Espy
@esp1371.bsky.social
Lawyer, political nerd, #UglyDogs, a blue she/her in a very red state.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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I'm crying for a few reasons tonight, but this is a good one. Greg is doing good things here. If I'm reading his matching right, a donation of $4.50 turns into $50. ($41 in per donor matches plus a 1:1 matching). If you've got a fiver in your Venmo that you can share, it can go far.
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11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
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It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I'm crying for a few reasons tonight, but this is a good one. Greg is doing good things here. If I'm reading his matching right, a donation of $4.50 turns into $50. ($41 in per donor matches plus a 1:1 matching). If you've got a fiver in your Venmo that you can share, it can go far.
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welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
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My favorite annual event!
Folks, I know it’s been a tough and terrible year. If you can spare some money for this very worth cause, please chip in. With the uncertainty around SNAP this year it’s more important than ever.
Folks, I know it’s been a tough and terrible year. If you can spare some money for this very worth cause, please chip in. With the uncertainty around SNAP this year it’s more important than ever.
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11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
November 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My favorite annual event!
Folks, I know it’s been a tough and terrible year. If you can spare some money for this very worth cause, please chip in. With the uncertainty around SNAP this year it’s more important than ever.
Folks, I know it’s been a tough and terrible year. If you can spare some money for this very worth cause, please chip in. With the uncertainty around SNAP this year it’s more important than ever.
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Really cant understand how badly the Dems messaged this fold. The easy out was to say "we never expected Trump would illegally starve children and when SCOTUS stepped in to illegally help him we couldn't put kids at risk."
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Really cant understand how badly the Dems messaged this fold. The easy out was to say "we never expected Trump would illegally starve children and when SCOTUS stepped in to illegally help him we couldn't put kids at risk."
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did not know this.
it’s almost like we should keep funding NOAA.
it’s almost like we should keep funding NOAA.
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
did not know this.
it’s almost like we should keep funding NOAA.
it’s almost like we should keep funding NOAA.
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Each and every donation to the Foodraiser generates $41 in matching funds and there is another overall matcher who will match dollar for dollar for the first $75,000 raised! In other words, even a small donation goes a really long way. Scroll up in the thread below to find the donation links!
Saved it on the work laptop by mistake, no wonder I couldn't find it 🤪
So matchers! They make things exciting because no one knows where we'll end up 😂
I think I've got all the current matching offers here, basically adding +$36 for each person who donates by this Friday @ 11:59pm PST! 🔥🔥
So matchers! They make things exciting because no one knows where we'll end up 😂
I think I've got all the current matching offers here, basically adding +$36 for each person who donates by this Friday @ 11:59pm PST! 🔥🔥
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Each and every donation to the Foodraiser generates $41 in matching funds and there is another overall matcher who will match dollar for dollar for the first $75,000 raised! In other words, even a small donation goes a really long way. Scroll up in the thread below to find the donation links!
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We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.
1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability
The Government Lawyers Database
glowlaw.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.
The Foodraiser is up and running!! Greg will be adding details below, but the TL;DR of it all is that you can donate at the links below to help feed about 5100 kids in lower income schools over the Christmas break. I and others will match on a per donor basis. If you can, do and RTs are awesome.
***
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
***
It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!
➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...
(Plus other donation options in thread!)
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The Foodraiser is up and running!! Greg will be adding details below, but the TL;DR of it all is that you can donate at the links below to help feed about 5100 kids in lower income schools over the Christmas break. I and others will match on a per donor basis. If you can, do and RTs are awesome.
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This wouldn't be the first doctor to badly misunderstand how health insurance works but it's among the worst.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This wouldn't be the first doctor to badly misunderstand how health insurance works but it's among the worst.
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The WNBA needs to make this little dude a ball boy in whatever city he visits. Just give him a laminate!
Remember that little boy who cried uncontrollably because he wanted A’ja Wilson to come to his house??? He got to MEET her and I cannot deal… 🥹😭❤️ #WNBA
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The WNBA needs to make this little dude a ball boy in whatever city he visits. Just give him a laminate!
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This was not a surprise to anyone who followed me and other actual reporters who know Supreme Court procedure.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This was not a surprise to anyone who followed me and other actual reporters who know Supreme Court procedure.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
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Broncos LB Alex Singleton, on his testicular cancer diagnosis: "Yeah. It's funny, the doctor all week was like, 'Please stop Googling things.' So, I haven't Googled much. I've tried not to, because obviously, you start Googling any kind of cancer ..."
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Broncos LB Alex Singleton, on his testicular cancer diagnosis: "Yeah. It's funny, the doctor all week was like, 'Please stop Googling things.' So, I haven't Googled much. I've tried not to, because obviously, you start Googling any kind of cancer ..."
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Alex Singleton, with advice to make sure you get screened and checked if something is amiss: "Don't be afraid of the doctor, because I was for a long time."
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Alex Singleton, with advice to make sure you get screened and checked if something is amiss: "Don't be afraid of the doctor, because I was for a long time."
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My most moderate opinion on here is that there is no moral equivalence between someone who does something bad and somebody who (incompetently or not) fails to prevent them from doing that.
The ACA cuts happened in the reconciliation bill in July, every single Democrat voted against it and they got 3 detectors so Vance had to break the tie, and the Dems just shut down the government for 40 days to try and get them to undo it, it is absolutely deranged to blame this on “Democrats”
Yes - this is a loss because Democrats have now signed on to ACA cuts as a complicit party and once again made it a less effective issue for the mid terms
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My most moderate opinion on here is that there is no moral equivalence between someone who does something bad and somebody who (incompetently or not) fails to prevent them from doing that.
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The Epstein Files is a powerful political attack for reasons that aren't entirely clear, but people should get used to the idea that we're not going to get a magical document that topples the regime and forces them all to flee the country.
That’s all fine. For the most part. And I agree that the Epstein Files (which have been substantially mitigated) are worth a small scale political long-term play / gain.
As long as we all realize “The Epstein Files!!” Is a gambit not an actual thing.
As long as we all realize “The Epstein Files!!” Is a gambit not an actual thing.
November 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Epstein Files is a powerful political attack for reasons that aren't entirely clear, but people should get used to the idea that we're not going to get a magical document that topples the regime and forces them all to flee the country.
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For the past few months I and others have been bugging you about holding government lawyers to account. Well, this is what we have been working on. Welcome to GLOW - Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog!
1/6 A new standard for public accountability is here. GLOW—Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog—is officially launching today to hold government lawyers accountable. We're unveiling The Government Lawyers Database at glowlaw.org. #RuleOfLaw #Accountability
The Government Lawyers Database
glowlaw.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
For the past few months I and others have been bugging you about holding government lawyers to account. Well, this is what we have been working on. Welcome to GLOW - Government Lawyers Oversight Watchdog!
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any bsky poaster have a theory of victory aligned with keeping the govt shutdown indefinitely I'm all ears, because again I think I've got a history that's pretty indicative I'm more than supportive of COAs that fuck me over personally if there's a viable path to an achievable end state
Okay so again, you gonna forgo your income for another 13 months?
Because you're asking me and a couple million of your fellow citizens to do that, and I don't think it's too much to ask for a plausible theory of victory aligned with that COA
Because you're asking me and a couple million of your fellow citizens to do that, and I don't think it's too much to ask for a plausible theory of victory aligned with that COA
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
any bsky poaster have a theory of victory aligned with keeping the govt shutdown indefinitely I'm all ears, because again I think I've got a history that's pretty indicative I'm more than supportive of COAs that fuck me over personally if there's a viable path to an achievable end state
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If this is your take on federal employees you can go ahead and fuck right off forever.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
If this is your take on federal employees you can go ahead and fuck right off forever.
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Sure. Which in turn would kick the ball out to mid-January, where we'll be right back where we are now, but with SNAP and federal employee firings off the table, at least.
And again: He'll have to swear in Grijalva, which means 218 for the Epstein files. At least that's my understanding.
And again: He'll have to swear in Grijalva, which means 218 for the Epstein files. At least that's my understanding.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Sure. Which in turn would kick the ball out to mid-January, where we'll be right back where we are now, but with SNAP and federal employee firings off the table, at least.
And again: He'll have to swear in Grijalva, which means 218 for the Epstein files. At least that's my understanding.
And again: He'll have to swear in Grijalva, which means 218 for the Epstein files. At least that's my understanding.
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I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
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I get being angry, I don't get doing PR for Trump in the process. The Dems did not kill the ACA, they did not end the subsidies. Trump in the Republican controlled House and Senate did that. Dems shut down the government in an attempt to change that and lost that fight. Those are just facts.
No, they didn't. The GOP ripped healthcare away from over 11 million people when they passed their bill without those subsidies. You can hate the Senators below for not keeping the shutdown going. Berate them, primary them, whatever. But the GOP killed the subsidies, plain and simple.
Learn these motherfuckers' names, they just betrayed every single member of the Democratic coalition and let Republicans rip healthcare away from over 11 million people.
Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Fetterman
Rosen
Durbin
Hassan
King
Cortez Masto
Kaine
Shaheen
Fetterman
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I get being angry, I don't get doing PR for Trump in the process. The Dems did not kill the ACA, they did not end the subsidies. Trump in the Republican controlled House and Senate did that. Dems shut down the government in an attempt to change that and lost that fight. Those are just facts.
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I fucking wish we weren't here, and I wish we didn't have to evaluate the costs/benefits of necessary to human life in America re health insurance vs food for 40 million.
Call your senators, primary the fucks, and demand a leadership change, but here we are.
8 dems, but the OBBA did this first
Call your senators, primary the fucks, and demand a leadership change, but here we are.
8 dems, but the OBBA did this first
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I fucking wish we weren't here, and I wish we didn't have to evaluate the costs/benefits of necessary to human life in America re health insurance vs food for 40 million.
Call your senators, primary the fucks, and demand a leadership change, but here we are.
8 dems, but the OBBA did this first
Call your senators, primary the fucks, and demand a leadership change, but here we are.
8 dems, but the OBBA did this first