Jonathan Lowe
@jonlowe.bsky.social
Bureaucrat for Justice. Policy innovation serving the Common Good is a worthy craft. Fighting for the lives of my two transgender children.
Smart policy!
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Smart policy!
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I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.
1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports.
He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.
It's so much worse than being reported.
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He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.
It's so much worse than being reported.
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CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast
The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.
www.erininthemorning.com
August 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.
I just watched Pete Hegseth’s speech. He is a dangerous unserious person with a lot of power. He is racist, misogynist, anti-LGBT, & transphobic and he can operationalize that, putting service members and our nation at risk.
Theme song from Monty Python’s Flying Circus played as he left the stage.
Theme song from Monty Python’s Flying Circus played as he left the stage.
September 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I just watched Pete Hegseth’s speech. He is a dangerous unserious person with a lot of power. He is racist, misogynist, anti-LGBT, & transphobic and he can operationalize that, putting service members and our nation at risk.
Theme song from Monty Python’s Flying Circus played as he left the stage.
Theme song from Monty Python’s Flying Circus played as he left the stage.
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Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands
Military personnel were seen trading in automatic weapons for mandolins and zithers.
open.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Why the cover-up?
July 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Why the cover-up?
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The long-term effects of Trump's policies are projected to translate into an 8% reduction in US GPD, a two-year loss in average life expectancy, and hundreds of thousands of deaths in the developing world annually. But at least he doesn't trip over his words the way Biden did.
June 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The long-term effects of Trump's policies are projected to translate into an 8% reduction in US GPD, a two-year loss in average life expectancy, and hundreds of thousands of deaths in the developing world annually. But at least he doesn't trip over his words the way Biden did.
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he's right and he's right to say it
June 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
he's right and he's right to say it
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Before endorsing Andrew Cuomo, I sat him down for a long talk, and we agreed that any future sexual contact he has with interns will be far more consensual.
by Bill Clinton
by Bill Clinton
June 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Before endorsing Andrew Cuomo, I sat him down for a long talk, and we agreed that any future sexual contact he has with interns will be far more consensual.
by Bill Clinton
by Bill Clinton
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"According to our back-of-the-envelope math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4-6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2-1.8% of the U.S. population attended a No Kings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday."
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"According to our back-of-the-envelope math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4-6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2-1.8% of the U.S. population attended a No Kings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday."
Louisville in the streets
June 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Louisville in the streets
No Kings Louisville. Many thousands.
June 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
No Kings Louisville. Many thousands.
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
June 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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The benefit of cutting social programs was never about saving money. The “benefit” of cutting social programs is keeping “those” people in their place. Its about making sure lower status groups can’t move up the social hierarchy ladder and challenge the “real americans.”
The poverty team at Columbia ran the numbers on *just* the Thrifty rollback and *just* on families with kids and found that for every $1 in cuts ("savings"), we all lose $14-20. My goodness.
povertycenter.columbia.edu/sites/povert...
povertycenter.columbia.edu/sites/povert...
June 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The benefit of cutting social programs was never about saving money. The “benefit” of cutting social programs is keeping “those” people in their place. Its about making sure lower status groups can’t move up the social hierarchy ladder and challenge the “real americans.”
Reading Theater Kid by Kefferey Seller. Memoir of the theatrical producer of Avenue Q, Rent, In the Heights, and Hamilton.
Some list!
Some list!
June 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reading Theater Kid by Kefferey Seller. Memoir of the theatrical producer of Avenue Q, Rent, In the Heights, and Hamilton.
Some list!
Some list!
As a Louisvillian, I’m outraged.
"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM.
All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed.
There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..."
www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed.
There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..."
www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
Did staffing cuts at weather service affect Kentucky’s tornado response?
Due to staffing shortages, the National Weather Service in Jackson no longer has overnight staff. But NWS and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear say the office was staffed Friday night and early Saturday.
www.kentucky.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
As a Louisvillian, I’m outraged.
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Mainstream media needs to stop pointing out what "RFK Jr. gets right," because there are many, many trained public health officials who get the same things right without all the batshit crazy eugenics and woo.
May 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Mainstream media needs to stop pointing out what "RFK Jr. gets right," because there are many, many trained public health officials who get the same things right without all the batshit crazy eugenics and woo.
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Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
May 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
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“Do not mock us.”
May 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“Do not mock us.”
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
Very proud to have received the Abolitionist/Ally of the Year award at the JCPS Educators of Color Award event this evening.
I have always tried to incorporate my commitment to racial justice and LGBTQ justice in my policy work for the school district. So this recognition means a lot in my heart.
I have always tried to incorporate my commitment to racial justice and LGBTQ justice in my policy work for the school district. So this recognition means a lot in my heart.
April 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Very proud to have received the Abolitionist/Ally of the Year award at the JCPS Educators of Color Award event this evening.
I have always tried to incorporate my commitment to racial justice and LGBTQ justice in my policy work for the school district. So this recognition means a lot in my heart.
I have always tried to incorporate my commitment to racial justice and LGBTQ justice in my policy work for the school district. So this recognition means a lot in my heart.
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American Warfighter!
Pete Hegseth just ordered the installation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon for him to prepare for his television appearances, which will cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to build.
Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
www.cbsnews.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
American Warfighter!
This made me tear up a little bit. How fucking beautiful and powerful.
NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
April 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This made me tear up a little bit. How fucking beautiful and powerful.