Catastrophizing Charlie
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are we just calling Virginia a blue state now
COOK POLITICAL: Republicans “may have had a blind spot: the extent to which Democrats could push .. in blue states to fight back.” 🤡
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November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
are we just calling Virginia a blue state now
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for senior citizens it can mean so much to spend quality time with a young person, even if it's just a few minutes
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
for senior citizens it can mean so much to spend quality time with a young person, even if it's just a few minutes
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Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"
There’s one person squarely to blame for Trump’s corruption, authoritarianism & assault on democracy: John Roberts. He’s enabled so much of Trump’s lawlessness while somehow escaping accountability for it
New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me
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New cover story from @pemalevy.bsky.social & me
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This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Of all the terrible things Roberts has done, this was the most shocking stat: "the right-wing majority has used the shadow docket to uphold Trump’s actions roughly 90 percent of the time, repeatedly bailing him out of any obligation to follow the law"
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
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the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge
Blackberry 🌸 & 🍂
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Blackberry 🌸 & 🍂
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They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
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something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Me: "I'm just a median voter."
Also me: listening to Hakeem Jeffries speak live on the house floor "Hey it's his great story about meeting John Lewis, I like that one"
Also me: listening to Hakeem Jeffries speak live on the house floor "Hey it's his great story about meeting John Lewis, I like that one"
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Me: "I'm just a median voter."
Also me: listening to Hakeem Jeffries speak live on the house floor "Hey it's his great story about meeting John Lewis, I like that one"
Also me: listening to Hakeem Jeffries speak live on the house floor "Hey it's his great story about meeting John Lewis, I like that one"
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
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the Democratic party of 2025 can't do this. maybe the Democratic party of mid-2028 will be able to. that's our job.
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
the Democratic party of 2025 can't do this. maybe the Democratic party of mid-2028 will be able to. that's our job.
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I don't know that ending elite impunity is a skeleton key to winning elections but it absolutely has an upside that could pay huge dividends.
it just generally involves turning on people that are nominally on your side, and a lot of people don't want to do that.
it just generally involves turning on people that are nominally on your side, and a lot of people don't want to do that.
The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I don't know that ending elite impunity is a skeleton key to winning elections but it absolutely has an upside that could pay huge dividends.
it just generally involves turning on people that are nominally on your side, and a lot of people don't want to do that.
it just generally involves turning on people that are nominally on your side, and a lot of people don't want to do that.
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Democrats should not “wait until after” anything to have these internal fights. This is the argument the establishment makes to keep control of the party and continue fucking up. We need an internal fight to oust the quislings and elevate the people who give a shit and who know how to fight.
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Democrats should not “wait until after” anything to have these internal fights. This is the argument the establishment makes to keep control of the party and continue fucking up. We need an internal fight to oust the quislings and elevate the people who give a shit and who know how to fight.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Orange California poppies
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perhaps my frustration with the democratic party comes from the fact ive been voting for them since i was 18 and im now a month away from 48 and things fucking suck.
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
perhaps my frustration with the democratic party comes from the fact ive been voting for them since i was 18 and im now a month away from 48 and things fucking suck.
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Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"I swore an oath to the Constitution, not a person," she says. "I just really, really implore my peers and everybody outside looking in, to just think about that."
In an encrypted group chat, National Guard members question Trump deployments
As President Trump's call for National Guard deployments rings out across the U.S., a small contingent of Ohio guard members is quietly expressing concern in an encrypted group chat.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"I swore an oath to the Constitution, not a person," she says. "I just really, really implore my peers and everybody outside looking in, to just think about that."
😂 painfully true
"You’ve been given an app for reluctantly volunteering to run the book fair, an app for viewing your kid’s hastily prepared report cards, and an app for lodging complaints about our apps. Now, we’ll also be tracking your child’s whereabouts on three additional apps."
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November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
😂 painfully true
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November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Fall blooms cottagecore
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Creating conditions where civil servants who have not already been illegally fired or chased out are forced to quit to put food on the table is almost as good as DOGEing them yourself. This was not a good end to the shutdown, but for Christ's sake some of you have no sense about you.
November 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Creating conditions where civil servants who have not already been illegally fired or chased out are forced to quit to put food on the table is almost as good as DOGEing them yourself. This was not a good end to the shutdown, but for Christ's sake some of you have no sense about you.
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And it's not people like me - a GS-12 SINK with a five-figure savings account - I'm worried about. Think of families raising kids on a GS-9. Those are the people you're asking to sacrifice their financial security and sanity.
At the end of the day, how much pain are you willing to inflict on them?
At the end of the day, how much pain are you willing to inflict on them?
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
And it's not people like me - a GS-12 SINK with a five-figure savings account - I'm worried about. Think of families raising kids on a GS-9. Those are the people you're asking to sacrifice their financial security and sanity.
At the end of the day, how much pain are you willing to inflict on them?
At the end of the day, how much pain are you willing to inflict on them?
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I'm going to say this just once and then step away:
Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month.
I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.
Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month.
I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I'm going to say this just once and then step away:
Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month.
I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.
Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month.
I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.
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They're treating Trump illegally firing federal employees like it's leverage, not a criminal act.
“A bipartisan Senate deal has been reached to fund the government through January 30 and to set a vote on an Affordable Care Act bill in December, in a major sign the government shutdown is poised to end, according to a source…
The deal includes a reversal of Trump’s firings of federal employees”
The deal includes a reversal of Trump’s firings of federal employees”
Senate reaches deal to extend government funding in major sign shutdown is poised to end | CNN Politics
A bipartisan Senate deal has been reached to fund the government through January 30 and to set a vote on an Affordable Care Act bill in December, in a major sign the government shutdown is poised to e...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
They're treating Trump illegally firing federal employees like it's leverage, not a criminal act.