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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Meanwhile federal agents are out here kidnapping people and terrorizing preschool teachers and pepperspraying babies without fear of those people ever holding them accountable
Get yourself a Congressperson who will codify Bivens.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Meanwhile federal agents are out here kidnapping people and terrorizing preschool teachers and pepperspraying babies without fear of those people ever holding them accountable
Anyone have the actual bill language?
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Anyone have the actual bill language?
I’ve used that gif many times for situations that approximate ICP’s sentiment, but this is the first time dude actually 1:1’d it.
Let’s bust out the bubbly to celebrate the dubious distinction
Let’s bust out the bubbly to celebrate the dubious distinction
a man with a clown face painted on his face drinking a bottle of soda
ALT: a man with a clown face painted on his face drinking a bottle of soda
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November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I’ve used that gif many times for situations that approximate ICP’s sentiment, but this is the first time dude actually 1:1’d it.
Let’s bust out the bubbly to celebrate the dubious distinction
Let’s bust out the bubbly to celebrate the dubious distinction
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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.
Trump DOJ tells KBJ it will still seek a stay from Judge McConnell’s SNAP funding order, but also notes that this case will moot out should Congress pass and the President sign the CR. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Trump DOJ tells KBJ it will still seek a stay from Judge McConnell’s SNAP funding order, but also notes that this case will moot out should Congress pass and the President sign the CR. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
(Also, Judge Talwani this morning blocked Trump admin from clawing back full SNAP funds some states already sent to people)
![Judge Indira Talwani: ELECTRONIC ORDER: granting in part Plaintiffs' Further Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Emergency
Virtual Hearing Request [ 80 ]. Good cause shown, the USDA Memorandum issued on Saturday, November 8, 2025, directing that "It]o the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025," they "must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025" and shall
"advise the appropriate FNS Regional Office representative of steps taken to correct any actions taken that do not comply with this memorandum[,l" see Attachment to Defendants' Third Notice to Court 4 [ 79 -1], is STAYED pending further court order. The clerk shall reset the hearing scheduled for November 13, 2025, to a remote hearing today at 3:30 p.m.(SEC) (Entered: 11/10/2025)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:beirch5u3d3ybvuct27mtyxd/bafkreibmikhlciew25c5k3ygkrf3uvlke6lykjcwl6pvznqbpswduvyu34@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
(Also, Judge Talwani this morning blocked Trump admin from clawing back full SNAP funds some states already sent to people)
KBJ’s back asking “are you sure you want to keep doing this?” to Trump’s DOJ and sets a briefing schedule for her 48-hour window if they do. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
KBJ’s back asking “are you sure you want to keep doing this?” to Trump’s DOJ and sets a briefing schedule for her 48-hour window if they do. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
CA5 went for it and Trump 2.0 ran with it…but I think SCOTUS is gonna reject it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
CA5 went for it and Trump 2.0 ran with it…but I think SCOTUS is gonna reject it.
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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...
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...
All together now
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 2:38 AM
All together now
Just awful.
To be clear: D senators trusting R senators who promise a vote on ACA subsidies at some future point is nothing more that a liar convincing a sucker. A sucker for believing the lie, and for believing that Johnson will ever bring it up in the House.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Just awful.
This is bad!
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is bad!
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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.
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.