doc brianS
@docbs.bsky.social
Still annoyed you people didn't move to Mastodon (@docbrianS@mastodon.online). Retired Cali public policy guy, recovering academic. Cat dad, bread baker, beer drinker. #CarletonCollege grad. #UCSD #PoliticalScience #PhD
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Also conservatives when it's a 20-ish year old white guy accused of rape: "don't ruin his life. Boys will be boys.
But young teenage black kid with a squirt gun at the park or Skittles: "violent danger. Try him as an adult. Or just kill him."
But young teenage black kid with a squirt gun at the park or Skittles: "violent danger. Try him as an adult. Or just kill him."
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Also conservatives when it's a 20-ish year old white guy accused of rape: "don't ruin his life. Boys will be boys.
But young teenage black kid with a squirt gun at the park or Skittles: "violent danger. Try him as an adult. Or just kill him."
But young teenage black kid with a squirt gun at the park or Skittles: "violent danger. Try him as an adult. Or just kill him."
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Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
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Honestly, until like the 1970s or 1980s, people have held the attitude that adult men having sex with teenagers is "normal" and "biologically wired." They still believe it, they just learned to stop talking about it openly at some point.
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Honestly, until like the 1970s or 1980s, people have held the attitude that adult men having sex with teenagers is "normal" and "biologically wired." They still believe it, they just learned to stop talking about it openly at some point.
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NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:
While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:
Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal"
bsky.app/profile/chri...
NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
bsky.app/profile/chri...
NYT front page coverage all the time!
By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
NYT editors put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25"
While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:
While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and his chief of staff's "tyrant" warning on 12
Christopher Rufo openly bragged about the plans:
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Nice to know NYT was sitting on these emails for at least 2 full election cycles. Really hard to interpret this in any way other than "they like Trump and wanted him to win"
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Nice to know NYT was sitting on these emails for at least 2 full election cycles. Really hard to interpret this in any way other than "they like Trump and wanted him to win"
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It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
According to the ruling, Diana Santillana will be given a bond hearing in front of an immigration judge, who could order her released while her civil deportation case proceeds.
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.
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A couple months back, I was curious as to how Bill Pulte was able to obtain Lisa Cook and Letitia James' mortgage documents. Today, the WSJ reports that he was actually under investigation for how he obtained them. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A couple months back, I was curious as to how Bill Pulte was able to obtain Lisa Cook and Letitia James' mortgage documents. Today, the WSJ reports that he was actually under investigation for how he obtained them. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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What a line from Warren Buffett this morning:
“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."
[applause] 🙏🏼
“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."
[applause] 🙏🏼
May 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
What a line from Warren Buffett this morning:
“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."
[applause] 🙏🏼
“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."
[applause] 🙏🏼
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"Like most Americans, Leonardo Garcia Venegas wants to earn an honest living in peace," writes @jaredmcclain.bsky.social, a senior attorney at @ij.org.
"Unfortunately, he lives in fear that he’ll be arrested just for showing up to work."
"Unfortunately, he lives in fear that he’ll be arrested just for showing up to work."
Opinion | He’s a citizen with a Real ID. ICE detained him anyway. Twice.
Leo Garcia Venegas’s experience shows why Trump’s immigration raids are unconstitutional.
wapo.st
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"Like most Americans, Leonardo Garcia Venegas wants to earn an honest living in peace," writes @jaredmcclain.bsky.social, a senior attorney at @ij.org.
"Unfortunately, he lives in fear that he’ll be arrested just for showing up to work."
"Unfortunately, he lives in fear that he’ll be arrested just for showing up to work."
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The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex
Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free
Andrew Taake walked free because of Trump’s pardons, despite being convicted of a child sex crime.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.
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A spill on a family farm in Oklahoma killed several acres of vegetation and contaminated drinking water. A judge ordered the farmers to pay when they went after the oil company.
(Published May 2024)
(Published May 2024)
Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.
The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A spill on a family farm in Oklahoma killed several acres of vegetation and contaminated drinking water. A judge ordered the farmers to pay when they went after the oil company.
(Published May 2024)
(Published May 2024)
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
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Who uses SNAP?
My friend, who works, raising 5 kids, husband bailed and won’t pay child support
My neighbor battling cancer and her life-saving meds are so expensive, she chooses between meds or food
My friend who’s a vet and struggles with mental health issues.
Not one of them chose this.
My friend, who works, raising 5 kids, husband bailed and won’t pay child support
My neighbor battling cancer and her life-saving meds are so expensive, she chooses between meds or food
My friend who’s a vet and struggles with mental health issues.
