Upstate Dem
@upstatedem.bsky.social
“Good Government” Democrat. Proud FDR-LBJ liberal. Former Hill staffer, writer, public affairs pro, JD. Francophile. Dog lover. History buff (WW I, medieval, France, US). Deeply, madly in love.
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The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
The only check-and-balance that actually matters
www.doomsdayscenario.co
The Founders feared the rise of someone who lacked good character. What it didn’t count on was the two other branches led by people without good character.
A pardon is cheaper than actually paying Rudy’s bill.
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A pardon is cheaper than actually paying Rudy’s bill.
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
The brutality is exceeded only by ICE’s gross WTF incompetence.
BTW, didn’t SCOTUS overturn that law that domestic violence perpetrators are not allowed to own guns?
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
BTW, didn’t SCOTUS overturn that law that domestic violence perpetrators are not allowed to own guns?
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The brutality is exceeded only by ICE’s gross WTF incompetence.
BTW, didn’t SCOTUS overturn that law that domestic violence perpetrators are not allowed to own guns?
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
BTW, didn’t SCOTUS overturn that law that domestic violence perpetrators are not allowed to own guns?
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
For context, recall that Mr. Trump famously posted former President Obama’s home address.
And Mrs. Miller recently threatened to take away Cenk Ungar’s citizenship.
These are bad people.
The Battle in Virginia Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
And Mrs. Miller recently threatened to take away Cenk Ungar’s citizenship.
These are bad people.
The Battle in Virginia Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
The Battle in Virginia Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
For context, recall that Mr. Trump famously posted former President Obama’s home address.
And Mrs. Miller recently threatened to take away Cenk Ungar’s citizenship.
These are bad people.
The Battle in Virginia Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
And Mrs. Miller recently threatened to take away Cenk Ungar’s citizenship.
These are bad people.
The Battle in Virginia Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Krugman gets it right.
@pkrugman.bsky.social is right, as usual. And this is why Senate Democrats were spot on by refusing to agree to the cruel Republican budget. It is now crystal clear who is responsible for starving Americans, and taking away their healthcare: Thune, Johnson, Trump.
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Too Cruel Too Soon
How Republicans messed up on Project 2025
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Krugman gets it right.
Victory for democracy!
A win! The 9th Circuit allowed Judge Karin Immergut’s restraining order against deploying National Guard troops in Portland to remain in effect while the full appeals court decides whether to rehear the case.
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Victory for democracy!
There it is in black and white: the six conservative Ivy League-educated, self-described deeply originalist, “just calling balls and strikes” justices are as fragile, petulant and self-indulgent as the worst of the worst “mean girls”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | This strategic blunder could swing the Supreme Court tariffs case
For Trump’s challengers, a conservative lawyer’s arguments might have the best chance of success.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There it is in black and white: the six conservative Ivy League-educated, self-described deeply originalist, “just calling balls and strikes” justices are as fragile, petulant and self-indulgent as the worst of the worst “mean girls”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The Founders feared the rise of someone who lacked good character. What it didn’t count on was the two other branches led by people without good character.
The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...
The only check-and-balance that actually matters
www.doomsdayscenario.co
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Founders feared the rise of someone who lacked good character. What it didn’t count on was the two other branches led by people without good character.
Grotesque desecration and abomination.
From the @newyorker.com "Daily" today.
The White House doesn't belong to him. He holds it in trust both for future occupants and for the American people.
Source: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
The White House doesn't belong to him. He holds it in trust both for future occupants and for the American people.
Source: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
October 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Grotesque desecration and abomination.
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Cartoon by John Darkow.
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Cartoon by John Darkow.
JHC, CONGRESS COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS. One call from Thune, Johnson, Grassley.
“Mr. President, with all due respect, don’t even fuckin’ think about it.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“Mr. President, with all due respect, don’t even fuckin’ think about it.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Can anyone stop Trump’s teardown of the East Wing?
