Chas490
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Chas490
@chas490.bsky.social
Retired. Moderate Dem from super red Indiana (arggg!). Like music, nature, gardening, IU basketball and football. I don't respond to DMs
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PETERS: Will you commit you will not move to revoke any license for broadcasters or retaliate against companies merely for hosting content critical of POTUS?

CARR: Any broadcaster that complies with the public interest standard is not in any risk

P: And you get to determine the public interest
December 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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BREAKING: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, clearing the threshold needed to force a vote on a clean, three-year extension of Obamacare premium subsidies.
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I don’t care how much it costs. I’ll repeat this every single day for the next 3yrs: Any Democrat running for president in 2028 must pledge to immediately tear down/bulldoze/demolish Trump’s ballroom and fully restore the East Wing & any other piece of the People’s House Trump has or will destroy.👇
Trump now says his ballroom will cost $400 million (it was supposed to cost $250 million less than two months ago)
December 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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If you have to assert it, you have.
"I have not lost control of the House"

- Speaker Mike Johnson, in a press gaggle off the House floor a few minutes ago
FOUR REPUBLICANS just signed the House Democratic discharge petition to force a House vote on the Hakeem Jeffries bill to extend health care tax credits for 3 years: Brian Fitzpatrick (PA), Mike Lawler (NY), Rob Bresnahan (PA), and Ryan Mackenzie (PA). Gives it the required 218 signatures. Huge news
December 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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LMAO McGovern is on fire right now 🔥🔥🔥
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I do not understand these Republicans and conservatives that say they are shocked by what Trump did about Rob Reiner.

WTF!

He has been like this since day one.

He had said despicable words since day one.

There is not one liberal that is shocked by his disgusting behavior.
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Eiise Stefanik has a 22% approval rating in New York. Happy Holidays!

www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2025/12...
Siena poll shows Hochul holding 19-point lead over Stefanik
Stefanik, a Republican, is running for governor against Hochul.
www.newyorkupstate.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.

If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency?

CARR: I think th---

L: Yes or no

C: There's a test for this in the la---

L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question

C: The FCC is not

L: So is your website lying?

C: Possibly
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Massive defeat for Mike Johnson. Still has to clear the senate, but this is what Dems wanted all along. Johnson has essentially lost control of the gavel after Epstein and now this. Weakest speaker in history.
December 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Jack Smith is testifying behind close doors because House GOP, who subpoenaed him refuse his request to testify publicly. Read the details here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Jack Smith Testifies Before The House Judiciary Committee
Making sense of the circus
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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President Zelensky: ‘We must keep exposing every single Russian falsehood, because truth restores justice.’

Sir, yes sir! 🫡
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Even if you don't agree with Rob Reiner politically, there was no reason for his statement ... it was absolutely completely below the office of the president. Classless and it was just wrong."
December 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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December 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard has quietly enacted a policy downgrading swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive.” The manual is now in effect, despite public outrage and warnings after the draft was revealed last month. (Washington Post)
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...
As DOJ Sues More States For Voter Rolls, Federal ‘Power Grab’ Comes into Focus
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do

This is... disturbing.
Let’s not forget, this regime has not been subtle about its hostility toward lawyers in general and immigration lawyers in particular.
December 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the NAACP Conference of Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, the Nevada Alliance for Retired Americans, and the Institute for a Progressive Nevada my law firm has filed to intervene in the DOJ’s lawsuit seeking Nevada’s complete, unredacted voter registration list.
🚨 United States of America v. Aguilar
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Robert Reich
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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I mean everyone voted for fewer jobs, more war and more expensive healthcare, right?
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I’m not watching the speech tonight.
I don’t want to hear that child rapist lie about the economy-we know the truth.
I don’t want to hear him as he justifies dragging us into war, killing innocent people.
I don’t want to hear him defend ICE.
He stole our healthcare.
I do not want to hear him.
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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This is wild!

You know the Vanity Fair article with Susie Wiles that everyone’s talking about?

Yeah. This is basically the audio version Narrated by Nicolle Wallace, and it’s not “taken out of context”. ☠️😭
December 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge.

Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM