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Shaniqua McClendon

@shaniquam.bsky.social
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Some sarcasm, mostly compassion. Current: Vice President @Crooked.bsky.social |President @VoteSaveAmerica.bsky.social | Harvard | Capitol Hill | Tar Heel | NC Bred | IG: Shaniquam

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Win The Fight Live @winthefightlive.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🥊HOW TO FIGHT🥊 TONIGHT: Senator @corybooker.com, @shaniquam.bsky.social, and @chrisdmowrey.bsky.social discuss how YOU can make good trouble in the fight for America. 🇺🇸 TUNE in NOW: www.winthefightlive.com #WinTheFightLive
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Hands Off Our Vote @handsoffnow.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Shaniqua McClendon: Republicans who vote for this bill are hurting their own...They can only afford to lose 3 votes in the House…Medicaid is a program that we actually can save. @votesaveamerica.crooked.com @shaniquam.bsky.social
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
But ultimately history will judge him as the guy who refused to convict Trump after Jan 6th in the Senate and allow him to run for president again.
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Vote Save America @votesaveamerica.crooked.com · 12/02/2025
House GOP budget proposal is lower taxes for Elon Musk, less food for poor kids.
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Jamila • جميلة Hammami 🧿 @jamilahammami.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The U.S. Left's cynicism and laughter at all of these things occurring in the U.S. government, which will impact everyone else around the globe, are not helpful. None of this is funny. The suffering people are already experiencing and what is to follow is insurmountable. Solutions or just stop.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder
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Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“I told you so” does not help. “Are you ready to do something about it?” does.
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Beyonce! Just when I thought 2025 would be the worst year ever.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.
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Stark_Raving_Ginger @starkravingginger.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Book rec of the day: Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall. "White feminists often fail to see how race, class, sexual orientation and disability intersect with gender....How can feminists stand in solidarity as a movement when there is a distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others?"
Book cover: Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Lest you assume that by “bipartisanship” he means Republicans should cross the aisle to check Trump, we saw what he means with the significant Democratic support for the disastrous Laken Riley bill. He means surrender. And so he should step aside for a new leader.
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Proof that no one should’ve been nice to Trump. He’s shitting on Biden right in front of him
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This sucks so bad
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/01/2025
The media has focused on wealthy, White neighborhoods. But the fire in Altadena--a racially and economically diverse suburb--deserves more attention, because insurance may not cover their rebuilding costs, forcing families out and leading the neighborhood to gentrify. www.reuters.com/world/us/far...
reuters.com
Far from Hollywood's wealth, Los Angeles fire survivors feel forgotten
Residents say that insurance companies might shortchange less affluent households.
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We can instantly become the houseless, migrants, refugees, or whatever displaced people we're told to hate and scapegoat if worsening conditions say so.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The "Pizzagate" gunman who shot up a DC pizza restaurant in 2016 because he believed a fake story that there was a child abuse sex ring inside has been shot and killed by police
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‘Pizzagate’ gunman fatally shot by police outside Charlotte in traffic stop
Kannapolis police said Edgar Maddison Welch pointed a gun at officers on Saturday, two of whom then fired at him.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.
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writtenbyhanna.bsky.social @writtenbyhanna.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
There’s an entire history of Black radicalism and anti authoritarianism beginning in southern states. You do not get the abolition of slavery, the civil rights movement, and other movements in between without Black southerners who imagine themselves beyond the confines of the American dream
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Democratic congresswoman Crockett says "we stuck in our old ways of doing things, which is you get there by seniority: if you've been there longer, you get the post." "I don't think we fully sit there and say, who may be best equipped for this moment?"
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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 30/12/2024
Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester allege that cost-saving measures are causing pervasive lapses in care, including two patients dying after failing to receive potentially life-saving dialysis.
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‘Probably the worst night of my life’: Saint Vincent Hospital nurses allege two patient deaths related to understaffing - The Boston Globe
The assertions come nearly three years after nurses at the Worcester hospital settled a strike with the hospital’s for-profit owner, Tenet Healthcare, a battle waged in part over staffing levels.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Beyoncé brings out Tiera Kennedy, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer and Reyna Roberts
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Why are football minutes so long?!?! #beyonce please
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I can’t believe Beyonce has me watching football on vacation. This is very definition of emotional labor.
