CoachN
@coachn.bsky.social
GenX baseball dad, youth-HS coach, & big ole’ nerd. Practical progressive; 20yrs in arms control, human rights, & environmental organizing. Sci-Fi > Fantasy. Trekker (not Trekkie — if you know, you know…). LFGM ⚾️💙🧡⚾️ & Clipper Nation 🏀
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· Jun 27
I liked it better when 6-3 meant a groundout to Short rather than the death of American democracy.
#SCOTUS
#SCOTUS
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"I really went to a dark place when they sent the troops to [Los Angeles], and then eventually [Washington, D.C.], and now, Chicago. This is just not what any of us signed up for, and it's so out of the scope of normal operations," says J, a member of the Ohio National Guard.
In an encrypted group chat, Ohio National Guard members question Trump deployments
In an encrypted group chat, Ohio National Guard members question Trump deployments
As President Trump's call for National Guard deployments rings out across the U.S., a small contingent of Ohio guard members is quietly expressing concern in an encrypted group chat.
www.wosu.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"I really went to a dark place when they sent the troops to [Los Angeles], and then eventually [Washington, D.C.], and now, Chicago. This is just not what any of us signed up for, and it's so out of the scope of normal operations," says J, a member of the Ohio National Guard.
I agree with this, IF there is a December vote.
Just not sure why we’re trusting people who already pulled the rug out from under us this year with a recessions package.
Just getting that frog & the scorpion vibe really strongly here.
Just not sure why we’re trusting people who already pulled the rug out from under us this year with a recessions package.
Just getting that frog & the scorpion vibe really strongly here.
That December vote is a huge moment we can turn into a victory. People are watching. Good bill, we win; they cheat, they will lose. If we fight united.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I agree with this, IF there is a December vote.
Just not sure why we’re trusting people who already pulled the rug out from under us this year with a recessions package.
Just getting that frog & the scorpion vibe really strongly here.
Just not sure why we’re trusting people who already pulled the rug out from under us this year with a recessions package.
Just getting that frog & the scorpion vibe really strongly here.
You know she has earth-shattering, regime-destroying beans to spill, and this sex-trafficker is leveraging it for everything it’s worth.
Should be a huge news story. Again, why is Maxwell getting special treatment? Why is she in a minimum security camp? How come Trump didnt rule out a pardon?
Where are the Epstein Files?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Where are the Epstein Files?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell plans to seek commutation from Trump, whistleblower says
The whistleblower came forward with the information to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
You know she has earth-shattering, regime-destroying beans to spill, and this sex-trafficker is leveraging it for everything it’s worth.
If you don’t think this is a big deal, then you likely think Chef Boyardee deserves a Michelin star.
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If you don’t think this is a big deal, then you likely think Chef Boyardee deserves a Michelin star.
Narrator: “They didn’t have any cards.”
MARIA: “What will you do when the ACA subsidies expire (and health insurance premiums skyrocket)?”
DR. OZ: “I don’t want to show our cards.” 🤔
DR. OZ: “I don’t want to show our cards.” 🤔
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Narrator: “They didn’t have any cards.”
Buttigieg is spot on here.
Does he really think America blames *unpaid* air traffic controllers for this mess? How many people out there would continue to go to work every day for $0?
So utterly clueless & detached.
Keep digging that hole deeper, Donnie.
Does he really think America blames *unpaid* air traffic controllers for this mess? How many people out there would continue to go to work every day for $0?
So utterly clueless & detached.
Keep digging that hole deeper, Donnie.
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Buttigieg is spot on here.
Does he really think America blames *unpaid* air traffic controllers for this mess? How many people out there would continue to go to work every day for $0?
So utterly clueless & detached.
Keep digging that hole deeper, Donnie.
Does he really think America blames *unpaid* air traffic controllers for this mess? How many people out there would continue to go to work every day for $0?
So utterly clueless & detached.
Keep digging that hole deeper, Donnie.
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"A study of more than 26,000 women upended that idea, linking two different types of hormone pills to higher rates of stroke, blood clots, breast cancer and other serious risks."
This will hurt women who are looking for help.
RFK Jr. is using the guise of compassion against us to sell more drugs.
This will hurt women who are looking for help.
RFK Jr. is using the guise of compassion against us to sell more drugs.
FDA will remove long-standing warning from hormone-based menopause drugs, citing benefits for women
The Food and Drug Administration says it will remove a long-standing warning from hormone-based drugs used to treat menopause symptoms in women.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"A study of more than 26,000 women upended that idea, linking two different types of hormone pills to higher rates of stroke, blood clots, breast cancer and other serious risks."
