Jeff
@jeffatc.bsky.social
Digital (Sony and Fuji) and film (Canon AE-1/FTb) photography, Red Wings hockey, scale modeling, music and some center-left politics. Find my photography at www.flickr.com/photos/jhtolatc
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Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Why is Trump going after America's air traffic controllers, today of all days?
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
It's one more way to distract from his decision to increase your health insurance premiums."
🗣️THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE RESULT ALL ALONG HAD THEY DONE WHAT THE POASTERS WANTED OR NOT
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
🗣️THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE RESULT ALL ALONG HAD THEY DONE WHAT THE POASTERS WANTED OR NOT
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Threatening air traffic controllers (who have been working forced overtime for many years) with pay penalties and antagonizing them to quit when there's already a severe staffing shortage with a years long training gap after floating the possibility of not providing backpay during the shutdown...
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Threatening air traffic controllers (who have been working forced overtime for many years) with pay penalties and antagonizing them to quit when there's already a severe staffing shortage with a years long training gap after floating the possibility of not providing backpay during the shutdown...
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Do I say all the ways in which this is wrong or just roll my eyes and move on?
Also, really Politico? WTF?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Also, really Politico? WTF?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’
But he promises $10,000 bonuses to controllers who have shown up without fail during the more-than-monthlong shutdown.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Do I say all the ways in which this is wrong or just roll my eyes and move on?
Also, really Politico? WTF?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Also, really Politico? WTF?
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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I think people haven't really thought through what a collapsed air traffic control system would actually mean. It's not just holiday travel!
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I think people haven't really thought through what a collapsed air traffic control system would actually mean. It's not just holiday travel!
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As noted elsewhere the “costless option” apparently has been the indefinite immiseration of two million families who are largely an abstraction to them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
As noted elsewhere the “costless option” apparently has been the indefinite immiseration of two million families who are largely an abstraction to them.
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I am against the Senate deal, but man people on here really seem to think there's an objectively correct and costless option here.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I am against the Senate deal, but man people on here really seem to think there's an objectively correct and costless option here.
Yes this is true, but there was never a defined endgame. It was obvious they were never going to vote to extend ACA subsidies. Ever. They would have nuked the filibuster first, and then you’d *really* see the right consolidating power, after how many missed checks at that point?
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yes this is true, but there was never a defined endgame. It was obvious they were never going to vote to extend ACA subsidies. Ever. They would have nuked the filibuster first, and then you’d *really* see the right consolidating power, after how many missed checks at that point?
WOW
I would rather have you quit and find another job than have Dems cave.
You can save your home in bankruptcy, if it comes to that. Collateral damage is inevitable.
You can save your home in bankruptcy, if it comes to that. Collateral damage is inevitable.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
WOW
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Yes, I think DoD will still need my expertise (along with a whole bunch of others) that no matter how much Pete hates us they won't fire us
See also every other federal department, even the ones this admin especially hates
Another thing bsky poasters are illiterate on is scope of the federal govt
See also every other federal department, even the ones this admin especially hates
Another thing bsky poasters are illiterate on is scope of the federal govt
You think there will be government jobs 13 months from now?
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Yes, I think DoD will still need my expertise (along with a whole bunch of others) that no matter how much Pete hates us they won't fire us
See also every other federal department, even the ones this admin especially hates
Another thing bsky poasters are illiterate on is scope of the federal govt
See also every other federal department, even the ones this admin especially hates
Another thing bsky poasters are illiterate on is scope of the federal govt
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Average bluesky poaster quite literally thinks all federal employees should either starve, file for chapter 7, or just Die For The Revolution I guess
I learned a lot tonight, namely that a critical mass of people on my side had no clear idea what they actually wanted out of this beyond hopes that if the shutdown broke enough stuff, they'd get whatever was on their wishlist, and their preferred time horizon was "indefinite."
