Jim Raffensperger
@jimraff.bsky.social
No relation to Brad
Find little sparks of joy to spite the horrors.
Find little sparks of joy to spite the horrors.
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This, from @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in 2019, is important background to the congressional discussion we're about to see.
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Barr’s Playbook: He Misled Congress When Omitting Parts of Justice Dep’t Memo in 1989
When Bill Barr was head of Office of Legal Counsel, he gave Congress the legal conclusions and reasoning of an important Justice Department memo but left out major portions of it. When the full memo w...
www.justsecurity.org
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
This, from @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in 2019, is important background to the congressional discussion we're about to see.
www.justsecurity.org/63635/barrs-...
www.justsecurity.org/63635/barrs-...
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Hey folks,
Tomorrow on my live podcast, “History Matters:”
Talkin’ About a Revolution:
1776 and Now
Man, oh man.
What a year to ponder resistance!
The past is alive.
Join us!
Friday
10AM ET
On my YouTube channel:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Tomorrow on my live podcast, “History Matters:”
Talkin’ About a Revolution:
1776 and Now
Man, oh man.
What a year to ponder resistance!
The past is alive.
Join us!
Friday
10AM ET
On my YouTube channel:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Dr. Joanne Freeman
Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...
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January 2, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Hey folks,
Tomorrow on my live podcast, “History Matters:”
Talkin’ About a Revolution:
1776 and Now
Man, oh man.
What a year to ponder resistance!
The past is alive.
Join us!
Friday
10AM ET
On my YouTube channel:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
Tomorrow on my live podcast, “History Matters:”
Talkin’ About a Revolution:
1776 and Now
Man, oh man.
What a year to ponder resistance!
The past is alive.
Join us!
Friday
10AM ET
On my YouTube channel:
m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
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Screaming!
December 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Screaming!
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ICYMI: The deposition transcript of Former Special Counsel, Jack Smith, has been released by the House Judiciary Committee.
(I’ll share my thoughts and observations after I’ve had the chance to review it.)
judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
(I’ll share my thoughts and observations after I’ve had the chance to review it.)
judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
judiciary.house.gov
December 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ICYMI: The deposition transcript of Former Special Counsel, Jack Smith, has been released by the House Judiciary Committee.
(I’ll share my thoughts and observations after I’ve had the chance to review it.)
judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
(I’ll share my thoughts and observations after I’ve had the chance to review it.)
judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
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December 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
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I said it better on Instagram
December 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I said it better on Instagram
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 5/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 5/5
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 3/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 3/5
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 2/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 2/5
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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"I honestly don’t care especially if the president insults a governor. It’s unbecoming of what the presidency should be, but that ship’s long since sailed. But by making bigotry explicit, Trump and his closest imitators create a permission structure for people to be their worst selves."
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"I honestly don’t care especially if the president insults a governor. It’s unbecoming of what the presidency should be, but that ship’s long since sailed. But by making bigotry explicit, Trump and his closest imitators create a permission structure for people to be their worst selves."
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A beautiful thing
A sweet to remember
"We are closer to Spring
than we were in September."
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
In the dark of December
A beautiful thing
A sweet to remember
"We are closer to Spring
than we were in September."
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
Happy Winter Solstice ❄️
Make sure to get outside today, make use of every bit of daylight we have and when the night comes, know that tomorrow will be that little bit lighter 🙌🏻
📸 Lesley Marshall
Make sure to get outside today, make use of every bit of daylight we have and when the night comes, know that tomorrow will be that little bit lighter 🙌🏻
📸 Lesley Marshall
December 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A beautiful thing
A sweet to remember
"We are closer to Spring
than we were in September."
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
In the dark of December
A beautiful thing
A sweet to remember
"We are closer to Spring
than we were in September."
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Happy Solstice everyone!!
December 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Happy Solstice everyone!!
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Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
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meanwhile, the US attorney general also wants to categorize trans equality activists as belonging to “designated terrorist organizations”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
meanwhile, the US attorney general also wants to categorize trans equality activists as belonging to “designated terrorist organizations”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
a leaked Justice Department memo from December 9th added “radical gender ideology” as part of its definition of “domestic terrorism”.
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He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
December 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
He'll start a war to:
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
1. Distract from the Epstein Files
2. Steal oil
3. Justify emergency powers
4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment
5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned
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Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board for defamation
Now the defendants are demanding his tax returns, psych records, and prescription history as part of discovery
Now the defendants are demanding his tax returns, psych records, and prescription history as part of discovery
December 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board for defamation
Now the defendants are demanding his tax returns, psych records, and prescription history as part of discovery
Now the defendants are demanding his tax returns, psych records, and prescription history as part of discovery
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Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board for defamation
Now the defendants are demanding his tax returns, psych records, and prescription history as part of discovery
Now the defendants are demanding his tax returns, psych records, and prescription history as part of discovery
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
👀
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Inspired by an exchange here yesterday, I wrote up a short piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about an infamous Lee Atwater quotation that just about everyone gets wrong.
Southern Strategies
This week, I saw someone on social media trot out a notorious quote from Lee Atwater that's wildly misunderstood. I went back to dust off my old Twitter thread about it, but I found that a lot of the ...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Inspired by an exchange here yesterday, I wrote up a short piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about an infamous Lee Atwater quotation that just about everyone gets wrong.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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