If you think Rs are confident in the government shutdown. I suggest looking to see how the speaker and VP struggled yesterday to stand by it. I suggest looking to see the moves the WH is making to exacerbate pain upon Americans. I suggest you ask where the president has been since the shutdown.

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Speaker of the house is floundering in his conversation // interview with Dana Bash.

This article by the AP, pushed out by our local news station, is quite biased. If you want to know why we are where we are it is because a lot of reporting is dripping with right-leaning bias. Government headed to shutdown after last-ditch vote fails in Senate www.wfsb.com/2025/09/30/u...

The gaslighting is wild. THEY control the White House, the House, and the Senate—yet always find a way to blame Democrats for their mess. The so-called “$1.5 trillion wish list” is about protecting health care, food assistance, and housing. (1/2)

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Can they stop putting a microphone in front of Fetterman? He clearly doesn’t have any answers and is struggling.

So…let me see if I have this right. The federal government is gonna shut down in 30hrs, and the party that controls the ENTIRE federal government is trying to blame the party that controls NONE of the federal government for the looming shutdown?

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It takes the whole community!

@ctdems.bsky.social if all politics are local, why are the dems running in my town not displaying signs? When one person came to my house to share who was running, that person couldn’t answer any of my damn questions. Currently, small town Rs are better organized. Do better.

If you’ve been elected to one house of the US Congress, and are still saying that you’re not doing your job because you’re afraid of the president, then you not only clearly don’t understand WHAT your job is, you need to resign. You were voted in to speak for your constituents and LEAD. COWARDS.

Not sure why the media — even @msnbc.com — continue to say that the democrats are struggling to message the shutdown. I hear Dems speaking a clearly consistent message, regardless of who is saying it & where.

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At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

ICE has never rolled up on actual gang members. That's the post.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

In Connecticut, they’re going to play by the rules: our state courthouses are off limits without a warrant.

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It’s always inherited trauma and never inherited Gothic castle in the Transylvanian mountains.

Just cancelled Disney +, Hulu, & Paramount +. Late to paramount because I had paid for the year. But for real… BILLIONAIRES. Have. The. Money. To. Fight. For. The. First. Amendment.

If you’re surprised that Republicans are all of a sudden anti free speech, you need to go have a conversation with a librarian and/or teacher. This has been going on for YEARS. I for one, can tell you I’ve experienced this from extremists on the right since 2009.

I’m just going to say that we’re in a fed gov environment where I wouldn’t resign. I’d make you fire me. Because quite frankly, any future employer who wouldn’t want to hire me because I was fired for having integrity isn’t an employer I’d work for.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

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The same people warning you that college will radicalize your kids are the ones sending their own kids to those colleges. Stop listening to people who cash checks to sell you a narrative.

Just because a job is low paying doesn’t mean that it is low-skilled. If it’s low skilled, that would mean that anyone can do it. That’s just not so when it comes to farm labor, construction labor, etc.

We’re still not shopping at Target 🤷🏾‍♀️

I find it hard to believe that people are comfortable and accepting of visible incompetence and the facade of transparency.

A reminder that simply not posting is always an option.

Don't be a fucking ghoul. And even if you're really feeling like acting like one right now, posting that shit online is just going to make you famous with all the wrong people.

Most of the time it's not even cowardice but simple complicity. They may also be cowardly but the main thing is that they are complicit.

Having grown up in the 80s & 90s, I am not surprised. Think about the time period and how women were viewed and treated. And if you think it wasn’t commonplace for full grown men to leer at teens and preteens in public, then you would be grossly incorrect.

What could possible go wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

The education report came out. And it looks like US students are moving through school and leaving without strong reading and math skills. There isn’t one precise reason for this; it’s a cumulative effect of badddd policies (NCLB & CCCS), a pandemic, and more.

Let’s say it plain: the Supreme Court of the United States endorsed racial profiling today.

Democrats don't seem to get that Trump's been destroying our government, shutting it down every day, killing programs, clawing money back that Congress appropriated. Why on earth would they "fund" a continuation of that? Their simple argument should be Trump has already shut down the government.

There is nothing as heartbreaking as an emergency waiting room.

NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE! It looks like tens of thousands have joined. This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏

I don’t know what’s going on with gasoline prices in your area. Here, in CT, it just went up .30 a gallon in just one week.

You can’t actively remove funds that were providing jobs, fire masses of government employees, and raise taxes on every product and expect that jobs will continue to rise OR that people will feel confident about the economy.

Cant say I didn't see this coming 😑

9 months into Trump's "golden age" and the economy is stagnant. Manufacturing jobs are being eliminated. People can't afford groceries, let alone housing or healthcare. But hey—at least his billionaire friends got those tax breaks they really needed.

I don’t know why zero senators made this point yesterday. So, I will. If you are the HHS secretary who just changed vaccine guidance and yet don’t know the statistics for said vaccine’s effectiveness, you did indeed make an ideological decision on revoking access to the vaccine.

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If your state isn’t standing up to protect its citizens & fill in federal financial gaps in the ways that many coastal states are, you need to do two things: 1) Ask your state officials WHY 2) Vote them out You could also run yourself to change it or work on a campaign that has plans to do so.

It's just a sports ban. It's just a bathroom ban. It's just a healthcare for kids ban. It's just a military service ban. It's just a federal jobs ban. It's just a university housing ban. It's just a passport & visa ban. It's just one Constitutional right. It's just your status as free citizens.