Yastreblyansky
@yastreblyansky.bsky.social
There is no peace without justice.
Old Democratic blogger at yastreblyansky.blogspot.com and yastreblyansky.substack.com. He/him. Is this where the party is?
Old Democratic blogger at yastreblyansky.blogspot.com and yastreblyansky.substack.com. He/him. Is this where the party is?
The consultant brains who picked him out did it because he looked and sounded like their idea of a (white male) working class candidate. What Trump would call central casting. But he's a prep school boy backed by family wealth that's allowed him to make some adventurous life choices.
He’s also a business owner, and we know how those politics usually shake out.
February 15, 2026 at 7:38 PM
The consultant brains who picked him out did it because he looked and sounded like their idea of a (white male) working class candidate. What Trump would call central casting. But he's a prep school boy backed by family wealth that's allowed him to make some adventurous life choices.
It wouldn't hurt to bow when you're in the administrator's presence. And wear sackcloth.
Feds now personalist and extortionate all the way down: FDA suggests “Moderna might have more luck with a second, narrower request for approval if the company showed some ‘humility’ when it made the submission.”
Today as always, @citizencohn.bsky.social is a must read. Here he is on the massive danger to public health of the latest anti-vax actions by Trump’s and RFK’s FDA.
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February 15, 2026 at 7:18 PM
It wouldn't hurt to bow when you're in the administrator's presence. And wear sackcloth.
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Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3316):
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3316):
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Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
Trump loves the cowgirl photos. This is the best job he can get Lewandowski without a Senate vote. He doesn't care even slightly about the "metrics" Moskowitz mentions. Any other questions?
Moskowitz: By the president’s own metrics, what accomplishments does Noem have?
• She’s holding up 200 miles of border wall.
• She’s deported fewer people than Obama.
• She’s not helping any of these red-state governors with their disasters.
Why hasn’t he fired her?
• She’s holding up 200 miles of border wall.
• She’s deported fewer people than Obama.
• She’s not helping any of these red-state governors with their disasters.
Why hasn’t he fired her?
February 15, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Trump loves the cowgirl photos. This is the best job he can get Lewandowski without a Senate vote. He doesn't care even slightly about the "metrics" Moskowitz mentions. Any other questions?
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She's loyal to him. That's his only metric.
Moskowitz: By the president’s own metrics, what accomplishments does Noem have?
• She’s holding up 200 miles of border wall.
• She’s deported fewer people than Obama.
• She’s not helping any of these red-state governors with their disasters.
Why hasn’t he fired her?
• She’s holding up 200 miles of border wall.
• She’s deported fewer people than Obama.
• She’s not helping any of these red-state governors with their disasters.
Why hasn’t he fired her?
February 15, 2026 at 2:42 AM
She's loyal to him. That's his only metric.
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Just the absolute bottom of the barrel of humanity. So help me god if we root these guys out of power no Democrat ever tell me it is time to move on or unite.
I don't want unity. I want fucking justice. I want people to go to jail for a long time to think on what they did and serve as an example
I don't want unity. I want fucking justice. I want people to go to jail for a long time to think on what they did and serve as an example
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 15, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Just the absolute bottom of the barrel of humanity. So help me god if we root these guys out of power no Democrat ever tell me it is time to move on or unite.
I don't want unity. I want fucking justice. I want people to go to jail for a long time to think on what they did and serve as an example
I don't want unity. I want fucking justice. I want people to go to jail for a long time to think on what they did and serve as an example
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Rep. Jason Crow on Rubio's Munich speech: "Not only did he say things I found disturbing, what was also important was what he did not say. He never mentioned Russia once. He never mentioned China once. There was historically revisionism."
February 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Rep. Jason Crow on Rubio's Munich speech: "Not only did he say things I found disturbing, what was also important was what he did not say. He never mentioned Russia once. He never mentioned China once. There was historically revisionism."
