swessler.bsky.social
@swessler.bsky.social
created November 13, 2024
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swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
This is being pushed by the tech bros. It's very much in the EU's interests to tax the billionaire out of all of them, break up their businesses, and prosecute them for their white collar crimes. Because if they don't act BEFORE this country falls, they won't have that much room.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@electdemocrats.bsky.social @dccc.bsky.social @dscc.bsky.social Re: Project 2029. Watch this and know why Dem approval is in the toilet. What you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should do instead of fundraising texts. Actually leading. 10M march on DC & natl strike. www.facebook.com/share/r/16rW...
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@electdemocrats.bsky.social @dscc.bsky.social Project 2029?!? Get your shit together, please. www.facebook.com/share/r/1EoK...
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Probably should go viral. 🤬 www.facebook.com/share/v/12Mr...
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
action.aclu.org/send-message... Sign this.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
www.vox.com/politics/412... Hey, @dncc.bsky.social you actually should listen to David Hogg! 🤨
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Good thing AR doesn't need the Feds help for disaster recovery! Oh, wait... You DID ask and got turned down. Good thing you have bootstraps!
Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) reposted
Judge Boasberg has scheduled an emergency hearing tonight at 6:15pm in on an ACLU motion to issue a nationwide TRO to force Trump Adm to give adequate notice before removing aliens from US under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. Call-in number below. (No recording or broadcasting.) /1
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@jvl.bsky.social the slight hope that you're feeling, thought you should know that it has good company. open.substack.com/pub/fallows/...
Adam Kinzinger (@adamkinzinger.substack.com) reposted
Emergency video: it’s time to start making plans. Either the house steps up to defend the constitution, or our generation does. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd rather they let him fly FOTUS's plane. 😏
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
And just wait another 56 minutes.
Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) reposted
The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words "America’s astonishing act of self-harm" on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
Elno lost???
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@dscc.bsky.social Brian's correct.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
Days without being an embarrassment = 0
Rise Up & Resist Now! (@riseupresistnow.bsky.social) reposted
Thank you @jessicadenson07.bsky.social for all you do and for mentioning election manipulation in PA! Here's a petition for hand recounts in PA👇 Click here to sign petition: chng.it/CX7G2NvWc8 This is what is needed in ALL states too! Watch @jessicadenson07.bsky.social vid here:
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Let's make sure this image gets to Mango Mussolini's eyeballs. 😈
ACLU (@aclu.org) reposted
ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil and threatened him with deportation simply for voicing his beliefs. This is unconstitutional, full stop. Join us in demanding the release of Mahmoud at aclu.org/free_mahmmoud
General Strike Montana (@generalstrikemt.bsky.social) reposted
TOMORROW. Join us for our weekly Union organizing meeting on discord. discord.gg/gsus
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social) reposted
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Cuebald (@cuebald.bsky.social) reposted
Can you hear the people sing…?
Everyone Hates Elon (@everyonehateselon.bsky.social) reposted
Who’s gonna tell him it’s a few mates + 1000s of people chipping in a few quid? Donate now: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/everyone-h...
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
TW: A very frustrating watch. youtu.be/GWLgK0fKR_I?...
emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted
If you help Judge Crawford win this race, it'll make Republicans much less scared of Elon Musk.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
😆😆😆
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Donald, how many fights can you pick before you prove to the world that you lose every single one of them?
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
Watch who and what they are attacking first.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Um, WisDems?
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Same. 😞
Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) reposted
TODAY: The Georgia Supreme Court will hear oral argument in lawsuits challenging controversial election rules that the State Election Board tried to implement before the 2024 election. Watch the argument at 10 am: www.gasupreme.us/live/
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) reposted
March 18, 2025
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Tell them to call it a coup already.
🦋🧿Tempestori 🌬🌊 (@tempestori.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
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swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
handsoff2025.com
Chris Kluwe (@chriswarcraft.bsky.social) reposted
Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
There's no way this would fall under his gifted SCOTUS immunity.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know if you can edit these things but Noll, not Knoll.
