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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Call these Senators—tell them to vote no: All begin (202) 224 Cortez Masto (is a yes) 3542 Durbin 2152 Fetterman (is a yes) 4254 Gillibrand 4451 Hassan 3324 King 5344 Peters 6221 Schatz 3934 Schumer (is a yes) 6542 Shaheen 2841 Share far and wide!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/03/2025
Keep this in mind: Elon Musk’s net worth is tied to Tesla stock—he uses it as collateral for loans. Tesla lost 48% of its value in months—sales are down, investors don’t trust him, and JPMorgan says there’s no historic comparison. Hype built his empire. Reality is catching up.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I 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.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
More to the point, it takes one senator to deny unanimous consent for a time agreement. The House Dems, the federal workers, everyone opposed to the Schumer Surrender would be happy to have additional time to gather 41 no votes on final cloture. Any senator can do it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This is correct. In addition to all the other grave consequences of this bill it essentially defunds a big chunk of local DC government.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's one of the small indignities of being a D.C. resident: Being told to call your representative or contact your senator when you want to weigh in on national issues. (Hi, we don't have any!) It's even worse when it's Congress messing with the city's local budget. 51st.news/spending-bil...
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In Congressional lobbying blitz, some D.C. residents were told to contact representatives they don’t have
With no voting representation, residents struggle to be heard as the city faces the potential for devastating budget cuts
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Calling it the "biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history," the EPA rolled out sweeping moves Wednesday aimed at walking back environmental protections and eliminating a host of climate change regulations, some decades in the making.
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EPA takes aim at water, air and toxics protections as part of massive deregulation campaign
EPA takes aim at water, air and toxics protections as part of massive deregulation campaign.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am. #IncompetentKrasnov
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NEW: Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bigge...
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Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR
Federal workers obviously don’t like government shutdowns. Most of them are furloughed....
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I try to explain here what's happening. A bit of choreography to allow Senate Dems to fold without seeming to fold. They give up the 60 vote threshold and that's the end of the story. See below and the separate piece by TPM hill reporter @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social who gives more in depth detail.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Also, if you're openly saying you'll vote to pass the Trump-Musk blank check CR if you get votes on amendments, that by definition throws away your leverage. Republicans know they don't have to vote for the 30-day stopgap in the scenario that Dems themselves are publicly outlining.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"A desire to capitulate in search of an excuse" sums up a lot of what's happening right now, and it's where Trump gets the bulk of his political strength
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 12/03/2025
🚨🚨🚨Senate Republicans are trying to jam through a disastrous spending bill that would rip funding from programs that millions of Americans rely on: Veterans benefits, nutrition assistance, and health care benefits. We have to stop it. Call your senators NOW— tell them to VOTE NO: (202) 224-3121
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
When D.C. residents have to lobby Congress to stop it from doing things that could be harmful to the city, they’re told to contact their… oh, right. No senators or voting representatives.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A diseased population is easier to control and further hurts the economy, benefitting China and Russia.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/03/2025
This is how Dems on the Hill need to message on Trump’s economy instead of pussyfooting around! “I would challenge every Republican… to explain how any of what Donald Trump has done in his 51 days in office has helped improve the lives of Americans.” - @tarasetmayer.bsky.social Watch this…
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Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨URGENT ACTION is🔥 EVERYBODY IN THE 50 US STATES WHO DOES NOT LIVE IN DC 🚨 The Senate votes to remove $1 billion in local DC funds tomorrow at 10 am. This will defund schools, healthcare, housing. We have no senators to call. Please call yours at (202) 224-3121.
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The President was doing a car commercial from the WH lawn as the economy fucking crashes. Are we great yet?
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Republicans want to break our Federal Government and then act like heroes trying to fix it. Citizens are not happy with this plan!
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump’s fighting harder for Tesla than he is for you!!!!!!!