Many preservationists fear the answer is no. A pro-Trump review board is expected to approve the president’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, too.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
JHC, CONGRESS COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS. One call from Thune, Johnson, Grassley.
“Mr. President, with all due respect, don’t even fuckin’ think about it.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“Mr. President, with all due respect, don’t even fuckin’ think about it.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How about a Constitutional amendment that Congress may only be paid for days in the Capital? Would affect congressional work periods in their districts but the Nation got along without that concept for a century or more.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Important Evening News Update
Congress only worked 20 days out of the last 112, Johnson tells Grijalva to serve constituents she does not have, top Trump official calls himself a Nazi in leaked texts, and much more
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
How about a Constitutional amendment that Congress may only be paid for days in the Capital? Would affect congressional work periods in their districts but the Nation got along without that concept for a century or more.
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Trump this morning told a country with a Ministry of Defense and national Defense Force that Department Defense is politically correct and shows weakness.
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Trump this morning told a country with a Ministry of Defense and national Defense Force that Department Defense is politically correct and shows weakness.
And yet Bessent, Duffy, Paxton are livin’ the dream.
In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
And yet Bessent, Duffy, Paxton are livin’ the dream.
In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
A record of lying that would make Donald Trump proud.
The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A record of lying that would make Donald Trump proud.
The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...
Trump always said he wanted to be a wartime president.
Live Updates: National Guard Troops Expected to Deploy Around Chicago www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: National Guard Troops Expected to Deploy Around Chicago www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: National Guard Troops Expected to Deploy Around Chicago
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Trump always said he wanted to be a wartime president.
Live Updates: National Guard Troops Expected to Deploy Around Chicago www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Live Updates: National Guard Troops Expected to Deploy Around Chicago www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Sue the shite out of this officer.
You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.
It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.
That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.
Rightly confident in his impunity.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.
It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.
That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.
Rightly confident in his impunity.
October 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Sue the shite out of this officer.
Reposted by Upstate Dem
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
@sulliview.bsky.social
This article needs your attention. The Times more than suggests that the vituperation and groundless attacks are emanating from BOTH Vance and Favreau.
That’s bullshit.
This article needs your attention. The Times more than suggests that the vituperation and groundless attacks are emanating from BOTH Vance and Favreau.
That’s bullshit.
September 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@sulliview.bsky.social
This article needs your attention. The Times more than suggests that the vituperation and groundless attacks are emanating from BOTH Vance and Favreau.
That’s bullshit.
This article needs your attention. The Times more than suggests that the vituperation and groundless attacks are emanating from BOTH Vance and Favreau.
That’s bullshit.
@thebulwark.com @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @samsteindc.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social
Great show in Toronto tonight! We traveled from upstate NY and enjoyed meeting our Canadian seat mates.
Great show in Toronto tonight! We traveled from upstate NY and enjoyed meeting our Canadian seat mates.
September 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
@thebulwark.com @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @samsteindc.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social
Great show in Toronto tonight! We traveled from upstate NY and enjoyed meeting our Canadian seat mates.
Great show in Toronto tonight! We traveled from upstate NY and enjoyed meeting our Canadian seat mates.
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No dude I like immigrants and don’t want to contribute to their demonization and dehumanization even when it might hurt my enemies
If the GOP want to continue down their current path (Deport Omar! Deport Mamdani!), then Dems need to start calling for the denaturalization & deportation of Melania, fight fire with fire - plus there are far more unanswered questions about her immigration to the US than either Mamdani or Omar.
Melania Trump modeled in US prior to getting work visa
Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that she worked in the seven weeks before her attorney says she had legal permission to work in the country, according to...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
No dude I like immigrants and don’t want to contribute to their demonization and dehumanization even when it might hurt my enemies
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They've known it for years.
September 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
They've known it for years.
Surely someone is looking at short sales.
Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...
Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...
Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism
www.nytimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Surely someone is looking at short sales.
Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...
Trump Issues Warning Based on Unproven Link Between Tylenol and Autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...
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Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄
September 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