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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

happy bday the iconic Eleanor Roosevelt, b.1884, NYC. “Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared,...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hours after ICE became the highest federal law enforcement agency in America history (and likely in world history), the Supreme Court lifts the last obstacle to ICE deporting people to any random country around the world, even in conflict zones or where migrants are enslaved.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Trump and Republicans in Congress are trying to pull off one of the biggest heists in U.S. history. The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is robbery, plain and simple. And it’s being committed by the billionaire class and the politicians they put into office.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

House and Senate Ds fought like hell. There was nothing else to do. They left it all on the field. They need more #'s. Sweep the R's who perpetrated this horror on America out in 2026. Nothing else in politics matters.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2025

Jeffries: "You got some people in the town who go to church and pray on Sunday, and then they come to Congress and prey on the American people. I'm not down with that kind of faith. That's not the faith that comes out of the Gospel."

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/07/2025

Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you. The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit. They just lie.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2025

Jeffries says he "still has a lot to say" (it's pretty clear he's going for the record for longest Magic Minute speech)

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 03/07/2025

Mr. President, you love playing the schoolyard bully but, at age 79, it’s time to cut it out. It’s one thing to steal one kid’s lunch money, but your bill STEALS LUNCH MONEY FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS. Now, that’s real ugly.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Also, follow my daughter on bluesky as she steps out in the world. @josephinemdowd.bsky.social

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This decision that just came out explains in part why I said that the recent SCOTUS ruling ending lower-court nationwide injunctions would hurt many but might not achieve the ends Trump wants. That we already have a court issuing a sweeping class protection shows that this issue is not over at all.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025

McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city.

His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you. We will not accept this intimidation.

That Trump included praise for Eric Adams in his authoritarian threats is unsurprising, but highlights the urgency of bringing an end to this Mayor’s time in City Hall. At the very moment when MAGA Republicans are attempting to destroy the social safety net, kick millions of New Yorkers off of healthcare and enrich their billionaire donors at the expense of working families, it is a scandal that Eric Adams echoes this President’s division, distraction and hate.

Voters will resoundingly reject it in November.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet." If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

US Senators sacrificing the health benefits and freedoms and wellness for millions around the fifty states in return for help for a few thousand in your own state is the height of corrupt leadership. no integrity.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Says the awful senator who didn’t need to inflict pain on millions of Americans. At least have the decency to resign. Hoping the House undoes your own vote is the most pathetic, demented defense I have ever heard www.axios.com/2025/07/01/l...

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Sen. Murkowski on big beautiful bill: "This has been an awful process"

The Alaska Republican isn't exactly thrilled with the current version of President Trump's "big, beautiful bill."

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Senate Ds did fight every step of way, made the bill toxic, forced Tillis to retire, made them vote in broad daylight as bill got worse, nixed some truly awful parts. They need more members. In 2026, vote out every R. That is what the lesson is here.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Fuck Lisa Murkowski.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 01/07/2025

The votes are slowing down. They don’t have a bill. Still issues with Parl. Still disagreeing in caucus. Still fighting with House. Still no final language.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/06/2025

🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If the GOP bill passes, a lot of folks who have grandma in a nursing home will need to take her back home. Do voters across the rural states this will impact the most understand that?

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 30/06/2025

If the Big Ugly Bill becomes law, over half of nursing homes say they will have to reduce staff, and a quarter say they will close. Hospitals will close, too. Unless you’re a billionaire who can hop in a helicopter to see your private doctor, this bill will make your health care worse.

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The Republican Nursing Home Apocalypse | Common Dreams

If the Big Ugly Bill becomes law, over half of nursing homes say they will have to reduce staff, and a quarter say they will close.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

F**K him. Just quit already. "John Fetterman Complains About Missing Family Beach Trip to Vote on Trump Bill: ‘Oh My God, I Just Want to Go Home!’"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/06/2025

Merkley: "We're slipping into a strongman state where POTUS has such an acquiescent Republican caucus that they're doing this crazy policy, hurting America, hurting the next generation, bc Trump wants it. You saw the billionaires lined up behind him at the inauguration. That's who he's working for"

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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.org · 29/06/2025

Senator Murkowski cut a backroom deal to exempt Alaska from Medicaid cuts, but the Senate parliamentarian shut it down. Protecting your own state while harming millions elsewhere is selfishness and disgusting.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The Trump administration has built a searchable national citizenship data system that they claim will be used for voting, but it was developed rapidly without a public process, and officials worry about what it will be used for next. www.npr.org/2025/06/29/n...

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The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system

The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 29/06/2025

Millions will lose health care. Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost. Electricity costs will skyrocket. Needy families will lose access to food. The GOP’s budget bill does all that so Donald Trump can give hundreds of billions in tax breaks to his rich friends.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Lisa Murkowski and John Thune deserve this. Trying to exempt Alaska from odious parts of this bill to buy her vote is overruled by parliamentarian. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Senate rulekeeper deals blows to revised ‘Big, beautiful bill’

A Medicaid carveout for Alaska was among the “Byrd bath” casualties.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Lisa Murkowski cuts a last minute deal solely to benefit Alaska, exempting it from some of the more odious parts of the bill to secure her vote and sell out the rest of the US. Yeah this stuff sucks and hurts a lot of people, but I got Alaskans exempted so the hell with you.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Now we know why Anna Wintour threw her office keys onto the desk, grabbed her handbag, slid on her sunglasses, and marched out of the building.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The MAGA white Christian nationalist project is bound to fail. They dont have the numbers, and the world, specifically people of color and women, have gained more influence and wealth over the past 60 years. Still, they'll try and, in the process, destroy the country and themselves.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

GOP 2021: “The debt is out of control! GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!” GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!” GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Susan Collins could stop this she won’t. Along with her votes on justices who took away Roe she has arguably done more to harm America than any single senator.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025

Enough! This is exactly why ICE should be required to identify themselves. If ICE looks like criminals and thugs, they should be regarded as such. 🚨 Yesterday, an L.A. man was arrested for impersonating a federal agent. Loaded gun, fake documents, cop gear and even blinking & blue on his car

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If Christian Nationalist parents are allowed to have their kids opt-out of any books that dare mention anyone gay, then all the other parents should be allowed to let their kids opt-out from the Ten Commandments.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Whatever Sen Rs do to fiddle with the big bad betrayal it is so deeply unpopular and damaging that Collins, Murkowski, Moran, Tillis, Hawley, etc. will never get re-elected. This will be a career ending vote

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/06/2025

The gloves are off 🥊

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

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