Heather
@upstatenyjunker.bsky.social
Recovering lawyer; legal educator for 15+ years; politics junkie; lover of vintage items NOT policies. Part-time seller of vintage midcentury goodies. Exvangelical. Gen X wife and mom. True 💙 in Upstate NY.
Pam Bondi will not have a license to practice law when this is all over. You can’t stay a bar member and agree to investigate only members of one political party for child sexual abuse but not members of the other. And, you can’t do it after previously saying no one else could be charged.
November 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I think this is absolutely right. They memorized the lessons of that era — triangulation, bipartisanship, government is somehow shameful — and can’t adapt to the very different world we’re now in.
IMHO, most of the Dem leadership came up through the ranks during the Reagan years and started getting seniority during the 1994 shellacking so a fighting retreat is their standard tactic. They don’t do brinksmanship well.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I spoke to sources at FBI and DOJ that reviewed the Epstein files. It’s worse than the photos. I’ll let you know what they said today at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET on @meidastouch.com. Link to show: www.youtube.com/live/hEi77Ib...
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
November 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Trying to fit his cankled hoof into a delicate glass slipper.
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Trying to fit his cankled hoof into a delicate glass slipper.
It's easy to believe most applicants to ICE can't even pass an open book test when you see the successful ones like this chad threatening to arrest a photographer simply for walking behind him in a goddamn Sam's Club parking lot.
Not exactly the sharpest bunch here.
Not exactly the sharpest bunch here.
🧵1/2 IG: mike_kelly_photography
“After an unsuccessful foot
chase outside a Sam's Club, this ICE agent became visibly angry with my presence documenting their activity, threatening to arrest me several times-as seen in this video” 🟥cont.🧵⤵️⤵️⤵️
▪️Chicago
video taken 9:25 a.m. 10/22/2025
“After an unsuccessful foot
chase outside a Sam's Club, this ICE agent became visibly angry with my presence documenting their activity, threatening to arrest me several times-as seen in this video” 🟥cont.🧵⤵️⤵️⤵️
▪️Chicago
video taken 9:25 a.m. 10/22/2025
October 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
No, man, Republicans are in charge of the government.
Do you think Democrats are the ones who keep telling the House to stay on vacation week after week in order to prevent the release of the Epstein Files?
Because I'm pretty positive that's *you* who's been doing that.
Do you think Democrats are the ones who keep telling the House to stay on vacation week after week in order to prevent the release of the Epstein Files?
Because I'm pretty positive that's *you* who's been doing that.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
DOJ declined to bring charges against two people who threatened to kill @ericswalwell.bsky.social this year, @nbcnews.com reports: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This is the President not only purporting to arrogate unto himself the ability to “take away free speech rights,” but also to do so for speech because it “aggravates and irritates.”
The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.
The bottom line is these people running our country are literally foreigners to the concept of democracy.
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.
WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
October 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
September 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Hegseth complained about fatties and beardos, and now Trump is bragging about the quality of stationary he uses. Their "warrior ethos" is all about appearances, nothing more.
Which is ironic because Trump looks and sounds like ass here.
Which is ironic because Trump looks and sounds like ass here.
Trump to generals: "We have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper. I said, 'throw a little more gold on it, they deserve it. I want the A paper not the D paper.' We used to sign a piece of garbage ... I want to use the big beautiful firm paper."
September 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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A high-ranking Pentagon official confirms that Trump's strike on a boat in the Caribbean was a criminal attack on civilians.
Two government officials report that Pete Hegseth's rationale for the murder came together after the fact. Trump murdered 11 people. #3E
theintercept.com/2025/09/05/p...
Two government officials report that Pete Hegseth's rationale for the murder came together after the fact. Trump murdered 11 people. #3E
theintercept.com/2025/09/05/p...
September 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
You had your chance to remove and bar him from the presidency after Jan 6. And you chickened out.
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
The Time for a Pro-Democracy Movement Is Now
The Democratic Party must stop functioning solely as a political party and instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat.
www.lincolnsquare.media
August 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego has been RELEASED from prison and is headed home to Maryland to be with his family. Judge Xinis has an order in place requiring a 72 hour notice if ICE decides to detain and deport him to a third country. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is released from federal custody in Tennessee
Abrego Garcia walked out of federal custody for the first time since March, when he was deported to El Salvador in what the government has called an "administrative error."
www.nbcnews.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Is it just me... but with each passing day, my disdain for anyone that voted for him grows exponentially. I didnt think I could hate them anymore especially after they tried to kill me and my coworkers on Jan 6th, man was I wrong.
July 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Kristi Noem lied about this multiple times in press conferences & TV appearances. This confirms the 3 day delay was solely caused by her. It’s an absurdity that the person who leaves govt is this man & not her stupid, incompetent cosplaying ass traveling with her (alleged) lover.
July 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Actually it’s already way beyond “fun and games.” Trump’s masked thugs are now arresting defenseless people at work or on the streets without charges or trial and making them disappear just because he can get away with it. Thanks, Chief Justice Roberts
open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...
open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...
It’s All Fun and Games Until Trump Has Obama Arrested
Then it’s authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is how it's done - when they use their massive platforms to spew lies, you hit back hard and you hit back with lawsuits that hurt them in their pocketbooks, because money is the only language they understand.
Read more here: bit.ly/3TO7JTa
#FightTheRight
Read more here: bit.ly/3TO7JTa
#FightTheRight
July 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It really hasn't gotten enough attention that, several years before Alan Dershowitz won Jeffrey Epstein a get out of jail free plea deal by denigrating Epstein's victims, he allegedly joked about protecting Epstein by framing Bill Clinton for what Epstein had done.
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
July 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino have made a mess of the Epstein files.
It’s time to clear it up once and for all for the American people.
It’s time to clear it up once and for all for the American people.
July 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
July 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM