Jamie Paul
desertdandilion.bsky.social
Jamie Paul
@desertdandilion.bsky.social
Librarian, teacher, author, artist, hiker, animal-lover and believer in constitutional democracy of and by the people not pay to play autocracy #orangeisnotthenewnormal #nosanewashing
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Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
@senatepress.bsky.social @dscc.bsky.social for the love of god don’t fold when the other side is being booed to hell. Like are you guys on the trump payroll??? #senatedemsequalmaga? #impeachdontcollude
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Former Jan. 6 defendant pardoned by Trump, was arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges

Surely Trump bears some responsibility to the victim this monster kidnapped & assaulted.

. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Former Jan. 6 defendant arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges
The Utah man was previously charged with firing a gun outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Call today there are reports of people getting ready to cave
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social is this true? Hopefully not it would be idiotic with them on the run. You offered the year extension they said no. We do not negotiate with terrorists and the GOP is 100% domestic terrorism in 2025. #DoNotFold
Axios is reporting that Dems are caving on the shutdown, and that Schumer was “more involved” than was made public in these negotiations.

Call Schumer and Gillibrand today and tomorrow and the next day and the next making clear this is a betrayal.

1-202-224-6542 Schumer
1-202-224-4451 Gillibrand
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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DO NOT CAVE!
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Yeah. Boom. Will this get the last few people somehow supporting him because he’s Christian off their mistaken asses?
In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Wow. This guy should be in charge of nothing that travels faster than feet.
#GVerse Um. WTF???

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."

This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Trump had a big fancy shindig at Mar-a-Lago Friday night that featured a three-course menu of beef filet, truffle dauphinoise, pan-seared scallops and a dessert called “Trump chocolate cake” all while desperately trying to get SCOTUS to stop SNAP payments. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump attends another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago during shutdown
Images of the president were shared by guests on social media Friday at the lavish event which featured a three-course menu of beef filet, truffle dauphinoise, pan-seared scallops and a trio of desser...
www.independent.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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As antidote to current US government's reprehensible erasure of Black soldiers' WWII contributions, here's Jacob Lawrence's "Beachhead," 1947, a work in his larger War series. Lawrence himself served in WWII as an artist on the US military's first racially integrated ship whitney.org/collection/w...
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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About 300 employees of a nuclear facility in Russian Ulyanovsk region have gone on a massive strike because they are not paid any salary.

"At the moment, the salary delay has reached two months. Lunches have been canceled, there has been no food provided for a long time.
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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TRUMP’S TROJAN HORSE: 👇

A Nationwide Abortion Ban added to the BIG UGLY BILL

“Trump said he’d leave abortion care up to the states. Well, this latest scheme makes it crystal clear: A de facto nationwide abortion ban has been his plan all along.”

#Pinks

www.commondreams.org/news/republi...
GOP Accused of Trying to Slip Backdoor Abortion Ban Into Government Funding Bill | Common Dreams
"Trump said he’d leave abortion care up to the states. Well, this latest scheme makes it crystal clear: A de facto nationwide abortion ban has been his plan all along," said Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.
www.commondreams.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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If I were to defy a court order, I'd be in jail, not building a ballroom.

Reopen government, swear in Adelita Grivala, release the Epstein Files, restore healthcare subsidies, and fund SNAP.
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM