Fred Little
@doclittle.bsky.social
Global Affairs, American Literature, East Asian Studies. Active practitioner of Koryū Budō, Bukkyō, Shintō. Lapsed poet. Struggling Hammond Organist. Former Academic Administrator @ Columbia University & NJIT.
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Fred Little
@doclittle.bsky.social
· Apr 1
Chuck Schumer is a Republican asset.
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We really need fewer Kennedys in politics.
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
We really need fewer Kennedys in politics.
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THE GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN CAUCUS IS BACK, MOTHERFUCKERS
I think it’s now safe to call this race.
Progressive urban planner Katie Wilson defeats centrist incumbent Bruce Harrell and will become Seattle’s next mayor.
Progressive urban planner Katie Wilson defeats centrist incumbent Bruce Harrell and will become Seattle’s next mayor.
Seattle's mayor race update:
Katie Wilson's lead grows to 1,346 votes over and incumbent corporate-Democrat Bruce Harrell.
Kate Wilson won 61.23% of the 6,121 ballots counted today.
Overall total:
Katie Wilson 50.08% 137,217
Bruce Harrell 49.59% 135,871
Write-in 0.33% 908
Katie Wilson's lead grows to 1,346 votes over and incumbent corporate-Democrat Bruce Harrell.
Kate Wilson won 61.23% of the 6,121 ballots counted today.
Overall total:
Katie Wilson 50.08% 137,217
Bruce Harrell 49.59% 135,871
Write-in 0.33% 908
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
THE GOOD THINGS CAN HAPPEN CAUCUS IS BACK, MOTHERFUCKERS
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My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
No more hiding behind election terms.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
No more hiding behind election terms.
Leader Jeffries is stepping up his game.
Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Leader Jeffries is stepping up his game.
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I’ve seen multiple journalists ask for an explanation right here in the platform. Is that not “media requests”? 🤔
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’ve seen multiple journalists ask for an explanation right here in the platform. Is that not “media requests”? 🤔
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It seems very straightforward. Banning a journalist with no explanation who is on the site doing her job raises... a lot of questions, and none of them are flattering to Bluesky or to @aaron.bsky.team
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It seems very straightforward. Banning a journalist with no explanation who is on the site doing her job raises... a lot of questions, and none of them are flattering to Bluesky or to @aaron.bsky.team
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It seems the theme of 2025 is "people with any amount of authority losing trust and sabotaging their own systems to be authoritarian trolls"
whether one is a president or a midlevel techbro
whether one is a president or a midlevel techbro
It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It seems the theme of 2025 is "people with any amount of authority losing trust and sabotaging their own systems to be authoritarian trolls"
whether one is a president or a midlevel techbro
whether one is a president or a midlevel techbro
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Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Is Schumer still the minority leader? Is Durbin still the whip? Is Cortes-Masto still a vice chair? Good Democrats -- rank and file, those committed to restoring party --must tell Act Blue and every candidate with hands out for the coming midterms -- that there's no cash coming without new leaders.
None of the hopefuls running for the Dem nom to take on Lawler in #NY17 have found their spines
The hype was "@caitfornewyork.bsky.social is a fighter," but she seems to be as tight with #TeamFold as Ramapo's favorite Golden Girl, Beth Davidson.
Rigged selections. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
The hype was "@caitfornewyork.bsky.social is a fighter," but she seems to be as tight with #TeamFold as Ramapo's favorite Golden Girl, Beth Davidson.
Rigged selections. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
UPDATE — Here are the at least 10 congressional Democrats, 5 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
None of the hopefuls running for the Dem nom to take on Lawler in #NY17 have found their spines
The hype was "@caitfornewyork.bsky.social is a fighter," but she seems to be as tight with #TeamFold as Ramapo's favorite Golden Girl, Beth Davidson.
Rigged selections. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
The hype was "@caitfornewyork.bsky.social is a fighter," but she seems to be as tight with #TeamFold as Ramapo's favorite Golden Girl, Beth Davidson.
Rigged selections. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Dick Durbin is a hapless senile alterkocher. His incapacities are what Schumer values about him. No bite, no bark, no threat.
I hadn't realized that Durbin has been the Democratic whip since 2005 (!!). That's just too long to be in that position (or any leadership position), his caucus should vote him out (the resulting Aaron Sorkin movie will have him receiving the news on a blue slip)
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dick Durbin is a hapless senile alterkocher. His incapacities are what Schumer values about him. No bite, no bark, no threat.
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“If Jeanne Shaheen or Angus King, or ideally just Chuck Schumer, went to the mics and said: We have tried everything we can to make Republicans give you back your health care. They refuse to do so. The only way you’re going to get your health care back is to elect Democrats.”