Texas Paul (@realtexaspaul.com) reposted
What they will not say is it's not just inflation, layoffs and a slowing economy. Consumers have closed their wallets because the Billionaire Broligarchs have openly waged war on us and our government. Your economic protests are WORKING! www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/d...
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
What exactly do you think they're already doing to the dollar as the global reserve currency? Our debts can be called at any time, they always could have been which is why we liked to not kick our bondholders in the knees.
Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal.bsky.social) reposted
Dangerous. And corrosive. And par for the course
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm almost tempted to buy tickets when he's here in Atlanta just to embarrass him during q&a (if he's still doing them by then!)
Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted
This is an extremely important read 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for what you do, as always. I doubt even this piece would have given Schumer a spine.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Yeah, right.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
What's the point? Unless the Dems fire Schumer as leader, he'll cave like he always does.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
If you’re in the neighborhood…
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Why did Trump repeat Russian propaganda and lie about this? Why would he claim that a Ukrainian army in Kursk could only be saved from annihilation if Putin benevolently agreed to Trump’s request not to do so? Why is the US President deceiving Americans with Russian lies?
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
Un-elect Schumer as leader. Nothing else will save the party from the base. Furious doesn't begin to cover it.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Why those ten were wrong. youtu.be/rJR7Wrd4t5I?...
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Well, you went and did it, Chuck and fellow quislings. I suggest that if the @dscc.bsky.social expects any donations from the millions of small dollar donors in the future, y'all vote on new leadership. Like Chris Murphy or Mark Kelly or Elizabeth Warren. 'Ol Chuck needs a consequence.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sure that they are on the right side of history.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Pretty sure that anyone who stands with @schumer.senate.gov today will find their donations dry up immediately. I just got a text asking for money from Ossoff who said he's voting NO. He got some $. Just got a text with Klobuchar @ Schumer's names. Wrote Fuck Schumer. $0. @dscc.bsky.social
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@ossoff.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social Just got your text saying that you'll be voting NO. Based on that, I donated to your campaign. A) that NO had better be true, and B) let Reverend Warnock know. @warnock.senate.gov
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
They are such disappointments. Let them know.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
We can take that headline back if all the other senators vote NO (but for Chuckie and Fetterman). I'd love to see them embarrassed as fuck.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Way to go, Chuck. I hope all the senators leave you as the one yes vote. @dscc.bsky.social
God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted
Chuck Schumer should have been replaced 8 years ago. One of the main reasons for the rise of American fascism is the cowardice from appeasement ‘centrists.’
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) reposted
What too many people don’t grasp is that there a “fight” spectrum and an ideological spectrum. Many commentators and people in DC assume they pretty much line up exactly. This is not the case at all.
BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan.bsky.social) reposted
Republicans cut Democrats entirely out of their process for the CR, didn't want any of our input, and would have been blamed by a majority of the American public for a government shutdown. There was no reason to cave to them. Chuck Schumer has to go.
Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈 (@drkarenlcox.bsky.social) reposted
If you care about preserving online resources being scrubbed from federal gov't websites, support the work of the Internet Archive. I've used it for teaching, research, and writing. I donated & hope you will, too. archive.org
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
Sometimes he inadvertently bleats the truth.
George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted
“‘In the past several weeks, [Trump] has really launched a full-frontal assault on the Constitution, the rule of law, our system of justice and the entire legal profession.’”
Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted
Let’s face it, Schumer has been terrible even before this. It is time for new leadership. He isn’t the person for this moment in history, and the longer he clings to power the worse off we all are.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Thank you! 👏👏👏👏 How it's done, Chuck. @schumer.senate.gov
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
I don't know how to say it any plainer, @dscc.bsky.social DO NOT AID & ABET A COUP. @ossoff.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social @warnock.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov The party won't recover. If it does, it'll be because you won't be in it. We will not forget.
Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) reposted
The word for what Senate Democrats are doing right now is "betrayal." Not only are they voluntarily surrendering the only leverage they have, the leverage they have spent months promising to use against Trump, they're doing it while lying and pretending they want the opposite.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@dscc.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @pattymurray.bsky.social If cloture wins, kiss your party goodbye.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@warnock.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social GA gal here. If y'all don't vote NO on cloture, nice as it's been to have you, you will lose your seats. Do not mistake this moment. Schumer will go down in history as the person who lost the party and democracy.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
What shutdown? As of what we know right now, Schumer has sold us out. Be nice if all they got was him and Fetterman, wouldn't it?
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Truth.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
Glad you're getting the message. Gonna let Schumer kill the party? Because donations will dry up, I promise you.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@dscc.bsky.social
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Excellent question. 🤬
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
I’d like to ask every single New Yorker who’s remotely left of center to get actively involved in your local Democratic Party chapter with the goal of driving Schumer, Gillibrand, Hochul, Adams, Cuomo and all the other dead wood into retirement.
Kevin Collins (@kwcollins.bsky.social) reposted
When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.
Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted
Senate Democrats can’t surrender. Make sure your senator votes NO on cloture and doesn’t cave on the extreme MAGA spending bill. 👇
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
What I am absolutely sure of is that donations will hit the skids. You will live in infamy as the minority leader who threw his country and his party under the boot of theocratic fascism. @schumer.senate.gov
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
I don't know, @schumer.senate.gov perhaps you're playing 4D chess and psyching us all out, and you're really planning to do what McCain did to Trump. Maybe you're actually planning on representing the people who voted for you and not just being Wall St.'s waterboy for once. @dscc.bsky.social
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
I quit 45 years of smoking in October. I feel you.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Here we are. Not even competent enough to do anything but parrot the same line. The lines that work on Fox don't work in the real world.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
You're throwing away your moment to be on the right side of history, Senator. 🤬 @schumer.senate.gov @dscc.bsky.social
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@schumer.senate.gov
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Bernie Sanders: "If you do nothing, you sit back and say, 'it's gonna be terrible.' And that's right. A shutdown will be terrible. But our job is to put the onus on the Republican president, the Republican House, the Republican Senate, the people who control the govt"
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
This entire administration is hurting people that don't deserve it. They can put their asses in the protests while they're not working.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
This is how you do it, Chuck. @schumer.senate.gov
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Fuuuuck you, Chuck. @schumer.senate.gov
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted
Meiselas: That’s our message to you from the MeidasTouch Network: Grow a spine. Vote against cloture. Vote against the CR. The American people are with you. Stop this hostile government takeover. Fight for the people.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@schumer.senate.gov Still a POS tool for Wall Street. 🤬 Vote NO ON CLOTURE! @dscc.bsky.social You and anyone else who votes to proceed will go down in infamy as traitors.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@schumer.senate.gov you fucking quisling. You will go down in history as the reason this country was lost to fascism. @dscc.bsky.social
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
You fucking traitor @schumer.senate.gov
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
Fuck you, you fucking tool! @schumer.senate.gov
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @dscc.bsky.social Forget keeping your seat if you don't vote NO on cloture. If we don't stop fascism now, your job will be worthless. Stop giving in and bending over backwards already!
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@dscc.bsky.social Vote NO on cloture, folks.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social There is no reasonable argument to be made for helping this CR pass. If y'all are just thinking about selves under the guise of "saving people from the worst of it" that's also wrong. Thune et al wouldn't do it if the situation was reversed.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
This is what I'm talking about. The EU has to tax them big and break them up.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social) reply parent
The majority here voted for Trump. They should feel it. Save your compassion for those that deserve it. Do not vote for this budget or you will not be reelected. We Dems have had enough. You're playing by rules the other side doesn't honor.
swessler.bsky.social (@swessler.bsky.social)
@warnock.senate.gov From Punchbowl: 'Here’s what Warnock said when presented with that reality: “I’m willing to do whatever is necessary to make sure that the people of Georgia are shielded from the pain that I think is coming their way, very sadly.”' NO YOU DON'T.