@jasonheil.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Actor. Tell the truth with love. Clear Eyes - Full Heart - Can’t Lose. I don’t know. I’m makin’ this up as I go. What’s next?
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Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day
May 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day
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We all must stand up every single day.
"If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." -Judge Howell
"If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." -Judge Howell
May 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We all must stand up every single day.
"If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." -Judge Howell
"If the founding history of this country is any guide, those who stood up in court to vindicate constitutional rights and, by so doing, served to promote the rule of law, will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." -Judge Howell
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Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
February 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
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“Beattie repeatedly said Black lawmakers, policymakers, and groups need to ‘learn’ their place and take ‘a knee to MAGA.’”
“‘Shithole countries’ was the high-point of Trumps presidency,’ he wrote in 2020.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
“‘Shithole countries’ was the high-point of Trumps presidency,’ he wrote in 2020.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with White nationalists to top State Department role | CNN Politics
Darren Beattie, a former Donald Trump speechwriter who was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he spoke at a conference attended by White nationalists, has been elevated to a top job at the State Departm...
amp.cnn.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“Beattie repeatedly said Black lawmakers, policymakers, and groups need to ‘learn’ their place and take ‘a knee to MAGA.’”
“‘Shithole countries’ was the high-point of Trumps presidency,’ he wrote in 2020.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
“‘Shithole countries’ was the high-point of Trumps presidency,’ he wrote in 2020.”
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
President Musk
This is all bonkers, but also that last line about not spying for China is…interesting.
If a U.S. attorney is talking to Musk like this, then he really is the president. “I ask that you utilize me and my staff…”
February 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
President Musk
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Read this. It's important.
I talked to @nathantankus.bsky.social about what it means for forces allied with Elon Musk to take over the Treasury Department's payment system, it's really good and you should read it but in some ways the headline quote says it all.
prospect.org/economy/2025...
prospect.org/economy/2025...
‘Filled With Unmitigated Terror’
A Q&A with Nathan Tankus on what it means for Elon Musk’s forces to have commandeered some level of control of the U.S. payment system.
prospect.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Read this. It's important.
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A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned
Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A new era of government censorship has begun.
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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The Soviet-style purge is intensifying
January 31, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The Soviet-style purge is intensifying
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@nickkristof.bsky.social: On his very first day in office, Trump made America weaker and more vulnerable -- by pulling us out of the WHO, pardoning domestic terrorists, and breathing new life into TikTok www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Already Making America Weaker and More Vulnerable
Favoring TikTok over national security, releasing rioters, undermining global health efforts — these actions put all of us at risk.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
@nickkristof.bsky.social: On his very first day in office, Trump made America weaker and more vulnerable -- by pulling us out of the WHO, pardoning domestic terrorists, and breathing new life into TikTok www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
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AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
January 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
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BREAKING — Joe Biden has pulled off the impossible: positive job growth EVERY SINGLE MONTH of his presidency.
The last negative month was the last full month of Trump’s first term, December 2020.
The last negative month was the last full month of Trump’s first term, December 2020.
January 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
BREAKING — Joe Biden has pulled off the impossible: positive job growth EVERY SINGLE MONTH of his presidency.
The last negative month was the last full month of Trump’s first term, December 2020.
The last negative month was the last full month of Trump’s first term, December 2020.
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Everyone wants to talk about the goofballs driving two hours for a loaf of bread. I would also humbly point out that there was one campaign that had an actual policy plan to address the cost of "groceries, housing, higher ed, and healthcare" & the press simply buried or panned it
Don't miss the president of NBC News talking about how she pushed bogus sensationalist coverage about inflation to convince the public they were in economic misery
December 31, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Everyone wants to talk about the goofballs driving two hours for a loaf of bread. I would also humbly point out that there was one campaign that had an actual policy plan to address the cost of "groceries, housing, higher ed, and healthcare" & the press simply buried or panned it
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"Handing the reins to Harris in July, rather than sticking it out, wasn’t one of his mistakes. His mistake was that he didn’t do so sooner."
New from @saletan.bsky.social, on the fantasy that Biden would have beaten Trump:
New from @saletan.bsky.social, on the fantasy that Biden would have beaten Trump:
Biden World Thinks He Should Have Stayed in the Race. What Are They Smoking?
The question is not whether he should have dropped out. It’s why he didn’t do so earlier.
www.thebulwark.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:00 AM
"Handing the reins to Harris in July, rather than sticking it out, wasn’t one of his mistakes. His mistake was that he didn’t do so sooner."
New from @saletan.bsky.social, on the fantasy that Biden would have beaten Trump:
New from @saletan.bsky.social, on the fantasy that Biden would have beaten Trump:
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This is good
December 31, 2024 at 5:34 AM
This is good
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None of this is normal.
December 11, 2024 at 9:08 PM
None of this is normal.
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I hope the Senate hears this important message.
77 Nobel Prize Winners Write Open Letter Urging Senate Not To Confirm RFK Jr. As HHS Secretary
They know what's at stake.
www.comicsands.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:00 PM
I hope the Senate hears this important message.
I have a longer post coming (I swear), but this is the kind of think piece that is making me so mad right now.
The Conversation Democrats Need to Have
The party should stop talking to itself and start hearing what voters have to say.
www.theatlantic.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:09 AM
I have a longer post coming (I swear), but this is the kind of think piece that is making me so mad right now.
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As someone who has a PhD in studying misinformation, I can professionally say that this is a fucking stupid idea.
Soon-Shiong saying "the reader can press a button and get both sides of that exact same story based on that story" is among the scariest and stupidest things I've ever heard. There'd be an alternative version of each story written by AI in Trumpese??? www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/m...
LA Times owner plans to add AI-powered ‘bias meter’ on news stories, sparking newsroom backlash | CNN Business
Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, who blocked the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris and plans to overhaul its editorial board, says he will implement an artificial intelligence-power...
www.cnn.com
December 7, 2024 at 6:03 AM
As someone who has a PhD in studying misinformation, I can professionally say that this is a fucking stupid idea.
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A Missouri lawmaker introduced a bill that would establish a bounty hunter program for undocumented immigrants.
Participants in the migrant bounty hunt would get $1,000 to turn in undocumented neighbors.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Participants in the migrant bounty hunt would get $1,000 to turn in undocumented neighbors.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Migrant bounty hunt where Americans would get $1K divides opinion
A Missouri lawmaker has introduced a controversial bill that would establish a bounty hunter program for undocumented immigrants.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 7, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Every resistance act matters.
Regimes seem solid until they are not. Every resistance act matters because often regimes are crumbling from within from corruption and yet good at hiding that fact. cc: Russia
December 7, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Every resistance act matters.
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You know who everyone trusted as kids? Smokey Bear. We need a Smokey Bear but for preventing fascism.
December 7, 2024 at 10:31 PM
You know who everyone trusted as kids? Smokey Bear. We need a Smokey Bear but for preventing fascism.
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Over on the bird site, Musk is calling for the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, possibly the most effective government agency for the protection of consumers
More MAGA populism!
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More MAGA populism!
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December 2, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Over on the bird site, Musk is calling for the elimination of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, possibly the most effective government agency for the protection of consumers
More MAGA populism!
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More MAGA populism!
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November 30, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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