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Jonathan Price

@jonnypcg.bsky.social
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(He/His) Politics, tech, & gaming nerd from Pittsburgh. Pushing to make things better.

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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Chuck Schumer is why Dems keep losing elections. He is old school, out of touch with his voters, he’s not a fighter and he doesn’t represent our majority anymore.
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Jonathan Price @jonnypcg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Also, for the record: Yes, I'm not directly quote reposting Schumer's statement just because I can. A move as spineless as this deserves a good ol' fashioned subtweet anyway.
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Jonathan Price @jonnypcg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The word "keep" implies there's been a fight. This was surrender. All this, and you got nothing of value. No guarantees for Americans depending on us. Just a worthless IOU that will evaporate the moment you try to cash it in. Might as well tell Americans "we tried nothing and we're out of ideas."
A Bluesky statement from U.S. Senator & Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat - New York), dated November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM. The statement goes as follows: 

"Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis. 

For the Millions who will lose coverage
For the people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare

We will keep fighting"
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The leader of the opposition party is supposed to ensure that the opposition speaks with a unified message. Chuck Schumer failed yet again at that. Why is he still in his role?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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A.P. @apxbrown.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Most of y’all are old enough to remember but it bears repeating, Democrats couldn’t peel off a single member of the Republican caucus in the initial fight to enact the ACA, even after they watered down the plans to attract them. Republicans got 8 Democrats in what’s essentially a vote to repeal.
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Jonathan Price @jonnypcg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
If this party is gonna have *any* credibility with voters or remote chance of success, we need new leadership (at the very least). Now. We need to be a party that stands for average, working class Americans & is unyielding in standing for our principles. Solid first step: Replace Schumer.
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Jonathan Price @jonnypcg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
There's no guarantee of a subsidy vote in the House, and no guarantee of it being signed into law. *This* is precisely why folks loathe our party. Our national leadership especially talks out of both sides of its mouth, acts like it cares for a bit, then buckles in exchange for *nothing* of value.
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Jonathan Price @jonnypcg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We've all seen the premiums, deductibles, and copays for next year. They're going to squeeze people out of having the healthcare they need. This is going to lead to people's lives being ruined (or worse). And, instead of getting a firm extension of subsidies, you're getting a morally bankrupt IOU.
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Jonathan Price @jonnypcg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
As someone who's involved in Democratic politics on the local level, I feel like it'd be malpractice if I didn't say something about this "deal" on the public record: Who the hell thought this was a good idea? Buckling for someone's *word* that a *Senate vote* will happen... Why? It's worthless.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Dear Senate Dems, Republicans don’t keep their promises…
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
but the caucus folded at the culmination of months of every democrat promising americans you would fight for their subsidies. but a day after air traffic problems become a massive news story, y’all folded? of course we’re angry. you lied to us.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
By disregarding his own intelligence advisors that Iran was *not* about to have nuclear weapons, Donald Trump has, without any justification whatsoever, provoked Iran to retaliate against American troops in the Middle East and American civilians at home. He is a irresponsible, simpleminded idiot.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This chart is absolutely essential. It explains why Trump removed America from the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018. Because it was *working*. Trump needed a cause for war, so he manufactured it. This has all been in the works for some time now. He was never "weighing options."
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Donald Trump forcing US troops to sleep on the ground in the scorching heat in Los Angeles, since he made 0 arrangements to house or feed them and only wanted to use them as props for his fascist porn and political manipulation. MAGA will say "I voted for this"🤡
US troops sleeping on concrete
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Okay. Start with the ones abducting and trafficking people, and denying their rights to freedom of speech and due process.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
She was right.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
also Trump didn't "jump at the chance," he invented the thing.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The President insists prices on everything are down, he went on national television and continued to repeat his serial lies… When are they gonna slap a straight jacket on this guy, it’s embarrassing and sickening to listen to, over & over again!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2025
At least four people were killed in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and hundreds of thousands of customers were without power after severe weather pushed into the Northeast and Canada.
nytimes.com
At Least 4 Die in Pennsylvania as Storm Leaves 400,000 Without Power
The storm system brought destructive winds to the state, knocking down trees and power lines.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Trump’s executive action targeting ActBlue is a “brazen attack on democracy in America." Beware the erosion of the traditional separation between the White House and the Department of Justice. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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Donald Trump Goes Full Authoritarian In New Attack On Democratic Party
Taking a page from authoritarians around the world, Trump is targeting his political opposition with criminal investigations.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/04/2025
BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.
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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 25/04/2025
During his first term, Trump raked in millions from at least 20 foreign governments—violating what Trump calls “the phony Emoluments Clause.”
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/04/2025
(above images of Trump and Janet Yellen) "We had a very well functioning economy, and President Trump has taken a wrecking ball to it.... This is the worst self-inflicted wound that I have ever seen an administration impose on a well functioning economy." - Former Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
there's a super simple fix. congress just removes trump's tariff powers. there is no downside here. there is precious little ideological enthusiasm for trump's tariffs even from the gop. literally only thing preventing this is cowardice.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.
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Congressman Chris Deluzio @deluzio.house.gov · 22/04/2025
People hate corruption like this for good reason—nobody should be lining their own pockets (or making their own meme coins) off public office. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
A graphic with the rolling stone article headline "Trump Family’s Crypto Venture Nets $25 Million Investment From Firm Suspected of Fraud" and then newspaper clipping images with these two quotes from the article:

