Dark Star 1969
@darkstar1969.bsky.social
11/24 TwitterX refugee. Investor. Musician. Deadhead. Multi-gen Washingtonian. Formerly political field ops and talent management. Currently developing a multimedia project. I like Dark Stars from 1969. #Resist
*Democracy is not a spectator sport.*
*Democracy is not a spectator sport.*
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If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker.
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker.
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
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this should be obvious but the reason Trump is working desperately against Epstein transparency is because he's guilty
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
this should be obvious but the reason Trump is working desperately against Epstein transparency is because he's guilty
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I was a doctor in pre-ACA North Philadelphia.
Let me be clear: administrative violence like undoing the ACA *kills people.*
Illnesses like high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer & heart disease linger untreated for years.
Then people get super sick and die preventable deaths. It’s devastating.
Let me be clear: administrative violence like undoing the ACA *kills people.*
Illnesses like high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer & heart disease linger untreated for years.
Then people get super sick and die preventable deaths. It’s devastating.
Called my congressional rep to tell them to fix the ACA subsidies before approving any deals.
Called my NY state senators and left an earful on their voicemails.
Sent in money to our local food bank.
Now going to make some cookies and shake off this political hellscape.
Called my NY state senators and left an earful on their voicemails.
Sent in money to our local food bank.
Now going to make some cookies and shake off this political hellscape.
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I was a doctor in pre-ACA North Philadelphia.
Let me be clear: administrative violence like undoing the ACA *kills people.*
Illnesses like high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer & heart disease linger untreated for years.
Then people get super sick and die preventable deaths. It’s devastating.
Let me be clear: administrative violence like undoing the ACA *kills people.*
Illnesses like high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer & heart disease linger untreated for years.
Then people get super sick and die preventable deaths. It’s devastating.
This heartless attack on people - Democratic and republican alike - needs be a central focus of 2026 campaigns.
Who are these people? Christian what?
Who are these people? Christian what?
TRUMP OFFICIALS SAY SUPREME COURT SHOULD CONTINUE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING FOOD AID PROGRAMS.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This heartless attack on people - Democratic and republican alike - needs be a central focus of 2026 campaigns.
Who are these people? Christian what?
Who are these people? Christian what?
Assuming something passes out of the Senate, does Johnson just say "Nah, I'm good" and keep the House closed?
Does he open it, vote on the Senate bill, and then immediately adjourn again to attempt to stop swearing in Grijalva and a vote on the Epstein/Trump files release?
Does he open it, vote on the Senate bill, and then immediately adjourn again to attempt to stop swearing in Grijalva and a vote on the Epstein/Trump files release?
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Assuming something passes out of the Senate, does Johnson just say "Nah, I'm good" and keep the House closed?
Does he open it, vote on the Senate bill, and then immediately adjourn again to attempt to stop swearing in Grijalva and a vote on the Epstein/Trump files release?
Does he open it, vote on the Senate bill, and then immediately adjourn again to attempt to stop swearing in Grijalva and a vote on the Epstein/Trump files release?
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Nobody owns the libs like the conservative dems own the libs.
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Nobody owns the libs like the conservative dems own the libs.
Remember that Schumer supported the loser in the NYC mayoral race.
While everyone else is celebrating a win, psychologically Schumer has needed to internalize what was a loss in his mind.
This plays into how he would approach any deal making....
While everyone else is celebrating a win, psychologically Schumer has needed to internalize what was a loss in his mind.
This plays into how he would approach any deal making....
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Remember that Schumer supported the loser in the NYC mayoral race.
While everyone else is celebrating a win, psychologically Schumer has needed to internalize what was a loss in his mind.
This plays into how he would approach any deal making....
While everyone else is celebrating a win, psychologically Schumer has needed to internalize what was a loss in his mind.
This plays into how he would approach any deal making....
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With our big election win last week, and Trump's clear political and physical decline, Dems should be more ambitious now, and fight even harder, for the country and the American people. Voters saw us fighting for them & we were rewarded across the country 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-gov...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-gov...
