ssharpless
@sjsharpless.bsky.social
Cat lover 🐱 Brewery enthusiast 🍻 Traveler 🗺️ Hoosier happily living in 🔵 Minnesota
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When I worked for Obama, I advised him on how to talk to Russian leaders. I never gave the Kremlin advice on how to talk to Obama (and I talked to Ushakov many times!).
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I worked for Obama, I advised him on how to talk to Russian leaders. I never gave the Kremlin advice on how to talk to Obama (and I talked to Ushakov many times!).
And yet…
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
And yet…
Don’t trust her one bit!
Dana Bash was right to point out that Marge only now speaks about donalds inciting hate and threats towards people when it hit her front door.
MTG owes several people personal apologies, not that blanket BS. Ohh and while shes at it, hang up the J6 plaque.
MTG owes several people personal apologies, not that blanket BS. Ohh and while shes at it, hang up the J6 plaque.
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don’t trust her one bit!
Sesame Street debuted 56 years ago today! ❤️
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Sesame Street debuted 56 years ago today! ❤️
Thank you for this clear and easy to understand explanation.
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Thank you for this clear and easy to understand explanation.
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From our statement on SNAP:
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
From our statement on SNAP:
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Facts matter…this is true. 💙
November 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Facts matter…this is true. 💙
“Look for the helpers”
WCK is in Washington, D.C. serving thousands of meals prepared by local restaurants to people impacted by the U.S. government shutdown. We're at Washington Canal Park until 2pm.
If you know someone affected by the shutdown, please share this post so they know where to get a meal. ❤️ #ChefsForFeds
If you know someone affected by the shutdown, please share this post so they know where to get a meal. ❤️ #ChefsForFeds
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“Look for the helpers”
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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."
Braun; making it difficult to ever move “back home”.
The announcement significantly bolsters the Trump administration's pressure campaign to strongarm Republicans in red states across the country to redraw their congressional maps.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/indiana...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/indiana...
Indiana Gov Announces Special Session to Act on Trump’s Gerrymandering Squeeze
Succumbing to mounting pressure from the Trump administration and the president’s allies, Indiana...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Braun; making it difficult to ever move “back home”.
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“If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”
— Paul Wellstone
— Paul Wellstone
October 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.”
— Paul Wellstone
— Paul Wellstone
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Another photo of Doug Emhoff at No Kings in Santa Monica yesterday.
If Kamala had won we’d be at brunch. 🤭
If Kamala had won we’d be at brunch. 🤭
October 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Another photo of Doug Emhoff at No Kings in Santa Monica yesterday.
If Kamala had won we’d be at brunch. 🤭
If Kamala had won we’d be at brunch. 🤭
Truth!
If there’s one truth running through every chapter of American history, it’s this:
progress has never come from the people sitting quietly.
It’s come from the ones willing to get loud, and risk something real.
So to everyone who still thinks protest is unpatriotic —
read a history book.
progress has never come from the people sitting quietly.
It’s come from the ones willing to get loud, and risk something real.
So to everyone who still thinks protest is unpatriotic —
read a history book.
Nothing Is More American, or More Patriotic Than Citizen Protest
To protest is to be an American patriot; and fuck you, Trump’s bootlickers.
open.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Truth!
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October 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
October 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
Say it louder for the people in the back, Pete Buttigieg.
Buttigieg: "We are not getting the leadership we need to bring this country together from the White House ... in order to deprive political violence of its power, we have to reject anyone who would try to exploit political violence. The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down."
September 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Say it louder for the people in the back, Pete Buttigieg.
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⚠️ Trump is putting our Roadless Areas on the chopping block. We can’t let that happen.
📢 The time to take action to protect nearly 45 million acres of roadless National Forest lands is NOW. Call or write your representatives and tell them to keep Roadless Areas as they are – Roadless! #publiclands
📢 The time to take action to protect nearly 45 million acres of roadless National Forest lands is NOW. Call or write your representatives and tell them to keep Roadless Areas as they are – Roadless! #publiclands
September 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
⚠️ Trump is putting our Roadless Areas on the chopping block. We can’t let that happen.
📢 The time to take action to protect nearly 45 million acres of roadless National Forest lands is NOW. Call or write your representatives and tell them to keep Roadless Areas as they are – Roadless! #publiclands
📢 The time to take action to protect nearly 45 million acres of roadless National Forest lands is NOW. Call or write your representatives and tell them to keep Roadless Areas as they are – Roadless! #publiclands
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Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo.
Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
August 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Kamala Harris nailed it. We warned everyone the stakes were too high to hand the guy built for Project 2025 another shot — but noooo.
Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
Ever have one of those mornings you just want to throw the window open and yell, FUCK YOU ALL? Yeah, that.
Gauging our reaction…
TRUMP: “A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator.”
He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
He’s saying it. Are you listening? 🇺🇸
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Gauging our reaction…
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Trump’s rule isn’t chaos—it’s architecture. Elections tilted, agencies captured, militias emboldened, markets destabilized. Each feeds the other until crisis itself becomes the scaffolding of power. #Trump #Authoritarianism #Democracy #USPolitics
The Architecture of Control: Trump’s System of Power
Inside the design that turns backlash into fuel and crisis into pretext for authoritarian control.
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Trump’s rule isn’t chaos—it’s architecture. Elections tilted, agencies captured, militias emboldened, markets destabilized. Each feeds the other until crisis itself becomes the scaffolding of power. #Trump #Authoritarianism #Democracy #USPolitics
Looks like a few of my friends from our summer lake days! 🦭🤣
Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.
August 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Looks like a few of my friends from our summer lake days! 🦭🤣
💯% correct but I’d like a little more fight and direction from the
Minority Leader of the U.S House of Representatives.
Minority Leader of the U.S House of Representatives.
The crime scene in D.C. most damaging to everyday Americans is at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
August 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
💯% correct but I’d like a little more fight and direction from the
Minority Leader of the U.S House of Representatives.
Minority Leader of the U.S House of Representatives.