"In addition to Trump and First Lady Melania launching his-and-hers meme coins, the Trump family leads the decentralized finance exchange World Liberty Financial, which has sold at least $550 million worth of its first digital token, $WLFI. The venture, in which the president’s sons Barron, Eric, and Donald Trump Jr. all have vague official titles, has raised corruption concerns because it offers an easy way to funnel money to the Trumps: DT Marks DEFI LLC, a company linked to the family, has the right to 75 percent of revenues from token sales. That means bad actors in the crypto space can essentially pay them off with the expectation of favors in return — all while the Trump administration continues to deregulate the crypto sector." 

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"One prominent crypto investor, the Chinese-born entrepreneur and billionaire Justin Sun, has spent at least $75 million on $WLFI and serves as an advisor to World Liberty Financial. Following this generous investment, a month into Trump’s second term, the Securities and Exchange Commission froze its civil fraud case against Sun and his companies. Market observers were left to wonder if he had bought up a functionally worthless asset to secure a reprieve from his legal troubles."
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Every Senate Democrat voted to confirm Rubio. Any of them *not* regret that vote?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Trump's EPA has rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals. It's estimated that these moves could result in 200,000 premature deaths by 2050. Your Earth Day reminder that Donald Trump is a danger to our planet and our health.
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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Here is how judges can make sure their rulings are enforced without relying on the executive branch. The source is Democracy Docket, founded by Marc Elias, who has won more then 100 lawsuits va the Trump administration. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...
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If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders
Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A capitalist institution is suddenly crawling with, wait for it…”Communists.”
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 20/04/2025
People have some short memories of how bad he was the first time, but apparently he can be worse!
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Imagine that: a drunk Fox entertainment host can't run the largest agency in the world. It's a real shocker. www.mediaite.com/politics/the...
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‘There Is a Complete Meltdown in the Building’: Pentagon Reportedly in ‘Chaos’ as Hegseth Loses Four Staffers in One Day
“Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with some people who don’t have his interests at heart.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/04/2025
"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."
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Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican
Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
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The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Facts matter
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/04/2025
Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
How many more “despite judge’s ruling” headlines will we have to read before this constitutional crisis is broadly acknowledged? (Gift link) wapo.st/4idGFqc
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AP journalists held out of White House events despite judge’s ruling
The Associated Press was not included in the in-town pool Monday, and its journalists were rebuffed when trying to cover an Oval Office event.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/04/2025
Andrew Cuomo used chatGPT to write his housing policy, didn't edit the output, got caught out, and then his spokespeople "dissembled" about it (at length).
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump exempting computers & phones from the tariffs today means that Chinese-made laptops now have lower tariffs than European Cars, Mexican Steel, & Canadian Lumber. Also means Vietnamese-made laptops have a lower tariff than Ethiopian coffee, Indian tea, & Guatemalan bananas
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"Birthrates weirdo" is the perfect term for this. And, as even this piece acknowledges, that obsession is typically adjacent to the new eugenics.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates
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