Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think his vanity would allow him to look like he does on purpose.
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view profile on Bluesky Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't think his vanity would allow him to look like he does on purpose.
LastGreatAct šŗš¦ (@lastgreatact.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
I would not eat anything I did not see prepared in front of me if I was him or anyone else from Trumps hell posse.
Indivisible āš (@indivisible.org) reposted
TODAY: This Labor Day, we stand together for a country that puts working families before billionaires. Find an event near you: bit.ly/3Vm59ED
Senator Katie Muth (@senatormuth.com) reposted
This Labor Day, letās be clear: working people built this country ā not billionaires and mega-corporations.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Ded š¤
Kathleen Bachynski (@bachynski.bsky.social) reposted
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I canāt overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
You talking about a certain billionaire named Mark?
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Could it be that he has COVID right now? 1. He's weighing in on the vaccine 2. He looks like crap 3. No press contact for a few days (he's coughing too much?) 4. He wants answers since this is affecting him personally
Harry Dunn (@libradunn1.bsky.social) reposted
donald trump has been convicted of more felonies than 99.9% of Washington DC residents.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Why's he in a cart?
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
So why's he in a cart?
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
Sure, maybe ten years ago it was, for some, a considerable accusation to make ā but not any more. Not for a long while. You'd have to be willfully ignoring so damn many things not to see it now. It sure AF looks like we have a pedofile sexual predator for a president. Release the Epstein files.
George Conway ššŗšøš„ (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
JD Vance on Donald Trump: āIām a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I donāt think heās the person. I donāt think he cares about folks. I think that heās noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.ā { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
I would be there if I were her. I'd open that casket, pith whatever is in it in the brain just to be sure, then I'd keep my eyeballs so intent on that crate being lowered into the ground until the last fistful of soil gets dropped on it. I wouldn't even blink.
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
People resign because of isolation and pressure. So keep applying pressure and make him a liability to Trump.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
He looked like THAT 2 months ago??
Laguna Beach Democratic Club (@lagunabeachdems.bsky.social) reposted
Let's be brutally honest. There is no "fair maps" option on the national ballot. The real choice is simple: Do THEY get to rig the country, or do WE get a say? Thatās it. Prop 50 ensures we get a say. Vote YES on 50. #Yeson50
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
So Trump used the predictable outcome of the creepy actions of one of his predictably cretinous DOGE bros as a predctably false pretense to send our military to DC. Can't get more creepy and predictably 2025 GOP than this.
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpracticeāwhen you pray for something you have the power to change.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
This is brilliant and clear.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Somebody Trump pays attention to should plant the idea in his head that Vance is trying to kill him, as shown by Vance's recent media appearances.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Joe Pittman
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
They had to stab him like sixty bajillion times and then burn him. I think it worked.
Eric Holder (@ericholder.bsky.social) reposted
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social)
Please and thank you.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Please don't call it "guidance". There's a grifting freak in charge of our health now. He's not qualified to guide us. He's going to get many of us sick or killed.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not an administration, it's a regime.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
I know a bunch of Trump supporters. They are assholes but that status pre-dated Trump. So maybe being an asshole is predictive of support for Trump? Ultimately, all assholes are Trump supporters and all Trump supporters are assholes.
Mike Nellis (@mikenellis.bsky.social) reposted
Letās be brutally honest about thisāDonald Trump doesnāt give a shit about our kids. Heās not going to do a damn thing about school shootings. He slashed funding for pediatric cancer research AGAIN this afternoon. He ripped school lunches away from millions of kids by signing the Republican budget.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
A gas station hotdog has no balls.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social)
Kinda sounds like he could possibly be talking about white nationalists. I know he's not, but it fits.
Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus (@pasenate.com) reposted
Senate Republicans' refusal to come back to work will lead to a full funding stoppage for vital services. Working families will be hit the hardest by their inaction. Come back to work and pass a #PAbudget!
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
"We" is doing ALOT of heavy lifting for Kirk here
Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) reposted
"I had never seen anyone virtue-signal so gracefully, so effortlessly. I was like, 'I have to work with this guy.'" šššš Meet Cory Booker's (fake) political consultant, played by Zeteo's very own @heycapello. "No one does it like Cory." zeteo.com/subscribe
Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted
Itās important that everyone act as if the federal government is occupied by a group of Nazi sympathizing, neo-Confederate insurrectionists who are opposed to multiracial democracy and at war with the constitutionābecause thatās exactly whatās happening.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. Why bother running for reelection if we're all gonna die anyway, right?
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Whenever I read about the massive amounts of energy needed for AI, I think of Gilfoyle struggling to keep Anton alive and how quaint and adorable that seems. We're all gonna die.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
All this because Trump wouldn't wear a mask.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
He should go there as soon as possible.
MarchOnHarrisburg (@endpacorruption.bsky.social) reposted
PA Rs & Ds point fingers over fundraisingābut both spend more time chasing cash than serving the working class. Both parties whine about a system that works for themānot the middle class. Time to pass a gift ban and make bribery illegal. #GiftBan #Corruption #MoneyOut
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Republicans can take their "pro-life" bullshit and shove it straight up all their asses.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
I do this shit anyway like it's my job. It's nice to get something good for a change, instead of a crappy form letter.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
This crisis isn't partisan. It's ethical, moral, human. Journalists live here too, and won't be spared. They have as much skin in this game as anyone else. The time is now.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been in the midst of a psychotic break since Nov 9, 2016. None of this is real. I must have hit my head or something.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Ack. There are already little pumpkins in a big bin at the grocery store.
DemSocialistGuy (@demsocialistguy.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Restricting COVID vaccines while 47,500 Americans died last year is not āscienceāāit is sabotage. Denying families access forces risk onto the vulnerable, deepens inequity, and weaponizes public health for ideology. This is cruelty dressed as policy. #HealthNotPolitics #VaccineAccessNow
Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns donāt kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) reposted
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): āIf there are any adults left in the White House, itās well past time they face reality⦠We cannot let RFK Jr. burn whatās left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the groundāhe must be fired.ā
Senator Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov) reposted
Itās outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director ā after only a few weeks on the job ā for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
If this chud can look in a mirror and not cringe at his own reflection he's not qualified to diagnose somebody's kid in an airport.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
How do you prove you're a former smoker?
IndivisiblePHL āš (@indivisiblephl.bsky.social) reposted
Rep Scanlon was blocked directly by Kristi Noem from visiting Moshannon - despite the LAW saying it was her right to enter. Sec Noem MUST GO www.instagram.com/reel/DN3RVqX...
God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted
Those who have the power to stop mass shootings can go to hell with their "thoughts and prayers." Do something about it, you evil bastards.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Why is he leering at other people's kids?
Carter P. Hayes (@allchronology.com) reposted
Iām sick of the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded your school. No refugee closed your hospital. No refugee cut support for the sick and disabled. We need solutions ā not scapegoats. Tax the rich instead.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
He best keep his creepy eyes off other people's kids.
MarchOnHarrisburg (@endpacorruption.bsky.social) reposted
March on Harrisburg was given a shout out at this roundtable discussion about getting money out of politics. All of the issues that are important to working class folks are being held up by corruption. Letās get to work!
Aunt Patty (@auntpatty.bsky.social) reposted
REPUBLICANS are RESPONSIBLE for the #1 reason for the deaths of children by guns in the U.S. Their record of "thought & prayers" as the only response to gun control has been evident - for fucking decades.
Anne Caprara (@annecaprara.bsky.social) reposted
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive āitās a trapā position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesnāt like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesnāt like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (@scanlon.house.gov) reposted
Moshannon Processing Center is the largest Immigration Detention Center in the Northeast. After hearing complaints about civil rights abuses and lack of access to medical care and mental health care, Iām performing a congressionally authorized oversight visit of the facility.
Indivisible Pennsylvania āš (@indivisiblepa.bsky.social) reposted
Now we know exactly who is making sure there is no oversight of the inhumane conditions Trump and Noem. Thank you Rep. Scanlon for showing up today!
Bucks County Beacon (@buckscountybeacon.com) reposted
PSEA Urges Lawmakers to Pass a Budget to Fund Pennsylvaniaās Public Schools | āOur kids are not pawns in some grand strategy to enact a tuition voucher scheme that will shift taxpayer dollars away from our public schools and send them to private and religious schools,ā said PSEA's Aaron Chapin.
IndivisiblePHL āš (@indivisiblephl.bsky.social) reposted
#SEPTA Service Cut consequences are starting to mount āIt took me an hour longer to get there!ā How are Senator Picozzi and Pittmanās cuts impacting you, your friends, and family? 6abc.com/amp/post/2nd...
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
He has worms. All his cabinet members are in his colon.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe it's you?
Bruno J. Navarro (@brunojnavarro.bsky.social) reposted
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
The most infuriating thing is that the date is not even needed. At. All.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
The sooner it's over, the attention stops. She's monetizing the attention.
ashley fairbanks (@ziibiing.com) reposted
when you remember that we get fascism because of chuck schumerās imaginary long-island racist friends
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
He's just an asshole. That's what assholes do.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
And it seems the GOP uses paid canvassers way more than Dems do. I don't know, maybe it's their culture of paying others to do the distasteful work of talking to their voters? Plus, they always seem to have the money to buy the labor.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Seems like each state handles it differently. In PA, we are left to fend for ourselves. County parties can take the wheel if they choose. Maybe check in w/ Ken Martin to see if he can shed any light on why the DNC leaves us hanging.
Stessa Cohen (@stessacohen.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
@fieldteam6.org
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesāassaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceāthey can be prosecuted.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
I printed and folded my Philly version. I love it. Thank you!
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't drink this beer on a plane either.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social)
Get it now?
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Ironic that Trump hates dogs but has convinced his supporters to binge heartworm meds
Indivisible Pennsylvania āš (@indivisiblepa.bsky.social) reposted
We need more of our representatives to show up like Rep. Summer Lee did. The local county commissioners (who are getting paid for the facility to be there) did a sham inspection. We want real oversight!
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
That's exactly where I bailed too!
Ro Khanna (@rokhanna.bsky.social) reposted
(Thread) Dems do not need histrionics to make the economic case against Donald Trump & JD Vance. Just the facts, man. Blanket tariffs, deportation of law abiding immigrants, firing of independent officials & attack on universities & corporations is leading to stagflation.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe it's skin cancer?
Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
Senator Mazie K. Hirono (@hirono.senate.gov) reposted
Trump is so bad at his job that grocery prices are higher than during a global pandemic, when people couldnāt even get toilet paper. When are we going to get to experience this āparty of fiscal responsibilityā Republicans keep talking about?
Jeff Sharlet (@jeffsharlet.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Letās be clear: Pritzker isnāt a savor, heās not āthe leader of the resistance.ā There wonāt be one. Thatās us. Heās an elected doing his job when most arenāt, and doing it well. Heās not a leftist, heās a liberal, but heās putting himself on the line, and thatās worth a lot.
Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted
šØBREAKING: Third Circuit STRIKES DOWN Pennsylvania requirement that mail-in ballots that arrive in undated or misdated return envelopes be discarded. Court holds that Constitution requires they be counted. A big victory for our clients DSCC and DCCC and PA voters!
Pam Keith (@pamkeithdc.bsky.social) reposted
Did you know thereās a special election THIS Tuesday in Iowa that could break the GOP super majority in the Iowa state senate? I had no idea. Just saw it on Tik Tok. Nowā¦just out of curiosity, do you think the DNC should have rallied national Dems to support this election?
Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus (@pasenate.com) reposted
PA Senate Republicans who stalled on funding left SEPTA no choice but to cut service by 45%. Itās working families, not politicians, who suffer the consequences.
Indivisible Pennsylvania āš (@indivisiblepa.bsky.social) reposted
@repsummerlee.bsky.social was denied entry! Members of Congress can legally show up unannounced to inspect detention centers. So why are only ICE + the countyāboth profiting from the contractāallowed to āinspectā? We demand real oversight. Thank you, Rep. Summer Lee! #ShutItDown #Indivisible
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (@houlahan.house.gov) reposted reply parent
We are not safe under Secretary Hegseth.
Babs (@babsklein2.bsky.social) reply parent
Christmas will honor a ceasefire but only if Thanksgiving cedes the entire month of September and Christmas music is played in all stores from January 1 thru December 25. Otherwise all turkeys will be kidnapped and raised as elves.
IndivisiblePHL āš (@indivisiblephl.bsky.social) reposted
#SEPTA is now in a Death Spiral because of PA Sen. Rep.-led Obstructionism. Thank You Senators Picozzi & especially Maj. Ldr. Pittman for screwing the collar counties that contribute 40% of the State Budget #IndivisiblePA@indivisiblepa.bsky.social @septaphilly.bsky.social youtu.be/7i6tcjpCwuo?...
Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]
Angus Johnston (@angus.bsky.social) reposted
Walz is a good speaker, but the approach he's taking in this clip, with a few tweaks here and there, is available to pretty much any Democrat. This isn't the language of the party's left wing. It's just the simple rhetoric of an opposition party in a time of domestic crisis.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
IndivisiblePHL āš (@indivisiblephl.bsky.social) reposted
This tells you all you need to know about the current elected Republicans party. DEI isnāt the problem - itās the REPUBLICANS
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (@whitehouse.senate.gov) reposted
Republicans used to say the government shouldnāt pick winners and losers in the marketplace ā until their desperate fossil fuel donors came calling, and Trump started using the power of government to crush fossil fuelās clean energy rivals.
Fred Guttenberg (@fredguttenberg.bsky.social) reposted
With armed militia now on American streets because of Dump, the 2A is no longer worth the paper it is written on. Dump has done more to invalidate the 2A than any gun safety activist ever has. That said, I STILL HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT EPSTEIN AND NOBODY ELSE SHOULD.