Andrew Bates

Are you fucking kidding me? Today: DOGE staffer "once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data" www.reuters.com/world/us/dog... Last week: "Judge stops Musk's team from 'unbridled access' to Social Security private data" www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

Wrote in @FoxNews about how Democrats can go on offense - now. Trump and the GOP are violating their pledge to cut costs, instead raising the prices AND taxes working families pay - so billionaires get tax handouts. We should make this case everywhere. www.foxnews.com/opinion/andr...

"Health care resonates with voters across the political spectrum, and @roycoopernc.bsky.social is likely to tout his ability to work across the aisle," which expanded Medicaid. "Tillis said he would retire rather than...'betray the very promise' Trump made about not touching Medicaid."

Trump broke his promise to focus on deporting violent criminals. ICE is harassing innocent people instead. ICE's billions in new funding came at the expense of health care, like Democrats from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to @aoc.bsky.social are pointing out

Talked with BBC about how it's good that Trump pulled back from what would be the worst real estate deal in U.S. history But that it's a huge giveaway to our competitors when we tell allies we don't care if you've lost soldiers defending America

Wrote for @zeteo.com about how the legacy of 4-term NC Governor Jim Hunt, who passed away last month, has new relevance for Democrats in 2026 and 2028. -Framing investments in working people - especially education - as a measure of community pride

More corrupt knee-bending. Instacart illegally fired an employee for exercising her right to run for Congress as a Democrat, saying they were worried about how the Trump Administration would respond to her support for reproductive rights and gun reform. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wrote for @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy about how 2/3 of Trump voters agree w/ Democrats that he should not take health care from millions. As polls get even worse for him, Trump should "admit he got this wrong, reach back out to Democrats and his own voters, and end his health care shutdown."

Trump in 2011: A shutdown is "a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States. He's the one that has to get people together."