Chad
@chadsebastian.bsky.social
A policy and governance nerd specializing in the United States Federal Government. All posts, comments, and viewpoints expressed are reflections of my own personal point of view and not of any employer or agency.
#independent #ceasefire 🇵🇸🇱🇧
#independent #ceasefire 🇵🇸🇱🇧
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I only have a second rn but: For the uninitiated, Zeteo is a new media company, a startup from former msnbc host Mehdi Hasan. One of my rolling stone editors and I came over to help scale up the political reporting / scoops operations. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most exciting news…
I like your work, but what the heck is Zeteo? Would you mind taking a few minutes to sell us on it? Who’s running it? What are they trying to do? Why is it so great?
October 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I only have a second rn but: For the uninitiated, Zeteo is a new media company, a startup from former msnbc host Mehdi Hasan. One of my rolling stone editors and I came over to help scale up the political reporting / scoops operations. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most exciting news…
I swear, if Dems retake the house anytime this decade and don’t replace Jeffries, I am going to lose my mind.
What a pathetic and disgraceful statement from Hakeem Jeffries praising Eric Adams.
September 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I swear, if Dems retake the house anytime this decade and don’t replace Jeffries, I am going to lose my mind.
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What a pathetic and disgraceful statement from Hakeem Jeffries praising Eric Adams.
September 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
What a pathetic and disgraceful statement from Hakeem Jeffries praising Eric Adams.
I honestly think this was my least favorite Big Brother season and I think I’m done with the show. It’s boring and ran its course.
September 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I honestly think this was my least favorite Big Brother season and I think I’m done with the show. It’s boring and ran its course.
Y’all. He was already becoming unhinged but Klein has really lost it.
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Y’all. He was already becoming unhinged but Klein has really lost it.
Stop capturing these animals and making them live in captivity.
I hate Aquariums.
I hate Aquariums.
Beloved SoCal octopus will spend her final days caring for eggs that will never hatch
Beloved SoCal octopus will spend her final days caring for eggs that will never hatch
News of the approaching demise of Ghost, a giant Pacific octopus at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, prompted an outpouring of sadness on social media.
www.latimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Stop capturing these animals and making them live in captivity.
I hate Aquariums.
I hate Aquariums.
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"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
June 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is on track to become Dems' candidate for NYC mayor — toppling Andrew Cuomo's comeback dreams and putting incumbent Eric Adams on notice.
Cuomo has conceded and said he called to congratulate Mamdani.
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Cuomo has conceded and said he called to congratulate Mamdani.
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June 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is on track to become Dems' candidate for NYC mayor — toppling Andrew Cuomo's comeback dreams and putting incumbent Eric Adams on notice.
Cuomo has conceded and said he called to congratulate Mamdani.
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Cuomo has conceded and said he called to congratulate Mamdani.
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Co-sign.
Good time to subscribe to Wired. I used to think of it as a guilty pleasure at the newsstand, a holdover from nerdy youth. But they are doing an excellent job covering key elements of our political reality.
ICYMI, DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
April 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Co-sign.
This... And just more broadly. Y'all better start being actively and relentlessly engaged with the United States Congress.
If you have a Republican representing you in the House or Senate, call them to demand they undo Trump's tariffs.
They're already shaken by the 20 point shift in Florida and the Wisconsin loss. You can fuel that feeling.
They're already shaken by the 20 point shift in Florida and the Wisconsin loss. You can fuel that feeling.
April 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This... And just more broadly. Y'all better start being actively and relentlessly engaged with the United States Congress.
Yeah this is rich coming from ADL... 🤮🤢
Nah too late. You had your chance. jewishinsider.com/2025/04/adl-...
ADL’s Greenblatt calling out ‘disturbing pattern’ in Trump’s deportation campaign
In an interview with JI, the Anti-Defamation League CEO says the protection of Jewish students ‘shouldn't require us to shred the norms that we use to protect other people’
jewishinsider.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Yeah this is rich coming from ADL... 🤮🤢
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April 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This gave me chills...
We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.
