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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We are allowed to hold our reps accountable for their words & actions. I live in Chicago. I don’t have any GOP reps to yell at. My Congressman takes AIPAC $ & refuses to answer any questions about his support of Israel. I’m not doing the work of the opposition when I demand he respond to us.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Sorry to hear that. I’m just really sick of people putting the weight of the world on young people who are struggling as it is.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We had it so easy compared to young people today. And if you can’t see that, I don’t know what to tell you. Quit complaining about other people and do something to make the world a better place.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I have heard way too many of my peers say shit like “I put myself through college & didn’t ask taxpayers to pay for it” or “why should I pay more so some lazy person gets food” or “universal health care will let lazy ppl be unhealthy while I pay for it.” I’m so fucking over that shit.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Stop telling literal children that they need to save the world while we still have the ability to do the work ourselves. The lack of empathy for people who don’t think their vote counts in this system, who have no hope of owning a home, or clean air & water etc is gross.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We - white Gen X and Boomers - have continued to allow the government to slide to the right because WE were ok. We had the luxury of affordable housing & entry level jobs that let us grow into a career & college educations without horrifying student debt loads.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Young people today don’t need your moralizing about how they aren’t doing things the way you think they should. What they need is support. They need our generation to acknowledge the shit world we’ve left them & do what we can to fix it.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

You’re the one who said you shouldn’t have to do anything to encourage others to vote because they should want to vote anyway. I’m saying that attitude won’t work to fix the situation. So you can sit on your high ground & judge people, as you have done, or you can work to fix it.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I hope that you are constantly bothering your GOP buddies about this. They should get zero rest right now - their phones should be ringing 24/7 and Dems should be shaming them into the ground for supporting this carnage.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I’m actually trying to meet non-voters where they are. I’m not better than them just because I vote and I’m involved in politics. I’m also not lecturing them about how their failure to vote is a moral failing even when they know their vote literally doesn’t matter because of the Electoral College.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

All this “I did X when I was younger so why aren’t young people doing it now” is annoying when you don’t acknowledge how fucking terrifying the world is for young people right now. Putting the responsibility on them instead of our elected officials is cruel.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

How much student debt did you have? Could you get an entry level job that paid enough to afford rent & groceries. Times are very different in this moment for young people. And seeing how pro-Palestine protestors were treated under Biden did huge damage. Under Trump things are worse.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I’ll be honest - all the pearl clutching by the Dem elite makes me want to listen to him more. If they think he’s dangerous, then he’s probably doing something right.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

You haven’t seen the videos of people getting arrested and being physically dragged out of GOP town halls? Do you know that most GOP reps and candidates refuse to even have public events?

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

You can have stand on your moral high ground all you want but that will not convince anyone to vote when they believe (often with evidence) that their vote doesn’t matter. So stay where you are, feeling superior, or do something about the problem. It’s your choice.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 09/04/2026

Just a reminder that the DOJ is currently violating the law by withholding large portions of the Epstein Files

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If you want more people to believe their vote in a Presidential election matters then work to get rid of the Electoral College or at least get your state to apportion electors based on the popular vote.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It makes sense to them. And that’s what matters. If you want to encourage those ppl to vote, telling them that other ppl would love to be able to vote isn’t going to cut it. And it’s true that Dem voters in very red states don’t much matter in Presidential elections bc of the Electoral College.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It’s honestly hilarious that this guy thinks he’ll ever be president. He’s like if Mitt Romney and Ron DeSantis had a wildly unlikable baby who was raised by Sean Hannity and a gallon of white paint.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

When we take back power, I do not want unity or healing, I want revenge. I also don't want a lecture on "but that's just like Trump, he wanted revenge." He was wrong, we are right. It's different. Get a moral compass. Revenge or sit down. Call it "justice" if you must, it's that too.

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Alex Lawson @alaw202.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

At 11:30AM House Democrats will demand passage of the War Powers Resolution at a pro forma House session, the resolution will be introduced by Ranking Member Greg Meeks via unanimous consent today at that time. Republicans will block this.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

How many schools have implemented policies that they will expel anyone engaging in pro-Palestinian protests? How many students were maced, arrested, harassed while “democratic officials” voted to say that criticism of Israel is antisemitism?

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

American Palestinians weren’t a big enough voter base to make a difference in the election.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Are you in DC yet? You should be. And Mike Johnson should get NO REST from phone calls from Dems. You should be calling him constantly to demand he call the House back in session.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is 1% about petty Donald getting back at Cassidy Hutchison—and 99% about threatening any future witnesses that have seen Trump act embarrassingly or illegally. It's witness tampering. It's what Donald's idols, mob bosses, do.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The problem is that you think you know who the good and bad guys are. Which probably means you’re a cis white dude. Plenty of Dems have supported “law & order” policies that have filled private prisons. A number of Dems voted FOR the Laken Riley Act which has emboldened ICE. The Dems are all good

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The assumptions you’re making show me that you’ve probably never met a leftist in real life. “Online leftists” are often paid propagandists. And you’re falling for it! You’re believing things about leftists that aren’t true. And that’s just what the right wing wants.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

And voter suppression. And the existence of the Electoral College creates a situation where people in strong red or blue states believe (pretty much rightly) that their vote doesn’t count anyway. Plus just generally feeling like the political class on both sides doesn’t care. Rightly.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

To be clear, the group that talked the most about not voting for Kamala was made up of Palestinians. So are you saying it isn’t ok for people to say they won’t vote for someone supporting the destruction of their family?

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

There are not enough ICE agents to be at all the polls in the US. They might try other shit but let’s not try to scare people away from voting, ok.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Sure but that doesn’t mean the Dems can win by punching to the left and ignoring the issues that matter to a lot of voters. Your personal experience is, by definition anecdotal by the way.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/04/2026

The thing I genuinely don't understand is how people who consider themselves left or center-left can look at a government run by a naked fascist and self described right winger like Benjamin Netanyahu, staffed by people like Smotrich and ben-Gvir, and conclude those are good faith actors.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/04/2026

It seems the United States unironically threatened to invade the Vatican too, because what even is this timeline newrepublic.com/post/208820/...

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Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump | The New Republic

It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Oh please - don’t act like you know what everyone on the left thinks and knows. I am to the left of the Dem Party and I know how the party works and how politics work. Your assumptions are ridiculous.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

So you’re willing to compromise on which things? Whether trans people have human rights? Whether it’s ok that our tax dollars are going to a country committing human rights violations? Whether ICE should be able to kill Americans in the street?

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Now that we agree on. The 25th has to be initiated by the VP and that’s not going to happen. Congress can’t abdicate their responsibility to rein in Trump by hoping his Cabinet will do it.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I think we disagree strongly on the definition of “leftist” - also, those who are to the left of the Dem Party aren’t a monolith. This kind of statement yet again demonizes anyone to the left of the Party (which globally, is right wing)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Now if he could stop hanging out with people like Nick Fuentes and stop throwing trans and homeless people under the bus, maybe he can win 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I agree. Which is why my argument is that Dems, instead of ignoring the left as “fringe,” should actually embrace the policies the left is asking for.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I don’t understand what you’re saying here … are you saying we should stop supporting Israel? If so, I agree.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Then my question to you is this: if that was the main reason Harris lost and if Dems want to win again, then why are a majority of Dems (and Dem leadership) still all in on supporting Israel? Either the left is a powerful coalition or it isn’t.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Also, people don’t vote for lots of reasons 1) the Electoral College makes millions of people feel their votes don’t matter, 2) voter suppression exists & is getting worse, 3) ppl are disillusioned bc of Citizens United. There’s more but I don’t have the space or time for this argument anymore.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

You want to have things both ways - you want to say “the left” caused Trump bc of Gaza and in the same breath say that the Dems shouldn’t do anything the left wants bc they don’t have enough power to swing elections. You have to pick one.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I voted for her. All my lefty friends voted for her. She won Chicago & Illinois. And YES her support of Israel was a factor. But you cannot show that it was THE DECIDING FACTOR that lost her the election. And if it did, should the Dems continue to support Israel if so many voters don’t want that!

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

When I ask for proof, I mean actual, statistical proof that “people on the left didn’t vote and their failure to vote caused Trump to win.” That doesn’t exist because it isn’t true. There are many reasons ppl don’t vote as that article shows. Blaming “the left” won’t help Dems win again.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

As I suspected, that is an article of anecdotes and doesn’t prove anything. It does show 1) the existence of the Electoral College suppresses the vote 2) there are moderates/Libertarians who have voted Dem but didn’t vote for Harris & some ppl who felt she wasn’t left enough.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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