Russell Sharp
@russms.bsky.social
Finance lawyer living in Brooklyn. New Jersey native. Rutgers undergrad, Michigan Law. Mets fan. he/him/his
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
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I don’t understand how someone who follows politics *for a living* can still be regurgitating middle school social studies talking points about the purpose of the Senate instead of, you know, looking at how the Senate actually operates in real life.
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I don’t understand how someone who follows politics *for a living* can still be regurgitating middle school social studies talking points about the purpose of the Senate instead of, you know, looking at how the Senate actually operates in real life.
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No I don’t want Democrats to add two new states. I want them to add three! www.wsj.com/world/guam-u...
A Campaign to Make Guam the 51st State Is Gaining Traction
A U.S. military buildup stokes efforts to change the political status of the island in China’s crosshairs.
www.wsj.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
No I don’t want Democrats to add two new states. I want them to add three! www.wsj.com/world/guam-u...
Agreed with this! Mattingly was a fine player, but I think the line should be drawn somewhere between "fine" and "all time great" and he's just not in the latter group. Could be pro-Yankee bias, yet multiple non-HOF Yankees of his era have better HOF cases: Randolph, Munson, Nettles, even Guidry
new @fangraphs.com: with all due respect to Donnie Baseball and his long battle over sideburns, I'm a bit weary of seeing him on Hall of Fame ballots. The numbers just aren't there.
2026 Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Candidate: Don Mattingly blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-contemp...
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Agreed with this! Mattingly was a fine player, but I think the line should be drawn somewhere between "fine" and "all time great" and he's just not in the latter group. Could be pro-Yankee bias, yet multiple non-HOF Yankees of his era have better HOF cases: Randolph, Munson, Nettles, even Guidry
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Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
Anyway, my pet idea is not just to expand the court (sure, do that) but also to strip it of jurisdiction over constitutional law and then give that power to a newly created constitutional court under the exceptions and regulations clause of Article III, Section 2
The Republican justices are bigots who will continue to abuse their power to harm people they dislike for bigoted reasons as long as they are able to do so. Democrats can stop this if they can take back control of the Senate and find the will to do away with the filibuster. Expand the court.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation.
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Anyway, my pet idea is not just to expand the court (sure, do that) but also to strip it of jurisdiction over constitutional law and then give that power to a newly created constitutional court under the exceptions and regulations clause of Article III, Section 2
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A non-negotiable for Democrats in the 2028 primaries is that they must promise to expand and reform the court. The Supreme Court has lost all legitimacy to rule and it needs to be completely overhauled. Nothing less would be an abject failure and acquiescence to Republican ratfucking of the court.
SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants.
This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A non-negotiable for Democrats in the 2028 primaries is that they must promise to expand and reform the court. The Supreme Court has lost all legitimacy to rule and it needs to be completely overhauled. Nothing less would be an abject failure and acquiescence to Republican ratfucking of the court.
Before any centrist journalists give credit to Graham for holding the line as anti-Hitler (not that you should get any credit for that), let's see him actually hold the line. If we rewind the tape to 2015-2016, we can find him saying some pretty negative stuff about Trump, and what happened there?
Coming out as anti-Hitler has led Tucker Carlson, Mollie Hemingway, and Sean Davis to call for Graham to be primaried www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
The Republican party is doing neo-Nazism the right way - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Nazis In the Big Tent sounds like a Dead Milkmen song, but they would have meant it ironically. In a loose, rosy-cheeked speech, Graham affirmed that he’s in the “Hitler sucks wing of the Republican P...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Before any centrist journalists give credit to Graham for holding the line as anti-Hitler (not that you should get any credit for that), let's see him actually hold the line. If we rewind the tape to 2015-2016, we can find him saying some pretty negative stuff about Trump, and what happened there?
The Republican justices are bigots who will continue to abuse their power to harm people they dislike for bigoted reasons as long as they are able to do so. Democrats can stop this if they can take back control of the Senate and find the will to do away with the filibuster. Expand the court.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation.
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A319
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. ASHTON ORR, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[November 6, 2025]
This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreievxyvqikl7wmrg5jkqhsrta5l5xfq272x7caunvxka7vtuzp7hoa@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Republican justices are bigots who will continue to abuse their power to harm people they dislike for bigoted reasons as long as they are able to do so. Democrats can stop this if they can take back control of the Senate and find the will to do away with the filibuster. Expand the court.
This touches on something I’ve been a broken record about: Elon Musk becoming a neo-Nazi was the best think to happen to Mark Zuckerberg because it makes it so much easier to overlook what a repellent worm Zuck is
Wrote about that fantastic Reuters report on mankind's worst company having 10% of its revenue come from scams www.splinter.com/meta-is-a-fr...
Meta Is a Fraudulent Company Run By a Clueless, Creepy Boy King
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This touches on something I’ve been a broken record about: Elon Musk becoming a neo-Nazi was the best think to happen to Mark Zuckerberg because it makes it so much easier to overlook what a repellent worm Zuck is
I don’t know who still looks at political cartoons these days but I hope there are people out there who do because Luckovich has been killing it this year
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I don’t know who still looks at political cartoons these days but I hope there are people out there who do because Luckovich has been killing it this year
Sex pest solidarity
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sex pest solidarity
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Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.
You can’t negotiate with people like that.
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Jay Jones definitely the funniest win of the night
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Jay Jones definitely the funniest win of the night
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The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The public-facing side of American conservative politics more or less amounts to crashing out constantly about a bunch of shit that either you or the weird liars you listen to uncritically have made up. The non-public part, from what we've seen of the chat logs and such, is somehow much worse.
Really feels like Trump’s thugs are violently terrorizing the public in hopes of creating the sort of escalation that would give Trump the excuse that he and Stephen Miller desperately want to open fire on civilians
NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Really feels like Trump’s thugs are violently terrorizing the public in hopes of creating the sort of escalation that would give Trump the excuse that he and Stephen Miller desperately want to open fire on civilians
Harming cis people who don’t precisely conform to the right’s ideas about gender (even if the way in which they don’t conform is coming down with cancer) is a feature, not a bug, of the right’s campaign of virulent bigotry against trans people
NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer.
The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.
The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Harming cis people who don’t precisely conform to the right’s ideas about gender (even if the way in which they don’t conform is coming down with cancer) is a feature, not a bug, of the right’s campaign of virulent bigotry against trans people
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My favourite of the Cow Tools edits
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
My favourite of the Cow Tools edits
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The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
He's doing a sleazy move where the word "heritage," as he's using it, technically could be read to cover any collective history without normative weight (and that obviously includes the confederacy). But we all know it has a positive connotation in this context—he just pretends not to. What a worm.
Some people will bend over backwards to create moral equivalencies that ignore salient facts. The vast majority of statues that have been removed over the past decade have come down following public input, a review by local government officials, and a final vote.
October 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
He's doing a sleazy move where the word "heritage," as he's using it, technically could be read to cover any collective history without normative weight (and that obviously includes the confederacy). But we all know it has a positive connotation in this context—he just pretends not to. What a worm.
Blake Szell
A shiny new donkey for whoever can find clips from the 2023 or '24 start against the Dodgers where Snell made Orel Hershiser sound as if he were enduring oral surgery at the hands of a sadistic dentist.
October 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Blake Szell
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This should be everyone’s response to Graham Platner, from when he first emerged on the stage to what we learned in the last few days:
a man in a green suit and tie is smiling while sitting at a table .
ALT: a man in a green suit and tie is smiling while sitting at a table .
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This should be everyone’s response to Graham Platner, from when he first emerged on the stage to what we learned in the last few days:
There is zero possibility of making any improvements to the ACA if Democrats do not control Congress and the presidency. Republicans at the federal level have done nothing but undermine it and many still want it repealed. Reporters for the NYT should not pretend not to understand this
bluesky is an even weirder place than twitter. does my post say we should repeal Obamacare
no
does it say that the institutionalist instinct to devote so much emotion to defense of it rather than sympathizing with what it didnt/still has not fixed (for many) is misplaced?
yes. and i stand by that
no
does it say that the institutionalist instinct to devote so much emotion to defense of it rather than sympathizing with what it didnt/still has not fixed (for many) is misplaced?
yes. and i stand by that
this dickhead didn’t post this to bsky, but fuck you @talsmith.bsky.social . this legislation saved my life. condescending piece of shit.
October 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There is zero possibility of making any improvements to the ACA if Democrats do not control Congress and the presidency. Republicans at the federal level have done nothing but undermine it and many still want it repealed. Reporters for the NYT should not pretend not to understand this