April 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This gave me chills...
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When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.
March 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.
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The fall of an empire is supposed to be a dramatic thing. But the reality is far less exciting.
It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.
It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.
I'm a historian, and I studied the fall of Rome. Here's what life is like in a dying empire.
It's the little things.
www.motherjones.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The fall of an empire is supposed to be a dramatic thing. But the reality is far less exciting.
It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.
It happens in the text of legislation nobody bothered reading, in local elections nobody followed, in a thousand tiny disasters that amounted to a thousand little cuts on the body politic.
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The huge growth in charging ports indicates the increasing number of zero-emission vehicles on California roads. But the milestone also comes as the Trump administration has moved to deprioritize shifting away from gasoline-powered cars.
California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles
The huge growth in charging ports indicates the increasing number of zero-emission vehicles on California roads. But the milestone also comes as the Trump administration has moved to deprioritize shifting away from gasoline-powered cars.
www.latimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The huge growth in charging ports indicates the increasing number of zero-emission vehicles on California roads. But the milestone also comes as the Trump administration has moved to deprioritize shifting away from gasoline-powered cars.
I don't always agree with AOC, but I believe she is spot on here.
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I don't always agree with AOC, but I believe she is spot on here.
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The institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy; rule of law, consistent regulation, stability, and all the rest.
That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy.
Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk
That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy.
Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk
The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy; rule of law, consistent regulation, stability, and all the rest.
That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy.
Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk
That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy.
Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk
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Just updated our guide to using Signal. If you aren't already on Signal, this will get you up to speed. Also, you should be using Signal—there's no time like this very second! www.wired.com/story/signal...
How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging
The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about.
www.wired.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Just updated our guide to using Signal. If you aren't already on Signal, this will get you up to speed. Also, you should be using Signal—there's no time like this very second! www.wired.com/story/signal...
gregporterwx.bsky.social What's going on with the weather room at Chronicle - haven't seen a normal update article like the one last posted on March 6. I've really come to rely on these and the snow pack in the Sierras is interesting but not as important as the daily weather article from you & team!
Bluesky
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March 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
gregporterwx.bsky.social What's going on with the weather room at Chronicle - haven't seen a normal update article like the one last posted on March 6. I've really come to rely on these and the snow pack in the Sierras is interesting but not as important as the daily weather article from you & team!
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“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social.
Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
One of the Grimmest Days in American Diplomacy
At an Oval Office meeting, the president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally.
theatln.tc
February 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social.
Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
Just a random reminder that all of this got started when Hilary Clinton and the Democratic Party thought the fringe Republican candidate Donald Trump would be easier to beat so they pumped his initial campaign with money and legitimacy. Remember that. The Dems are not your savior.
February 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Just a random reminder that all of this got started when Hilary Clinton and the Democratic Party thought the fringe Republican candidate Donald Trump would be easier to beat so they pumped his initial campaign with money and legitimacy. Remember that. The Dems are not your savior.
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$19,000,000,000,000.00
February 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
$19,000,000,000,000.00
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Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
February 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
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"A psyop."
"A form of harassment."
"A fucking train wreck."
Federal employees describe Musk's bungled attempt to thin their ranks. New from Isaac Stanley-Becker and @jonlemire.bsky.social.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"A form of harassment."
"A fucking train wreck."
Federal employees describe Musk's bungled attempt to thin their ranks. New from Isaac Stanley-Becker and @jonlemire.bsky.social.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
‘It’s a Psyop’: Inside Elon Musk’s Empty Ultimatum
Trump’s billionaire enforcer told federal workers they needed to justify themselves—or else. Then the administration changed its mind.
www.theatlantic.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"A psyop."
"A form of harassment."
"A fucking train wreck."
Federal employees describe Musk's bungled attempt to thin their ranks. New from Isaac Stanley-Becker and @jonlemire.bsky.social.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"A form of harassment."
"A fucking train wreck."
Federal employees describe Musk's bungled attempt to thin their ranks. New from Isaac Stanley-Becker and @jonlemire.bsky.social.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...