Jeffrey Deutsch
@jeffreydeutsch.bsky.social
Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Political / social / cultural wild card; my stance depends on the issue. Enjoy history, politics, law, economics, and business.
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Wow! A new low for Ken Paxton. His deranged press release claims that there cannot be any legitimate purpose for legal defense for people facing deportation — effectively saying that removal defense is not legitimate and only “radicals” would want people to have lawyers.
Horrid stuff from him.
Horrid stuff from him.
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wow! A new low for Ken Paxton. His deranged press release claims that there cannot be any legitimate purpose for legal defense for people facing deportation — effectively saying that removal defense is not legitimate and only “radicals” would want people to have lawyers.
Horrid stuff from him.
Horrid stuff from him.
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Neurodivergent friendship is a funny thing. You can find your people and have amazing connections with them, but be too overwhelmed with life to stay in touch, but miss them dearly and feel lonely, but be too burnt out to even send a text. 😩
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Neurodivergent friendship is a funny thing. You can find your people and have amazing connections with them, but be too overwhelmed with life to stay in touch, but miss them dearly and feel lonely, but be too burnt out to even send a text. 😩
On my way to go to the library to look up stuff and make copies. Then stop by a pay phone to call for a ride home.
Who remembers, having to get your film developed?
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
On my way to go to the library to look up stuff and make copies. Then stop by a pay phone to call for a ride home.
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This shutdown was better than no shutdown, but @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is right that it could have been better and achieved more. And that the country needs a real, strong, committed opposition party. Not there yet. www.arcdigital.media/p/democrats-...
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
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November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This shutdown was better than no shutdown, but @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is right that it could have been better and achieved more. And that the country needs a real, strong, committed opposition party. Not there yet. www.arcdigital.media/p/democrats-...
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This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
I wonder what the Venn diagram is between those denouncing appeasements like this and those who celebrated Title IX consent decree after consent decree enabling the Office of Civil Rights to dictate college sexual assault and sexual harassment policies.
Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants.
Appeasers.
Appeasers.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I wonder what the Venn diagram is between those denouncing appeasements like this and those who celebrated Title IX consent decree after consent decree enabling the Office of Civil Rights to dictate college sexual assault and sexual harassment policies.
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The most important takeaway from Tuesday night’s elections — the one that has real implications for 2026 and 2028 — is that Democrats won EVERYWHERE, in many cases improving their 2024 performance by striking margins.
Opinion | America’s voters are perpetually angry. Tuesday proved it again.
Speaker Mike Johnson was misguided Wednesday when he said of Tuesday's elections, “I don’t think the loss last night was any reflection about Republicans at all.”
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November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The most important takeaway from Tuesday night’s elections — the one that has real implications for 2026 and 2028 — is that Democrats won EVERYWHERE, in many cases improving their 2024 performance by striking margins.
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“Yesterday’s vote shows that the path to defeating Trumpism is not accommodating it, but opposing it with the values of freedom, equality, and affordability.”
Democrats Sweep 2025 Elections, 2024 Narratives Crumble
In state and local elections, American voters repudiated Donald Trump's presidency, and disproved claims of a lasting right-wing cultural shift
www.arcdigital.media
November 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“Yesterday’s vote shows that the path to defeating Trumpism is not accommodating it, but opposing it with the values of freedom, equality, and affordability.”
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I cannot agree more! The cost of making all vaccines free will be completely offset by lives saved and all the morbidity & hospical costs averted
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free
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thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free
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thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free | The Tyee
COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.
thetyee.ca
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I cannot agree more! The cost of making all vaccines free will be completely offset by lives saved and all the morbidity & hospical costs averted
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free
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thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Why All Vaccines Should Be Free
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For the second time in a little over a week, ICE officers reportedly shot someone in Los Angeles.
This time, it was a US citizen who ICE officers shot from behind after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.
This time, it was a US citizen who ICE officers shot from behind after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.
Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids
According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.
www.motherjones.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
For the second time in a little over a week, ICE officers reportedly shot someone in Los Angeles.
This time, it was a US citizen who ICE officers shot from behind after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.
This time, it was a US citizen who ICE officers shot from behind after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.
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Extreme gerrymandering. Nationalizing voter suppression. Weaponizing law enforcement. Occupying Democratic cities.
Trump is pulling out all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to rig the next election.
Trump is pulling out all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to rig the next election.
Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their…
www.motherjones.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Extreme gerrymandering. Nationalizing voter suppression. Weaponizing law enforcement. Occupying Democratic cities.
