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I’m still thinking about how Chuck Schumer couldn’t bring himself to endorse Zohran Mamdani for mayor but had no fucking problem voting to confirm Sean Duffy as transportation secretary.
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UPDATE: Monday, the Senate votes to end debate on BAAJA, the bill that speeds up pipelines, mines, and power plants. The very Dems who voted yes are about to decide whether it happens.
Sen. Cortez Masto (D-NV) says she won't back final passage unless the tribal provisions change. Tribal groups oppose the bill.
Here's the rundown if you need to get caught up.
It started with the vote on the 9th. Then on the 10th they voted 62-21 to put the bill on the Senate floor.
On the 11th, Thune filed to end debate on the rewritten version and on the bill itself. Those votes haven't happened yet. They're Monday, Nov. 16.
We're still waiting on the date of the final vote.
A few of the Democrats who voted yes say they did it so they could fight for amendments to the bill. I wonder if that's why some of the others voted yes too. They should be voting a flat no to protect our public lands, wildlife and the environment. This bill should never have gotten off the table.
If you want to know more about the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, "BAAJA," a.k.a. the "permitting bill," that's okay. Many people haven't. There's plenty of info, and it's all in the first reply. Don't get overwhelmed. Just take your time & check it out. Any questions — just holler at me!
Heads up, folks: the next vote takes place Monday, Nov. 16, at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. Let's make sure we call our members of Congress and urge them to vote no on this destructive BAAJA bill.
📞 Main # 202-224-3121
#DemsUnited
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🚨 URGENT: The Senate votes Monday on a bill that would make permits on our public lands nearly impossible for ANY future president to undo.
And Trump's admin is still handing them out on those very lands right now.
They're calling it the permitting bill, and it's a sneaky one. It's far worse than the name sounds.
Any permit still in effect on September 16, 2026 gets shielded, no matter who issued it or when. Older permits count too, even decades old, if they're still active. So does every one Trump's admin signs from here on.
The thing I want you to understand is this. Federal oil and gas leases don't expire as long as they keep producing. A lease signed in the 70s or 80s is still in effect today if it's still producing. Earthjustice warns this bill makes leases like that "virtually impossible to overturn."
To change or cancel a permit, a future admin would have to prove it by "clear and convincing evidence."
Only five reasons count:
1. A court orders it.
2. The permit holder broke the law.
3. The permit was obtained through fraud.
4. The permit holder asks for it.
5. An urgent threat to life, property, or national security the original review missed.
If none apply, the permit stays. Locked in. Trumped in.
If a judge finds the government botched the environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act, the judge can order a redo. But the judge can't cancel the permit or stop the project. The bulldozers keep running during the redo.
Tribes don't get a say until AFTER agencies have already made up their minds about work on their ancestral lands and sacred sites.
Two Democrats, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), top Democrat on the Senate Energy Committee, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), signed on to the bill Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced, with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
Voters just handed Democrats Congress. Two of them put their names on a bill that locks in Trump's permits anyway.
This sitting Congress is trying to push it through Monday. Please call your members of Congress today. We don't have much time.
I've tagged the four senators behind this. Let them know how you feel about it by saying no to the bill to your MOC.
Thank you for standing up for our public lands.
#DemsUnited
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Dear @SecDuffy: Here are some things that don’t keep planes flying:
-Praising trump
-Moving religious paintings around in buildings
-Doing reality TV shows
Here is what does keep planes flying:
-Doing the job of Transportation Secretary, instead of engaging in culture wars.
Bipartisan Outrage After Sean Duffy Presser: ‘Biggest F*ck You to The American People’ mediaite.com/politics/trump/…
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This past week alone, Russia has used more than 2,300 attack drones, 1,590 aerial bombs, and 15 missiles of various types against Ukraine. Brutal strikes that are difficult to counter. Overnight and into this morning, the Russians targeted energy infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia and the Sumy, Odesa, Zhytomyr, and Kirovohrad regions. Railway infrastructure in the Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions also came under attack. Russia also carried out strikes on the Donetsk and Kyiv regions. Sixteen people have been reported injured.
The Russians are targeting substations with “shaheds.” And many of these strikes are getting through because restrictions on the operating speed of Starshield terminals along the front line and in the temporarily occupied territories are still there. Our interceptor drones lose connection with their operators at a speed of 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour) and simply cannot catch up with Russian jet-powered “shaheds.” We are counting on these restrictions being lifted. The protection of lives and Ukraine’s energy infrastructure ahead of winter directly depends on this. The teams of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, and the Presidential Office have been instructed to work as closely as possible with the American side and SpaceX. It is important to be on the right side of history. It is essential to help Ukraine. Thank you to everyone who supports our defense.
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No this isn’t a Kansas wheat farm seeding. It’s Vale BLM Rock Creek Fire rehab designed to maximize harm to native grasses & forbs. Sprayed it overwinter preventing native seedlings. Now BLM Amazon drilled the land killing off surviving natives. To plant big cow chow grass.
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Big spread in today’s Sarasota herald
FLORIDA ranks 50th … the very last in the US for availability of home healthcare/ personal care aides
Literally dead last
FLORIDA ranks 2nd in population of adults 65+
4 out of 5 caregivers quit within the first hundred days on the job
“ EXPERT add that Washington ( and FLORIDA) current crackdown on immigrants —a big part of the workforce— will likely make this situation much worse”
Add lack of affordable housing where they work . Hours long commutes with Iran war gas prices is also a factor
➡️➡️Hey all my fellow boomers who voted for the republicans bc you thought they cared about your pocketbook.. how’s that working for ya ?
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The saddest thing about this all is that the tropical rainforest and 100,000+ species that inhabited it will take DECADES to even slightly recover…
It’s literally just a wasteland now… 🌳🦧
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OK I think this absolutely wraps it up.
Tell your US Senators vote NO on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA)
We are social distancing from this toxic bill. 😷 We demand our US Senators do the same. – at Forest Acres, SC
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The Biden administration had implemented rules helping airline passengers.
Trump immediately got rid of them.
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The Javan Rhino is bordering extinction! 🚨
For anyone unfamiliar, it was once found throughout mainland Asia and through intense deforestation and poaching it is only found now in ONE TINY national park at the western tip of Java in Indonesia! 😭🦏
The entire world dabbled its hand in the extinction of this species and everyone should help Indonesia protect it! A huge poaching scheme in 2019-2023 saw half the population in this tiny forest disappear! 😤🌳
I wish people cared more… Indonesias rainforests are hanging on by a thread and some of worlds most iconic wildlife will disappear with it!
LANGSUNG EMOSI LIHAT INI ‼️
hashim mau mindahin badak jawa dari ujung kulon ke alas purwo, ini tindakan bodoh!!!!!
alasannya juga bodoh betul, NYALAHIN GUNUNG!! katanya takut badak jawa akan punah gara2 letusan gunung anak krakatau. BULLSHIT.
badak jawa sudah hidup di sana jauh sebelum manusia datang, dan baik2 saja. sekarang populasinya kurang dari 100 ekor dan itu terjadi gara2 manusia yg memburu & merusak habitatnya, bukan gara2 gunung!!!!
selama ini ujung kulon dijadikan sbg kawasan konservasi yg dilindungi, salah satu alasannya karena di sana adalah satu2nya tempat hidup badak jawa yg hampir punah.
jika badak jawa dipindahkan, ujung kulon akan kehilangan penjaganya, dan kita tidak tahu ini nanti hutannya mau dijadikan apa.
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If you make the mistake you are on the path of making with @hakeemjeffries you will destroy an extraordinary moment in history where real change is possible after a decade of Trump's insanity.
We need new leadership in the Democratic party
Don't blow this incredible opportunity
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I’m literally blown away by the amount of people that fell for the total garbage that they got fed at that press conference yesterday.
If you’re an American, we as a country are in over $40 trillion in debt, have spent approximately $15 trillion in foreign countries and foreign wars over the past 25 years, and yet they have done shit updating our infrastructure that is literally falling apart.
And then they force all airplanes to stop yesterday creating chaos all over the country and fear among the American people sending them to the grocery stores buying emergency supplies and then they turn around and demand more money, $50 billion, and then lie at a press conference about what happened.
I don’t care who they are. I don’t care who you voted for, if you’re not pissed off then there is absolutely no help for you.
Yes, duh, we need to update our systems.
Yes, duh, it takes money to do that.
We, as Americans, pay $5.7 trillion a year in taxes, they have plenty of money to update all of our infrastructure all over the country if they actually gave a damn, they would do it.
But they don’t give a damn.
And if you’re living under some delusion that they do, then you’re beyond help.
Washington DC doesn’t work for you the American people no matter which party is in control.
They work for the big corporations and lobbyist, the big donors that fund their campaigns, and even foreign nations for foreign causes.
Wake up!
The American people are basically raped, robbed, and pillaged over and over again and if you continue to stay loyal to a political party like you are for your favorite sports team and excuse every single failure just because that’s your party, then you are not able to face truth and reality and nothing will ever change.
You get treated like crap because you take it and you continue to vote for it.
I’ve been to Washington. I know how it works.
The bullshit ends when you finally stand up for yourself and realize they’ve been lying to you all along and using you like a dirty rag and they have no intention of changing anything.
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I think it’s true that the more BAAJA is scrutinized the more people will turn against it … which is probably why it was written in secret, had no hearings, and is now being jammed through a lame duck GOP Congress that was just massively repudiated by the American public.
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Imagínate salir de casa por la mañana y regresar por la noche 🥹 para descubrir que ya no tienes un hogar al cual volver.
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Take some time to watch Andy Kim’s speech. Probably the most transformational idea to come from Kamala Harris’s campaign was having Medicare pay for home care. If a United States senator can’t care for his father, imagine how bad it is for the rest of us?
Sen. Andy Kim: “I spent election night at a hospital. I was there by my father's side. My father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and we've been really struggling with this…
It’s not just the physical and the emotional side of it. It has also been financially catastrophic for my family, like millions of families, that we see that our country is a place where sometimes families have to pay 14, 15, $16,000 a month out of pocket to care for their loved ones or basically try to bankrupt themselves until they're eligible for Medicaid.
Does that sound like a choice to you? Does that sound like a real choice? This is the richest, most powerful country in the world. How are we in this place where we are just trying to care for our loved ones?”
#WhatsNext
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BAAJA will do irreversible damage to the environment, native cultural sites, and public lands by weakening protections, allowing "forever permits" for data centers, mines, power plants, and gut key conservation laws. Take action, a vote is expected Monday! tommyhough.com/trading-publi…
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January 2019: Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy votes against H.R. 267, blocking over $10.4 billion to fix America's antiquated FAA system.
Today: This slack-jawed drooling goober is asking Americans to hand him $60 billion to fix the exact same system.
You cannot make this shit up.
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Don’t forget, @SenSchumer voted to confirm this fucking moron. @SecDuffy
