Bobby R.
@bobbyjob.bsky.social
Music teacher, improv comedian, amateur (so very amateur) cook
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Marc Elias, one of the Democratic Party’s most prominent lawyers, welcomed any converts to his brand of brass-knuckle politics.
“I do not believe, when it comes to elections, that Democrats should ever engage in any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith,” Mr. Elias said.
“I do not believe, when it comes to elections, that Democrats should ever engage in any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith,” Mr. Elias said.
Texas Pushes Redistricting Into an Era of ‘Maximum Warfare’
www.nytimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Marc Elias, one of the Democratic Party’s most prominent lawyers, welcomed any converts to his brand of brass-knuckle politics.
“I do not believe, when it comes to elections, that Democrats should ever engage in any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith,” Mr. Elias said.
“I do not believe, when it comes to elections, that Democrats should ever engage in any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith,” Mr. Elias said.
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One of the more bizarre forms of gaslighting Trump & his enablers somehow pull off is routinely framing stuff that’s been an uncontroversial American norm for centuries as crazy radicalism.
DOOCY: Booker and Padilla have a bill to require CBP and ICE officers to have legible IDs and then don't want them covering their faces. Would you sign that?
TRUMP: They wouldn't be saying that if they didn't have our country, and they obviously do.
TRUMP: They wouldn't be saying that if they didn't have our country, and they obviously do.
July 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
One of the more bizarre forms of gaslighting Trump & his enablers somehow pull off is routinely framing stuff that’s been an uncontroversial American norm for centuries as crazy radicalism.
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Democrats need to use every second to fight back against the Big Beautiful Bill.
I’m helping hold the Senate all night and FORCE a full reading of this 940-page bill.
I’m helping hold the Senate all night and FORCE a full reading of this 940-page bill.
June 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Democrats need to use every second to fight back against the Big Beautiful Bill.
I’m helping hold the Senate all night and FORCE a full reading of this 940-page bill.
I’m helping hold the Senate all night and FORCE a full reading of this 940-page bill.
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The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.
Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.
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If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.
June 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.
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Schools. Parks. Libraries. Roads. Mail delivery...
These are provided by our government. They're paid for by the public and are available to everyone.
What happens to these public goods when you try to "run the government like a business"? Privatization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqn1uD_B70U
These are provided by our government. They're paid for by the public and are available to everyone.
What happens to these public goods when you try to "run the government like a business"? Privatization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqn1uD_B70U
The Dangerous Myth of Running America Like a Corporation
I keep hearing that the government should be "run like a business.” Bunk.
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June 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Schools. Parks. Libraries. Roads. Mail delivery...
These are provided by our government. They're paid for by the public and are available to everyone.
What happens to these public goods when you try to "run the government like a business"? Privatization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqn1uD_B70U
These are provided by our government. They're paid for by the public and are available to everyone.
What happens to these public goods when you try to "run the government like a business"? Privatization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqn1uD_B70U
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JD Vance just called Sen. Alex Padilla "Jose Padilla."
June 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
JD Vance just called Sen. Alex Padilla "Jose Padilla."
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Insane scenes in Downtown Los Angeles as the cops open fire indiscriminately on people milling about. The cops shattered a business’s windows while firing on a live-streaming journalist. Keep this in mind when people talk about the protesters causing property destruction. 🎥 : AXN News on YouTube
June 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Insane scenes in Downtown Los Angeles as the cops open fire indiscriminately on people milling about. The cops shattered a business’s windows while firing on a live-streaming journalist. Keep this in mind when people talk about the protesters causing property destruction. 🎥 : AXN News on YouTube
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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.
May 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.
According to ethics laws, if any one individual family tries to give me anything worth more than $50, I have to turn it down so that no one thinks I’m being bought, but his lawyers say a $400 Million luxury jet is completely above board. Sure Jan
May 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
According to ethics laws, if any one individual family tries to give me anything worth more than $50, I have to turn it down so that no one thinks I’m being bought, but his lawyers say a $400 Million luxury jet is completely above board. Sure Jan
@seanferrick.bsky.social watching insurrection ups and downs. Went to a talk by Berman years ago. Apparently they wanted the little drones to be people on hover type bikes but were worried Lucas would sue thinking it would be too close to the chase on Endor.
May 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
@seanferrick.bsky.social watching insurrection ups and downs. Went to a talk by Berman years ago. Apparently they wanted the little drones to be people on hover type bikes but were worried Lucas would sue thinking it would be too close to the chase on Endor.
For everyone keeping score, JD Vance has essentially had two popes tell him how much he sucks at being a Christian.
May 9, 2025 at 4:10 AM
For everyone keeping score, JD Vance has essentially had two popes tell him how much he sucks at being a Christian.
Doctor: these numbers indicate you have mutations.
Me: awesome!
Doctor: that means no matter how much to diet and exercise you’ll have bad cholesterol.
Me: soooooooooo, no optic blasts? What’s this bullshit.
Me: awesome!
Doctor: that means no matter how much to diet and exercise you’ll have bad cholesterol.
Me: soooooooooo, no optic blasts? What’s this bullshit.
May 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Doctor: these numbers indicate you have mutations.
Me: awesome!
Doctor: that means no matter how much to diet and exercise you’ll have bad cholesterol.
Me: soooooooooo, no optic blasts? What’s this bullshit.
Me: awesome!
Doctor: that means no matter how much to diet and exercise you’ll have bad cholesterol.
Me: soooooooooo, no optic blasts? What’s this bullshit.
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This is obviously animated by cruelty, yes, but the fact that DoD already has thousands of out trans members serving should have been testament enough that trans people can serve in uniform just fine. SCOTUS is just doing a culture war for Trump here.
BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump ban transgender Americans from the military, allowing the administration to expel thousands of active-duty troops.
@courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
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Supreme Court says transgender troops can be booted from military, handing win to Trump
Transgender service members slammed the Trump administration’s ban as animated by bigotry and the proposition that transgender people do not exist.
www.courthousenews.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is obviously animated by cruelty, yes, but the fact that DoD already has thousands of out trans members serving should have been testament enough that trans people can serve in uniform just fine. SCOTUS is just doing a culture war for Trump here.
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Emily Feiner was forcibly removed from GOP Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall after she asked her so-called "moderate" congressman to stand up to Donald Trump's authoritarian power grab.
There's a great pushback happening across the entire country — even in Republican held districts.
There's a great pushback happening across the entire country — even in Republican held districts.
May 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Emily Feiner was forcibly removed from GOP Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall after she asked her so-called "moderate" congressman to stand up to Donald Trump's authoritarian power grab.
There's a great pushback happening across the entire country — even in Republican held districts.
There's a great pushback happening across the entire country — even in Republican held districts.
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They're looking to prune anyone who's actually more loyal to the Constitution and law, versus toadie loyalists who'd think nothing of using US troops against its own citizens.
TV host and inexplicably US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is going to gut the military.
Hegseth orders Pentagon to cut hundreds of officers
The plan details a 30 percent cut in the number of generals and admirals.
www.politico.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
They're looking to prune anyone who's actually more loyal to the Constitution and law, versus toadie loyalists who'd think nothing of using US troops against its own citizens.
When showing the infamous whale video on @lastweektonight.com I’m sad they cut it before you plainly hear a woman say “you can take your fingers out of your ears, Fred.” That’s the chefs kiss of the moment
May 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
When showing the infamous whale video on @lastweektonight.com I’m sad they cut it before you plainly hear a woman say “you can take your fingers out of your ears, Fred.” That’s the chefs kiss of the moment
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A group of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's Yale classmates are urging him to reconsider his role "in facilitating the Trump administration's intended transformation" of the U.S. "into an authoritarian state."
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Yale classmates warn Trump Treasury Secretary Bessent he risks enabling descent 'into fascism'
A new letter to Scott Bessent accuses President Donald Trump of usurping the authority of Congress and U.S. courts since regaining the White House.
www.cnbc.com
April 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A group of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's Yale classmates are urging him to reconsider his role "in facilitating the Trump administration's intended transformation" of the U.S. "into an authoritarian state."
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/y...
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/25/y...
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Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
www.rollingstone.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.
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Justice Department officials who oversee grant distributions are brainstorming ways to clear homeless encampments and increase the involuntary hospitalization of people with mental illnesses across the nation.
Justice Dept. examines homeless encampments, options for the mentally ill
Officials who oversee grants were asked for ideas on clearing homeless encampments and increasing involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.
wapo.st
April 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Justice Department officials who oversee grant distributions are brainstorming ways to clear homeless encampments and increase the involuntary hospitalization of people with mental illnesses across the nation.
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Texas bookstores erupt over a new censorship bill that would allow a parent to sue them if their child reads a book with a sex scene or LGBTQ+ characters
So-called "harmful to minors" laws are being introduced across the country to force censorship of libraries, schools, bookstores and websites.
So-called "harmful to minors" laws are being introduced across the country to force censorship of libraries, schools, bookstores and websites.
Censorship concerns rise over Texas bill; Abilene bookstore pushes back
ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – A bill set to be heard by the Judiciary and Jurisprudence Committee at the Texas House is sparking criticism from small business owners across the state. Arlene K…
www.bigcountryhomepage.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Texas bookstores erupt over a new censorship bill that would allow a parent to sue them if their child reads a book with a sex scene or LGBTQ+ characters
So-called "harmful to minors" laws are being introduced across the country to force censorship of libraries, schools, bookstores and websites.
So-called "harmful to minors" laws are being introduced across the country to force censorship of libraries, schools, bookstores and websites.
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BREAKING: Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan arrested by the FBI for obstructing ICE arrest
April 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.
The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy"
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
April 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.
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Context here on legal experts the other day saying why they did not think the probe into Dugan warranted charges: www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
A Milwaukee judge is accused of helping a man evade ICE. What do legal experts have to say?
Former federal prosecutors say they are not certain Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan's actions constitute a crime.
www.jsonline.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Context here on legal experts the other day saying why they did not think the probe into Dugan warranted charges: www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...