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Susan Troy's avatar

You are a national treasure. And your voice and recommendations are so needed now. We will overcome and we will keep fighting.

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Andrea's avatar

I gravitate towards any positivity and forward movement. I stay on only one SM site & it's not Substack. Even the most progressive channel hosts are scared and paralyzed. I get furious when I read inane comments like "We're so screwed." What does that accomplish but help the fascists. We need more ppl like you to stop wallowing in fear and worry. We all are. The courageous put that aside to take action and focus on getting out of this. We know this nightmare must end with us as the true survivors.

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betsy5231's avatar

Merkowski should be permanently ashamed of herself…

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Lori P's avatar

They have no shame!

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Andrea's avatar

To feel shame, you need to have a conscience. A prerequisite to even being a reichwinger is that you don't.

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Barbara Rexroat's avatar

Thank you. Unfortunately the billions going to ICE is also nauseating.

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Marilyn Joyce's avatar

Thanks Jess for YOUR hard work!!

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Dale Pownall's avatar

I will thank them who are fighting for us. Ty for pointing this out

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Anna-Marie Booth's avatar

Time to educate misled Murkowski! She could have made a positive contribution!

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Anna-Marie Booth's avatar

Amazed that Collins opposed! 👍🏼👍🏻👍🏽

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Diane's avatar

We sent thank you notes to our Virginia Congress Members and threw in a gift card to Starbucks. They deserve a treat!! They deserve so much more for their untiring efforts but, hey, who doesn't like a frappuccino!! Thank you for your untiring efforts as well!

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Bettie Aycox's avatar

They should just Shut down the House

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SLMontgo's avatar

No R senator, but Tillis, cares. Good for him.

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Avery McGinn's avatar

Avery McGinn

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We can help fight against the horrific budget bill in the House by joining well organized Zoom phone banks to Red states (Indivisible. MoveOn. CaDems to name 3 organizations). We facilitate voters (many are Medicaid recipients) patching into their Republican Representative's office to leave a message pushing their Rep to vote No on the monstrous bill that the Senate just sent back to the House. This is really effective!! I am including a link to sign up thru Mobilize for tomorrow, and hopefully Thursday and beyond. This is not over!!

WE CANNOT GIVE UP. These calls are important. Facilitating messages to R Reps is better than making more calls to my Rep (Pelosi) who is one of the people organizing phone banks to red states.

I’ve signed up to make calls with MoveOn on Wednesday, Jul 2, 2025. Are you free to join me? Use this link to sign up: https://mobilize.us/s/zhYuCm

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Andrea's avatar

This is the most sickening part: on 7/4, orange Der fuhrer will get up into the legacy media front & center and gloat nonstop about his deadly, grade school titled bill and brag about how great it is, he is, that "wonderful things can now happen." Mark my words. Beyond nauseating.

We all need to mute all (R)s and just move forward. I don't know how but we all need to stop him.

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2BeTrue's avatar

I think Collins was “given” the pass to vote against because she’s up more quickly, vs Murkowski.

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Allison Drew Klein's avatar

Jess, not that it changes much but MSNBC said that Murkowski did get carve outs, plural. How did we find out about that?

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