Mike Sacks
@mikesacks.bsky.social
NY-17 Congressional Candidate. Democracy advocate. Former political-legal journalist. Retired competitive air guitarist. Second-Best dad ever.
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Mike Sacks
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· Apr 9
Unf*ck Our Country
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I’m running for Congress.
I’ve spent my career holding the powerful accountable as a political & legal journalist. I’m running for Congress to tell you the truth, fight for New York, and Unf*ck Our Country.
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I’ve spent my career holding the powerful accountable as a political & legal journalist. I’m running for Congress to tell you the truth, fight for New York, and Unf*ck Our Country.
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Most alarmingly, only Senators trapped in this bubble could believe, against all evidence, that preserving the filibuster is a pro-democracy, save-the-Republic move, as opposed to the very thing that is rotting away the Republic, which is the deep disconnect between elections and policy outcomes.
I imagine what actually scared them into caving was the threat of Trump getting Republicans to actually eliminate the filibuster
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Most alarmingly, only Senators trapped in this bubble could believe, against all evidence, that preserving the filibuster is a pro-democracy, save-the-Republic move, as opposed to the very thing that is rotting away the Republic, which is the deep disconnect between elections and policy outcomes.
This case in a nutshell
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This case in a nutshell
The past few months has had casual observers freaking out while SCOTUS heads have been repeating at every turn “they’re not gonna take this case” and, well…
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The past few months has had casual observers freaking out while SCOTUS heads have been repeating at every turn “they’re not gonna take this case” and, well…
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CA1 says Trump must comply with Judge McConnell’s order to fully fund SNAP for November from contingency funds during shutdown.
KBJ’s 48-hour stay now begins, but query whether the full SCOTUS will extend it until Congress passes the CR directly funding SNAP.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
KBJ’s 48-hour stay now begins, but query whether the full SCOTUS will extend it until Congress passes the CR directly funding SNAP.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
CA1 says Trump must comply with Judge McConnell’s order to fully fund SNAP for November from contingency funds during shutdown.
KBJ’s 48-hour stay now begins, but query whether the full SCOTUS will extend it until Congress passes the CR directly funding SNAP.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
KBJ’s 48-hour stay now begins, but query whether the full SCOTUS will extend it until Congress passes the CR directly funding SNAP.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
Meanwhile I just sobbed my way through watching Chris Cornell’s daughters honoring their dad at Soundgarden’s Rock Hall induction
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Meanwhile I just sobbed my way through watching Chris Cornell’s daughters honoring their dad at Soundgarden’s Rock Hall induction
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
It appears that the Senate has lived up to my expectations of the Senate. But I'm voting no on this bill once it gets to the House. Cutting Americans healthcare and locking in assaults on Congress' power of the purse ain't gonna happen with my consent.
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Get ready.
But guess what! Even if Dems did ride to Republicans’ rescue this time, Trump’s monarchists in the White House will still illegally—and indefinitely—defund the very government functions Republicans are trying to blame the Democrats for temporarily shutting down.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Get ready.
And yet.
This is about more than health care. Republicans control Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court. They are wielding the gov’t like a weapon against their fellow Americans. If they want to keep funding such cruelty, corruption, and criminality, they can nuke the filibuster and get on with it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
And yet.
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So, in addition to the bullshit promise, the Trump administration won't be able to do things they legally could not do anyway? Good work!
Welp, that’s the Senate side of the shutdown over, it seems.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
So, in addition to the bullshit promise, the Trump administration won't be able to do things they legally could not do anyway? Good work!
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Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Government is shut down. Chaos in airports. 42 million going hungry. 24 million face skyrocketing healthcare costs. Economy in turmoil. And the president of the United States is in the Fox broadcast booth calling plays for a football game.
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There are endless examples of this regime of the bullies for the billionaires attacking our people. When we make believe we're in a fight for healthcare subsidies alone, as critical as those are, negotiating in good faith as if MAGA were normal party - we normalize the regime.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
There are endless examples of this regime of the bullies for the billionaires attacking our people. When we make believe we're in a fight for healthcare subsidies alone, as critical as those are, negotiating in good faith as if MAGA were normal party - we normalize the regime.
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I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.
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If you’re disgusted by people who take government money and do no work then the people who disgust you are House Republicans
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
If you’re disgusted by people who take government money and do no work then the people who disgust you are House Republicans
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“I have to face the reality that I am probably going to become a late-stage cancer patient who’s uninsured. I have fought this so hard. I want to live.”
A cancer patient's $541 monthly premium will jump to $1,758.
Democrats are fighting for her.
Republicans are not.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
A cancer patient's $541 monthly premium will jump to $1,758.
Democrats are fighting for her.
Republicans are not.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions | CNN Politics
Millions of Americans with Affordable Care Act policies are contending with the looming lapse of the enhanced subsidies. The increased cost of coverage can lead to agonizing tradeoffs for many enrolle...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“I have to face the reality that I am probably going to become a late-stage cancer patient who’s uninsured. I have fought this so hard. I want to live.”
A cancer patient's $541 monthly premium will jump to $1,758.
Democrats are fighting for her.
Republicans are not.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
A cancer patient's $541 monthly premium will jump to $1,758.
Democrats are fighting for her.
Republicans are not.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...
These oil execs—and Trump’s DOJ officials who refuse to prosecute them—are gonna have starring roles in the 120th Congress’s Primetime Oversight Hearings.
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
These oil execs—and Trump’s DOJ officials who refuse to prosecute them—are gonna have starring roles in the 120th Congress’s Primetime Oversight Hearings.
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one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.
Argentina President Javier Milei doing the “Trump dance” at Mar-a-Lago after getting an $40 billion bailout.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.
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Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling?
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.
What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.
What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:
Why America’s Government Shutdowns Exist and How to End Them
One Legal Memo Created The Shutdown Era. Another Can End It.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling?
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.
What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.
What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:
Death by Lightning rules.
It makes Roscoe Conkling out to be a real scumbag, but did you know he also helped establish corporate personhood based on a lie he peddled to SCOTUS in 1882 leveraging his unrefutable authority as the 14A’s sole surviving framer?
From Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations:
It makes Roscoe Conkling out to be a real scumbag, but did you know he also helped establish corporate personhood based on a lie he peddled to SCOTUS in 1882 leveraging his unrefutable authority as the 14A’s sole surviving framer?
From Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations:
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Death by Lightning rules.
It makes Roscoe Conkling out to be a real scumbag, but did you know he also helped establish corporate personhood based on a lie he peddled to SCOTUS in 1882 leveraging his unrefutable authority as the 14A’s sole surviving framer?
From Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations:
It makes Roscoe Conkling out to be a real scumbag, but did you know he also helped establish corporate personhood based on a lie he peddled to SCOTUS in 1882 leveraging his unrefutable authority as the 14A’s sole surviving framer?
From Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations:
Get yourself a Congressperson who will fight a tyrant who starves kids, and push for a Supreme Court majority that knows no one is above the law.
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Get yourself a Congressperson who will fight a tyrant who starves kids, and push for a Supreme Court majority that knows no one is above the law.
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Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh spoke on this very stage at this same convention exactly one day ago. Interesting that they maintain such a strong connection to a group that applauds a Trump hatchet man who boasts of going to “war” against “rogue activist judges.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh spoke on this very stage at this same convention exactly one day ago. Interesting that they maintain such a strong connection to a group that applauds a Trump hatchet man who boasts of going to “war” against “rogue activist judges.”