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Average bluesky poaster quite literally thinks all federal employees should either starve, file for chapter 7, or just Die For The Revolution I guess
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But "everyone who isn't me eats real, quantifiable, actual financial shit, and I keep poasting as a Hero Of The Resistance (while getting my paycheck)" ain't it
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 AM
But "everyone who isn't me eats real, quantifiable, actual financial shit, and I keep poasting as a Hero Of The Resistance (while getting my paycheck)" ain't it
👇There it is, the alternative was to keep federal employees unpaid for 13 MONTHS. How the fuck do you think that would play out? A collapse of the entire underpinnings of the country, that's how.
Victory looks like a bill that extends the ACA subsidies OR (and this is a key or) keeps the government shut down until the midterms.
Yes. That's a victory too.
Yes. That's a victory too.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
👇There it is, the alternative was to keep federal employees unpaid for 13 MONTHS. How the fuck do you think that would play out? A collapse of the entire underpinnings of the country, that's how.
I recall seeing the Bluesky intelligentsia freaking out about this the other day, too.
That was FAST. Ketanji Brown Jackson’s gambit is working.
BREAKING: 1st Circuit denies Trump administration request to stay judge's order forcing full payment of SNAP for November. Opinion by Rikelman (Biden), Joined by Barron (Obama), Gelpi (Biden). Order remains on hold for 48 hours per Justice Jackson. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I recall seeing the Bluesky intelligentsia freaking out about this the other day, too.
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It’s very very easy to say “KEEP FIGHTING, COWARDS” when ur pay isn’t being held hostage.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
It’s very very easy to say “KEEP FIGHTING, COWARDS” when ur pay isn’t being held hostage.
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"I think the Republican Party would've seen the light after a week of flight fuckery and decided that yes, the ACA as implemented is good and cool actually, an idea they explicitly rejected 5 months ago"
I think after a bunch of flight cancellations at Thanksgiving Trump would have been willing to cave. Or the filibuster would have gotten eliminated. I don't think a 13 month shutdown was/is actually likely.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
"I think the Republican Party would've seen the light after a week of flight fuckery and decided that yes, the ACA as implemented is good and cool actually, an idea they explicitly rejected 5 months ago"
Muted a huge number of accounts on here tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Muted a huge number of accounts on here tonight.
But but the intelligentsia on this app is telling me everything is awful.
The RIFs language is actually great. Not only does it rehire the people RIFed during the shutdown, it makes it an unequivocal Antideficiency Act violation to do ANY MORE RIFs through the duration of the CR (Jan 30)
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
But but the intelligentsia on this app is telling me everything is awful.
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Honestly, this is likely as good of a deal as the Democrats are going to get.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Honestly, this is likely as good of a deal as the Democrats are going to get.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
Reinstates fired federal workers. Prevents admin from re-firing them. SNAP funding for a year, and an ACA vote in December.
Voters are already blaming the GOP for the ACA - make them vote against it.
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Setting aside this is transparently the squishies trying to pressure vs an actual done deal, something I think a lot of folks on here have not effectively come to terms with is actually getting change on the subsidies was always a dead letter
Also small but non zero chance point 3 drives a veto lol
Also small but non zero chance point 3 drives a veto lol
"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Setting aside this is transparently the squishies trying to pressure vs an actual done deal, something I think a lot of folks on here have not effectively come to terms with is actually getting change on the subsidies was always a dead letter
Also small but non zero chance point 3 drives a veto lol
Also small but non zero chance point 3 drives a veto lol
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Hey @NBCNews, who cares? Americans are standing in bread lines, air traffic controllers haven’t been paid in over a month, and Trump’s tariffs are wreaking havoc on our economy. Why is THIS news?👇
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hey @NBCNews, who cares? Americans are standing in bread lines, air traffic controllers haven’t been paid in over a month, and Trump’s tariffs are wreaking havoc on our economy. Why is THIS news?👇
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There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.
Cowards
Cowards
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask.
Cowards
Cowards
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just a small town boat
getting stuck in
SOUTH DETROIT
getting stuck in
SOUTH DETROIT
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
just a small town boat
getting stuck in
SOUTH DETROIT
getting stuck in
SOUTH DETROIT