That Fake Lego Thing From The Island Of Misfit Toys
@tmcatee.bsky.social
Phyllis Schlafly's worst nightmare even before I've had my first sidecar. Married to a really awesome man who didn't realize what a shitty deal he was getting before he said yes.
With me, you don't get what you want, you get what you deserve!
With me, you don't get what you want, you get what you deserve!
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The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
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"truly it was out of curiosity"
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"truly it was out of curiosity"
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Senate Dems are out here posting noise like "omg the Senate GOP just voted against healthcare subsidies and are trying to sneak a bunch of terrible shit into the funding bill" — and people are flooding their mentions with "bitch, please, GTFOH"
Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum
Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Senate Dems are out here posting noise like "omg the Senate GOP just voted against healthcare subsidies and are trying to sneak a bunch of terrible shit into the funding bill" — and people are flooding their mentions with "bitch, please, GTFOH"
Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum
Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum
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Joyce Carol Oates is an American hero
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Joyce Carol Oates is an American hero
After today, I absolutely get why lefties hate the blue no matter who crowd.
Argumentative fucks.
Argumentative fucks.
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
After today, I absolutely get why lefties hate the blue no matter who crowd.
Argumentative fucks.
Argumentative fucks.
It's not just liberals.
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It's not just liberals.
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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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."
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as it turns out, there is plenty of evidence on strategically whipping Senate votes such that on-cycle Senators reap the benefits and off-cycle and retiring Senators take it in the shorts.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The Senate Electoral Cycle and Bicameral Appropriations Politics
We consider the consequences of the Senate electoral cycle and bicameralism for distributive politics, introducing the concept of contested credit claiming, i.e. that members of a state’s House and Senate delegations must share the credit for ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
as it turns out, there is plenty of evidence on strategically whipping Senate votes such that on-cycle Senators reap the benefits and off-cycle and retiring Senators take it in the shorts.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
@whitehouse.senate.gov man, this is just not going the way you thought it would, is it?
That's what happens when we've fucking had enough. We tore down the Republicans last week, we can sure as shit tear you down, too.
That's what happens when we've fucking had enough. We tore down the Republicans last week, we can sure as shit tear you down, too.
Have you considered kicking out the people who gave up the fight and picking a new leader who is capable of leading the same
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
@whitehouse.senate.gov man, this is just not going the way you thought it would, is it?
That's what happens when we've fucking had enough. We tore down the Republicans last week, we can sure as shit tear you down, too.
That's what happens when we've fucking had enough. We tore down the Republicans last week, we can sure as shit tear you down, too.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@shaheen.senate.gov you gullible freak. At least Judas got 30 pieces of silver, you didn't even get the vote you wanted.
How can you betray your constituents like this?
@shaheen.senate.gov you gullible freak. At least Judas got 30 pieces of silver, you didn't even get the vote you wanted.
How can you betray your constituents like this?
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@shaheen.senate.gov you gullible freak. At least Judas got 30 pieces of silver, you didn't even get the vote you wanted.
How can you betray your constituents like this?
@shaheen.senate.gov you gullible freak. At least Judas got 30 pieces of silver, you didn't even get the vote you wanted.
How can you betray your constituents like this?
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just saying if one of the 8 folding Dems wants they can use this as an excuse to change their mind and not give Trump exactly what he wants
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
just saying if one of the 8 folding Dems wants they can use this as an excuse to change their mind and not give Trump exactly what he wants
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November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
How can he even see anything? Didn't we all block him?
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
How can he even see anything? Didn't we all block him?
Yeah, Jeanne, we know.
Democratic Senator Shaheen reveals that "We kept senator Schumer informed throughout"
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Yeah, Jeanne, we know.
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
Here's a Democrat who actually deserves a donation.
This moment demands fighters, not folders.
Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Here's a Democrat who actually deserves a donation.
@shaheen.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov WOW... everyone hates your deal, cowards.
Better backtrack on this POS NOW.
Better backtrack on this POS NOW.
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@shaheen.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov WOW... everyone hates your deal, cowards.
Better backtrack on this POS NOW.
Better backtrack on this POS NOW.
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America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I'm as much to blame as anyone, but why didn't we set up mutual aid for the Federal employees here?
I, a 15-year career federal employee, am responsible for ACA subsidies being taken away.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm as much to blame as anyone, but why didn't we set up mutual aid for the Federal employees here?
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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
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"
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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...
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
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
When the country breaks up, and don't lie to yourself and think this deal does anything but make that more likely, we need to leave NH with the red states or merge it into Vermont.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
When the country breaks up, and don't lie to yourself and think this deal does anything but make that more likely, we need to leave NH with the red states or merge it into Vermont.
Does anyone want to let Helen know that your force the vote BEFORE you cave in?
Wine moms are savage. We need do nothing to Helen, they'll get this one.
Wine moms are savage. We need do nothing to Helen, they'll get this one.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Does anyone want to let Helen know that your force the vote BEFORE you cave in?
Wine moms are savage. We need do nothing to Helen, they'll get this one.
Wine moms are savage. We need do nothing to Helen, they'll get this one.
You just can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.
Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
You just can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit.