the House, and Johnson is refusing to bring it back into session.

Republicans completely control the shutdown. They don't want to reopen the government.

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noclutchshifting.bsky.social @noclutchshifting.bsky.social · 52m

Assholes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

Private equity ruins everything.

Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them

For residents who can’t afford to move, rising lot rents can mean losing everything.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

I think Dick Cheney’s death today highlighted this divide.

The Democrats who still say shit like “reach across the aisle” and praise evil people are playing to a political audience that no longer exists.

Mamdani wasn’t cruel to Cuomo in a Trumpism style, but he didn’t concede anything either.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 8h

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

The 2024 election was not a binding referendum on American culture that everyone must accept and accommodate. Never was.

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AmbyLotl @ambylotl.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe math ain't mathing, but it seems like silwa "splitting the vote" wouldn't have mattered anyways
He got more votes than both of them combined

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

What I learned tonight is the future of the Democratic Party is a trans Muslim CIA agent wine mom who wants to eliminate capitalism and barter with people on the free bus.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8h

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

Republican guy on tv hand wringing about how Zohran's speech was divisive. You can just point and laugh at these guys you don't need to argue with them

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Rati Gupta @ratigupta.bsky.social · 9h

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 9h

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

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noclutchshifting.bsky.social @noclutchshifting.bsky.social · 7h

*78 years old

noclutchshifting.bsky.social @noclutchshifting.bsky.social · 8h

🙋‍♀️

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 8h

Raise your hand if you would rather the government pay TSA and air traffic controllers to keep our skies safe and travel open,

than to pay useless, racist terorrist ICE goons.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 8h

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 8h

My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

Conyers, Georgia elected their first Black mayor:

ocgnews.com/connie-alsob...

Connie Alsobrook makes history as first black ever elected mayor of Conyers’ - On Common Ground News - 24/7 local news

CONYERS, GA—Connie Alsobrook made history again--this time as the first black elected mayor of the City of Conyers on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Alsobrook secured a decisive victory over challenger Brad Smith e...

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noclutchshifting.bsky.social @noclutchshifting.bsky.social · 8h

Y'all, it came down to the last precinct. This is a 24 year old black man running against 74 year old white man who has been the incumbent for SIXTEEN YEARS

I'm so proud of #SamFoster and I hope I get the chance to vote for him in four years.

Election results for mayor of marietta ga. Sam Foster 48.99% Steve Tumlin 51.01%

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 8h

"The immediate results suggest whatever confidence this president enjoyed is now crumbling amid a record length government shutdown, a camouflaged cascade of federal kidnappings, a tariff-battered economy, and the systemic demolition of democratic norms," @jimsaksa.com reports on election night.

Voters Rebuke Trump In Resounding Win for Democracy

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Sam @samnoack.bsky.social · 23d

Wildly important information for anyone who cares about their financial freedom. This shit is going to meltdown so badly it's going to genuinely ruin millions of lives.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCu...

Big Tech Is Faking Revenue

YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin

m.youtube.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

Mamdani:
“We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us.

Now, it is something that we do.”

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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 10h

Clearly Dick Cheney was a load bearing shitbag and the timeline is self correcting

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 8h

So much of what the Democrats got wrong since 2016 was this idea of “we’re going to go back to normal.” There are maybe enough elements of the party who realize now that that idea is a mistake: the way must be forward into something new, energizing, and hopeful.

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Dan Meisler @dmeis22.bsky.social · 9h

Here’s a radical idea- if the republicans stop with the gerrymandering, Dems should just keep going. Let’s act like them and push every advantage.

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kerritarmey.bsky.social @kerritarmey.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe Republican members of Congress will finally do their job and start functioning as a co-equal branch of government. Of course House Republicans will have to show up for work again for that to happen.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

i know why reporters feel like they have to do this, but it's honestly kinda nuts to ask Trump at this late date for evidence backing up his lies about "rigged elections" when he obviously has none and never will

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.

A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”

Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.

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