Darkrose
@darkrose.bsky.social
Queer Black nerd, SF Giants fan, kitty mom, writer, academic librarian in Norcal. Politics, baseball, FFXIV & other video games, food, choral music, & cats. She/they #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
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It’s actually worse than the Dems doing nothing. Because they’ve killed the enthusiasm and momentum from last week dead in the water, they’ve emboldened Trump to believe they’ll always fold, and by owning the deal they’ve retroactively owned blame for the shutdown too.
So many own goals and rakes.
So many own goals and rakes.
What was the point of making government employees work for 40 days without pay and SNAP recipients lose their benefits if you were just going to capitulate and vote with the Republicans anyway
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It’s actually worse than the Dems doing nothing. Because they’ve killed the enthusiasm and momentum from last week dead in the water, they’ve emboldened Trump to believe they’ll always fold, and by owning the deal they’ve retroactively owned blame for the shutdown too.
So many own goals and rakes.
So many own goals and rakes.
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
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Beyond policy considerations and electoral politics, Tuesday provided a lot of people with a brief spark of hope that maybe our democracy is not already dead, and Democrats immediately capitulating to anti-democracy forces for no discernible benefit is a great way to extinguish that spark.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Beyond policy considerations and electoral politics, Tuesday provided a lot of people with a brief spark of hope that maybe our democracy is not already dead, and Democrats immediately capitulating to anti-democracy forces for no discernible benefit is a great way to extinguish that spark.
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What was the point of making government employees work for 40 days without pay and SNAP recipients lose their benefits if you were just going to capitulate and vote with the Republicans anyway
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
What was the point of making government employees work for 40 days without pay and SNAP recipients lose their benefits if you were just going to capitulate and vote with the Republicans anyway
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Healthcare is a human right.
Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.
Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Healthcare is a human right.
Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.
Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Please understand that Americans who have a serious chronic illness essentially have no where to run to.
(The immigration rules of countries with the kind of health care system it takes to keep me alive deny me admission because I'm seriously chronically ill, and, therefore, a 'drain on resources')
(The immigration rules of countries with the kind of health care system it takes to keep me alive deny me admission because I'm seriously chronically ill, and, therefore, a 'drain on resources')
I am not done fighting.
I do need to get a good night's sleep. But please know that I am not done fighting for healthcare. I understand that many of you — many of US — die without medical care.
patreon.com/mattbc is the best place to follow my work, it's not paywalled, a free account is fine.
I do need to get a good night's sleep. But please know that I am not done fighting for healthcare. I understand that many of you — many of US — die without medical care.
patreon.com/mattbc is the best place to follow my work, it's not paywalled, a free account is fine.
Get more from Matthew Cortland on Patreon
creating Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Please understand that Americans who have a serious chronic illness essentially have no where to run to.
(The immigration rules of countries with the kind of health care system it takes to keep me alive deny me admission because I'm seriously chronically ill, and, therefore, a 'drain on resources')
(The immigration rules of countries with the kind of health care system it takes to keep me alive deny me admission because I'm seriously chronically ill, and, therefore, a 'drain on resources')
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The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.
www.wired.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community. www.wired.com/story/apple-...
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Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Sending love to everyone whose health care has been jeopardized by the Democratic cave-in. These Democratic elites will not be part of the solution. We must proceed with that understanding.
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Republicans could have been forced to pass this all by themselves. They could have been forced to cave on at least *something* Dems were demanding.
Instead, Dems saw they were in the driver's seat and... voluntarily gave control back to Rs.
An absolute waste of a shutdown. They won nothing.
Instead, Dems saw they were in the driver's seat and... voluntarily gave control back to Rs.
An absolute waste of a shutdown. They won nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Republicans could have been forced to pass this all by themselves. They could have been forced to cave on at least *something* Dems were demanding.
Instead, Dems saw they were in the driver's seat and... voluntarily gave control back to Rs.
An absolute waste of a shutdown. They won nothing.
Instead, Dems saw they were in the driver's seat and... voluntarily gave control back to Rs.
An absolute waste of a shutdown. They won nothing.
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The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.
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When I think of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I think of Captain Cooper on the Arthur M Anderson, and the courage it took to turn the Anderson around to go back out and look for the Fitzgerald. His conversation with the Coast Guard still gives shivers
shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-...
shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-...
The Fateful Journey - Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society
The Fateful Journey
by Sean Ley, Development Officer
The final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald began November 9, 1975 at the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No.1, Superior, Wisconsin. Captain Ernes...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
When I think of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I think of Captain Cooper on the Arthur M Anderson, and the courage it took to turn the Anderson around to go back out and look for the Fitzgerald. His conversation with the Coast Guard still gives shivers
shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-...
shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-...
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
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Fray's entire philosophy can be summed up as "Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you wanna go apeshit?"
I don't actually think that's a very unpopular opinion.
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I don't actually think that's a very unpopular opinion.
/ns
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Fray's entire philosophy can be summed up as "Aren't you tired of being nice? Don't you wanna go apeshit?"
I don't actually think that's a very unpopular opinion.
/ns
I don't actually think that's a very unpopular opinion.
/ns
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In the last known image of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, you can see the structural fatigue where she had started sagging in the middle. Freaky!
October 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In the last known image of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, you can see the structural fatigue where she had started sagging in the middle. Freaky!
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"As big freighters go, it was bigger than most."
It's okay, Gordon. They can't all be bangers.
It's okay, Gordon. They can't all be bangers.
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"As big freighters go, it was bigger than most."
It's okay, Gordon. They can't all be bangers.
It's okay, Gordon. They can't all be bangers.
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It's that time of year again. When we all pause and take a moment to appreciate that even The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has a couple of lines in it that fall comically flat.
October 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It's that time of year again. When we all pause and take a moment to appreciate that even The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has a couple of lines in it that fall comically flat.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.