Not one of them chose this.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Who uses SNAP?
My friend, who works, raising 5 kids, husband bailed and won’t pay child support
My neighbor battling cancer and her life-saving meds are so expensive, she chooses between meds or food
My friend who’s a vet and struggles with mental health issues.
Not one of them chose this.
My friend, who works, raising 5 kids, husband bailed and won’t pay child support
My neighbor battling cancer and her life-saving meds are so expensive, she chooses between meds or food
My friend who’s a vet and struggles with mental health issues.
Not one of them chose this.
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A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
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Trump pardoned a drug dealer with ties to the Kushner family, and today that man was sent back to federal prison for threatening to kill a woman, groping his family's nanny, and several other crimes.
Seems relevant, given Trump has admitted he has no idea who he's pardoning...
Seems relevant, given Trump has admitted he has no idea who he's pardoning...
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Trump pardoned a drug dealer with ties to the Kushner family, and today that man was sent back to federal prison for threatening to kill a woman, groping his family's nanny, and several other crimes.
Seems relevant, given Trump has admitted he has no idea who he's pardoning...
Seems relevant, given Trump has admitted he has no idea who he's pardoning...
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IF THE *ENHANCED* TAX CREDITS EXPIRE, starting on January 1st, it will change to the ORANGE 🟠 formula, which has that huge "shark fin" sticking up.
There's still a sliding scale formula from 100 - 400% FPL, but it's much less generous...and it cuts off INSTANTLY if you break 400% FPL.
There's still a sliding scale formula from 100 - 400% FPL, but it's much less generous...and it cuts off INSTANTLY if you break 400% FPL.
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
IF THE *ENHANCED* TAX CREDITS EXPIRE, starting on January 1st, it will change to the ORANGE 🟠 formula, which has that huge "shark fin" sticking up.
There's still a sliding scale formula from 100 - 400% FPL, but it's much less generous...and it cuts off INSTANTLY if you break 400% FPL.
There's still a sliding scale formula from 100 - 400% FPL, but it's much less generous...and it cuts off INSTANTLY if you break 400% FPL.
Wow. WTF, @kaine.senate.gov ?
I'm a pro-markets, rule of law liberal. And I really don't think abandoning millions of Americans on the ACA exchanges to their fate is a "minor issue." It's literally a life-or-death issue for many.
I'm a pro-markets, rule of law liberal. And I really don't think abandoning millions of Americans on the ACA exchanges to their fate is a "minor issue." It's literally a life-or-death issue for many.
Tim Kaine is on MSNBC accusing Katy Tur of "overdramatizing" the way he and some other Democrats caved. "This is by far a minor-league issue within the Democratic Party," Kaine said.
He's completely out of touch, or just lying.
He's completely out of touch, or just lying.
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Wow. WTF, @kaine.senate.gov ?
I'm a pro-markets, rule of law liberal. And I really don't think abandoning millions of Americans on the ACA exchanges to their fate is a "minor issue." It's literally a life-or-death issue for many.
I'm a pro-markets, rule of law liberal. And I really don't think abandoning millions of Americans on the ACA exchanges to their fate is a "minor issue." It's literally a life-or-death issue for many.
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Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
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meanwhile, even more people will lose healthcare
New at Can We Still Govern? New Medicaid work requirements will see an estimated 5 million lose coverage.
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Lessons from Pandemic Era Medicaid Automation for Work Requirements
Small tech capacity investments offer big returns
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
meanwhile, even more people will lose healthcare
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Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game.
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
November 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game.
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
(Video: Marisa Schultz)
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New at Can We Still Govern? New Medicaid work requirements will see an estimated 5 million lose coverage.
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Lessons from Pandemic Era Medicaid Automation for Work Requirements
Small tech capacity investments offer big returns
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
New at Can We Still Govern? New Medicaid work requirements will see an estimated 5 million lose coverage.
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
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"No good part of our existing system can be safe as long as civilians can be beaten on the streets by masked men, whether they’re citizens or not."
Winning Elections Is Only The First Step
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"No good part of our existing system can be safe as long as civilians can be beaten on the streets by masked men, whether they’re citizens or not."
Can you spot the difference?
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Can you spot the difference?
JFC, Angus. Do you actually believe your own bullshit?
"Peace in our time."
"Peace in our time."
Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
JFC, Angus. Do you actually believe your own bullshit?
"Peace in our time."
"Peace in our time."