Reposted by Margie CookPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 10/11/2025This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19. 1011901337
Reposted by Margie CookBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Idea: Tell Durbin to retire early. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought... 1033172
Margie Cook @margie-cook.bsky.social · 10/11/2025@durbin.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us @senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us "The Sunday Night Sellout" heard round the country. 000
Margie Cook @margie-cook.bsky.social · 10/11/2025@durbin.senate.gov You are such a disappointment. Again. 010
Margie Cook @margie-cook.bsky.social · 10/11/2025@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov NO on the "deal" for a "scheduled vote" on ACA! You have got to be kidding, Dems! Please don't do this. 000
Reposted by Margie CookIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights. 6754371441
Reposted by Margie CookSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Catastrophic. This is what Mike Johnson has allowed Musk to do. 18628154
Reposted by Margie CookDahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 02/04/2025@hcrichardson.bsky.social “Let’s get in good trouble. “My friend, madam president, I yield the floor.” According to Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, before he was through, Booker’s speech had been liked on TikTok 400 million times.open.substack.comApril 1, 2025Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history. 493542594
Reposted by Margie CookJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA? President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants… The book is called “The Jungle.” 676227855222
Reposted by Margie CookGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Tonight, between Booker and the Florida results, is a night to remember that the unraveling of American democracy is not inevitable. Trumpism’s vision for the future is not inevitable. We have a voice—and a vote too. 229133302171
Reposted by Margie CookJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/04/2025What Trump & Kennedy are doing to public health is a national tragedy 651440429
Margie Cook @margie-cook.bsky.social · 02/04/2025I will stand and speak with @booker.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov WILL YOU? 021
Reposted by Margie CookIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/03/2025📢 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 5. Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance. Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i... 7828221184
Reposted by Margie CookRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Trump and DOGE are dismantling Social Security— firing thousands of SSA employees and shuttering offices. Why? Because they don't want one of the govt's most successful programs to work. They want to pave the way for privatization so Wall Street can gamble with our retirement. 15836361120
Reposted by Margie CookCenter for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 14/03/2025“While government shutdowns are always harmful, by failing to stand up to Republicans now, they have committed a catastrophic strategic blunder that will cost our environment and climate dearly," said @bretthartl.bsky.social, Center Government Affairs Director. 0268
Margie Cook @margie-cook.bsky.social · 14/03/2025@durbin.senate.gov I will never vote for you again. Done. 000
Reposted by Margie CookEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Rollover and play dead wins. I'm honestly really sorry everyone. This is a bad, depressing outcome. We tried our best, and we didn't succeed. We're circling up with Indivisible group leaders over the next day to plan for what accountability will look like. Stay tuned. 1951630330
Margie Cook @margie-cook.bsky.social · 14/03/2025@durbin.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov The federal government is ALREADY being shut down by Musk and Trump, agency by agency, employee by employee, contract by contract. All illegally. DO NOT PUT YOUR STAMP OF APPROVAL ON IT. No on cloture. No on GOP giveaway CR. Just NO. 000
Margie Cook @margie-cook.bsky.social · 14/03/2025@durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov 000
Reposted by Margie CookLeah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Folks it's not over until the votes are counted. If you're furious, keep letting them know: indivisible.org/resource/cal...indivisible.orgCALL NOW: Tell Senate Democrats to Hold the Line Against the Extreme MAGA Continuing Resolution 29737263
Reposted by Margie CookIndivisible Illinois @indivisibleil.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Tell @Senator Duckworth & Senator Durbin to VOTE NO on the extremist GOP spending bill! Illinois voters are watching and we expect them to stand with us!! Senator Duckworth: (202) 224-2854 (312) 886-3506 Senator Durbin: (202) 224-2152 (312) 353-4952 www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...nbcnews.comChuck Schumer says he won't block Republican funding bill amid Democratic divisions over shutdown strategySchumer relented one day after he vowed Senate Democrats would thwart the "partisan" measure, saying the "chaos" of a government shutdown would be a worse option. 1135
Reposted by Margie CookAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason. 491413099424232
Reposted by Margie CookRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 14/03/2025Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture. 602164324342
Margie Cook @margie-cook.bsky.social · 13/03/2025@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov Absolute NO on some deal with the GOP to give them a vote on their dirty continuing resolution. DO NOT make a deal to get a vote on a Dem clean CR. That is a fool's deal and a betrayal that allows Musk and Trump to continue lawlessly. Don't help them! 134
Reposted by Margie CookChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/03/2025Rep. Tom Suozzi gets huge applause and a standing ovation after calling out Trump’s ambush of President Zelenskyy at the White House. Suozzi is a Democrat who won a special election in a red district—more of this, please! Every single Dem should be holding town halls across the country RIGHT NOW. 231131843459
Reposted by Margie CookKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/03/2025At least the people who needlessly die in the next wave of hurricanes will die in a world with fewer pronouns. I'm sure that'll be a comfort to their loved ones. 974151826
Reposted by Margie CookStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 01/03/2025As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio. 30586735514392
Reposted by Margie CookFred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for." 301212725034101
Reposted by Margie CookAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 28/02/20252016: GOP dilutes party platform regarding aid to Ukraine under Trump 2019: Trump tries to withhold military aid until Zelensky “announces” an investigation into the Bidens 2025: Trump and Vance openly side with Putin It’s been the play the whole time, now it’s just out in the open 12647701186
Reposted by Margie Cooknaomi-writer1.bsky.social @naomi-writer1.bsky.social · 22/02/2025JOIN THE FIGHT. National Day of Protest, MARCH 4. www.fiftyfifty.one For more action steps, go to indivisible.org. PLEASE REPOST!fiftyfifty.one50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movementJoin the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501. 2249127
Reposted by Margie CookTim Weiner @tim-weiner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Not a single Republican senator stood against Gabbard -- ignoring the law requiring the director of national intelligence to have deep national-security experience. She has none. She represents the disastrous rise of misplaced power, and a danger to the United States. www.axios.com/2025/02/10/t...axios.comTulsi Gabbard's intel chief nomination clears key Senate hurdleSenators voted to limit debate on Gabbard's nomination, paving the way for a final vote later this week. 30340021246
Reposted by Margie CookThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/02/2025DOGE reportedly plans to integrate AI with federal-government systems while purging civil servants—potentially granting the president a level of power that hasn't previously been known, Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders write.theatlantic.comIt’s Time to Worry About DOGE’s AI PlansWelcome to the end of the human civil servant. 41390149
Reposted by Margie CookRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Why does the world's richest man want to gut the CFPB? Because it would shield him from having to follow financial laws to keep customers' money safe — and give him access to confidential records about his competitors. Follow the money. 21156201888
Reposted by Margie CookWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/02/2025It's sad that so many media outlets have fallen for all the distractions, from Greenland to Gaza to tariffs that keep getting delayed, when the real goal is Musk's dismantling of the government The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...inquirer.comTrump’s absurd proposals distract from his damaging actions | EditorialHullabaloo over Donald Trump's North American trade war feint and Gaza takeover drew attention away from the real dirty work: a purge of federal workers and Elon Musk's unchecked power. 421508562
Reposted by Margie CookAmbassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 09/02/2025 415339556653
Reposted by Margie CookIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/02/2025Don't make us tap the sign. 👇 381601270
