Cranky Kat

Cranky Kat

@kat88.bsky.social

#Progressive minded voter in #NewYork

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#Democrats couldn't even agree on one color. Step down and let a woman with balls lead. And no not Pelosi either.

Hakeem Jeffries@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Donald Trump is tanking the economy in real time. There is a better way. House Democrats will continue to put the American people first.

Some of our best left talent does not take on #Democrats head on. We must. We lost. We have to clean our house. WE have to. Not msnbc, or cnn, never Trumpers or democrats themselves. Because they won't. Truth to power means ALL POWER.

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

BREAKING: Gerry Connolly defeats AOC to become ranking member of the House Oversight Committee by a vote of 131-84.

Nancy #Pelosi made calls from her bed, in Europe, we're she fell to get her friend in instead of #AOC NO she didn't really give her power to Jefferies. YES Pelosi continues to unethically use her position to conduct insider trading. More embarrassing boomer moments from #Democrats in committees

Axios@axios.com

NEW: In a blow to AOC, House Democrats' Steering and Policy Committee voted to recommend Gerry Connolly as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.

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The mass reaction to the healthcare CEO’s murder is a reminder that there is a constant deadly class war being waged against working class Americans. If Dems ditched their billionaires and fully joined the side of the working class in that struggle they would easily win FDR style majorities.

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Elon gave Trump over a quarter of a billion dollars. In exchange Trump has effectively handed the entire government over to him to serve his personal and ideological interests. That's what DOGE actually is. No one should delude themselves otherwise.

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The widespread antipathy for health insurance executives the public reaction to the Thompson murder has illuminated doesn’t actually imply people are going to threaten the bailiffs working at the courthouse. But no doubt it’s profitable to produce such analyses if the bailiffs want a bigger budget.

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That really doesn’t follow.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

"Due to widespread public support of the incident, law enforcement and others associated with Mangione's arrest are likely at a higher risk of targeting," the bulletin said.

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If it helps, try to conjure in your mind how the story would be phrased if it was about Joe Biden dangling the whole Pentagon in front of Delaware Governor John Carney’s nose so that he would appoint Hunter Biden’s wife Melissa to the Senate.

Does your representative in #Congress take money from a for profit healthcare with a 90% denial rate? Because they donate to both #Democrats & #Republicans This is why we don't have Universal #Healthcare. They get money to say no. Then pundits back it. House

#CNN Argues Americans Are to Blame for How the Health Care System Works After #UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder, CNN says “The #healthcare system in this country stays the same” because Americans like their insurance plans www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

rollingstone.comCNN Argues Americans Are to Blame for How the Health Care System WorksAfter UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder, CNN says “the health care system in this country stays the same” because Americans like their insurance plans.

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BREAKING: Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin KILL Biden nominee for Nat'l Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which would've meant Dem majority till '26 Instead Trump gets to set labor rules So when EVERYONE in America loses overtime - as Project 2025 promises - thank Sinema and Manchin

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Update, UHC says I need to do 6 weeks of physical therapy before they’ll pay for an MRI. The problem is my PT recently stopped accepting UHC because UHC slashed its PT coverage to the bone. So I’m looking at paying 5x my co-pay out of pocket for 6 weeks to get *eligible* for the MRI my doctor wants!

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net

Update, UHC helpfully explained me that they approved “the site”—so, this hospital—to *hypothetically* perform MRIs for me, but they denied the *actual MRI*, and if I hadn’t called I would have been on the hook for the whole thing! Terrific system!

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If USPS goes private, the first thing a private company will do is get rid of last-mile service to areas that are not profitable to serve. This is a move that will absolutely fuck rural areas.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

New: Trump is talking behind closed doors at Mar-a-Lago about privatizing the Postal Service, sources say, citing financial losses Could remake one of the oldest institutions in all of American government www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The National Defense Authorization Act, which enacts the first federal anti-lgbtq law in decades and targets the trans kids of military servicemembers, just passed with 80 Democratic votes. Shameful. Will get the list of dems who voted for it shortly.

It's important to 🚫 voting for Republican lite Dems. DNC & our elderly Dems ♥️ Republican lite Democrats. They will destroy progressives with the help of AIPAC to get them in. We see it in NYS all the time.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

The National Defense Authorization Act, which enacts the first federal anti-lgbtq law in decades and targets the trans kids of military servicemembers, just passed with 80 Democratic votes. Shameful. Will get the list of dems who voted for it shortly.

If you are in a BLUE STATE with a REPUBLICAN rep you can help stop the gutting of programs people depend on. Even if you don't use them. Remember not everyone voted for Rump. Millions voted for Harris too.

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It's hard to see when Dems might next control the Senate. R's have shown they will not confirm any Dem-nominated justices to SCOTUS while they control the chamber. Sonia Sotomayor is rolling the dice in a way that seems unwise.

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Cry more.

Ryan Deto@ryandeto.bsky.social

NEW - Pittsburgh-area Steelworkers union leaders are upset with President-elect Trump for his vow to block the US Steel-Nippon deal. One of them spoke at a Trump rally earlier this year, and he said Tuesday that Trump's statements felt like a "gut punch” triblive.com/news/politic...

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No Chuck, we should not do the thumbs up. He also should not have had a good time laughing it up with Trump at the Al Smith Dinner right before the election, but too late for that one. We need new leadership. I’ll say it if nobody else will.

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So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record.

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“While leaving the town, I saw many bodies lying on the ground, and dogs were devouring some of them. I also saw men and women who were wounded, still alive but drowning in their own blood, with no one to help them. This is not life; we are dying slowly”

972mag.comIn Beit Lahiya, rubble and decomposing corpses line the streetsThousands of Palestinians in the city are facing relentless bombardment and famine as the Israeli army ramps up efforts to cleanse northern Gaza.