Paul
@paulkva.bsky.social
#DC area #software engineer but nothing to do with any gov't. Interests include #photography, #architecture (computers, homes, landscapes), #bicycling, hiking, and home automation. Band parent of college-age twins. He/him.
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Note two important things here:
Jones defeated an incumbent, AG Jason Miyares.
And, this means one less key AG siding with Trump — and another AG and AG's Office that will be litigating against Trump.
Jones defeated an incumbent, AG Jason Miyares.
And, this means one less key AG siding with Trump — and another AG and AG's Office that will be litigating against Trump.
JUST IN: And, a closer race, but a huge result: Decision Desk HQ has called Virginia AG for Jones, the Democrat. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Note two important things here:
Jones defeated an incumbent, AG Jason Miyares.
And, this means one less key AG siding with Trump — and another AG and AG's Office that will be litigating against Trump.
Jones defeated an incumbent, AG Jason Miyares.
And, this means one less key AG siding with Trump — and another AG and AG's Office that will be litigating against Trump.
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Whew!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 #Virginia
JUST IN: And, a closer race, but a huge result: Decision Desk HQ has called Virginia AG for Jones, the Democrat. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Whew!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 #Virginia
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JUST IN: And, a closer race, but a huge result: Decision Desk HQ has called Virginia AG for Jones, the Democrat. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
JUST IN: And, a closer race, but a huge result: Decision Desk HQ has called Virginia AG for Jones, the Democrat. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
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I really need for people to see & acknowledge that the open racism & sexism in US public life today are directly downstream of the decade-long effort to destroy "woke," ie, anti-racism & anti-sexism. This was always the point.
October 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I really need for people to see & acknowledge that the open racism & sexism in US public life today are directly downstream of the decade-long effort to destroy "woke," ie, anti-racism & anti-sexism. This was always the point.
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If only there’d been signs
July 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If only there’d been signs
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June 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.
June 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.
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Republicans can end the tariffs whenever they want to do so. They are choosing to go along for the ride.
April 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Republicans can end the tariffs whenever they want to do so. They are choosing to go along for the ride.
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I'm just a old country website proprietor but im gonna guess that having a far-right militia with guys dressed up as Hitler as the defense/face of a company which sells high dollar electric cars probably isn't as strong a business proposition as some people seem to imagine.
March 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I'm just a old country website proprietor but im gonna guess that having a far-right militia with guys dressed up as Hitler as the defense/face of a company which sells high dollar electric cars probably isn't as strong a business proposition as some people seem to imagine.
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Seems Friday is now weekly bloodbath day for federal worker terminations.
March 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Seems Friday is now weekly bloodbath day for federal worker terminations.
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And this is why they want to get rid of history books.
March 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
And this is why they want to get rid of history books.
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Caving is a well-practiced art of Senate leaders that is essential to keeping the institution in its current format, with a 60-vote filibuster and unanimous consent needed for many tasks every day.
What’s new this time is caving on a long-term, partisan $ bill w/o input from the minority at all.
What’s new this time is caving on a long-term, partisan $ bill w/o input from the minority at all.
March 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Caving is a well-practiced art of Senate leaders that is essential to keeping the institution in its current format, with a 60-vote filibuster and unanimous consent needed for many tasks every day.
What’s new this time is caving on a long-term, partisan $ bill w/o input from the minority at all.
What’s new this time is caving on a long-term, partisan $ bill w/o input from the minority at all.
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The point of repeating antisemitic tropes while claiming to fight antisemitism is to evacuate any meaning from the term "antisemitism"
My latest essay: "'Antisemitism' and Antisemitism: The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
My latest essay: "'Antisemitism' and Antisemitism: The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
March 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The point of repeating antisemitic tropes while claiming to fight antisemitism is to evacuate any meaning from the term "antisemitism"
My latest essay: "'Antisemitism' and Antisemitism: The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
My latest essay: "'Antisemitism' and Antisemitism: The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon"
snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
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If you're a journalist calling this in any form or manner a "clean CR", even semi-clean, you're lying to your readers.
March 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you're a journalist calling this in any form or manner a "clean CR", even semi-clean, you're lying to your readers.
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The Columbia deportation case is bad enough on its own — but the precedent is worse. People can be deported without breaking a law because of a vague reference to foreign policy.
March 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The Columbia deportation case is bad enough on its own — but the precedent is worse. People can be deported without breaking a law because of a vague reference to foreign policy.
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Build a high-income/high-price electric vehicle in which the core market is affluent liberals. Then go full Nazi and try to overthrow the government. Solid marketing move.
March 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Build a high-income/high-price electric vehicle in which the core market is affluent liberals. Then go full Nazi and try to overthrow the government. Solid marketing move.
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March 7, 2025
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Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white.
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March 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Donald Trumps two biggest strategic allies appear to be Russia and cancer.
NEW: The National Cancer Institute will be a no-show this year at the the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Reearch, per internal NIH/NCI guidance dated March 4th, 2025.
March 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Donald Trumps two biggest strategic allies appear to be Russia and cancer.
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"Unconstitutional" seems like too mild a term for this.
So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.
Like huh it’s almost as if this information is inconsistent with the government’s representations in court that Amy Gleason, not Musk, is in charge of DOGE, and that agency heads, not DOGE, are responsible for the cuts
March 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Unconstitutional" seems like too mild a term for this.
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Everybody (me included) is getting bogged down on the details of events at NIH et al. Fatal mistake. The big picture is Musk/Trump are trying to shut down all gov-funded Medical/Disease research in the US. Have to understand that to have any hope of stopping it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now
Act Now
I may do a longer, maybe several longer versions of this post....
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Everybody (me included) is getting bogged down on the details of events at NIH et al. Fatal mistake. The big picture is Musk/Trump are trying to shut down all gov-funded Medical/Disease research in the US. Have to understand that to have any hope of stopping it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now
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1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH.
An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.
An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.
Trump credit card freeze crippling cancer and Alzheimer's research
On February 26, President Trump issued an executive order expanding the power of the United States DOGE Service (DOGE), the government initiative controlled by Elon Musk.
popular.info
March 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH.
An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.
An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.