god grant me the confidence of a man with a nazi tattoo to run as a democrat for senate

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The Christian is a participant in a multi generational social systems movement to model mercy

Reject a safe and proven vaccine made by Pfizer. Stick it to Big Pharma by purchasing a dewormer made by Merck.

Now that we know guns don’t actually prevent an authoritarian government, can we maybe do something about the fact that children keep getting murdered while in school?

THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED IOWA'S #SD01 (Trump+11), BREAKING THE REPUBLICAN SUPERMAJORITY IN THE STATE SENATE: Catelin Drey (D)- 54.5% Christopher Prosch (R)- 45.5%

There is a reason why authoritarianism tends to prioritize both growing the administrative class AND securing its loyalty via patronage. YOU KIND OF NEED IT TO DO A FASCISM

The Confederates always used "state's rights" when it was convenient and the feds to control the states when it wasn't. We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.

I’m trying so hard to understand why the testimony of the victims has never been enough for people. They’ve spoken. They’ve drowned in sorrow for almost a decade. What allergy do people have to hearing dozens of women describe the crimes of a monstrous pedophile and his abusive accomplice?

I have a submitted nih grant with a fundable score yet still no decision far past the normal decision time and now Mr project25 says no more grants can go out. Most highest bestest appropriator of all time Collins put these sociopaths in power, ceding her power and much funding for maine to them🤬

Besides being a useful idiot MAGA lackey, Susan Collins is also just plain bad at being Appropriations Chair. #mesen #mepolitics www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/...

“If Democrats are too weak to make 212 greater than 220 this bill will be their fault” Whether dishonest or just sincerely dumb, this blame-Democrats-for-what-Republicans-do-&-Democrats-can’t-stop stuff is a scourge

Literally my entire lifetime. Carter cleaning up after Nixon/Ford, Clinton cleaning up after Reagan/Bush 1, Obama cleaning up after Bush 2, Biden cleaning up after Trump 1. Only to be rewarded by voting in more Republicans - I just can’t.

Thom Tillis and Susan Collins both faced a test this week. Tills looked at the damage he was being asked to inflict on the people of his state, and he said, 'I'm out.' Susan Collins bowed down and kissed the ring. #MEpolitics

Also explains why Susan Collins has been tying herself into a pretzel: Still waiting for marching orders. Embarrassing to watch someone who pretends to be powerful revealed to be so small. #MEpolitics

1) even if there is a relief bill for some hospitals that doesn’t restore coverage to people being kicked off Medicaid who need medical services 2) if Susan Collins was as powerful as she wants us to believe she is as chair of Approps there would not be a bill that she is so concerned about

Actually there are thousands they just keep coming

Hundreds walking down the street in ellsworth maine for no kings

Republicans want to take $1,000 a year from families making under $50K and hand it to the top 1%. I grew up in a family where every dollar mattered. This isn’t just bad policy -- it’s a slap in the face to working people.

There it is…

It’s ironic that anti-vaxxers don’t understand that any safety they presently have from vaccine-preventable disease is going to be destroyed by their own movement. No more hiding in the herd when herd immunity is destroyed.

Harder and harder to tell which funding cancellations stem from Trump's unconstitutional persecution campaign against Maine and which are the upshot of his and Musk's lawless attempt to destroy the govt more generally. One common denominator: Susan Collins is doing nothing about either. #MEpolitics

Remember when Susan Collins bragged in her last race that she would become the powerful chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee? Now that she has that position, she lets people who rely on food banks go without. #mepolitics

Every GOP presidential era of my lifetime (Bush I, Bush II, Trump I), has ended in recession and financial collapse, and every Democratic presidential era (Clinton, Obama, Biden) has ended in economic growth, after inheriting a tire fire. The only difference in Trump II is how quickly it happened.

We Dems need to start dreaming. American history has expanded freedom in about 50 yr increments. What is the dream for democracy expansion once Maga implodes?

Hundreds out in the cold today in Bangor, ME. To tell Republicans hands off social security, healthcare, democracy, freedom.

