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sassymaster.bsky.social
@sassymaster.bsky.social
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Lawyer. Advocate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Community matters.
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mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social
Congress shouldn’t be paid during a government shutdown

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November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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seancasten.bsky.social
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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doomscroling.bsky.social
Trading American's access to healthcare for a pat on the head & a pinky promise isn't "taking action to protect healthcare for tens of millions of Americans" no matter how much these 8 senators shout these empty words.

#Pinks
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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senseidai.bsky.social
I don't want to hear even a syllable about Joe Biden pardoning Hunter Biden. Convicted Felon Donald Trump is THE most corrupt "president" in American history.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsACriminal

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump pardons Giuliani, Meadows and others over plot to steal 2020 election
Federal clemency towards president’s close allies largely symbolic as some still face legal exposure at state level
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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analisaswan.bsky.social
I am PROUD of the MAJORITY of Democratic U.S. Senators including my CA Senators Alex Padilla & Adam Schiff that voted to hold the line against Trump/GOP’s gutting of Americans’ health care! I BLAME Trump/GOP’s cruel government shutdown & their billionaire agenda that would NEVER fund health care!!!
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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drdind.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
@durbin.senate.gov
@shaheen.senate.gov
@hassan.senate.gov
@fetterman.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
@cortezmasto.senate.gov
@senangusking.bsky.social
@rosen.senate.gov

🎶last Tuesday, we gave you our heart
And the very next Sunday, you gave it away🎵
deanobeidallah.bsky.social Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 3h
As I said last night on MSNBC as the news broke that eight Senate Democrats were joining the GOP: This must be the end for Chuck Schumer as Senate Democratic leader.
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
Chuck Schumer is nothing more than a human strongly worded letter, and he must go. Say it loud.
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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diedrichbader.bsky.social
Of course these pardons are really about signaling to members of the current administration that are criming, “keep going, i got you”
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Same!
samyoungman.bsky.social Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 2h
I’d take one Mamdani over a hundred Jeanne Shaheens.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social
Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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realtexaspaul.com
Your bots don't vote but my Ride Or Die Democrats sure as fuck do!
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
sassymaster.bsky.social
Murder
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
There are cases like this happening every day. Trump is the most pro-criminal president in history - if you are wealthy and have connections. Spare us the “Law and Order” bs.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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patti3333.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/supr...

Some GOOD NEWS THIS MORNING
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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cwebbonline.com
None of the Dem Senators (or Democratic-caucusing) who voted yes on the CR are worried about reelection:

• Dick Durbin – IL – Retiring 2026

• Catherine Cortez Masto – NV – Up 2028

• Jacky Rosen – NV – Up 2030

• John Fetterman – PA – Up 2028

• Maggie Hassan – NH – Up 2028

1/2
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Anyone who believes that the Senators who voted for the non-deal did so without Schumer’s consent while he votes no for show is gullible & naive. You either do this with a plan and exit strategy or you don’t do it at all. There is a disconnect between Dem voters & Sen leadership.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Congrats to the eight Democrats who gave this regime a huge win over the weekend. Here’s your reward.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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kojamf.bsky.social
Ro Khanna
@rokhanna.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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reginias.bsky.social
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania

Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire

Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia

Sen. Angus King of Maine

Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Mar 14
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21h
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM