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Saturday is now the day after tomorrow #TheMikey

There's no stopping us... AMERICA'S FUTURE... is coming to Virginia this Sunday! Join us ! More at www.washingtonwriters.org #writers #Virginia #RestonVA 📚📚💙

Gather 'round, children, for an enchanting, little, cautionary tale I like to call "Always Proofread Your Work: A [Literal] Thread": 🧵 For the last couple years, I've been making cross stitches as gifts, but b/c the sentiments in the store patterns are often treacly, I look for funny ones. 1/

Fiction is harder than reality because fiction has to sound plausible.

On the 11th hour of the 11th day on the 11th month, fighting in WWI officially stopped. I will remember.

The dirty 8 got played just like we all knew they would. Remove Schumer.

😂😂😂

Happy Veterans Day! Today we honor and celebrate all who have served to protect this country. At the council, we observed Veterans Day across multiple events. At our most recent council session, we honored Montgomery County’s veterans and families as we began Operation Green Light.

Lest we forget

we are going to win

It’s time

Check out my new #poetry #chapbook from Bottlecap Press to see what Pumpkinhead was so excited about bottlecap.press/products/all...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

1/2 Congress just dropped a so-called “minibus” deal to end the 40-day shutdown but it’s a surrender disguised as progress. It funds veterans and agriculture but abandons the 20 million Americans who rely on ACA subsidies for health care. A Band-Aid won’t fix a bleeding nation.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

No health care, no deal.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

I'm looking to see not only which Senate Dem candidates oppose this surrender (all of them will) but also where they go beyond this with respect to senate leadership. I want to see concrete promises for a new fighting Dem Party, because the current one is broken.

Primary them.

A Democratic cave now after Tuesday’s clean sweep is about the dumbest thing I can imagine.

I just did this and if nothing else it was cathartic. I said I would make it my life’s mission to make sure there’s a primary challenger for any D involved in this deal, it’s fucking embarrassing.

correct.

Imagine looking at the results from Tuesday and saying: “Yeah, time to cave.”

Keep up the pressure folks. The folders are getting screamed at and realizing there won't be a shred of cover.

Keep tagging them and commenting on their posts, it is having an impact!!!! And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar

just putting this out there

Call your senators and remind them that they can’t trust republicans.

Hey Chuck, don’t fucking cave.

DO NOT CAVE!

@welch.senate.gov can you reassure your constituents that you stand firm against this rumored deal? Extension of the ACA subsidies is essential for many Vermonters' wellbeing. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...

If you don't want the #Dems to cave & allow ACA health insurance costs to explode you can contact your US Senator here: senate.gov/senators/sen... & your US House Rep here: house.gov/representati... Please register your concerns directly! It does matter, as did your 10/4 vote.

I would not say the voicemails I just left for Wyden and Merkley were particularly charming or articulate but I do think my panic was clear, as a freelancer who only has access to healthcare at all because the ACA exists

@wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov As outspoken critics of this admin, stand in the way of your colleagues trying to cave on ACA subsidies. Dont give cover. Stop letting Republicans set the terms when voters are desperate for an opposition party will fight for them.

@durbin.senate.gov No one is answering the phones in your office. Any deal that doesn’t have some sort of guarantees for ACA subsidies, or guarantees period beyond “we swear, this time we’ll play ball” isn’t a deal. It’s Lucy, holding the football, and you’re Charlie Brown. No quarter, Senator.

I just called all three of Baldwin’s office numbers and left messages.

FIGHT FOR US! DO NOT CAVE! Don't end shutdown without iron clad concessions to protect our healthcare. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov

Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

Americans can’t afford this deal. Democrats can fight AND win — just like we did in our budget battle in Michigan. A promise isn’t a deal. Don’t settle.

I’ve called and left voicemails. Takes two minutes, and you don’t even need to know your senators’ names: just say your state, and they’ll get you to the right office.

Same. Except for the book part.