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@xdrywithatwist.bsky.social
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Progressive Democrat, teacher, mom, wife, cat/dog owner, birder, fluent in swearing

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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We are literally fighting for our lives and @democrats.senate.gov literally don’t give a damn. We marched (7+million on No Kings Day) and voted in droves last Tuesday and now we get a big FU from the party that is supposed to be on our side??? This is insane!
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/11/2025
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Wow, seems consequential since a Illinois Senator (Durbin) is on the list of likely yeses for the CR.
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This @democrats.senate.gov !!!!!
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@democrats.senate.gov
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/11/2025
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
It’s sickening. Shame on them all.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@peters.senate.gov Why in God’s name do you trust the Republicans to make a deal on the ACA???? This will result in the deaths of many Americans. Shame!!! Do not cave!
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@shaheen.senate.gov Why in God’s name do you trust the Republicans to make a deal on the ACA???? This will result in the deaths of many Americans. Shame!!! Do not cave!
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
@senangusking.bsky.social Why in God’s name do you trust the Republicans to make a deal on the ACA???? This will result in the deaths of many Americans. Shame!!! Do not cave!
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“The network of veterinary labs that's responsible for testing ceased its regular meetings because of the shutdown, Poulsen says. "The shutdown just kind of pours gas on a smoldering fire and makes us vulnerable," he says. "It's a national security issue."
npr.org
Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response
Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Totally normal
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Crockett: Marjorie Taylor Greene voted for this point blank period. Her constituents were the ones that were on the receiving end of this.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/11/2025
When you desperately want to starve Americans:
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
😹😹😹😹😹
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Annie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible.” I increasingly think that the most powerful act we can take right now is to truly believe a better society is possible. Then fight for it but first we have to really internalize that better options exist.
theguardian.com
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
It’s so depressing watching the dumbest people in America drive this country into a ditch …. Again
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
kenklippenstein.com
The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 24/09/2025
Wake up, America, or I fear we may not have elections in 2028.
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Stephie @stephielynn204.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
This is so beyond shameful. These agents likely have trauma from seeing those babies slaughtered and now their own people are coming for them. This is sick and outrageous.
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
OMG!
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our current admin hates disabled people 🌈 www.afge.org/article/cdc-...
afge.org
CDC Removes Disability as Reasonable Accommodation for Remote Work, Backtracks After Union Pressure
Leadership at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had said employees with disabilities would no longer be approved for telework or remote work as a reasonable accommodation – a stunning vio...
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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Indeed!!!!
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Annie Henson @gma28.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Weak, yep!!!
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anncy goranson.bsky.social @anncyg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A Swedish study of 2.4m births published in 2024 which used actual sibling data found no relationship between exposure to paracetamol (ex Tylenol) in utero and subsequent autism, ADHD or intellectual disability.
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@benniethompson.bsky.social can you please provide any correct information and updates to the story that two men were found hanged in trees in Mississippi? One a Black man and the other a homeless man. The coverage on the news is not existent and the news being shared on social media is conflicting.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
"I am quite certain that this moment deserves real opposition — that Democrats, morally speaking, should not fund a government that Trump is turning into a tool of personal enrichment and power." Important from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. Hope Senate Dems listen to him.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/09/2025
Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This should happen!
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Extremely disturbing!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/09/2025
This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something
Trump: "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with one of his own states. This is completely unhinged.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
IMPEACH HIM!
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump. Join us.
A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
@morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social WHY THE HELL IS CHRIS MATTHEWS ON MY TV??
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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SCS @xdrywithatwist.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
@esglaude.bsky.social can you say please more about the “freedom grabbers” you spoke so eloquently and painfully about on Deadline WH/ @nicollewallace.bsky.social today?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This doesn’t feel very free speech-y
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A rainbow image to commemorate those who died at this site of a horrific mass murder of gay people. This is sick.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/08/2025
Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.
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