Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save healthcare. Eight words. 0134
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025No veteran should have their social security number leaked, let alone passed to a political opponent by the government. 749227085256
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 26/09/2025I want to point a very important detail of this: Jeffries is holding a press conference trashing Trump. And only CSPAN is carrying it. And that is the problem with America right now. The only place Democrats get any press coverage are places where no one watches. 10272121
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play. 431518332
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there 522262617332
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025I feel like a lot of our political moment stems down to tens of millions of Americans literally incapable of imagining something worse than someone being annoying. 191604240
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025#Destiny2 dropped below 9,000 active players last night, for maybe the first time ever. Things are not going great in the house that Bungie built. steamdb.info/app/1085660/...steamdb.infoDestiny 2 Steam ChartsSteam player count for Destiny 2 is currently 17602 players live. Destiny 2 had an all-time peak of 316750 concurrent players on 28 February 2023. 130
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025What a(nother) disheartening day. I should have enjoyed those four years of boredom under Biden more than I did. 1141
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Watching the new Wolverine trailer and I think video games have hit the level of graphical fidelity where I'm genuinely a little uncomfortable with the violence. I started off with bouncing on goombas, now we're up to photo realistic mutilation. Maybe that's just me, though. 020
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Jon M @jjm2377.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I don't like talking about this but as a single guy, especially as you get older, you're not really wanted or welcome in progressive spaces and I don't really want to be in maga spaces, and realistically that leaves you very few options. 109016
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025FWIW if you want a tangible, logistical source of hope that's not grounded in platitudes, i genuinely think the whole thing comes tumbling down like an evil Jenga tower without social media reinforcing it and all the worst companies are aligning themselves with the regime here in the US. 161
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2025Star Trek: The Next Generation S1E25 - Conspiracy 79412
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 25/09/2025It’s outrageous that Jimmy Kimmel is still censored on millions of Maryland TVs because Sinclair won’t stand up to Trump and his FCC’s threats to free speech. Their shameful bowing to the Dear Leader comes at the expense of viewers and the principle of freedom of expression. 83892157
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 25/09/2025We need to be careful of the phrasing and framing here. The far-right Sinclair corp won't stand up to Trump; they *want* this. 422137
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Republicans can’t win on their policies, so they are trying to dodge accountability by rewriting the rules. These lawmakers are going out of their way to silence the will of the people and deliberately undermine our democracy. 363130494772
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Well, at least none of us are alone in our loneliness. 050
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025You know how sometimes, when you complain, you just want someone to listen? You don't necessarily want advice, you don't necessarily want someone to tell you what you're doing wrong, or that you're wrong to feel that way, you just want someone to listen, to act like they care. Anyway. 090
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago. 6866771414
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Outrageous. 1568132946126
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I think I might add "loneliness" to my filter list. 030
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Small men want people to recognize their greatness, great men don't care about the recognition. Is it better to build up personal pyramids, or build up other people? I'm inclined to believe it's the latter. Selfishness and greed has no place in public service, or it shouldn't. 071
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 25/09/2025More reason to pass my bill requiring a security audit of the data systems infiltrated by the DOGE boys. What data did they access? What data did they take? What back doors did they leave?nytimes.comDemocratic Report Says Disorder at DOGE Jeopardized Americans’ Data 641293450
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Democrats have clearly found a higher gear in recent weeks, and it is great to see. 919142
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 25/09/2025We aren't supposed to see this. This is like looking upon the hidden face of God. 1131449
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴 @dov.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Hahahahahaha they're so fucked 1319521
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025My cat is sick, I've got outstanding hospital bills, and my computer is dying, so I'm in a lousy mood. I'm also all out of pizza. Maybe it's karma, maybe it's Maybelline. 250
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025New: There was an "emergency" all-hands meeting inside part of NOAA today basically to tell people they have no idea what to expect re a potential shutdown. "Even less than usual," per one source. There is no guidance yet available and no info on what specifically the OMB memo means. So that's cool. 14441141
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it. 815277817950
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/09/2025#BOTD Early on: More recently: 8519454592
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I think I need a new computer and I have some big sads about that. :( 160
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025👀 the WSJ describing Trump finding out about its story about the Epstein birthday book and telling aides "he would try to kill the story himself." www.wsj.com/politics/pol... 311141337
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 25/09/2025At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired. 341636357
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Jesus Christ. That's really how it's going to be, isn't it? 091
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2025NEW on MSNBC: Prosecutors in the EDVA presented new U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining why charges should not be brought against James Comey — because there isn't enough evidence to establish probable cause, let alone enough to convince a jury to convict. 1273638983
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 25/09/2025We’re realistic about what the country needs so we’re ready. When and where? (Just be prepared to talk about the Republican healthcare crisis). 12640898
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 25/09/2025it’s not about dems, it’s not about dem congressional leaders, it’s about these illegal fucking would-be mob bosses trying to literally destroy the government or make your health care more expensive, those are the choices they are offering 729967
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025I have this fear that a certain contingent of people want a shut down more than they want concessions, that even if Democrats get the concessions they're looking for there will still be people calling it a failure because Democrats didn't let the government shutdown. 4134
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Not mentioned: political reality, who gets blame etc. Also all the damage done by a shutdown. Govt employees, no services, etc. 032
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯John @juanvaldes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Oh yeah. I feel I'm seeing it from both ends of the spectrum too. Hard R's want a no compromise bill. Will be upset if a single Dem votes for it (see nominations for recent examples). While many Dem's want a shutdown and will punish any Dem who votes for a compromise bill. 132
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025If you're angry at what's happening in Gaza right now, then protest the people who are in power right now. Protesting Kamala Harris and Barack Obama can't help Gaza because they don't have the power to do anything for Gaza. Donald Trump has the power to help Gaza, go make your voice heard to him. 1367
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 25/09/2025As happened at an Obama event last week, Harris tonight in New York was interrupted by protesters screaming about Gaza. As Obama did, she responded in part that she doesn’t have any foreign policy power right now. Protesters like these have not been at any Trump or Vance events. 62305107
Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯ @maximumeffort433.bsky.social · 25/09/2025There is "no trust" between House Democrats and Republicans. "[Republicans] consistently try to undermine bipartisan agreements that they themselves have reached," ... "Any agreement related to protecting the health care of the American has to be ironclad and in legislation." 191
Reposted by Max 🇺🇸 🌐☯Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 24/09/2025We've demanded Republicans sit down and talk with us for two months—but Donald Trump said to ignore the Democrats. By refusing to meet with us, Trump is barreling America toward a government shutdown. He's not being president. And he's not up to the job. 27433192