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Said it many times now, including today on the pod: the signal failure these past weeks, distinctly Democratic, was failure to lay out conditions far in advance. No Dem votes for Big Lie nominees. No Dem CR votes unless the crime ends. Shape discourse at the outset—before they beat you to the punch.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 11/03/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Taking a brief break from severely harming the economic lives of working class Americans, he does a car commercial for the wealthiest man on the planet. MAGA, MAGA.
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Trump destroyed our economy in just a matter of days!!!!!!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/03/2025
Americans: We’d like to afford basic necessities, keep vital programs, and not lose our retirement savings. Trump: Best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on Earth.
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Democratic Wins Media @democraticwins.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
BREAKING: As the stock market and economy collapse, Donald Trump is filming ads for Elon Musk and Tesla. This is insane.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My latest, a blueprint for Democrats at this time of peril newrepublic.com/article/1925...
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This Is No Time for the Democrats to Hang Back
Some counsel the Democrats to just wait and let the GOP immolate itself. This is horrible advice. Here are some better ideas.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Just as Hitler rose from the ashes and grievances of World War I, it looks like Trump’s dream is to reduce the United States to rubble so that he can turn what’s left of our once great country into his base of aggressively expansionist operations in alliance with Vladimir Putin and a few oligarchs.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
2 people have already died and this anti-vaxx freak is going to get more people killed with his conspiracies. Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...
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Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
He was a few months ahead of himself.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/03/2025
Dems. Hold the line. Do not vote to fund DOGE (the government). Make the GOP fund the government or let them shut it down. They’re the majority.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
RFK. Jr. is America's #1 Public Health Threat.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Everything Trump touches turns to shit. We already knew that. When will the enablers stand up for America? If they won't, I hope the Democrats go to every district in America to force an answer as to why.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Could someone in the media…ANYONE…just come out, live, and say, “Look…it’s clear to anyone with a pulse, that Donald Trump is intentionally fucking up every aspect of the U.S. as fast as he can. Oh, and, since I’ve gone this far, it’s also clear he’s been sucking Putin’s d*ck for a LONG time!”?
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Trump was handed an awesome economy. He was handed the best, by far, post-Covid economy of ANY industrialized nation. He was handed an economy with employment way up, consumer spending way up, the markets way up, & inflation way down. And in only 7 weeks, he’s fucking it all up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025
"Republican budgeting never made sense. Now the GOP’s fundamental dishonesty has been channeled into a vindictive assault on government workers and the American people led by the literal richest man on earth. The war on budgeting has become, inevitably, a war on us."
publicnotice.co
MAGA's Big Lie budget
Trump’s economic agenda is about fooling the American people.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
When Trump’s recession hits — not if but when — he’ll blame Biden and the mainstream media, which he’ll call the “lamestream media” or the “enemy of the people.” You can take that to the bank.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
It’s really says a lot when ***Donald Trump*** can’t bring himself to lie about something.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is how you do it. More please.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A recession isn’t inevitable yet, but if the administration continues on its current path, it’s more likely than not. Most MAGA influencers aren’t old enough to remember the real economic pain from the 2008 recession, but I hope someone is advising him to rethink this trade war.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 08/03/2025
If only they had the ability to vote in some legislative body. But Nay, they only can be “concerned” thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Per @anneapplebaum.bsky.social: “One person who never talks about a cease-fire is Vladimir Putin. He does not talk about a cease-fire with his own people. He has at no time offered a cease-fire to the Ukrainians or the Americans.”
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Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich
Hitler didn’t want a peace deal, and neither does Putin.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The point is to break America. The guy in the White House is nothing more than a Useful Idiot allowing it to happen. Direct your anger at every @housegop.bsky.social member @senategop.bsky.social member allowing this to happen. They are the enablers who RIGHT NOW are refusing to do their jobs.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
As Trump now actively helps Russia kill Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, the silence of Republicans who used to say they were staunch supporters of Ukraine is deafening.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/03/2025
This is some excellent good trouble
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Every possible orifice in every conceivable institution is being stuffed with sycophants, criminals and grifters.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
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