Are you keeping track? Liberals or Democrats: —won Wisconsin supreme court —won Wisconsin school superintendent —flipped mayorship of Aurora, IL's 2nd city —flipped county executive position in WI's Winnebago —strong results in school board races in WI —very strong municipal results in IL

With most votes counted in both #FL01 & #FL06, we're looking at about 12-point margins for the GOP in both races. Plugging those (preliminarily) into our Big Board boosts the average D overperformance from D+10.3 before tonight to D+11.7 now. In 2017-18, it was D+10.6 for the cycle.

Up against the richest man in the world spending more than anyone's ever spent in a judicial race, Susan Crawford never wavered. Never cowered. Kept fighting. A lesson, there.

actually we're fucking awesome, we brought America Social Security, and Medicare, defeated the Nazis and passed the Civil Rights Act, we're the party of Environmentalism, Feminism, Black Power, Gay Liberation and trans rights, we are amazing, fuck off with this shit.

THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED PENNSYLVANIA'S #SD36 (Trump+15): James Malone (D)- 50.3% Josh Parsons (R)- 48.8% Zack Moore (Lib)- 0.9%

under dei: - stocks up - no plane crashes - egg without dei: - stocks down - plane crashes - no egg

My NIH grant application was supposed to be reviewed yesterday, but the study section was canceled. No word on rescheduling. I worked for years collecting data and reading 100s of papers in prep for it. Capped by 2 mo.s of 70-80 hr work weeks this fall to get the 100 pgs of materials done on time

Most Americans may not be able to tell you pays a tariff, but I can tell you who is going to end up pocketing the money in this big, new slush fund. Trump and his billionaire pals are looting the nation. The extra Americans pay for every board, every avocado, every car part will go to them.

Maine HD 24 Special Election Update: 🔵 Sean Faircloth (D) - 72.3% (1407) 🔴 Carolyn Fish (R) - 27.7% (540) ~95% of precincts reporting This was a Harris +23 district in 2024.

ME HD-24 (State House 24) results (update): 🔵 ✅Sean Faircloth (D) - 802 votes (65.90%) 🔴 Carolyn Fish (R) - 415 votes (34.10%) We can project that Sean Faircloth has won election to Maine's 24th State House district. (Harris+23 in 2024 - currently D+31.8)

Americans are clear: they want lower prices and opportunity. Instead, President Trump and Elon Musk are creating crisis after crisis across our communities — hurting everything from healthcare and hospitals, to farmers, to nuclear security — all to make room for a tax cut for billionaires.

Kind of a messed up “democracy” that the difference between long-term care for all and no Medicaid at all is about 150,000 votes over four states.

Just went to indivisible protest in bangor at the federal building. Lot of people there, great signs, many drivers honking in support. One Trumper drove by laughing out the window at us--that was the extent of the right wing pushback

Everyone who pushed not voting for Biden or Harris because of Gaza can go fuck yourself from the river to the see you dumb & dishonest fucks we told you what would happen & you should be shunned from Democratic/liberal/progressive politics until you die

Why bother even being a Senator if you think Tulsi Gabbard is fit for DNI? Just admit you're a g-d rubber stamp for a felonious rapist.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

the thing is that this was *both* a power grab and an unmitigated fuck up by deeply incompetent people. we're witnessing the Keystone Koup from within, and this is simultaneously deeply dangerous, deeply stupid, and deeply vulnerable to fighting back

My local and Congressional leadership, party leadership, a dozen Dem governors, AGs, dozens of nonprofits, high-profile electeds nationwide, unions and groups that represent every type of federal employee, have spoken up, filed suit, etc against Trump's war on America. Democrats fight for you.

“Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.” The Devil wants nothing more than hopeless, cynical people, y'all.

@golden.house.gov Jared, listening your leader would be a good start in your quest for moral education

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Really need everyone to start thinking in decades instead of months. Reagan started cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations in the eighties. Bush did it in 2001. Trump did it again in 2017. THAT'S why billionaires are holding record wealth and you can't afford groceries.

How much more evidence do we need that “Medicare Advantage” (an intentionally misleading name for private insurance plans that essentially allows private corporations to hoard public funds instead of using them directly for services) is actually not good for health outcomes or even economic outcomes