This will hurt women who are looking for help.
RFK Jr. is using the guise of compassion against us to sell more drugs.
This will hurt women who are looking for help.
RFK Jr. is using the guise of compassion against us to sell more drugs.
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Children. Seniors. The disabled. The poor. MAGA doesn’t hesitate to punch down. ICE’s violence against children is a particularly glaring thread in this terrible pattern. #MomSky
Not many people are talking about the children being harmed by #ICELawlessness but it's important to talk about.
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Children. Seniors. The disabled. The poor. MAGA doesn’t hesitate to punch down. ICE’s violence against children is a particularly glaring thread in this terrible pattern. #MomSky
Interesting…
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Interesting…
Side benefit that we will, hopefully, never have to see Kim Davis’s bigoted face ever again.
In a one off this morning, the Not At All Supreme Court rejected former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis' appeal to overturn the landmark decision that established the constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme...
www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme...
Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn landmark same-sex marriage decision
The Supreme Court rejected a bid by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis to overturn its landmark decision on same-sex marriage.
www.cbsnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Side benefit that we will, hopefully, never have to see Kim Davis’s bigoted face ever again.
Now add a reactionary regime dedicated to quite literally dredging up older, dirtier, more expensive energy sources, and you’ve got yourself a kakistocratic, oligarchic recipe for national disaster.
Asked, "Do you see a straight line from AI data centers to higher electricity bills?" Calvin Butler, the chief executive of Exelon, says "increased demand for electricity is not just data center growth," points to other demands. "But is the biggest part of that the boom of data center growth? Yes."
A.I. Isn’t the Only Thing Pushing Up Electricity Bills. (But It’s Mostly A.I.)
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Now add a reactionary regime dedicated to quite literally dredging up older, dirtier, more expensive energy sources, and you’ve got yourself a kakistocratic, oligarchic recipe for national disaster.
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Mike Johnson ends his news conference without taking questions
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Mike Johnson ends his news conference without taking questions
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While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
While Trump murders people on boats for supposedly trafficking drugs, Jonathan Braun, a convicted drug trafficker serving a 10 year sentence he pardoned in 2021, will be sentenced in court today after he sexually assaulted a woman after Trump freed him from prison.
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What awful, selfish creatures to willfully deny science and destroy their own home planet's habitability. They don't deserve to live on Earth.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What awful, selfish creatures to willfully deny science and destroy their own home planet's habitability. They don't deserve to live on Earth.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
So do they think that Johnson can have a vote on this *without* swearing in Grijalva?
I find it hard to see how Trump will allow the Epstein discharge. But unless they delay until after 12/2 (presuming a MAGA win in TN), I don’t see how they can pull that off, & any delay will be all on MAGA.
I find it hard to see how Trump will allow the Epstein discharge. But unless they delay until after 12/2 (presuming a MAGA win in TN), I don’t see how they can pull that off, & any delay will be all on MAGA.
Trump maintains request for Supreme Court to halt judge's food aid funding order reut.rs/4hNWlBM
Trump maintains request for Supreme Court to halt judge's food aid funding order
President Donald Trump's administration on Monday told the U.S. Supreme Court that it continues to seek a halt of a judge's order requiring it to fully fund food aid for 42 million low-income Americans this month even as lawmakers take steps toward ending the federal government shutdown.
reut.rs
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So do they think that Johnson can have a vote on this *without* swearing in Grijalva?
I find it hard to see how Trump will allow the Epstein discharge. But unless they delay until after 12/2 (presuming a MAGA win in TN), I don’t see how they can pull that off, & any delay will be all on MAGA.
I find it hard to see how Trump will allow the Epstein discharge. But unless they delay until after 12/2 (presuming a MAGA win in TN), I don’t see how they can pull that off, & any delay will be all on MAGA.
This seems to have been caught because the players were, frankly, too stupid to hide it well.
Which makes me think that there is a lot more going on out there with players who are smarter than this.
Legalized sports gambling is an absolute bane on every single sport.
Which makes me think that there is a lot more going on out there with players who are smarter than this.
Legalized sports gambling is an absolute bane on every single sport.
The alleged pitch-rigging scheme of 2 MLB players: Texts, calls and the money trail
Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz face up to 65 years in prison if convicted.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This seems to have been caught because the players were, frankly, too stupid to hide it well.
Which makes me think that there is a lot more going on out there with players who are smarter than this.
Legalized sports gambling is an absolute bane on every single sport.
Which makes me think that there is a lot more going on out there with players who are smarter than this.
Legalized sports gambling is an absolute bane on every single sport.
Please read & share this. It is really a masterpiece summation of American descent, not from a talking head, but just a person in the midst of the horror.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Please read & share this. It is really a masterpiece summation of American descent, not from a talking head, but just a person in the midst of the horror.
This is what gives me a little hope. The Senate will now force Johnson’s incompetent hand. He can either have the government open and the discharge petition filed, or keep delaying in hopes the TN Special Election will go MAGA’s way.
Trump’s priority is burying anything Epstein. So we’ll see…
Trump’s priority is burying anything Epstein. So we’ll see…
This! 👇🏽
Focus might be on 8 Senate Dems, but do not forget that Hakeem Jeffries held the House, all 212 House Democrats!
The very House that will have to *open* to pass the CR and simultaneously sign the Epstein files into existence.
Good morning. ☕️✨
Focus might be on 8 Senate Dems, but do not forget that Hakeem Jeffries held the House, all 212 House Democrats!
The very House that will have to *open* to pass the CR and simultaneously sign the Epstein files into existence.
Good morning. ☕️✨
Just pointing out that Hakeem Jeffries got TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE House Democrats to hold the line.
Not one House Democrat cracked.
Not one House Democrat caved.
I’m going to remember that.
Not one House Democrat cracked.
Not one House Democrat caved.
I’m going to remember that.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is what gives me a little hope. The Senate will now force Johnson’s incompetent hand. He can either have the government open and the discharge petition filed, or keep delaying in hopes the TN Special Election will go MAGA’s way.
Trump’s priority is burying anything Epstein. So we’ll see…
Trump’s priority is burying anything Epstein. So we’ll see…
As I do more and more reading on this “deal” I am finding it harder-and-harder to believe this was good political strategy, as much as I have respected my senator @kaine.senate.gov.
I get people are hurting, but this seems like 8 Senate Democrats debating in an echo chamber, and losing.
I get people are hurting, but this seems like 8 Senate Democrats debating in an echo chamber, and losing.
We had all the momentum
•The American people were blaming Republicans
•A landslide Democratic victory
•Courts ordering Trump to fund SNAP benefits
Yet you couldn't convince your caucus to fight for us
It's the final straw that breaks the back of your tenure as leader, Senator
Time to step down
•The American people were blaming Republicans
•A landslide Democratic victory
•Courts ordering Trump to fund SNAP benefits
Yet you couldn't convince your caucus to fight for us
It's the final straw that breaks the back of your tenure as leader, Senator
Time to step down
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
As I do more and more reading on this “deal” I am finding it harder-and-harder to believe this was good political strategy, as much as I have respected my senator @kaine.senate.gov.
I get people are hurting, but this seems like 8 Senate Democrats debating in an echo chamber, and losing.
I get people are hurting, but this seems like 8 Senate Democrats debating in an echo chamber, and losing.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Queen Ghislaine even has a puppy at Club Fed. This is how convicted sex traffickers are coddled by the Trump admin. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Queen Ghislaine even has a puppy at Club Fed. This is how convicted sex traffickers are coddled by the Trump admin. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
Tim Kaine is a good man and Senator. I do worry this is giving away too much to MAGA with what appears to be no give from House Republicans, but feel he’s not one to simply cave.
As the Russians say, I’m in “Trust, but verify” mode with Senate Democrats.
As the Russians say, I’m in “Trust, but verify” mode with Senate Democrats.
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Tim Kaine is a good man and Senator. I do worry this is giving away too much to MAGA with what appears to be no give from House Republicans, but feel he’s not one to simply cave.
As the Russians say, I’m in “Trust, but verify” mode with Senate Democrats.
As the Russians say, I’m in “Trust, but verify” mode with Senate Democrats.
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For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
The most blameless and innocent among us are increasingly the victims of this abject cruelty.
Please consider donating to your local animal shelter in this time of desperation so pet owners can get what they need to keep their babies.
These—the souls of our homes—do not have a vote or a voice.
Please consider donating to your local animal shelter in this time of desperation so pet owners can get what they need to keep their babies.
These—the souls of our homes—do not have a vote or a voice.
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
bit.ly
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The most blameless and innocent among us are increasingly the victims of this abject cruelty.
Please consider donating to your local animal shelter in this time of desperation so pet owners can get what they need to keep their babies.
These—the souls of our homes—do not have a vote or a voice.
Please consider donating to your local animal shelter in this time of desperation so pet owners can get what they need to keep their babies.
These—the souls of our homes—do not have a vote or a voice.
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ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
ICE is inflicting a lifetime of trauma on families. And it’s being carried out in the name of the United States of America.