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very important correction here
I made an important error in the prior version of this article, which I’ll explain in a thread. It has a new headline and some additions, and I’ve deleted the old skeet to limit the spread of bad info. #akleg
Federal government may seek removal of individual Alaskans from state voter rolls | Alaska Beacon
A memo signed by the head of the Division of Elections in December, says the state must clean its voter roll of people identified by the DOJ.
alaskabeacon.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:55 AM
very important correction here
Really ought to be leaked and published.
Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org mandamus petition—second one in this case—asking Eleventh Circuit to bar Judge Cannon from ordering the destruction of Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report, as Trump’s co-defendants have asked her to do. knightcolumbia.org/documents/z8...
February 15, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Really ought to be leaked and published.
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Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org mandamus petition—second one in this case—asking Eleventh Circuit to bar Judge Cannon from ordering the destruction of Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report, as Trump’s co-defendants have asked her to do. knightcolumbia.org/documents/z8...
February 13, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Just filed: @knightcolumbia.org mandamus petition—second one in this case—asking Eleventh Circuit to bar Judge Cannon from ordering the destruction of Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report, as Trump’s co-defendants have asked her to do. knightcolumbia.org/documents/z8...
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ESPN has the rights to the 2027 Super Bowl, but CBS is already planning an alternative halftime show featuring Steven Pinker, Alan Dershowitz, and J. K. Rowling.
February 14, 2026 at 10:18 PM
ESPN has the rights to the 2027 Super Bowl, but CBS is already planning an alternative halftime show featuring Steven Pinker, Alan Dershowitz, and J. K. Rowling.
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Remember: Everyone who says that athletes or artists should stay out of politics does not just fail to understand that in moments like these politics infuses every aspect of every life in our country--they are actually part of the problem. Silence is a position. Silence serves autocrats and thugs.
February 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Remember: Everyone who says that athletes or artists should stay out of politics does not just fail to understand that in moments like these politics infuses every aspect of every life in our country--they are actually part of the problem. Silence is a position. Silence serves autocrats and thugs.
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Truth.
Read, as they say, the whole thing.
Read, as they say, the whole thing.
February 14, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Truth.
Read, as they say, the whole thing.
Read, as they say, the whole thing.
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I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 PM
I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
February 14, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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Thank you Senator @wyden.senate.gov!
I’m just going to leave this here
February 13, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Thank you Senator @wyden.senate.gov!
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Yeah that was weird as hell. I’ll be writing about it tomorrow.
Also, I'm not sure he has clearly implied out loud before [checks notes] 'Europe needs to resume colonisation and imperial expansionism without guilt and then we'll get along with you fine', but I think I caught that. Maybe mine ears do play tricks on me.
February 14, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Yeah that was weird as hell. I’ll be writing about it tomorrow.
What are they afraid of? Or, more to the point, their billion-dollar patrons? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 14, 2026 at 10:27 PM
What are they afraid of? Or, more to the point, their billion-dollar patrons? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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This Ancient Egyptian board game is almost 4,000 years old!
Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Known as ‘Hounds and Jackals’ or ‘Game of 58 holes’, its original name is unknown. It’s suggested it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’.
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
February 14, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Just 4 days until early voting starts in Texas (Feb 17). Do you have a plan to vote? 👊🏽
Visit: iWillVote.com
Visit: iWillVote.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Just 4 days until early voting starts in Texas (Feb 17). Do you have a plan to vote? 👊🏽
Visit: iWillVote.com
Visit: iWillVote.com
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This is blackout poetry to me
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is blackout poetry to me
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
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This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
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Jeffries: "The Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures has been part of our fabric since the very beginning of our constitutional republic. It's incredible to us that Republicans have decided to draw a hard line in the sand. Judicial warrants should be required."
February 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Jeffries: "The Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures has been part of our fabric since the very beginning of our constitutional republic. It's incredible to us that Republicans have decided to draw a hard line in the sand. Judicial warrants should be required."