Now that Dems have capitulated, at the very least they should now make every future extension of funding contingent on Trump following the law. Any lawbreaking must be met with: No more votes from us, period.
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
My exchange with @brianbeutler.bsky.social on that point:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“If Jeanne Shaheen or Angus King, or ideally just Chuck Schumer, went to the mics and said: We have tried everything we can to make Republicans give you back your health care. They refuse to do so. The only way you’re going to get your health care back is to elect Democrats.”
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Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Having shitty, corrupt, thuggish cops is expensive.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
Not for the cops I mean. But for the taxpayers.
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
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 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
The snow outside my window is telling me that spending the better part of a few days up in a tree blind in Minnesota with a deer rifle and one in the chamber would do similar things for me.
I feel like camping the bitter bone chilling cold of the south dakota black hills could fix me right now
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The snow outside my window is telling me that spending the better part of a few days up in a tree blind in Minnesota with a deer rifle and one in the chamber would do similar things for me.
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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I want you to call democratic senators and scream at them for being completely silent about torture camps where spics are dying if this is how you feel
I mean if you’re gonna drop slurs like that I hope you lose your job and end up homeless.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I want you to call democratic senators and scream at them for being completely silent about torture camps where spics are dying if this is how you feel
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"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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Her ability to hate only got sharper as she aged, which makes her at 87, the most brutal scalpel there ever was. She's an inspiration. If only we could all live so long and hate so well
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Her ability to hate only got sharper as she aged, which makes her at 87, the most brutal scalpel there ever was. She's an inspiration. If only we could all live so long and hate so well
The 2026 Midterms are theirs to lose. And Senate Democratic Leadership is working as hard as they can to do just that.
The failure of the caucus as a whole to remove Schumer makes each and every one of them wholly complicit in his reign of serial failures, unforced errors, and craven capitulation.
The failure of the caucus as a whole to remove Schumer makes each and every one of them wholly complicit in his reign of serial failures, unforced errors, and craven capitulation.
Van Hollen wants the job, but he's not going to stick his neck out for these clowns. Nor should he.
“There’s no real appetite to oust Schumer, though. Nor is there any interest from another Democrat to challenge him, according to interviews with more than a dozen Democratic senators.” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.
Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The 2026 Midterms are theirs to lose. And Senate Democratic Leadership is working as hard as they can to do just that.
The failure of the caucus as a whole to remove Schumer makes each and every one of them wholly complicit in his reign of serial failures, unforced errors, and craven capitulation.
The failure of the caucus as a whole to remove Schumer makes each and every one of them wholly complicit in his reign of serial failures, unforced errors, and craven capitulation.
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Memo to @indivisrockland.bsky.social
Repeatedly platforming a pro-genocide single-issue religious identity candidate, strongly backed by this very failed incumbent leadership is divisive, counterproductive, and destructive.
Maybe line up with @indivisible.org for a change, or stop using the name.
Repeatedly platforming a pro-genocide single-issue religious identity candidate, strongly backed by this very failed incumbent leadership is divisive, counterproductive, and destructive.
Maybe line up with @indivisible.org for a change, or stop using the name.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Memo to @indivisrockland.bsky.social
Repeatedly platforming a pro-genocide single-issue religious identity candidate, strongly backed by this very failed incumbent leadership is divisive, counterproductive, and destructive.
Maybe line up with @indivisible.org for a change, or stop using the name.
Repeatedly platforming a pro-genocide single-issue religious identity candidate, strongly backed by this very failed incumbent leadership is divisive, counterproductive, and destructive.
Maybe line up with @indivisible.org for a change, or stop using the name.
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The USA has executed at least 7 veterans this year alone. around 200 are on death rows across the country. We are a country that teaches people to kill, and then executes them.
psmag.com/social-justi...
psmag.com/social-justi...
Can PTSD Be Linked to Violence?
How morally responsible can we hold Eddie Ray Routh for the death of Chris Kyle?
psmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The USA has executed at least 7 veterans this year alone. around 200 are on death rows across the country. We are a country that teaches people to kill, and then executes them.
psmag.com/social-justi...
psmag.com/social-justi...
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It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
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“We must rapidly come to the place where the man all brain and no muscle is looked upon as almost as big a fool as the man all muscle and no brain.” W.E.B. Du Bois said working out is part of the work, lol.
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“We must rapidly come to the place where the man all brain and no muscle is looked upon as almost as big a fool as the man all muscle and no brain.” W.E.B. Du Bois said working out is part of the work, lol.
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I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity