Shannon Taylor
@shannontaylor.bsky.social
Mom of 4, writer, editor, rower, knitter, piano player, Team Golden Retriever. Made in MN. WIP: novel about women rowers on a PNW island.
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Shannon Taylor
@shannontaylor.bsky.social
· Apr 19
The concept of due process dates back to 1215 when King John promised that no free man would be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Due process means you are innocent until proven guilty and is essential for a truly free society. @meidastouch.com @vanhollen.senate.gov
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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Today Republicans will publicly flood social media with sanctimonious tributes to our veterans while quietly dishonoring them through their inaction on ACA subsidies, which, if not renewed, will result in more than a quarter million veterans losing their healthcare. No surprise though… 1/2
As many as 267,000 U.S. veterans will lose their healthcare because Congress has failed to extend the health care tax credit, which expires soon.
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
americanscovered.org/267000-u-s-v...
267,000 U.S. Veterans to Lose Their Coverage without Health Care Tax Credit
As many as 267,000 U.S. military veterans are set to lose their health coverage next year because Congress has so
americanscovered.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Today Republicans will publicly flood social media with sanctimonious tributes to our veterans while quietly dishonoring them through their inaction on ACA subsidies, which, if not renewed, will result in more than a quarter million veterans losing their healthcare. No surprise though… 1/2
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
Wut?
Trump: "All we want is voter ID. You go to a grocery store, you have to give ID. You go to a gas station, you give ID. But for voting they want no voter ID. It's only for one reason: because they cheat."
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Wut?
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I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.
Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
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The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
www.inquirer.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
Oof.
MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too
D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?
J: I didn't see it
D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.
October 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Oof.
The horrible, horrible irony.
BREAKING: South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) an anti-LGBTQ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — pleaded guilty last Friday to distributing child sex abuse material
Not a Drag Queen or Transgender— just another MAGA Republican hurting kids.
Surprised?!
Not a Drag Queen or Transgender— just another MAGA Republican hurting kids.
Surprised?!
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The horrible, horrible irony.
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So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits:
September 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits:
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The big difference between now and the '70s?
Corporate concentration.
If there’s no competition, high prices don’t go away. They turn into record profits while wages stagnate.
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Corporate concentration.
If there’s no competition, high prices don’t go away. They turn into record profits while wages stagnate.
buff.ly/VvVZSMG
September 13, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The big difference between now and the '70s?
Corporate concentration.
If there’s no competition, high prices don’t go away. They turn into record profits while wages stagnate.
buff.ly/VvVZSMG
Corporate concentration.
If there’s no competition, high prices don’t go away. They turn into record profits while wages stagnate.
buff.ly/VvVZSMG
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The "common good" is a set of shared values about what we owe one another as citizens who are bound together in the same society. A concern for the common good—keeping the common good in mind—is a moral attitude. It recognizes that we’re all in it together.
September 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The "common good" is a set of shared values about what we owe one another as citizens who are bound together in the same society. A concern for the common good—keeping the common good in mind—is a moral attitude. It recognizes that we’re all in it together.
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Noticing a pattern here.
August 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Noticing a pattern here.
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I wrote about the shameless and predictable fearmongering about Zohran Mamdani. open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...
Zohran Mamdani’s Opponents Have Billions Among Them But Can’t Buy Shame
The desperation reeks.
open.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I wrote about the shameless and predictable fearmongering about Zohran Mamdani. open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...
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The plight of the women that are megaphones for the patriarchy. She has been tricked into thinking that being adjacent to power is real power. Her racism got her here.
August 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The plight of the women that are megaphones for the patriarchy. She has been tricked into thinking that being adjacent to power is real power. Her racism got her here.
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The new Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, John Barron, has revised the jobs numbers for the last three months up from 106,000 jobs to "seventy trillion billion jobs."
August 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The new Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, John Barron, has revised the jobs numbers for the last three months up from 106,000 jobs to "seventy trillion billion jobs."
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Can we buy moral compasses in bulk for these guys?
CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it
July 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Can we buy moral compasses in bulk for these guys?
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The video is funny, but it also illustrates something much more sinister:
When someone's livelihood depends on the benevolence of affluence, they develop an interest in helping privileged people to get away with breaking the rules. 1/
When someone's livelihood depends on the benevolence of affluence, they develop an interest in helping privileged people to get away with breaking the rules. 1/
Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️
July 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The video is funny, but it also illustrates something much more sinister:
When someone's livelihood depends on the benevolence of affluence, they develop an interest in helping privileged people to get away with breaking the rules. 1/
When someone's livelihood depends on the benevolence of affluence, they develop an interest in helping privileged people to get away with breaking the rules. 1/
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Welker to Lindsey Graham as he pushes baseless conspiracy theories in an effort to gin up a scandal about Obama: "Are you trying to rewrite history to distract from the Epstein matter, senator?"
July 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Welker to Lindsey Graham as he pushes baseless conspiracy theories in an effort to gin up a scandal about Obama: "Are you trying to rewrite history to distract from the Epstein matter, senator?"