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Honestly, more proof Johnson has little to no control over his caucus.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
“The fruitless search for nonexistent common ground normalizes Trump. Democrats should not propound the dubious assertion that Trump can operate rationally and in good faith. Mouthing this platitude makes Democrats look weak, foolish and unprepared to stand up to an authoritarian agenda.”
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Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t try to find ‘common ground’ with Trump
Unwise, premature and embarrassing outreach from what is supposed to be the opposition.
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Erin "Skeleton Factory" Ryan @eringloriaryan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
If the Depp-Heard fiasco didn't, the Blake Lively smear campaign should drive home an important media literacy lesson that I'm afraid many are missing: when it seems like everybody is suddenly talking about something, consider the possibility that the viral moment was engineered.
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I thought this was why they hated democrats
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Kyle @kyleshivers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Yes, it’s the economy, Rogan, whatever — but it’s also racism and sexism. Don’t forget that
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I am my most anti-populist when it comes to the issue of politician compensation. it's not a good soundbite but members of congress should be paid like $1m annually and honestly I'd be fine with them not having to pay income tax on it, in exchange for total bans on most private investments.
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This would be so funny if it wasn’t real life 🥲
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Here he is momentarily blanking on the president's name
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 20/12/2024
I get super irritated with "assumed familiarity".
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
New York Rep. Pat Ryan, who easily held his Hudson Valley swing seat last month, spoke for AOC in the Dem conference meeting yesterday. Asked him what he said and he just sent me the speech - sharing in case it's interesting
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Pelosi’s penchant for backroom sabotage was easy to cheer when she was pushing fellow octogenarian and likely loser Joe Biden out ...; it’s harder to justify when an eminently qualified rising star—who... is widely known to be a cornerstone of the party’s future. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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This AOC–Pelosi Fight Is Not Good for Democrats
But it reveals a lot about the divide in the party.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The mass institutional capitulation we’re seeing wouldn’t seem like such an easy way out if Dems weren’t desperately trying to carry on without changing or confronting anything—its own form of defeatism. Boxing AOC out of a Trump accountability role is part of that story.
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Yes “Anticipatory Obedience” Would Be Harder If Democrats Weren’t Cowering
And some thoughts on what a better approach might look like.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
BREAKING: Gerry Connolly defeats AOC to become ranking member of the House Oversight Committee by a vote of 131-84.
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McKenna Schueler @shecarrieson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani, a pro-labor progressive in the Florida House who's term-limited from seeking re-election, says she's planning to next turn her focus to the city she grew up in to run for Orlando mayor in 2027. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/eskaman...
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Eskamani files to run for Orlando mayor
State Rep. Anna Eskamani is term-limited from seeking re-election to the Florida House in 2026, and wants to return to a local focus in the city she grew up in.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 16/12/2024
I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Maybe Biden should repay Pelosi a favor of her letting her know it’s time to go. But honestly, can’t be mad at her m, she’s always looked out for what she wanted. Just wish the rest of the caucus stopped being afraid of her. Like, why are you there?
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I am once again asking writers to engage with how the campaign actually operated, and not just the right-wing fantasy of the election cycle. Kamala Harris and the Dems focused on bread and butter issues: health care, the economy, worker rights. Every anti-immigrant or anti-LGBTQ ad was by the GOP.
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US Department of Antifa @ironydept.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Trying to frame Trump's victory, built on white Christian nationalism, as the end of identity politics is profoundly ignorant
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Maybe we can all walk around in shirts that say fuck Trump. But seriously, to all the people asking if Democrats were being hyperbolic about the threat of this presidency, are you paying attention?
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
She should retire
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Trump, Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg are a constant reminder that money can’t stop you from being the lamest people on earth.
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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Love to see Dems with a backbone! (The judge is Black, no surprise).
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Bhav @bhavik.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Disney settling shows to me that corporate media will not save us from this status quo that they benefit from. We have do be relentlessly strategic and focused on building media alternatives
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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Shaniqua McClendon @shaniquam.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Now would be a good time for the Lincoln Project to start using all their money to defeat these crazy republicans in red districts. I do believe if they’d been more focused on fixing their party instead of getting Dems to rage donate we’d be better off.
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