Kevin Rottinghaus
@12spddreamer.bsky.social
Son. Brother. Husband. Father. Cyclist. Recovering perfectionist. Please be gentle; I’m a noob around here.
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The board should give itself a Pulitzer for this.
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The board should give itself a Pulitzer for this.
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Your president is spending 11% more days at his private company’s properties and 25% more days playing golf than at this point in his first term.
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
December 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Your president is spending 11% more days at his private company’s properties and 25% more days playing golf than at this point in his first term.
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www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...
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Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.
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NEW: Formal resolution introduced in US House by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
NEW: Formal resolution introduced in US House by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
"Expressing the opposition of the House of Representatives to any grant of commutation, clemency, or pardon to federally convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell"
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Neguse: This is one of the most shameful episodes in my view in the modern history of the congress. The decision that Speaker Johnson made to recess the house for 54 days, to send Republican members home on paid vacation for eight weeks, is disgraceful.
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Neguse: This is one of the most shameful episodes in my view in the modern history of the congress. The decision that Speaker Johnson made to recess the house for 54 days, to send Republican members home on paid vacation for eight weeks, is disgraceful.
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I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
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if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...
November 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
if @neguse.house.gov has to *rewrite your dumb question* about Donny’s shutdown on the fly? you absolutely suck at journalism www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/s/...
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They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.
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On top of his crypto grifts, real estate deals, and other corrupt ways he profits from the presidency, Trump now literally wants his own DOJ to pay him $230M.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
On top of his crypto grifts, real estate deals, and other corrupt ways he profits from the presidency, Trump now literally wants his own DOJ to pay him $230M.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
He does this all while his tariffs raise prices on Americans.
An insane, unprecedented level of blatant corruption.
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A good way for Republicans to stop being called Nazis and authoritarians is to stop empowering an authoritarian president, undermining democratic norms at every opportunity, and making Holocaust jokes.
Dave McCormick: "I do think some of this horrible language on the extreme left -- 'fascism, Nazism, authoritarianism' -- I think that's a recipe, an introduction and encouragement to violence. It's gotta stop."
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A good way for Republicans to stop being called Nazis and authoritarians is to stop empowering an authoritarian president, undermining democratic norms at every opportunity, and making Holocaust jokes.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP, IF YOU HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH PUTIN IN ALASKA, YOU HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH DEMOCRATIC LEADERS IN WASHINGTON. COME TO THE TABLE & NEGOTIATE! SHOW YOUR SKILLS & FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROTECT AMERICANS’ HEALTHCARE & KEEP GOVERNMENT OPEN. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION, SIR!
September 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
PRESIDENT TRUMP, IF YOU HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH PUTIN IN ALASKA, YOU HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH DEMOCRATIC LEADERS IN WASHINGTON. COME TO THE TABLE & NEGOTIATE! SHOW YOUR SKILLS & FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROTECT AMERICANS’ HEALTHCARE & KEEP GOVERNMENT OPEN. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION, SIR!
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And to think, Comey handed Trump the Presidency over Hillary.
September 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
And to think, Comey handed Trump the Presidency over Hillary.
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3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.
They had kids, too.
They had kids, too.
September 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.
They had kids, too.
They had kids, too.
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Read your piece @adamliptak.bsky.social. My two cents is that we, in the media, shouldn't give a rat's ass about what the Supreme Court would like us to call the docket.
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
The Supreme Court’s Fast Track Needs a Name, and the Justices Are Split
www.nytimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Read your piece @adamliptak.bsky.social. My two cents is that we, in the media, shouldn't give a rat's ass about what the Supreme Court would like us to call the docket.
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Our goal should be to inform the people, not repeat what makes the Nine feel comfortable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…
September 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…
Go Birds. Dallas Sucks.
GO BIRDS 🦅
Whenever I say this site is half people from Philadelphia exactly half of the replies are people saying I’m wrong and exactly half of the replies are people saying Go Birds
August 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Go Birds. Dallas Sucks.
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Just a year ago, the U.S. was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But now, the country is rapidly losing state-of-the-art #forecasting, just in time for #hurricane season’s busiest months: #Wx #SSMIS www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Hurricane Science Was Great While It Lasted
The U.S. is hacking away at support for state-of-the-art forecasting.
www.theatlantic.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Just a year ago, the U.S. was better at predicting storms’ tracks than it had ever been. But now, the country is rapidly losing state-of-the-art #forecasting, just in time for #hurricane season’s busiest months: #Wx #SSMIS www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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It was exactly 6 months ago that this administration issued blanket pardons to everyone involved in the January 6 insurrection.
Gabbard on Obama's alleged coup against Trump: "For the American people to have any sense of trust in the integrity of our democratic republic, accountability, action, prosecution, indictments for those who are responsible for trying to steal our democracy is essential."
July 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It was exactly 6 months ago that this administration issued blanket pardons to everyone involved in the January 6 insurrection.
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In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government.
Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes.
www.al.com/politics/202...
Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes.
www.al.com/politics/202...
Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home’
"These inner city rats, they live on the federal government," Tuberville said in the interview.
www.al.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government.
Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes.
www.al.com/politics/202...
Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes.
www.al.com/politics/202...
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A new cost estimate of the Republican budget bill from the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the legislation will increase deficits over the next 10 years by $4.45 trillion dollars.
June 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A new cost estimate of the Republican budget bill from the Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the legislation will increase deficits over the next 10 years by $4.45 trillion dollars.
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This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
June 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."
– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Three years ago today, the Supreme Court destroyed Roe v. Wade. Ever since, MAGA extremists have criminalized reproductive care at every turn. My bill with @repfletcher.bsky.social protects every woman's right to cross state lines to obtain health care.
June 24, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Three years ago today, the Supreme Court destroyed Roe v. Wade. Ever since, MAGA extremists have criminalized reproductive care at every turn. My bill with @repfletcher.bsky.social protects every woman's right to cross state lines to obtain health care.
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The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.
We the People.
We the People.
June 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.
We the People.
We the People.