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I've stayed on Twitter bc 1) I want to interact with influential ppl 2) I don't want to give up my followers. BlueSky is solving #1. I'm sharing this with my #BernieLoveFest friends in hope of solving #2. If you're moving there lmk & I'll follow back.
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I’d rather pay an additional $890 in annual taxes for Medicare For All instead of $27 grand out of pocket for private insurance
Medicare For All NOW
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Here are the 11 Democrats who couldn’t be bothered to show up to impeach war criminal Pete Hegseth:
Nancy Pelosi (CA-11)
Haley Stevens (MI-11)
Julia Brownley (CA-26)
Lou Correa (CA-46)
Laura Gillen (NY-4)
Steven Horsford (NV-4)
Jonathan Jackson (IL-1)
Brittany Pettersen (CO-7)
Melanie Stansbury (NM-1)
Marilyn Strickland (WA-10)
Frederica Wilson (FL-24)
If these 11 Democrats had showed up, Hegseth would’ve been impeached 215-211.
There are no excuses left to make. The Democrats couldn’t even show up to hold a war criminal accountable who bombed an elementary school and mass murdered children.
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BREAKING: Thomas Massie’s resolution to impeach Pete Hegseth fails in the House 211-204, after 11 Democrats failed to show up for the vote.
If those 11 Democrats had showed up, Hegseth would have been impeached 215-211.
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If Texas passes Marijuana, the state will not be going back red. I promise you that. The amount of money that would be made from the dispensaries that open... yeah, them conservatives can wrap it up.
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Jeffries is threatening to withhold committee assignments from anyone who does not pledge their support for him to become speaker. So a loyalty pledge — sound familiar? Haven’t we had enough of governing by threat?? Isn’t this exactly what we just voted against?
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I can’t believe a Democrat is already exposing his own party like this
Don Leonard, the Democrat who just won Ohio’s 15th District, says senior House Democrats warned him what happens if he won’t back Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker:
“Making my life a living heII for the next two years here in Washington as well as being sure to lose my election”
He says they “expect you to wear the team jersey” and “be a good team player”
They don’t want representatives, they want obedience
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THE YOUNG DEMOCRATIC SUPERSTAR James Talarico humiliated Steve Toth on the House floor — and got him to admit the bigotry out loud. Talarico held the bill up side by side.
The Senate version scrubbed Frederick Douglass. Scrubbed Martin Luther King Jr. Scrubbed Native American history, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony. But it kept Alexis de Tocqueville — a white Frenchman. Not even American. Talarico asked: "Could that be because he's a white man?"
Toth had no answer. This is who they are. This is what we've known about this party for a long time. The Democratic Party wants everyone at the table. Republicans are snakes.
He’s the Texas State Rep from The Woodlands who wrote the bill, HB 3979.
This is 2026 and we're still having this conversation — the bitterness, the hate. The whole world is watching this embarrassment. EVERYBODY KNOWS IT
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YOU HAVE BEEN UTTERLY SCAMMED INTO HATING UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.
For years, the corporate insurance machine fed you the exact same exhausted line: "Universal healthcare just means paying for lazy people."
Think about how completely cooked that logic is. Right now, you are handing hundreds of dollars every single month to private insurance CEOs, plus crushing copays, plus a $5,000 deductible before they even agree to cover your basic doctor visit.
Universal healthcare isn't a charity handout. It’s a straightforward math trade:
• Swap predatory monthly premiums
• Swap bank-breaking deductibles
• Swap surprise out-of-pocket medical bills
...for a single public tax.
You aren't funding strangers. You’re funding your own family’s survival, while keeping thousands more in your actual pocket instead of lining Wall Street boardrooms.
The for-profit healthcare industry relies on keeping you terrified of saving money. Stop letting them gaslight you.
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BREAKING: Senator Bernie Sanders will NOT support Chuck Schumer as the Senate’s next Majority Leader.
“This election was about change. People want new leadership here in the Senate, so I will not be supporting Chuck,” said Senator Sanders.
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Hey @Grok, concise, no spin.
Montana voters just overwhelmingly voted to BAN CORPORATE MONEY in elections.
Which POLITICAL PARTY immediately sued to REVERSE the vote?
PARTY NAME ONLY.
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Poll after poll shows Americans support Medicare for All.
66% - KFF poll
59% - Wall Street Journal poll
60%, including 87% of Democrats - Economist-YouGov poll
It’s time for Democratic leadership to listen to the American people and PASS IT.
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Sanders just laid out the first 100 days of health policy:
- Medicare at 55, not 65
- Dental, vision and hearing covered
- Every kid insured from birth to 19
All of it fits through reconciliation with 51 votes. No filibuster excuse.
Democrats ran on fixing healthcare costs. This is the test of whether they meant it.
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As an immediate first step to Medicare for All, the new Democratic Congress must lower the Medicare eligibility age to 55, cover all kids & expand Medicare for dental, vision & hearing.
All of this can be passed with 51 votes in the Senate through reconciliation. Let’s do it.
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Bernie Sanders: “At the top of my list, and I expect to become chair of the Health, Education, Labor Pension Committee, is the need to finally do what every other major country does and that is guarantee healthcare to every man, woman, and child as a human right through a Medicare for All single payer program”
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This Democratic Revolution was not for status quo. It was to destroy the system that created status quo. Chuck and Hakeem are status quo. Scoot.
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Percentage of Republican voters who voted for Democratic candidates (Party ID)
US Senate
🟦Kansas: Adam Hamilton 12%
🟦South Carolina: Annie Andrews 11%
🟦Texas: James Talarico 11%
🟦North Carolina: Roy Cooper 10%
🟦Louisiana: Jamie Davis 9%
🟦Georgia: Jon Ossoff 8%
🟦Florida: Angie Nixon 7%
🟦Iowa: Josh Turek 7%
🟦Maine: Troy Jackson 7%
🟦Mississippi: Scott Colom 6%
🟦Alaska: Mary Peltola 5%
🟦Michigan: Abdul El-Sayed 5%
🟦Minnesota: Peggy Flanagan 4%
Source: CNN exit poll
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DANGER: Corporate Democrats want their power back.
@SenSchumer
@RepJeffries
@KamalaHarris
The leadership that helped pave the way for Trump by defending the status quo and offering little beyond “Republicans are worse.”
They fought progressives harder than they fought corporate power.
And now they want to lead us again.
Tell them NO!