Trump's Government Has Failed, His Powers Are Ebbing And For The Good Of The Country Democrats Must Become More Ambitious Now
People are pissed and we need to keep fighting
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
With our big election win last week, and Trump's clear political and physical decline, Dems should be more ambitious now, and fight even harder, for the country and the American people. Voters saw us fighting for them & we were rewarded across the country 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-gov...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-gov...
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.
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Its name is Washington National and I’ll never call it anything else. That scum bag’s name was only placed to insult the ATCs and it should be removed. We remember.
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Its name is Washington National and I’ll never call it anything else. That scum bag’s name was only placed to insult the ATCs and it should be removed. We remember.
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Yep. Has NYT devoted even *one* stand alone news analysis to the collapse of the MAGA coalition?
After a week in which Dems exceeded expectations in elections, Trump's popularity continues to tank, the GOP largely abandoned the task of governing (just as Thanksgiving travel approaches), I'm a bit surprised to see many more stories highlighting weakness in the Dem than in the GOP coalition.
This NYT framing is ludicrously overstated. Sure, there are primaries. But if anything, the results showed a lot of Dems that there's a way to unify the factions around anti-Trump and affordability politics (as I try to argue in the piece/thread below).
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Yep. Has NYT devoted even *one* stand alone news analysis to the collapse of the MAGA coalition?
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Pilot here. That's pretty much what's happening because now the airlines are funding meals for ATC. Which is dystopian
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Pilot here. That's pretty much what's happening because now the airlines are funding meals for ATC. Which is dystopian
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This is significant in Kansas, which announced on Friday that it was distributing full benefits to all SNAP recipients & doing it *right freakin' now*. As in, not reloading the cards in its usual way, over multiple days, by last name of household head. All SNAP cards were to be full by COB Friday.
I've added this update to my story about the ongoing torture of SNAP recipients:
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is significant in Kansas, which announced on Friday that it was distributing full benefits to all SNAP recipients & doing it *right freakin' now*. As in, not reloading the cards in its usual way, over multiple days, by last name of household head. All SNAP cards were to be full by COB Friday.
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This is just not true. The Trump administration has been cancelling nearly-done solar and wind projects approved by local regulators, constricting the supply of electricity
Pressed by Stephanopoulos on the fact that electricity prices have in fact gone up, Bessent punts: "Electricity prices are a state problem ... look, there are things the federal government can control. Local electricity prices are not one of them."
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is just not true. The Trump administration has been cancelling nearly-done solar and wind projects approved by local regulators, constricting the supply of electricity
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November 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I read a lot of maga comments online (for work, not because I'm a masochist) and I will tell you that within the next few days, maga will believe that this $2000 dividend idea is policy.
But also, aren't these people against "government handouts"?
But also, aren't these people against "government handouts"?
A $2000 tariff “dividend” would be negative for bonds — if the bond market actually believed it would ever happen. 🤡
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I read a lot of maga comments online (for work, not because I'm a masochist) and I will tell you that within the next few days, maga will believe that this $2000 dividend idea is policy.
But also, aren't these people against "government handouts"?
But also, aren't these people against "government handouts"?
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So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
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outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois:
the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.
the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
outside the ice detention center in broadview, illinois:
the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.
the illinois handmaids and the democratic women of cook county are demonstrating against the kidnapping of community members by federal agents.
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FOX: So you would ask Speaker Johnson to recall the House?
GOP REP. KEVIN KILEY: Not only would I, I've asked him to do it repeatedly. There's no justification. And honestly, it's Republican voters who should be most upset about this when they delivered a GOP majority and now that's being wasted
GOP REP. KEVIN KILEY: Not only would I, I've asked him to do it repeatedly. There's no justification. And honestly, it's Republican voters who should be most upset about this when they delivered a GOP majority and now that's being wasted
November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
FOX: So you would ask Speaker Johnson to recall the House?
GOP REP. KEVIN KILEY: Not only would I, I've asked him to do it repeatedly. There's no justification. And honestly, it's Republican voters who should be most upset about this when they delivered a GOP majority and now that's being wasted
GOP REP. KEVIN KILEY: Not only would I, I've asked him to do it repeatedly. There's no justification. And honestly, it's Republican voters who should be most upset about this when they delivered a GOP majority and now that's being wasted