Trump is pulling out all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to rig the next election.
Trump is pulling out all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to rig the next election.
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Who did this?!
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Who did this?!
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In my first management role I fired a man who came in late every day, made more mistakes than anyone else, and was rude to customers. Two months later I heard he'd become homeless and two months after that I attended his funeral. I've never quite decided how culpable I was.
November 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In my first management role I fired a man who came in late every day, made more mistakes than anyone else, and was rude to customers. Two months later I heard he'd become homeless and two months after that I attended his funeral. I've never quite decided how culpable I was.
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Liberals—and hip Brooklyn bands—can fantasize about tax strikes, but the IRS holds all the cards.
Sorry Geese: If you don't pay your taxes, Uncle Sam may have you plucked
Liberals—and hip Brooklyn bands—can fantasize about tax strikes, but the IRS holds all the cards.
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November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Liberals—and hip Brooklyn bands—can fantasize about tax strikes, but the IRS holds all the cards.
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Retired Lt Gen Mark Hertling: If I were a commander today, I would not sign an NDA like the one reportedly being circulated in the Southern Command theater. Not out of defiance, but out of respect for the oath I took to support and defend the Constitution. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-milita...
Why Commanders Don’t Sign NDAs
Existing rules and laws applying to military secrecy are sufficient—and asking officers to sign NDAs is deeply inappropriate.
www.thebulwark.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Retired Lt Gen Mark Hertling: If I were a commander today, I would not sign an NDA like the one reportedly being circulated in the Southern Command theater. Not out of defiance, but out of respect for the oath I took to support and defend the Constitution. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-milita...
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WILD story. A DHS officer shot at a man he thought was fleeing (a judge dismissed all charges). Bullets went into the driver's side window, through his jacket collar, and into the empty passenger seat. An MPD cop on the scene says he was ordered not to put it in the police report.
A D.C. task force shot at a driver. It’s not in the police report.
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
WILD story. A DHS officer shot at a man he thought was fleeing (a judge dismissed all charges). Bullets went into the driver's side window, through his jacket collar, and into the empty passenger seat. An MPD cop on the scene says he was ordered not to put it in the police report.
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I got some reader mail today from flavadave7 at aol dot com.
He seems nice, but I didn’t respond as I feel we have little in common and any discussion would likely be fruitless.
He seems nice, but I didn’t respond as I feel we have little in common and any discussion would likely be fruitless.
October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I got some reader mail today from flavadave7 at aol dot com.
He seems nice, but I didn’t respond as I feel we have little in common and any discussion would likely be fruitless.
He seems nice, but I didn’t respond as I feel we have little in common and any discussion would likely be fruitless.
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Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Fantasised about my wife's hot friend for years, finally had a foursome with her & her husband. Gutted to say she was really boring in bed. My wife & the hung husband had a blast though ' they all want to do it again. Be careful what you wish for.
October 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Fantasised about my wife's hot friend for years, finally had a foursome with her & her husband. Gutted to say she was really boring in bed. My wife & the hung husband had a blast though ' they all want to do it again. Be careful what you wish for.
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So much is happening that it's easy to forget the anti-democratic actions of a week, month or year ago.
That's why CREW is tracking some of the key ways that Trump is dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time:
That's why CREW is tracking some of the key ways that Trump is dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time:
How President Trump is dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
CREW is tracking anti-democratic ethics, transparency and accountability actions that Trump has taken in his second term.
www.citizensforethics.org
October 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
So much is happening that it's easy to forget the anti-democratic actions of a week, month or year ago.
That's why CREW is tracking some of the key ways that Trump is dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time:
That's why CREW is tracking some of the key ways that Trump is dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time:
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Back in the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers made fun of President Lyndon Johnson and his policies many times on their popular television show. The president wrote them a letter in response.
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Back in the 1960s, the Smothers Brothers made fun of President Lyndon Johnson and his policies many times on their popular television show. The president wrote them a letter in response.
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This @nytimes.com piece by @poojasalhotra.bsky.social synthesizes the 3 ways Trump is undermining Iowa's economy: tariffs, deportations, and attacks on renewable energy. All of this affects everyone. Hope to see similar stories every day w different datelines. Gifted🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
In Trump-Friendly Iowa, the President’s Policies Have Hit Hard
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October 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This @nytimes.com piece by @poojasalhotra.bsky.social synthesizes the 3 ways Trump is undermining Iowa's economy: tariffs, deportations, and attacks on renewable energy. All of this affects everyone. Hope to see similar stories every day w different datelines. Gifted🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...