JMathews 🚛😵👻👍
@lazybirder.bsky.social
Birder. Retired. Living the good life. Former Hill staffer + non-profit public lands advocate.
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This should have been Tim Kaine. Spineless.
I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This should have been Tim Kaine. Spineless.
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Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 3:54 PM
From Trump early this morning: “We are taking in Trillions of Dollars [with tariffs]…”
So, I assume that means he’ll begin immediately to restore SNAP payments and agree to extend ACA subsidies!
www.brookings.edu/articles/tar...
So, I assume that means he’ll begin immediately to restore SNAP payments and agree to extend ACA subsidies!
www.brookings.edu/articles/tar...
Tariffs are a particularly bad way to raise revenue | Brookings
In this explainer, Jay C. Shambaugh shows why tariffs are a particularly bad way to raise funds for the U.S. government.
www.brookings.edu
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
From Trump early this morning: “We are taking in Trillions of Dollars [with tariffs]…”
So, I assume that means he’ll begin immediately to restore SNAP payments and agree to extend ACA subsidies!
www.brookings.edu/articles/tar...
So, I assume that means he’ll begin immediately to restore SNAP payments and agree to extend ACA subsidies!
www.brookings.edu/articles/tar...
In celebration of yesterday’s stunning election results, here’s a Crimson Finch & Northern Rosella from NT, Australia 🇦🇺 #birds #electionsmatter
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
In celebration of yesterday’s stunning election results, here’s a Crimson Finch & Northern Rosella from NT, Australia 🇦🇺 #birds #electionsmatter
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Know your rights when voting today.
November 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Know your rights when voting today.
Frogs in the Tablelands of Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 (sound on)
October 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Frogs in the Tablelands of Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 (sound on)
Thank you Wonkette for the laugh and the story—https://www.wonkette.com/p/girlfriend-in-antifa-i-know-i-know?r=wm53
Girlfriend In Antifa, I Know, I Know, It's Serious. Tabs, Friday, Oct. 10
Your morning news roundup and things to read!
www.wonkette.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Thank you Wonkette for the laugh and the story—https://www.wonkette.com/p/girlfriend-in-antifa-i-know-i-know?r=wm53
September 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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They sent a letter! POW! Asking for a meeting! BAM! To discuss a path forward! BOOM! To keep funding Trump’s takeover! ZAP!
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., have sent a letter to Trump requesting a meeting to discuss a path forward to keep the government open past the September 30th funding deadline.
Schumer, Jeffries request meeting with Trump ahead of potential government shutdown
The request comes after the U.S. Senate rejected a stopgap measure that would have kept the government open another few weeks.
nbcnews.to
September 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
They sent a letter! POW! Asking for a meeting! BAM! To discuss a path forward! BOOM! To keep funding Trump’s takeover! ZAP!
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At this point it's not that he doesn't get the fact that we're in an existential battle for the survival of American democracy. It's that he doesn't give a shit. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Schumer: "What we are asking, very simply, is what has always been done in these kinds of budget negotiations -- a bipartisan negotiation."
September 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
At this point it's not that he doesn't get the fact that we're in an existential battle for the survival of American democracy. It's that he doesn't give a shit. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
September 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited